Jan 15, 2021 Busybodies

Jan 15, 2021 Busybodies

2nd Thessalonians 3:11 for we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly working not at all but are busy bodies.

A busybody is a meddling or a prying person. What they do is they meddle in the affairs of other people. Do you remember that old saying….don’t stick your nose in another man’s business.

Within the family unit is a dad a mom and their children. It’s referred to as a household. The dad is ultimately the leader of his household. Things that come from outside of that household can be prone to meddling, such as in-laws, grandparents, other relatives, and neighbors. Meddling in another man’s household is a sin.

The word meddle means to interfere in or busy oneself unduly with something that is not their concern. An illustration says I never meddle in other people’s private affairs.

A busybody from another dictionary says a person who is too interested in things that don’t really involve them; or a person who is interested in things that do not involve him or her especially other people’s private matters.

The word private means belonging to or for the use of one particular person or group of people only.

The privacy that we are talking about here is a man’s household.

The man is the head of his household. He’s the head over his wife and the children. God has placed him in that place of authority in that home. A busybody interjects themselves into that family and the private affairs that go on inside of that home.

Another dictionary says mettle means to intervene to intrude or to pry. It means to intrude into other people’s affairs or business and to interfere.

Busybodies get themselves involved inbetween a man and a wife or inbetween the relationships that they have with their children. They become involved with things that do not concern them. They intervene and get involved when they shouldn’t be involved at all.

They are a meddler and an intruder in a man’s life and household.

A busybody might go around town telling information to other people that’s none of their business.

What they do is they make it their business to tell others. If they’ve got time for doing that, they should make better use of their time and go work more with their hands instead of their tongues.

1st Timothy 5:13

And with all they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house and not only idle but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not..

The word tattle means to report to others another persons wrongdoings. Remember, love covers a multitude of sins . A tattler does not love other people .

The Apostle Paul taught the ministers to rebuke people in the church sharply and to rebuke before all if they were caught up in some kind of impenitent sin. This was so they could correct themselves from the error of their way. Tattling on someone else is a whole different issue. It’s about wanting to exalt yourself over another person.

Tattle means you find mistakes or errors about somebody else, and then you go out to people outside your direct household and tell everybody about it it. The Lord Jesus covers our sins in his own blood. A Christian doesn’t do these kinds of things because Jesus covers our sin.

To tattle means to tell secrets about what somebody else has done or to blab about them. It means to disclose information or to gossip and to chatter. This is not love for the other person. The Tattler is trying to put themselves in a better light. It is fleshy and it is worldly.

Tattle means to gossip about anothers personal matters or secrets. It means to divulge confidential information or secrets.

Gossip is sharing information that should not be shared with others.

Imagine going to a church somewhere and somebody comes up to you and confesses their sins in private like they did with John the Baptist. Then you go out and tell everybody in the community the things that were confessed in private. To go out and share that information in the community would be gossip. It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not.

Gossip is very very dangerous because people can be harmed socially if the outcome of the gossip is to spread negative private information that could harm their reputation or could affect their social standing in the community.

Gossip is to impugn the reputation of others. A gossip is a person who repeats stories about other people. They talk about the personal lives of other people. It’s rumor or talk about a personal or intimate nature. What a gossip does is reveal secret information too others that was unknown to them previously.

Leviticus 19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people.

A talebearer is a person who maliciously gossips or reveals secrets.

Remember, it teaches in the scriptures that a wife is supposed to be discreet if she’s serving Christ. (Titus 2:5)

A talebearer is a person who spreads gossip or secrets that may cause trouble or harm to the other party.

Another dictionary says a talebearer is someone who gossips in an indiscreet manner.

Proverbs 11:13 a talebearer revealeth secrets but he that is of a faithful Spirit concealed the matter.

Proverbs 18:8 the words of a talebearer are as wounds and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly

Proverbs 20:19 he that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets there for mettle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

The word discreet means careful and circumspect in ones speech or actions especially in order to avoid causing offence or to gain an advantage over somebody else.

That’s what we were just discussing. Gossips exalt themselves over another person by exposing private or secret issues to others in the community. It’s done because of pride in their life and to make themselves to appear better than someone else.

Some other synonyms for a busybody is a snoop or nosey person. They even refer to them as a blabbermouth. They mettle in somebody else’s business. They are very interested in what should not be their concern.

You should never get involved and mettle in other people’s private affairs. Its offensive to God.

Proverbs 20.3 teaches, every fool will be meddling.

I’ve read that the Hebrew word means to become very involved in something, and it refers to a person who arrogantly supposes that he or she has the right to interfere in quarrels that do not concern them.

Another dictionary defines a busybody as someone who is very interested in other people’s private life and their activities, then tries to get involved in them in a way that is annoying.

First Peter 4:15 says but let none of you suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as an evildoer or as a busybody in other men’s matters

A man is the head of his household. You certainly don’t want to offend him by becoming a gossip or a busybody. If you do it you are sinning. The Blessed Apostle Peter teaches it’s just as bad as murder or any other sin. Don’t get involved with it or people who are involved with it. Be separate.

Lord willing will talk to you later sometime bye-bye everybody.