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Like My Work? Colossians 3:22-24

Like My Work? Colossians 3:22-24. Bill Gold : “I’ve met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck they always happened to be my boss at the time.” Abraham Lincoln : “My father taught me to work. He did not teach me to love it.” Like my job?

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Like My Work? Colossians 3:22-24

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  1. Like My Work?Colossians 3:22-24 • Bill Gold: “I’ve met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck they always happened to be my boss at the time.” • Abraham Lincoln: “My father taught me to work. He did not teach me to love it.” • Like my job? • Charles Mayo: “There is no fun like work.” • Thomas Edison: “I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.

  2. God Worked, and Commands Me To Work • God is a worker: • Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning, God created the heavens and earth.” • Genesis 2:2-3 “By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.”

  3. Psalm 111:2 “Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.” • Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” • John 5:17 “Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.”

  4. God reveals Himself through His work. • Jesus is a worker • We are commanded to work. • Exodus 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work …” • I Thessalonians 5:12 “…respect those who work hard among you, who are over you in the Lord and admonish you.” • II Thessalonians 2:10 “For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."

  5. Work is God’s way for us to provide for our families. • Work is also God’s way to provide for the needs of others • Ephesians 4:28 “He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need.”

  6. Work Is A Calling From God to Be Enjoyed • I Peter 4:8-11 “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever.”

  7. Work is a Service (Worship) to God • Colossians 3:22-25 • “…sincerity of heart” = to be genuine, real without hypocrisy • “…reverence for the Lord” = respect and worship of God • “…it is the Lord you are serving” = We serve God through work. Work is not our God, but God is at the heart of our work. We don’t worship our job, but we worship God through our work.

  8. The Puritans • 1. They declared the sanctity of all work. • 2. They believed God calls every person to his/her vocation (work). • 3. They believed that the motivation and goals of work were to glorify God and to benefit society. • 4. They scorned idleness and praised diligence, while also warning of over-work at the expense of family and Christ’s church.

  9. The phrase “Puritan Work Ethic” is often used to cover a range of current family and social ills like the workaholic syndrome, the drudgery of work, competitiveness, the worship of success, materialism, and the cult of the “self-made man.” • Their attitude to work was Biblically based.

  10. 1. God worked, bringing a sanctity to all honourable work. • 2. Work is a vocational calling, making it God’s job. We are stewards of the gifts, ability, personality, and experiences God has given us. • 3. We glorify God (show God) and benefit society by the work we do and how we do it. • 4. Diligence in our calling (work) reflects God, our values and brings great fulfillment and fruit for eternity.

  11. Like My Job? • Yes! Because: • I want to imitate God and His son Jesus Christ. • I can best show my love for the Lord through my calling. • 3. I want to worship God through my work! I want my work to be an expression of both how God would do it, and I want God to be seen in how I do it.

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