Work Ethic (9 of 10)
Series: Ephesians: Unbelievable
James Merritt
Ephesians 6:5-9
Introduction
1. We spend the vast majority of our lives doing it. We even begin to think about how we are going to do it when we are just children. In fact, we spend the first twenty-five percent of our lives getting ready for it. Yet, eighty-five percent of Americans hate doing it.
2. The reality is sixty-nine percent of Americans quit doing it by the time they are sixty-six and by the age of seventy-five, ninety-percent of Americans don't do it. Can you guess what I am talking about? Work. The fact is work is a huge part of our life whether you like your job or not and whether you like to work or not. Work is not just what we do, but actually becomes a part of who we are. If you meet a stranger inevitably you will ask, ''what do you do?'' we constantly ask children, ''what do you want to be when you grow up?'' if you meet a college student you inevitably ask, ''what are you majoring in?'' if you meet someone who is retired you ask, ''what did you do?''
3. Interestingly, work was not a human invention it was actually god's idea from the beginning. The very first command that god ever gave a human being was to work. Adam and eve had barely taken their first breath when god said to them, ''your job is to be fruitful, to multiply and you are to subdue the earth. You are to rule over it and make it productive.'' in fact, the very first time the word ''work'' is ever used in the bible is used at the beginning of the biblical story.
''The lord god took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.'' (genesis 2:15, niv)
4. Nobody is exempt if they are able from work. Even the son of god came to do the work that god had given him to do. At the end of his life, Jesus said this,
''I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.''
(john 17:4, niv)
5. So it shouldn't surprise us that the word of god has somethin ...
Series: Ephesians: Unbelievable
James Merritt
Ephesians 6:5-9
Introduction
1. We spend the vast majority of our lives doing it. We even begin to think about how we are going to do it when we are just children. In fact, we spend the first twenty-five percent of our lives getting ready for it. Yet, eighty-five percent of Americans hate doing it.
2. The reality is sixty-nine percent of Americans quit doing it by the time they are sixty-six and by the age of seventy-five, ninety-percent of Americans don't do it. Can you guess what I am talking about? Work. The fact is work is a huge part of our life whether you like your job or not and whether you like to work or not. Work is not just what we do, but actually becomes a part of who we are. If you meet a stranger inevitably you will ask, ''what do you do?'' we constantly ask children, ''what do you want to be when you grow up?'' if you meet a college student you inevitably ask, ''what are you majoring in?'' if you meet someone who is retired you ask, ''what did you do?''
3. Interestingly, work was not a human invention it was actually god's idea from the beginning. The very first command that god ever gave a human being was to work. Adam and eve had barely taken their first breath when god said to them, ''your job is to be fruitful, to multiply and you are to subdue the earth. You are to rule over it and make it productive.'' in fact, the very first time the word ''work'' is ever used in the bible is used at the beginning of the biblical story.
''The lord god took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.'' (genesis 2:15, niv)
4. Nobody is exempt if they are able from work. Even the son of god came to do the work that god had given him to do. At the end of his life, Jesus said this,
''I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.''
(john 17:4, niv)
5. So it shouldn't surprise us that the word of god has somethin ...
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