The Four Letter Word • Priority#4 • 6.19.22

Series: The Four-Letter Word

Title: Priorities: Work

Date: 6/19/22

Location: Perris Valley Church

 

Point number 1 in your notes:

Just as easily as we can say no to family because we have to be at work, we can say no to work because we have to be with family.

 

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”

 

Point number 2 in your notes:

Being made in the Image of God means that we share many of His qualities, including the ability and obligation to work.

 

Genesis 2:15

The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.

 

Point number 3 in your notes:

If your work priority is not in its correct spot, you are putting pressure on somebody else to pull your weight.

 

2 Thessalonians 3:10 (NLT)

Even while we were with you, we gave you this command: “Those unwilling to work will not get to eat.”

 

Proverbs 18:9 (NIV)

One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys.

 

Point number 4 in your notes:

God never designed us, or gave us permission to be lazy.

 

Proverbs 14:23 (CSB)

There is profit in all hard work, but endless talk leads only to poverty.

 

Proverbs 13:11 (NLT)

Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time.

 

John 5:1-18 (CSB)

After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Aramaic, which has five colonnades. 3 Within these lay a large number of the disabled—blind, lame, and paralyzed.

5 One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

7 “Sir,” the disabled man answered, “I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

8 “Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk.” 9 Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.

Now that day was the Sabbath, 10 and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath. The law prohibits you from picking up your mat.”

11 He replied, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

12 “Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” they asked. 13 But the man who was healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

14 After this, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.” 15 The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16 Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

17 Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.” 18 This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

 

1 Corinthians 10:31 (CSB)

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.