Sermons on Work
Workship
7 Then the LORD said, e“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who arein Egypt and have heard their cry because of their ftaskmasters. I know theirsufferings, 8 and gI have come down to deliver them out of the hand of theEgyptians and hto bring them up out of that land to a igood and broad land, aland jflowing with milk and honey, to the place of kthe Canaanites, the Hittites,the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 And now, behold,lthe cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen themoppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 nCome, I will send you toPharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
Understanding Faith and Work
Psalm 8 1 O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!You have set your glory above the heavens.2 Out of the mouth of babies and infants,you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,4 what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? 5 Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and…
The Goodness of Work
He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting. You make darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep about. The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God. When the sun rises, they steal away and lie down in their dens. Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.” Psalm 104:19-23
Love One Another and Mind Your Own Business
1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 9 Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, 10 for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, 11 and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,12 so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one.
Work, For I Am With You
Book of Haggai (ESV) In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.” Then the word…