HARD WORK: ABOUT SERVING

(Message by Tanny Keng)

1. Hard Work

a) What does the Bible have to say about work?  Some may be surprised to find out that there are many thoughts about work, lack of work, and serving.  The topic comes right to the forefront in the very beginning when in Genesis 1, after God created man He says, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living think that moves on the earth.”  

b) The word “subdue” certainly has a meaning of work or control or trample under.  Yes, God gave Adam some things to do from the very beginning (and this is even before sin entered the world in Genesis 3).  

c) Just like Adam, we all have things to do and work is one of them.  We all work in some way; some go to an office, some work in the home.  For some, to work is to raise children.  The words from God do not stop in Genesis but continue on throughout the Scriptures with Jesus himself being a “carpenter” in Mark 6:3.  

Ecclesiastes 9:10
“Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.“ 

2. About Serving

Colossians 3:24 
Knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward.  You are serving the Lord Christ.

Ephesians 6:7 
Rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man.

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