August 2012 Series

2 Thessalonians 3:10 “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”

WORK Blessing or Curse?

Genesis 3:17-19 17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

Genesis 3:17-19 “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:17-19 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 3:17-19 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground,

Genesis 3:17-19 since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Work is a CURSE

Genesis 3:17-19 “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

Genesis 3:17-19 “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.

Genesis 2:15 15 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 15 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 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.

Work is a BLESSING

Isaiah 5:1-2 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!

Isaiah 5:1-2 Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?

Work is an OPPORTUNITY

1 Corinthians 10:31 31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

Work for God’s glory, not just for money

Work for God’s glory, not just for money