Lies About our Work and Purpose
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Intro- turn to someone and tell them either your first job or your most interesting job you ever had...
Intro- turn to someone and tell them either your first job or your most interesting job you ever had...
the most common question we typically ask a person is what we do…yet what we do is not the most important part of our identity.
the most common question we typically ask a person is what we do…yet what we do is not the most important part of our identity.
Lies we believe about our work and our purpose.
Lie-Life would be better if I didn’t have to work or have responsibility.
Lie-Life would be better if I didn’t have to work or have responsibility.
The New International Version (Chapter 1)
27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
The New International Version (Chapter 2)
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
The New International Version (Chapter 2)
15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
God created us to work and rest. The problem is we often don’t take serious the call to do both.
God created us to work and rest. The problem is we often don’t take serious the call to do both.
Lie- Your vocation is your purpose or calling.
Lie- Your vocation is your purpose or calling.
Vocation does not equal calling
Vocation does not equal calling
Vocation does not equal our highest purposes.
Vocation does not equal our highest purposes.
Vocation does not give us our ultimate value.
Vocation does not give us our ultimate value.
Our highest calling is to love God and love others and to make disciples.
Our highest calling is to love God and love others and to make disciples.
Matthew
The New International Version (Chapter 22)
36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”37 Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ i 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ j 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
The New International Version (Chapter 28)
18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Lie- My value is based on what I do and what I produce.
Lie- My value is based on what I do and what I produce.
You are more than what you do or produce.
You are more than what you do or produce.
Ephesians
The New International Version (Chapter 2)
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
God doesn’t look at you as employee, He sees you as His child.
God doesn’t look at you as employee, He sees you as His child.
God cares more about your heart than He does about your hustle.
God cares more about your heart than He does about your hustle.
We cannot work our way into the Kingdom.
We cannot work our way into the Kingdom.
1 Corinthians
The New International Version (Chapter 10)
whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.