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HATE YOUR JOB? (10 of 12)
Meet Jesus
Matthew 9:9-13
I was reading an article about job dissatisfaction in
Health and Fitness Magazine this week.
The article
estimated that 20 million people in America are
staying jobs they find dissatisfying.
They gave a
number of signs for job dissatisfaction.
They gave
some mental signs—poor concentration, boredom, and
general negative attitude.
Some emotional signs of
job dissatisfaction—distress, depression,
irritability, feelings of being helpless, lonely.
Some physical signs of job dissatisfaction—restless
sleep or insomnia, weight gain or loss, tightness in
the jaw, shoulders, and neck.
Then they gave some direction of how to overcome job
dissatisfaction.
1).
Find meaning and value in your
work.
2).
Concentrate on working to your full
potential.
3).
Give yourself what you don't get from
others.
Acknowledge your achievements.
Praise.
Reward
yourself for a job well done—maybe a good banana
split.
4).
Don't take what others say and do
personally.
5).
Think before you act and don't act out
of haste.
6).
Listen to your body and emotions.
7).
Take needed breaks and vacations.
8).
If necessary, be
willing to change jobs or careers.
We are going to study about a man today who may very
well have hated his job.
I'm referring to a man named
Matthew.
Matthew is indeed a man who could very well
have hated his job and when he meets the Lord Jesus
Christ, he finds the solution to his problem.
We are fairly familiar with this man Matthew.
We know
that he is the author of the first book of the New
Testament—the book we are reading from this morning.
We also know that Matthew is one of the twelve
disciples.
In fact, when you read in the 10th chapter
where we are given a list of the disciples, you will
notice that he refers to himself in verse 3 as
Matthew, the publican.
Sometimes when you think about those twelve disciples
that Jesus Christ called around Him, it is indeed
amazing.
You will hardly find amore motley crew than
the twelve people Jesus chose to follow Him and Old
Testament be a part of His ministry.
It just reminds
me how God takes a lot of broken people and a lot of
imperfect people and puts them together to do the work
of the Lord.
Here is a man named Matthew and he meets the Lord
Jesus Christ and his life is never again the same.
Most of the other gospel writers refer to him as Levi.
But in his own book, he refers to himself as Matthew
the publican.
I want us to study about Matthew this
morning because I think there is some help to those of
you who may have problems with your job or you may
hate your job.
I want to call you attention, first of all, to—
I.
Matthew's CORRUPTION.
When we begin to read the story of Matthew, we find
that here is a man who has corrupted himself.
He is
giving us his personal testimony here.
In these brief
verses I think Matthew has written down for us his
testimony about how he came to Jesus—how he came to
salvation.
Do you have a personal testimony?
Are you able, in a
brief few sentences, to write down your testimony?
I
can almost imagine, as so modestly Matthew has written
his testimony, that he lays his hand down for a moment
and sheds a few tears as he reflects upon what he had
been and what Jesus Christ made out of him.
When the story opens we are told that Matthew is
sitting at the receipt of custom.
That is, he is
sitting at the tollbooth.
He I a publican, which means
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