The Deeper Meaning of Work and Humanity
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THE DESIGN OF WORK
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THE WORK OF GOD
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Diversity of Action Verbs
- Create (1:1, 21, 27)
- Gather (1:9)
- Separate (1:4, 6, 7, 14, 18)
- Place (1:17)
- Make (1:7, 16, 25-26, 31)
THE WORK OF GOD
1.
Diversity of Action Verbs
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Repetition of “God saw that it was good”
(1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25 & “very good” in 1:31)
THE WORK OF GOD
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THE WORK OF GOD
1.
Diversity of Action Verbs
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Repetition of “God saw that it was good”
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Gospels highlight Jesus as Carpenter
THE WORK OF GOD
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THE WORK OF ADAM & EVE
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Diversity of Action Verbs
- Rule (1:26, 28)
- Subdue (1:28)
- Be Fruitful (1:28)
- Cultivate (2:15)
- Fill (1:28)
- Keep (2:15)
THE WORK OF ADAM & EVE
1.
Diversity of Action Verbs
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Human Partnership – Adam with Eve
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Divine Partnership – God w/ Adam & Eve
THE WORK OF ADAM & EVE
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THE WORK OF THE CHURCH
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THE WORK OF THE CHURCH
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Necessity for Work
THE NECESSITY OF WORK
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THE NECESSITY OF WORK
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THE DESIGN OF WORK WALL-E reminds us that a do-nothing couch potato existence is dehumanizing. But why is this? As human beings we were not created to be do-nothings; we were created with work in mind. actually repulsive & - Tom Nelson
THE WORK OF GOD 1. Diversity of Action Verbs - Create (1:1, 21, 27) - Separate (1:4, 6, 7, 14, 18) - Place (1:17) - Make (1:7, 16, 25-26, 31) - Gather (1:9)
THE WORK OF GOD 1. Diversity of Action Verbs 2. Repetition of God saw that it was good (1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25 & verygood in 1:31)
THE WORK OF GOD In the beginning, then, God worked. Work was not a necessary evil that came into the picture later, or something human beings were created to do but that was beneath the great God Himself. No, God worked for the sheer joy of it. Work could not have had a more exalted inauguration. - Tim Keller
THE WORK OF GOD 1. Diversity of Action Verbs 2. Repetition of God saw that it was good 3. Gospels highlight Jesus as Carpenter
THE WORK OF GOD If God came into the world, what would he be like? For the ancient Greeks, he might have been a philosopher-king. The ancient Romans might have looked for a just and noble statesman. But how does the God of the Hebrews come into the world? As a carpenter. - Philip Jensen
THE WORK OF ADAM & EVE 1. Diversity of Action Verbs - Rule (1:26, 28) - Be Fruitful (1:28) - Fill (1:28) - Subdue (1:28) - Cultivate (2:15) - Keep (2:15)
THE WORK OF ADAM & EVE 1. Diversity of Action Verbs 2. Human Partnership Adam with Eve 3. Divine Partnership God w/ Adam & Eve
THE WORK OF ADAM & EVE Being made in God s image, we have been designed to work, to be fellow workers with God. To be an image-bearer is to be a worker. In our work we are to show off God s excellence, creativity, and glory to the world. We work because we bear the image of One who works. - Tom Nelson
THE WORK OF THE CHURCH 1. Commands to Work Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord, rather for men. - Col. 3:23
THE WORK OF THE CHURCH If anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either. For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies. Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread Do not grow weary of doing good. - 2 Thessalonians 3:10-13
THE WORK OF THE CHURCH 1. Commands to Work 2. Necessity for Work
THE NECESSITY OF WORK Without meaningful significant inner loss and emptiness ... We don t merely need the money from work to survive; we need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives. Tim Keller work we sense
THE NECESSITY OF WORK What is the Christian understanding of work? [It] is that work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker s faculties the medium in which he offers himself to God. Dorothy Sayers
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