1. Feb 19, 2012 Why Do We Work? Why Do We Work?

2. Gen 3:17-19 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, Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food

3. Romans 8:18-21 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us…… For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

4. When I Work for God 1. I can have joy today and great hope for the future.

5. Genesis 2:2 By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

6. Matthew 6:25-33 do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. … Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? So do not worry, saying, What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or What shall we wear? For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

7. When I Work for God 1. I can have joy today and great hope for the future. 2.I can take a Sabbath rest

8. Colossians 3:23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters

9. When I Work for God 1. I can have joy today and great hope for the future. 2.I can take a Sabbath rest 3.Every part of my work can glorify God

13. When I Work for God 1. I can have joy today and great hope for the future. 2.I can take a Sabbath rest 3.Every part of my work can glorify God