Don't Waste Your Toil

But all the awards and all the accomplishments of being a salesman and going to Singapore or Turkey or Africa or Europe and and the acclaim and all that, when it comes down to it, the great legacy is the legacy of a family that walks with the Lord. Another friend of mine once commented to me and said, you know what we really want is that our kids walk faithfully with the Lord. [00:09:43] (26 seconds)  #LegacyOfFamilyFaith

And then when you get with your kids, tell them three stories, but also say in there, talk in there, give them one one passage of scripture. You know, I was in I was reading Philippians about anxiety. You don't have to preach anything. You don't even really have to teach a lesson. Just tell share the verse or and each time, just share the verse and say, you know, my greatest desire for you is that you walk with the lord. [00:12:23] (32 seconds)  #ShareOneVerse

And even and then when we established Adam in the garden, what did he do? He set him about to have a task, to work, to create because he was he and we are made in the image of god, and god is a working god, a creating god. And so we we we mimic, we image his work. So instead of work being a burden, instead of work being toil and pain, suffering, which often it is. [00:21:02] (42 seconds)  #WorkInGodsImage

I wanna do I wanna do more ministry. I wanna but I gotta spend all my time I spend all my time working and it was pointed out that, look, the work is redeemed and work is a ministry of the Lord not just to try to change the other person, but if you take it in as an attitude of worship. Work is worship all week long. You get to worship the Lord because you're working for the Lord. [00:24:27] (27 seconds)  #WorkIsWorship

In our culture, we have symbols everywhere. We you can't go anywhere without seeing a cross even if they don't even if they don't acknowledge Christ. But we have the book. When they brought the book, the Lisu people were thrilled and ecstatic and came to the lord in droves. Thousands and thousands of Lisu are Christians today because somebody brought them the book. [00:29:54] (29 seconds)  #BookBroughtTheLisu

In in his book, eternity in their hearts, Don Richardson takes you through people groups all around the world that have in their culture and in their ancestral memory a concept of a supreme being, Some sort of creator god that's above all the other demon gods they have. One group is like, well, we never sacrifice to that god because he never does anything bad to us. We always sacrifice in these other ones that are doing bad things to us. [00:25:51] (33 seconds)  #CreatorInTheirHearts

a Christian worldview is one that starts in the garden. God created the heavens and the earth and divided the light and the sun. And on the first day, he said it was good. And the second day and third day is good. And the fourth day is good. And the fifth day, it's good. And the sixth day is good. No. It is very good. [00:20:41] (21 seconds)  #CreationIsVeryGood

Now you gotta be good at what you do because if you're not any if you don't have a skill or craft or trade, sometimes you gotta pay some pay some dues early on so that you can quit and move on to somewhere else. But nevertheless, wherever you're at, if you work for the lord, it's a whole lot more satisfying. [00:23:27] (21 seconds)  #WorkWellForGod