Embracing Diligence: The Divine Call to Work
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Because like that, those three verses, uh, summarize, and even the idea of Proverbs 13, four, that diligence brings fulfillment while laziness leaves desired unfulfilled. So maybe this morning you need to think about the areas in your life where you could be more, more productive. You could be more efficient. Maybe it's your phone. Maybe it's man. I spent too much time scrolling and I've wasted a lot of time doing that. Or maybe it's entertainment TV that, oh, I spend three hours a day watching TV. If I just didn't do that, maybe I could make some phone calls, see how somebody's doing. Maybe I could write a letter to somebody diligently working hard will bring fulfillment. But when we're lazy at the end of the day, you put your head on your pillow and think, man, could have got a lot more done today. I could have actually done something productive. I could have done something for somebody else, maybe to help them bring more joy to their life." [17:26]
2. "And using your smarts or your brain wrongly are the opposite of working hard and taking good advice. So to succeed, not doing those things, we need to work hard. We need to follow wise guidance and we cannot be lazy. If we want to be smart in our work, I'll give you a quick illustration of, uh, me and my dad growing up. My dad is the definition of work hard, not smart. Like. Sometimes he would take the long way around to get something done. And in my brain, uh, I was, I probably was not always wise in this, but I was always thinking, man, what, how can I do this faster? How can I do this with less effort? And I would always just say, well, let's work smart, not hard. Have you guys heard that? Right? Yeah. You've heard that phrase. That was my goal. Like find the easiest way to do something." [05:04]
3. "We need to teach our children that life is not all about play. And to be honest with you, I'm Cassie and I are still trying to figure this out. It's a little bit difficult, uh, because obviously they do want to play with their kids and we're like, we don't want to ruin their childhood by not letting them play and just making them work. But that's not entirely correct that we will be doing them a disservice by not teaching them how to work because eventually one day they will have to work. They're going to have to get their license. And, uh, you know, get a job and do an interview and they're going to need to know what it's like to work for eight hours a day before they get to that point." [10:56]
4. "They may even have what they want. So out of that verse, we can find this idea is that when we're diligent, it brings fulfillment. But laziness leaves our desires unfulfilled. You might be a person who like, man, I really want that, but you just don't put the work in. Think of somebody like this. I really want to be healthy, but man, I just love my pop. I love my Little Debbies, and I'm not going to give those up. So that desire to be healthy, to be in shape or something, you might say it, but your desires are going to be unfulfilled because you're lazy. You're either lazy in your commitment or lazy in just going through with that commitment. So diligence brings fulfillment while laziness leaves desires unfulfilled." [01:00]
### Quotes for Members
1. "So worship team, you guys can go ahead and come on up. I could do a whole nother sermon on rest and the idea of Sabbath thing. And it's probably would be a more difficult message for me because we don't do it real well. Uh, to be honest with you. I don't. I don't even know if we know how to do it real well, like God intended us to do. But for today, when we look at the fools in Proverbs, let's not be the fool who doesn't work hard." [16:16]
2. "What I think Proverbs is teaching us is that we need to work hard and smart. It's both. It's not one or the other because we can work hard, do it the most efficient way, but make sure it's done right as well. This past week, um, I was reading a book and by the way, you can, I would recommend looking this one up. Um, you can get it, uh, I, I did get on Amazon, but it's from Lifeway publishing. Um, it's called teach them to work. I'm about halfway through it. Uh, I think I've got about three hours into the book. Um, it takes about six hours to do the audio book, by the way, I'm not that much of a reader, but if I can find it. I can get through it, but it's called teach them the work." [05:51]
3. "Again, going back to the beginning, a Genesis work was created and it was assigned to us even before Adam and Eve sinned. Now, sin came into the picture and made it more difficult for us. It's more difficult to grow a garden because of the thorns and the thistles and the weeds and all that stuff that we have to, uh, also work alongside of the, try to keep the plants alive. Uh, we've got to keep all the bad stuff out, but we do need to teach our children the correct way to work. Um, our society, it seems like every single topic has an extreme. You can either be the lazy sluggard on one end and you don't work at all. And. Everything that you're supposed to be doing, you're not doing at work. You're barely keeping a job at home. You don't take care of stuff at home. Like it's just the extreme laziness. And then our society also has the other extreme of overworking. You work so much that you don't put in the time to be with your family, to be with your children. Uh, so there's extremes, but what is the correct way to balance those?" [09:47]
4. "So thinking about your positions in your life, what areas do you have influence and position that you can help somebody else understand what good work ethic is that? You're not modeling being. A lazy sluggard and you are modeling someone who works hard. So are you, are you a grandparent? Are you a parent? Are you an employee? Maybe you're retired and you're like, I don't even know. Like, how can I do this? I want, I think you can pray God, would you help me, uh, find ways where I can still work hard and influence other people for positive, to show them your love, to show them, uh, your truth, something like that. Even if you're physically. Yeah. Unable to do something, you can still study, you can still use your mind. You might not be able to use your body like you used to, but you can still be a positive influence to say, here's what a good work ethic looks like. Even at an old age or even at a physical disability, even at blah, blah, blah. Don't make up an excuse to say why you can't be a hard worker." [14:55]
5. "We see that God created work. God assigned us work. It says in verse 28 of chapter one, God blessed them. And God said to them, here's our job description, by the way, when God created man and woman, he said, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. There's a lot into that subdue word though. Like when you think about what we do as human beings, what we're free to do, what we can use our mind and creativity to do. There's a lot to that word subdue. But we are to rule. Over all the animals. It says the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, every creature that crawls on the earth, God has appointed human beings to be the ones who subdue and rule over everything. What is amazing to me, like we are not the strongest creature. Obviously there's, there's much stronger creatures that could easily kill us, but we're the only part of creation that was made in the image of God." [02:49]
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1. "Because like that, those three verses, uh, summarize, and even the idea of Proverbs 13, four, that diligence brings fulfillment while laziness leaves desired unfulfilled. So maybe this morning you need to think about the areas in your life where you could be more, more productive. You could be more efficient. Maybe it's your phone. Maybe it's man. I spent too much time scrolling and I've wasted a lot of time doing that. Or maybe it's entertainment TV that, oh, I spend three hours a day watching TV. If I just didn't do that, maybe I could make some phone calls, see how somebody's doing. Maybe I could write a letter to somebody diligently working hard will bring fulfillment. But when we're lazy at the end of the day, you put your head on your pillow and think, man, could have got a lot more done today. I could have actually done something productive. I could have done something for somebody else, maybe to help them bring more joy to their life." [17:26]
2. "And using your smarts or your brain wrongly are the opposite of working hard and taking good advice. So to succeed, not doing those things, we need to work hard. We need to follow wise guidance and we cannot be lazy. If we want to be smart in our work, I'll give you a quick illustration of, uh, me and my dad growing up. My dad is the definition of work hard, not smart. Like. Sometimes he would take the long way around to get something done. And in my brain, uh, I was, I probably was not always wise in this, but I was always thinking, man, what, how can I do this faster? How can I do this with less effort? And I would always just say, well, let's work smart, not hard. Have you guys heard that? Right? Yeah. You've heard that phrase. That was my goal. Like find the easiest way to do something." [05:04]
3. "We need to teach our children that life is not all about play. And to be honest with you, I'm Cassie and I are still trying to figure this out. It's a little bit difficult, uh, because obviously they do want to play with their kids and we're like, we don't want to ruin their childhood by not letting them play and just making them work. But that's not entirely correct that we will be doing them a disservice by not teaching them how to work because eventually one day they will have to work. They're going to have to get their license. And, uh, you know, get a job and do an interview and they're going to need to know what it's like to work for eight hours a day before they get to that point." [10:56]
4. "They may even have what they want. So out of that verse, we can find this idea is that when we're diligent, it brings fulfillment. But laziness leaves our desires unfulfilled. You might be a person who like, man, I really want that, but you just don't put the work in. Think of somebody like this. I really want to be healthy, but man, I just love my pop. I love my Little Debbies, and I'm not going to give those up. So that desire to be healthy, to be in shape or something, you might say it, but your desires are going to be unfulfilled because you're lazy. You're either lazy in your commitment or lazy in just going through with that commitment. So diligence brings fulfillment while laziness leaves desires unfulfilled." [01:00]
### Quotes for Members
1. "So worship team, you guys can go ahead and come on up. I could do a whole nother sermon on rest and the idea of Sabbath thing. And it's probably would be a more difficult message for me because we don't do it real well. Uh, to be honest with you. I don't. I don't even know if we know how to do it real well, like God intended us to do. But for today, when we look at the fools in Proverbs, let's not be the fool who doesn't work hard." [16:16]
2. "What I think Proverbs is teaching us is that we need to work hard and smart. It's both. It's not one or the other because we can work hard, do it the most efficient way, but make sure it's done right as well. This past week, um, I was reading a book and by the way, you can, I would recommend looking this one up. Um, you can get it, uh, I, I did get on Amazon, but it's from Lifeway publishing. Um, it's called teach them to work. I'm about halfway through it. Uh, I think I've got about three hours into the book. Um, it takes about six hours to do the audio book, by the way, I'm not that much of a reader, but if I can find it. I can get through it, but it's called teach them the work." [05:51]
3. "Again, going back to the beginning, a Genesis work was created and it was assigned to us even before Adam and Eve sinned. Now, sin came into the picture and made it more difficult for us. It's more difficult to grow a garden because of the thorns and the thistles and the weeds and all that stuff that we have to, uh, also work alongside of the, try to keep the plants alive. Uh, we've got to keep all the bad stuff out, but we do need to teach our children the correct way to work. Um, our society, it seems like every single topic has an extreme. You can either be the lazy sluggard on one end and you don't work at all. And. Everything that you're supposed to be doing, you're not doing at work. You're barely keeping a job at home. You don't take care of stuff at home. Like it's just the extreme laziness. And then our society also has the other extreme of overworking. You work so much that you don't put in the time to be with your family, to be with your children. Uh, so there's extremes, but what is the correct way to balance those?" [09:47]
4. "So thinking about your positions in your life, what areas do you have influence and position that you can help somebody else understand what good work ethic is that? You're not modeling being. A lazy sluggard and you are modeling someone who works hard. So are you, are you a grandparent? Are you a parent? Are you an employee? Maybe you're retired and you're like, I don't even know. Like, how can I do this? I want, I think you can pray God, would you help me, uh, find ways where I can still work hard and influence other people for positive, to show them your love, to show them, uh, your truth, something like that. Even if you're physically. Yeah. Unable to do something, you can still study, you can still use your mind. You might not be able to use your body like you used to, but you can still be a positive influence to say, here's what a good work ethic looks like. Even at an old age or even at a physical disability, even at blah, blah, blah. Don't make up an excuse to say why you can't be a hard worker." [14:55]
5. "We see that God created work. God assigned us work. It says in verse 28 of chapter one, God blessed them. And God said to them, here's our job description, by the way, when God created man and woman, he said, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. There's a lot into that subdue word though. Like when you think about what we do as human beings, what we're free to do, what we can use our mind and creativity to do. There's a lot to that word subdue. But we are to rule. Over all the animals. It says the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, every creature that crawls on the earth, God has appointed human beings to be the ones who subdue and rule over everything. What is amazing to me, like we are not the strongest creature. Obviously there's, there's much stronger creatures that could easily kill us, but we're the only part of creation that was made in the image of God." [02:49]
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