Welcome to the For the Gospel Podcast where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people.

I'm your host, Kosti Hinn, and I want to talk to you about how to build a strong work ethic.

We're in a series here on work.

If you are just picking up with us, you can go

back and listen to the last episode where I talk about laziness and how to kill it and overcome

it. But for this episode, I want to think through the kind of culture we're living in. We live in a

culture that love shortcuts. And everybody wants success. Very few want or even embrace sacrifice everybody wants

results that don't want to have discipline everybody wants influence very few actually want to

work and sadly that mindset can creep into the church i am not not some expert on everything, but on this topic in

particular, I've got a lot of passion and a lot of experience. I have been on both sides of this.

I've been the young guy entitled in my first job. I'll never forget it. I worked for a company in

California, and I was just out of college and I went to

work for this company. It was an athletic training company. And I think within like the first couple of

months, I with my entitled prosperity gospel rich kind of silver spoon, the way I got brought up in my

family, encounter for the first time a boss who sort of just you know is like get the job done work like no one's going to coddle you prosperity gospel boy you're cute with your Hummer now do the job and I was coming out of college where I had a great work ethic on the field and in the gym and had no issue with that. It didn't necessarily translate to the workplace.

I was a hard worker in theory, but when it came to dealing with people or the big world out there,

I was still a little prosperity gospel rich kid brat. And I got schooled and I end up storming out of

this job and I quit. And I remember my boss

telling me, who had just paid me on commission work that I had done, you go and get that money

back. You didn't earn it. So I went and got the money, handed it back to him, hit the road,

and I said, I'm going to go work for my family. Well, that didn't last. Many even know the

testimony. Years later, I leave the

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