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🗓️ 18 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Honest work, honest wages. June 18th, 2025. Introduction. |
0:11.8 | The problem of dishonesty in our work and labor is a difficult one to address, because |
0:16.3 | it is often the case that the first one lied to is the liar himself. He is dishonest in his work and labor, |
0:21.9 | but in order to do this most effectively, he must be dishonest first with himself. Remember that the |
0:26.8 | truth about yourself is not seen by looking into your hearts. The truth is found by looking |
0:30.8 | into the mirror of the Word. James 1, 24, and 25. The Word of God is the only true solution to |
0:36.1 | self-deception. We saw earlier that laziness was a form |
0:39.0 | of dishonesty. We now come to the lesson that dishonesty is a form of dishonesty. Ownership. |
0:44.2 | We need to start with a realization that honest work belongs to the Lord. He owns all that |
0:48.5 | equipment. A just weight and balance are the lords. All the weights of the bag are his work. |
0:53.1 | Proverbs 1611. The scales belong to him. |
0:55.7 | The weights that are used with the scales belong to him. The bag itself belongs to him. |
0:59.9 | So the Lord identifies with honest work. The weights in the bag are his. The nails on the wall are his. |
1:04.7 | The entire repair job is his. Provided it is done honestly. It is not enough for your shop to have that little fish in the window. |
1:14.8 | It needs to be the kind of operation where you would be willing for Jesus to be the one who signs off on all the invoices and without flushing a deep red. The lure of dishonesty. |
1:19.4 | If God identifies with honest work, and he does, and he owns every honest business as he does, |
1:24.1 | then why is there any problem? Well, we live in a fallen world. We sinned when we start |
1:28.0 | sinning downhill. Sin is attractive, at least at the beginning. It is easy to glide and to glide |
1:34.1 | right into trouble. Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled |
1:38.8 | with gravel. Proverbs 2017. Learning honesty means learning to taste the gravel early. It means learning to taste |
1:45.5 | the gravel by faith, resting simply on the word of God. It means tasting the gravel without |
1:49.8 | actually eating any. The word tells us where this sweetness winds up, and we see that as the truth, |
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