Now, you know and I know there are many people who view work as a necessary evil.

Just generally speaking, they just think work is just a necessary evil.

It's like some years ago I saw a bumper sticker that says, I owe, I owe so off to work or go.

Well, that's just not correct.

But even there are Christians, there are some Christian believers

who mistakenly believe that work is a curse that is associated with Adam's sin and fall into sin.

But if they really understand the scripture, if they look at Genesis chapter 2 very carefully,

they will discover that it is not so. In Genesis 2.15, before the fall, before Adam and Eve's sin,

here's what God said. The Lord, God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to do what?

To work and take care of it. Before Adam's sin,

before the fall, Adam was working in the garden. And that work was honorable. That work was healthy.

That work was pleasurable. It was only after Adam and Eve have sinned that there are some changes in the environment of work,

not the work itself, but in the nature of the earth itself. Changes have taken place after sin.

Changes in the weather, changes in crop failures, changing of this whole

environment change that took place after sin. But not the essence of work, not the very purpose

for work. God created us to work. I'm going to show you one of the things that makes us truly

created in God's own image. Work is never a curse.

It's a blessing. It's a blessing. I'm personally convinced that the believers in heaven,

they're not going to be sitting on clouds harping on something, but they'll be working in heaven.

Here's a historical fact.

When the Christian faith burst into the scene in the pagan Roman Empire,

Christians elevated the status of honest work, of hard work.

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