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Alrighty, we're continuing our study of Proverbs and it's a really practical book

about how to do certain things. And there are many things that we want to do, but we

just don't know how to do them. Proverbs enters in, gives us wisdom, practical,

daily, advice on how to walk in wisdom, and how to do the things that God wants

you to do and that you want to do. So today we're gonna look at this question,

how do you win at work? And I was thinking about it, let's say you work 40 to

50 hours a week. That's most people unless you're a mother of a small child,

then you work 13,000 hours a week. But for the rest of us, you work 40 or 50

hours a week. Let's say about 50 weeks a year, you get a little vacation time. Let's

say you work from your mid-20s to your mid-60s, about 40 years. The average

person, if you're just working a normal job, is gonna work 2,000 to 2,500 hours

this year. And in your lifetime, 80,000 to 100,000 hours of your life is going to

be spent at work. That being said, since we're here in church and we're

Bible-believing church, how does work relate to God? How does our relationship

with God continue where we spend so much of our time and energy at work? And

that's the issue that we're going to talk about today. Before we get into some

particulars in Proverbs, I want to establish sort of a biblical concept of work.

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