All right, friends, today, what does retirement look like for the Christian?

It doesn't.

Tell us, Ray, why doesn't it?

There shouldn't be any thought of retirement for the Christian.

For the world, yeah, retire.

Just go over and die somewhere.

Walk your dog around the block.

But for the Christian, you can go full time for the Lord now. All your life, you've been restricted by work. Work's a curse. God gave work as a curse. Makes you sweat. You can be free of that, and now you can serve the Lord below your heart, full time. And all you do is set up a, get a diary. And when you go witnessing, with your dog wearing sunglasses, going around the block,

get a person's name and write down what you said to them and pray for them afterwards.

There's things you can do where retirement won't come near you, and it shouldn't.

Okay, now, Oscar, is there a place for a Christian to retire?

No, before he dealt with us.

Not.

But not really retire.

So maybe we can break down the difference in perspective on what the world's talking about for retirement.

Yeah, I think what you're getting at here is, is the retiring from vocation

is one thing, which is moving into a new season of life. And to clarify what Ray meant

earlier, I knew he meant this is the work is a gift from the Lord to us. We see Adam work

in the garden. After the fall. after the fall, it becomes cursed.

Right. So Adam had God glorifying work. We are made to make in the same way that our maker makes.

That's not a part of the curse. Part of the curse is that then attached to that is the thistles and the thorns.

And if you work in a vocation that is hard, that's a struggle, you feel the thistle,

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