He has to live in an equally fallen world which yields its riches with reluctance.

And all of this is to help the woman and to help the man see what sin does, and then to cause him to long for a better life long for a better

situation to long for better circumstances to long for deliverance. You've probably felt it at least occasionally that Sunday night dread of going to work the next morning

So why is that the case? Why is work well, so often difficult and hard something we resist why is it normal for work to

take so much of our time and demand so much of our physical and mental energy

consider those questions from a biblical

perspective today on grace to you as John MacArthur shows you how to honor the

Lord in the work you do and how to find true joy in whatever you do for a living.

It's all part of John's continuing study called Genesis of the Gospel.

And now with today's message, here's John MacArthur.

We come back to the study of origins in the book of Genesis and in chapter 3.

In chapter 3 we have studied the origin and impact of sin. And what

we're learning as we come to the text again for tonight in chapter 3 verses 17 to 19 is that because

of sin God cursed man. Let me read this text for you again verses 17 to 19. Then to Adam he said because you have listened to the

voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you saying

you shall not eat from it. Cursed is the ground because of you and toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life.

Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field

by the sweat of your face.

You shall eat bread till you return to the ground because from it you

were taken for you are dust and to dust you shall return. Curse on man was sweat, labor, work. The Life is work.

The Earth is a rich provider of numberless things, but they are not easily procured.

Everything man gains from the Earth comes by hard work.

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