Why God Wills Work
Messages by Desiring God
Desiring God
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🗓️ 4 September 1983
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | question that I asked myself, at least the most fruitful question that I asked myself in preparing for this message was, |
| 0:08.0 | what is the difference between a human being and a beaver? |
| 0:12.0 | Because I was trying to get at what the essence was, being and a beaver. |
| 0:13.0 | I was trying to get at what the essence of work is, and beavers are famous for their work. |
| 0:19.0 | Dr. Brush Arbor once called a professor out at Westmont, he's a beaver, that's why he can write so much. |
| 0:25.2 | I want us to try to get God's perspective on our work, our labor this morning, your secular |
| 0:31.5 | vocation. because in my judgment a Christian is a person who brings all of life, including his labor, into sync with God's revealed word in scripture. And to help us orient even our work |
| 0:49.9 | on God's revealed will, I want to draw out of scripture with you a miniature theology of work |
| 0:58.7 | or four reasons why God will's work. |
| 1:04.0 | Number one, God will work because when we work in reliance on his power and in accordance with his pattern of excellence he is glorified and we are |
| 1:20.0 | made happy. Let me say that again. God will's work because when we work in reliance upon |
| 1:27.2 | his power and in accordance with his pattern of excellence, his glory is manifested and our joy is increased. |
| 1:40.8 | I want to start with Genesis chapter one. You won't necessarily need to look up all the text that I referred to, but if you're fast you can. |
| 1:50.0 | Genesis chapter 1, verse 27. |
| 1:52.8 | So God created man in his own image. |
| 1:56.0 | In the image of God, he created him. |
| 1:57.9 | Male and female, he created them, and God blessed them. |
| 2:01.0 | And God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it. |
| 2:10.0 | And have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth. |
| 2:17.0 | Since our being created in God's image is so directly connected with the privilege and duty of subduing the earth |
| 2:27.0 | and having it in submission to ourselves, I infer from that passage that at the very heart of our |
| 2:38.1 | human vocation is a subordinate lordship over the world by which we shape it, control it, and put it to good use. |
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