Welcome to the Frilly Gospel podcast where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people.

I'm your host, Kosti Hinn, and today I want to give you a clear, concise, and biblical framework for viewing your work as worship.

This will be the culmination to

this last few weeks and our series on work. And I've already hit laziness with you. We've talked

about how to build a great work ethic. And last time we talked about how to find fulfillment

in your work. Today, I want to bring everything together with a simple Bible study. And you

could use this teaching resource in your own life simple Bible study. And you could use this teaching

resource in your own life, of course, but you could use it with a men's or women's Bible study,

a small group, even talking to your kids and students about their future. So first, I'm going to

give you two truths to remember. Okay, two truths to remember. And then one that I believe will totally change the way that you view your work.

And I want to break down these statements biblically and exegetically and help you apply them as well.

The first, number one is God designed work before the fall.

I've alluded to this a couple of times.

I've pushed on this point, mainly to encourage

people not to be lazy, not to load their work, but where do we get that idea exegetically?

Exegesus is the practice of exegeting. You can almost hear the word excavating, two different

words, but still the same picture, pulling out the truth from the text and properly interpreting

the Bible. Well, Genesis 2.15 is where we find this. Then the Lord God took man and he gave him

basically a role in the garden. The Bible says he put him in the garden of Eden to, and then two things,

to cultivate it and to keep it. To cultivate it and to keep it. The Hebrew word for

cultivate is abad, and it means to serve, and it's to labor. And the idea is to labor in worship.

So the idea that work is worship and labor before the fall. That was man's job. And the word for keep, it's the Hebrew

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