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00:00:00 today's scripture reading is taken from Genesis 1: 26 through 2:3 then God said let us make Mankind in our image in our likeness so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky over the livestock and all the wild animals and over all the creatures that move along the ground so God created Mankind and his own image in the image of God he created them male and female he created them God blessed them and said to them be fruitful and increase in number fill the Earth and subdue it rule over the fish in the sea
00:00:47 and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground then God said I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it they will be yours for food and to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground everything that has the Breath of Life in it I give every green plant for food and it was so God saw all that he had made and it was very good and there was evening and
00:01:22 there was morning the sixth day thus the heavens and the Earth were completed in all their vast array by the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing so on the seventh day he rested from all his work then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done this is the word of God thanks sister Sarah for the reading of Our God's word good morning church good morning hi as to see all you here I was supposed to preach last week but um
00:01:59 because my son was wed in hospital for 11 days for this uh disease called misc multiorgan inflammation syndrome caused by covid so I've been in hospital for about 11 12 days with him uh so it's really great that I can be here I want to say thanks to the church for praying for for him uh this little boy has so many Uncle aunties caring for him praying for him asking about him he very y mean really okay really got face so really thank you so much for all your prayers and especially to Dr Ian and Dr
00:02:32 C for visiting and U he doesn't have he actually had three doctors from the hospitals but with Dr Ian checking on he has five doctors already lot of fa this guy right so but I really appreciate um the church for praying and really caring about him um it was a a very big audio for us until now I actually don't even have much strength to stand I feel very tired but uh trust the Lord will be with us today and you will hear his word not mine so let's pray father we thank you for today L thank you for bringing us
00:03:03 here to hear your word to to understand what it means to be human what it means to to be Humanity law Lord pray that you help us to understand work to understand what is asking us to do from Monday to Fridays and Lord help us to to make good use of every single opportunity time you given to us in Jesus name we pray amen okay so next week sermon so if we look at here uh the next three weeks of sermon is St over here Dr Peter preaching on hezekiah's prayer for healing very interesting one uh maybe
00:03:33 you want to learn about this prayer as well when he was sick and then he asked God for healing and God actually listen extended his life for quite a bit after that there will be uh El Yan and Arnold preaching on two different uh other chapters as well Psalm 22 and Genesis 47: 1-2 now today what we want to talk about is Theology of vocation and work and this is something that I'm very passionate about um I I love working okay I say it un shamely I love working I started working when I was 16 years
00:04:05 old actually started started by uh teaching Tu why because pocket money not enough so to teach tution so that's how I actually started working but I love book and I find that book is very enjoyable so today I want to talk about is why should we work we all work but why should we work actually so now um if I'm going to ask your parents I want to do this but no no chance you want to ask your kids why do daddy mommy go to work what is the answer that you give tell me money money El right daddy mommy go to
00:04:38 work because money now if you teach your children in more Fierce where you say that if you don't work you going to go hungry you know because why daddy mommy the money to buy food for you right so this is what we learn from Young daddy mommy work why oh because we go hungry otherwise we need money mus so we must work now in fact I think all of us don't want to talk about work if on Saturday you call your colleagues and talk about work like something wrong this boss no work life balance you know you shouldn't
00:05:06 be calling your colleagues on Saturdays on Sundays and talking at work we need work life B and people all they Don't Like Mondays right but so uh maybe because of this guy this guy is velle G he actually is famous uh because he fired 900 employees on Zoom so he had a zoom call he said if you're on Zoom you're unlucky you get fired so this is what happened and I guess we all have our encounter of Horrible Bosses I have fun I share with you uh what happened was this I had this opportunity to go to
00:05:33 us to work I went to states to work um when I was uh in my 20s and I was so looking forward Land of the Free going there to really do so many things and I was thinking wow it's going to be amazing and when I over there I had one boss and the boss uh was really not so nice uh to give an idea how he was was at this at the time there this thing called um sichan earthquake was very big news 2008 2009 exem big a lot of people died and one of our colleagues was actually in sichon at the time when my B
00:06:05 when my boss heard the news you know what he said literally yeah what say was this oh no who's going to do the work that's exactly what my boss said and so I guess when you uh when you hit your boss or maybe you don't like work I can relate to you uh I got torture over there and um it's a big story but basically we all have our own share of our terrible bosses as well or maybe because of the cou we watch our TV and we understand the lifestyle for the Rich and Famous they don't work on you're supposed to do this
00:06:36 everybody works to retire yes or no everybody wants to work work to retire and so uh even Economist tells you this this is milon fragment and he said that the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits not to take care of employees you just need to increase his profits this is the main goal of companies right this is what we need to do and if you look at the Westminster Shorter Catechism uh which sheally saying that what is a Christian supposed to do what is the chief end of man this
00:07:03 is the answer given to you the man's man's Chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever we're supposed to glorify God enjoy him forever now if you don't really carefully read it it sounds like this what we're supposed to do is actually this forever come to church sing songs when go to heaven we sing songs so what do we do we should work less learn how to play guitar and be like M can play drums also sick also want to play drums you know we we need to do these things this is what we supposed to do in life not going to work
00:07:33 perhaps that's a thing and so what happens is lot of times it becomes being Billy Graham is excellent you be evangelist you know and what S is doing is amazing as well we we gravitate a lot to it but we look at a painter and artist we said that not so good one in fact we may even ask him sir you need to choose will you choose God or you choose money you ask him this question right if he's uh serving a bit more in church you ask him you need choose you know do you want to serve God or you want to
00:08:02 actually do your own things out there so this is a context we are in but if you want to understand this entire story of work we need to understand the beginning in the beginning that's such what Genesis is in the beginning what was God's intention and Mark TW said this if I paraphrase there's two most important days in your life number one is the day you were born number two is the day you discover why right and for those of you who don't really know what work is you're spending about five to six days
00:08:28 working let's find out what work is about in the beginning Genesis 1: 26 it says here then God said let us make Mankind in our image in our likeness so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky over the livestock and all the wild animals and over all the creatures that move along the ground okay so in the beginning God said that let us make Mankind in whose image in God's image right in God's likeness so that why so that they may rule over the fish in the sea the birds
00:08:59 in the sky so that they miru so what we understand is this number one we work because we are created in God's image or rather we work because of who we are we work because of who we are we actually require lots and lots of work we are not supposed to retire at the age of 20 because we created something and then you know we sold the company away and we retire a lot of young people have this dream nowadays we're supposed to work and work and work and actually in the Jewish uh language the hebu language
00:09:25 there's no word there's no word called retirement as well so we supposed to work and because we we created in God's image so the the interesting thing is when you saw God's creation he created animals plants and all that but only humans were given the opportunity to work animals will never do this animals cannot work they are just there they do whatever they need but they don't have this intention desire and they don't have this need to work as well right and so when you read this passages now it's
00:09:54 actually very profound if you were a Israelite that just came out of Egypt you were slave you are nobody you treated like dirt and God says that you are made in the image of God in Egypt uh culture the king the Pharaoh is considered you know the image of God uh whatever he says is actually the command and he is actually image God so he represents God but now he saying to every single slave every single person out there that you are actually image of God it's very profoundly changing the entire way you live and you that you are
00:10:28 actually made in God God's image now uh if you look at this work part GMA Dr Peter has done a tremendous job covering this in many many chapters so we can go to to understand more as image what we are supposed to do to reflect represent relate him I'm not going to cover more of this you can scan your character find out more go to YouTube to go through more but what we want to talk about today is something extra that U maybe is more towards my own experience as well so work is actually God's invitation to
00:10:56 rule with him we don't when you talk to your children in the morning you don't say that I'm going to go and Rule okay you stay at home Daddy Mom go and Rule now you don't say that but actually that's what we supposed to do we're supposed to rule with him if you look at the creation story what you see is day one to day seven God spent day 1 2 3 4 5 6 to create the heavens the Earth the waters the skies is separated he created these spaces and he filled that up so imagine God made this amazing place and
00:11:25 on day six after creating animals he told the humans okay now it's your your turn okay I've done all this amazing thing now it's your turn to Rule now it's your turn to continue what I've done so in a way it's like this God created a lot of Legos a lot of building blocks a lot of things and now God says now you going and do something with it it's like God says it's good that the in a way to explain to is the potential of the world is amazing that is how it was at the start the potential was amazing
00:11:53 it wasn't perfect God didn't ask you to sit there eat apples or eat oranges until you die not supposed to do that you're supposed to actually be active you're supposed to work you're supposed to rule with God so it's like the Legos when you get it you're supposed to build something with it and that is the opportunity God has given to us God's work is not boring when look at God if you actually have played games before so this is StarCraft and the Starcraft if you want to get money to build things
00:12:17 what do you do you mind minerals those blue color things are minerals if you play Warcraft how do you actually get resources your mind go and lumber two things right I think two things are these two things actually build things but when you look at if you imagine you're going to build AI you're going to build anything out there in the world you will not build like what God did why did God create so many types of food why he create papay so many just create one everybody eat papaya for the rest of your life why
00:12:48 God's work is not boring he not asking just do something for utility sake there's Beauty in what he does as well so goel is really invitation for you to rule and if you look at it there's order and there's Beauty there's chaos at the start he actually separates it he creates order he creates Beauty he allows life to sustain and there's creativity and diversity in all the things he does we are m in the image of God corporately as well this is the point that I explain to you if you look at it over here the image of God we say
00:13:19 that we are made in God's image but what does it really mean verse 27 over here is actually a poem a poem with three verses right and what you see number one it says so God creat created Mankind in his own image but take not at the second and third verse it says in the image of God he created them that's just a different way of writing the first sentence can you see that just flipping around active passive in in the image of God he created them and the third verse it says male and female created them if
00:13:44 you look at created what it means his image of God is equivalent to what male and female and to me personally this has profound impact because a lot of times when we think image of God we're supposed to rule we're supposed to serve God what we see is actually like this we think that we're supposed to be Iron Man we do everything ourselves uh side note photos this is called a hero's Landing you watch Marvel other they always land like this right this called Heroes landing and comy must be like this and we think
00:14:12 that we are supposed to be like Heroes we supposed to do everything ourselves but not true not true at all the image of God is equal to male and female which means that mankind is the image of God not just individually as a person but corporately we are the image of God if you read chapter 2 it says over here God Lord God said that it is not good that man should be alone I will make him a helper fit for him mentioning about a female mentioning about Eve and the word helper Dr Peter is being cut out over
00:14:40 here right but you see over here helper means easer easer is actually even used to actually explain of God it's like the deliverer which means this if you put it all together when you go and Rule you're not ruling alone you're not supposed to be the top and there 1,000 people out under you working for you you're supposed to work together to rule to actually re together with God and you supp to help each other because why because it's a easer there's people helping you not just your wife not just
00:15:08 your girlfriend your your your friends your brothers and sisters can be there to help you and so to me this is very profound because this is image of God this is what we mean by the image of God We Are All Made In His Image and we all have this opportunity and this uh responsibility and blessing to rule together with him so I can call my brothers and sisters in time of need as we serve and work and also at church so now I had this discussion with um I don't know few months ago because work got so heavy and I was asking I don't
00:15:43 know what to do actually I need to preach I need to work how to handle all this and he Shar something that is actually quite I think um helpful for me as well I kept on thinking that this is my life and if you go for any coaching um business coach they always show you this is called the balance View and your life is being separated in many many different facets so you have this uh what we got how much time you rest how's your Fitness and all this these are different things you do daily So In traditional way of doing business what
00:16:13 you need to do this if you want to grow your business you want to grow your career you know what you need to do you have to sacrifice one part of this pie because you're limited if you want to spend more time at work what must you do spend less time with your kids even work harder you exercise size less but what he shared to me was this we are not individuals you know we are actually a body we a body of Christ which means that if I need help I can call him and we can actually help each other and same
00:16:41 goes for sermon last we because I couldn't be doing here I called Dr Peter and Dr Peter said Victor actually take over so we are a corporate Body of Christ we are actually the image of God together so if you need help if you need help you can actually ask for help and church is there to help you as well if you are not connected to live group you're not connect to the body of Christ you're missing out terribly please be connected the next Point work is fun it is a blessing and god-given responsibility work is fun okay work is
00:17:12 not Dreadful work is actually fun now what do you mean by that so looking at verse 28 it says God blessed them and said to them be fruitful and increase in number F the Earth and subdue it rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground this is God saying to mankind so if you look at it it's being split down to four different things we as to do be fruitful and increase in number F the Earth subdue the Earth Rule and care for creation four different things we
00:17:40 actually asked to do over here the first one is to understand that we should desire to fulfill this mandate many of us have no desire we just want to retire we just want to watch TV Monday this Monday is holiday yay don't go to world but we're supposed to want to do all these things as well it's not we are not created just for Sunday you created for all the seven days so what does it mean by be fruitful and incre increase in number well it means in the context is for you to procreate to have children
00:18:08 but it also can also mean that for us here we are supposed to multiply how to multiply maybe for you to teach your Juniors how to do work when you retire don't bring all your secrets and retire together share with other people help others to grow actually to expand why because the world is so big if you want to actually have Adam and Eve to actually expand right God doesn't say Adam become the CEO of the entire place it's actually for him to procreate and have all these children to actually expand and populate the entire Earth so
00:18:37 we are supposed to be fruit through increase in number so raise the Next Generation pass the knowledge down the next Point feel the Earth what does feeling the earth mean it means that we're not supposed to stay put in one place we're supposed to go and explore and discover things it's like this Star Trek you know what Star Trek says space the final frontier these are the Voyages of the Starship Enterprise his five mission to explore Strange New World seek out new life new civilizations to poly go when no man has gone before this
00:19:09 is a commandment from God to Adam to explore to us to actually explore to really find out more things and it's actually scary imagine if you're Adam Eve and you go and explore the whole world there's Lions there's everything out there and you're supposed to be bold and F the Earth and explore so this is what we're supposed to do and it is actually to expand e Eden Eden is a garden but what God is asking Adam to do is actually expand Eden so that God's glory be filling the entire Earth so don't get comfortable explore New
00:19:42 Frontiers don't get comfortable with your job and say that I'm just going to stay here and in this job forever okay this comment is quite good stay okay but do more things okay discover more things take on more roles don't say that say that oh you know my role is only this I only do a b c in the manufacturing line I don't do anything else on I don't want to know anymore learn more get to know more things the third thing subduing the Earth okay we asked to subdue the Earth the word subdue actually a lot of times
00:20:08 people look at it it's like uh you're trying to U exploit but the word is actually more of imposing your vision God is asking us to impose our vision to the earth now what does it mean it means what can you do with soy what can you do with a wasteland not much but if you actually harness the resources God has given you Lego blocks God God has given you you can do this you can have papayas nonstop okay you can so much you can share with your people you one tree that only has two papy can share with your neighbors to
00:20:40 eat together you can harness and subdue the earth now and we have done this and amazing job you may not realize it but this is actually something we have actually done very well with let me ask you this question I I want to answer from you guys how many people are needed to make a two ring pencil okay raise your hands if you think so okay I'm going to ask and just tell me uh how many say one 10 100,000 10,000 100,000 don't care right so this is actually shared by mutant fright men and he said this this
00:21:24 humble little pencil two ring you look at it no one single person can make it not a single person can make this pencil why number one the wood to make pencil in wood this wood maybe it's from Malaysia right to get the wood out you need to saw it to saw the wood you need to get iron to get iron you need iron or you need Ste you iron or so you need a lot of things in order to do for you just to get the wood now if you look at the next thing the graphite the let the graphite inside actually maybe it's from
00:21:56 China how much resources in needed to actually just look get that how would the logistics to ship it over here to the manufacturing site the rubber the tip of it the tiny little rubber originated maybe from Thailand Thailand is actually largest producer of rubber and the species is actually from South America as well it's not even from Thailand and all of these things the pain the brass ferrow is see or even the energy needed to actually do all this work maybe it's from russan natural gas who knows but if you look at it not a
00:22:34 single person can create this pencil if I'm going to guess I would say millions of vapers needed we take everybody gives a few seconds of their time to actually create this little pencil and that is what we mean by subduing the Earth the ability to take all these different things and come together and make something amazing out it if Adam or to be here um Dr pet share a video which actually said is if Adam would be here standing here he say what are all those things those things are they stars then you explain ad them no
00:23:03 they're not Stars you know they actually likes we use electricity with glass and all that we made it oh amazing you somehow manage to do something like stars that they will shine when it's dark but why is it so chilly is it winter now no it's air conditioning and you explain every single thing to him but can you see how much we harness the ver how much we subdue and we asked to continue doing this because the Lego blocks are given to us yeah God ask us God is pleas when we do that so perhaps for you do more
00:23:33 R&D research more find out more thing harness the potential of all things that you have not just saying that oh 5:00 I need to go to cell group 8 okay so find do more things at work the next one rule and care for creation in Genesis 1: 30 it says and to all the Beast of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground everything there has a breath of life in it I give every green plant for food if you look at context it means this he's asking to harness the world
00:24:01 and it says that humans there's food to eat but the animals are never neglected to all the Beast of the earth and all the birds in Sky I give you every green plant for food so make sure there's green plant out there so they can eat as well so we ask to care for creation as well and this is something that's very big now that is called ESG okay so in the Working World we talk about this um employee social governance where we supposed to to take care of the environment as well and also to make sure that everything um is taken care
00:24:29 not just for profit so they talk about this thing triple bottom line we supposed to not just take care of our planet people and profits three different things that suppos we supposed to do all three together in fact I want to share you that some of you say no La I retired this is this Su is not super for me but I want to share you that you can't help it you can't help but to follow this culture mandate or creation mandate you can't help it you don't know but can't help it little kids when they play games what do you think
00:25:00 they're doing they're creating they're exploring a lot of times we get fed up with the world we go into our small little scope we play games we try to have a more control environment where we feel that we can actually be doing something which is also the culture mandate we're trying to subdue inside there you can make things my son plays Minecraft or how about retirees what do retirees do do they eat and sleep only no right they want to go and travel the world they do PL planting gardening I have no clue why
00:25:33 they do that but they love to do that and okay because they said too free cannot must do something you will be actually doing it no matter what so it's actually built in us to say that we don't just live for life like this we're supposed to work as well the third Point work is Tainted by our sins now let's not be knif over here work is hard and there's a lot of challenges for all of us we is in church whether it's in corporate there always be challenges so if you actually have been living in Malaysia you know know that inflation is
00:26:06 very high uh globally this is a 9.2% inflation measured I think in March globally which means that if you 100 now you only left with about 91 ring uh this is the ring against the US dollar so it has depreciated about 15% for the past one year so if you have money in the bank actually it's worth less now so you can be saving can be doing but things get frustrated and some of us we work but a lot of times we waste our time not doing the actual work there's so much politics there's so much traffic jam and
00:26:37 we waste time and work is frustrating so I was in hospital recently as well so a lot of times we have dreams you have different things you want to do you have plans but because we live in a fallen World things get messed up we may not always achieve what we want to achieve so this lady over here maryan Bavon um she actually was born very nice very beautiful um but she had this uh disease called acrom magal so she her there's starting to deform in the body and she looked like that over there on the rights so what
00:27:10 you see is that she didn't look good and after that she had children her family was all happy but the the husband passed away so what did she do she actually join the circus to be the ugliest woman in the world to earn money for the family so sometimes when work we get um we don't have good work we get uh people scoring us we have we don't enjoy our work but that is the world we're in and they still work as well why all this happens coming back to Genesis 1 is because in the center of garden there's
00:27:42 two trees the tree of life and tree of knowledge good and evil and the question is Adam and Eve has this daily Choice when God ask you to populate to ask you have the cultural mandate to explore expand right so you need to do all this but how do you know what is good how do you know what is good one way is listen to God you wait for him you talk to him and you get the answer from him you connect to the tree of life and also you talk to God you convey with him so he actually can give you information he can teach you what to do
00:28:14 but the other way is God has this over here your option the tree of knowledge good and evil which means that asking you if you don't want you can take this one but if you take this one you die so there's this choice and this actually means autonomy the sin that we all have not just Adam and Eve but all of us have is we want autonomy we want to Define what is good and evil we want the decision the freedom to choose what to do what we should do but what we supposed to do is actually obey God and follow him and
00:28:45 listen to him so and because of that the ground is cursed and life is difficult now but I just want to draw one sentence for you to see curse is the ground because of you God curs the ground for our sake why it's like when you're sick you take medicine the ground is cursed so that when you actually go about your daily life you WR that something is wrong and you need help and you need to rely on God to draw you back to God why because man cannot leave alone we need God that is why the ground is being
00:29:16 cursed and so if you look at it it means this the entire culture mandate cannot be done separated from God it is done in partnership with God and in fact we cannot be human without God when you choose to live without God you're no longer human you actually considered Beast so if you read the Bible you see the danad news you read the book of Daniel the Beast ruling is because humans are no longer and you don't want to follow God you're ruled by beasts yeah so the fourth point is God is redeeming work God is redeeming work for
00:29:50 us so in 2 Corinthians 5:4 over here it says for Christ love compels us because we are convinced that one died for all and therefore all died and he died for all that those who live should long no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again which means when you live you no longer live for yourself you live for Christ verse 17 therefore if anyone is in Christ the new creation has come the old has gone the new is here it's a choice for us God is here to redeem all us and
00:30:25 if you are believe of Jesus Christ you are a redeemed person and so for you is for you daily to choose Tree of Life or tree of knowledge of Good and Evil you need to decide but if you actually follow God work can be redeemed daily sacrifice okay choose to obey God every day and how do you do it how do you live without autonomy the answer is you follow the Bible you go to God's word daily and understand what he is asking you to do but how do we this so we are Christians and we know all of us most of
00:31:01 time we talk to Christians they said the Great Commission right and so we supposed to do this Great Commission we're supposed to go and make disciples of all Nations baptizing them in the name of father of the Son and the Holy Spirit we are supposed to spread the gospel mer this we understand it to be evangelizing spreading gospel which is all very important as well but how do we actually balance this evangelism and living and working so the answer I to give to you is actually perhaps you can do both together why because if you read
00:31:35 First Corinthians it says so whether you eat or drink or whatever you do you do it all to the glory of God in fact I share with you a lot of times if you talk to non-Christian people are not attracted to the Christian faith because they don't see relevance why should I become Christian you I'm like this you also like this in fact I'm better that then you at work as well so how do you relate all of these things together yeah how do you really all these things together so answer if you actually live for the glory of God then
00:32:03 you are able to make disciples people be attracted to Christ because of you as well so if you read the Westminister shorter C again in this context it makes sense what is the chief end of man man's Chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever but in what context in whatever you do you do it to the glory of God yeah so work is for God as well you work for Christ you don't work for money you don't work to buy food so when Daddy when your children ask you daddy why you go to work you should be able to say
00:32:35 that I go to work because I to serve Jesus you know I want to do amazing things I want to help people so the challenge it's very hard for you to get the answer how to live like this but I want to give you this challenge for you to think about it at home you won't get in a day you may not even get in a year but spend time to really think about how can you change your work to be able to do both of these things together obeying God's calling to the culture mandate and a Great Commission together it's not
00:33:03 easy but it can be done for example I don't have enough Malaysian examples I have to take from us so this chick Phil and for them they sell chicken sandwiches but you look at it they are famous for one thing they close on Sundays so can you imagine fast food restaurant that closes on Sundays so why they do it because they say that they want to make sure that every single employee whether you're Christian or not it doesn't matter we want to give you a day of rest so you can spend time with family or go to church or whatever you
00:33:34 want to do it's okay but one day rest and it's always on Sunday you look at it the sales per store is actually highest compared to even McDonald's Wendy's and papy's how can they do it I don't know but there's a way you going to figure it out I don't know your industry but there's a way so can you actually be selling chicken sandwiches and say I make chicken sandwiches for Jesus Christ I'm accountant I do bookkeeping for Jesus Christ you can say that I think your life will change oh this is my friend Sassi and
00:34:11 she started earth air I Shar about her before already and for her she mixed Artisan products what happened was she actually went to I think Sri Lanka and she actually found that people were making very good products but only sell for $1 so so she bought a lot of it back and sold in Rel to friends to support these people and after talking to a few Christians together they real hey why don't I try to come up with business like this so now she actually creates Handbags and products fashion stuff to
00:34:38 sell and mind you these things look very good one okay and if you look at it uh my wife bought one as well recently it's maybe one handbag is about 500 ring like that uh it's not like a Prada it's not like LV but it looks good and so what I'm saying is you don't just do it for charity you can actually change your entire business model or what you do to have this impact of helping those people who are making it giving that better pricing at the same time making sure that your business is sustainable without needing Aid or
00:35:06 May for you when you parent some of us you know we we take care of children and that is amazing work that's very important for you to do so when when you do parenting I'm going to ask you this question when you see guards and you see the rubbish collector coming to your house right what do you say if your children ask Daddy why do they do this what's the answer I can tell you what Chinese say they never study ah you see you don't study you become like that yes no you never study so you see you so you must study become like them
00:35:40 become rubbish collector but do you think we can change the way we parent perhaps you can tell them this oh you need to study you know because they didn't have education so they're like this but you need to study hard so next time you can help them you can automate all this so they don't need to do this anymore so that maybe they can do a better value adding job or maybe can teach them something else so their life can be better as well a whole new way of parenting not just worry about whether you have food to eat Chinese all worry
00:36:09 about that that's why you see each other you ask right I really think about my food only food and money food and money that's different way of living to really think more to see that there's a cultural mandate there is actually a Great Commission God has given us and the final point I show you is obedience is better than good work obedience is better than good work now this is not in Genesis but I wanted to share this with you because otherwi I cannot cover the entire topic nicely for you and I share this story to you by
00:36:40 token it's called Lea by Neo now token wrote a lot of rings and it took him quite a long time to write it and then in his 50s he actually uh reach an impa because he found it's very hard to write this story he had to build this world in his mind that spends thousands of years languages need to be created it's it's amazing you know how can create a language I don't even know how it is it but it creates all these things and Rich impass where by he felt that he couldn't do anymore and he was worried because World War II was
00:37:12 happening and he wasn't enlisted he was worried that maybe can he even survive and he's worried that he cannot finish his beautiful big project he wanted to do and at this time he wrote this story called leave by Neo so in this story there's a man called nle okay nle and nle in this old English basically means a person that moves about that's not very productive so this guy is not amazing guy he's just a ordinary guy and he's not very productive and Niger stays in a house next to a a neighbor called
00:37:45 Parish Parish means the church church people Parish so they stay together and nigle is not very good what he does but he likes to paint he's a painter so in his life he's painted a lot of paintings but not very good and people don't really appreciate as well but one day he had this big idea going to paint this very beautiful painting that starts with the leaf and rest there a tree and after behind the tree there's actually a whole there some buildings and a very beautiful scener as well he had this
00:38:12 idea in mind he said I want to do this before I die I must finish this painting before I die so he actually went about starting to do it but whenever he wanted to paint his neighbor Parish would call him Nigo I need help my leg is lame my wife is sick can't go to the city and help me call the doctor to come my roof is licking car me to do all is not help me fix it so Niger spent a lot of time trying to paint his painting but all he could get out of it is just a tiny little leaf tiny little leaf he want to
00:38:47 build something big his whole house was filled with a canvas is extremely big but all he could come up was a tiny leave and from the time to time when they try to focus Parish would disturb him he he got very upset with it but he is a very kind person and he felt that he had to help Parish so he always went to parish and assisted him whenever he needed help but one day it was raining and Parish was sick and needed help again and Nika felt that he was going to die already so Parish actually came to
00:39:19 talk to Nik and said that I still need help again this time can go to the city and get these things for me get a doctor and get someone to fix my house again thought about it it he said I haven't finished my painting if I go most highly I can't finish it because I think I will die already I'm sick but anyway he went he went in a city he got someone to come and help and true enough after that Parish got his help but Niger passed away he died and after he died he went to heaven when when he went to
00:39:51 heaven he heard two voices the first voice was Justice and Justice told him Neo you've been a terrible servant you've been a terrible person you've not done much in your life what have you come up to you have not amounted to much all the potential all the things God has given to you has come to nothing that's what Justice said but there's another voice called mercy and mercy said oh Nigo but at the same time you chose the correct thing you chose to love your neighbor you chose to take care of perish when needed
00:40:28 help and your work your labor in the lot will never be in vain so as a reward Neer went managed to go to the countryside and went on a train ride as he went on a train ride he looked out the window and what he saw he saw the tree and after the tree he saw the beautiful scenery so this thing that he had in mind was actually all over there in real life there's nothing that came about there's only a tiny Leaf in his house and people didn't really care about much they saw it they took it put in museum
00:41:01 but nobody really care about it but this truth that he saw this beautiful Vision that he has was actually in reality in the true reality in heaven what story tells us is this we may have many big Visions may have dreams young people you should have dreams old people you need to dream more okay don't just think of retirement do something as well so what happens is all these beautiful dreams that you have right God has given to you you may finish it you may not finish it but it is okay because God will bring
00:41:36 everything to completion your job is obedience obey in everything you do there are times where by God may ask you to do something just so that you fail so they can learn and do something else there are times when by you do something you will fail but somebody else will pick up remember the image of God you're not alone you don't need to be Tony star in I know okay men maybe some of you have imagined that before okay but you don't need to God has other people there to serve and to work together as well so
00:42:07 you don't worry about that so this is a Tiny Lea I mention to you and this is a beautiful Vision just for you get an idea so you may be only to be able to paint a tiny little leaf but the true reality the vision that you have is frozen hold on let's see anyone listen to me okay the vision whatever you want to build whether you are architect trying to build something amazing or for me I'm building software I'm trying to build a software that is amazing don't tell next time right but maybe for you
00:42:37 you want to be the best doctor or some of you maybe you want to be an artist or you maybe play some bu beautiful music like a Joan you know maybe all of you have your own visions and dreams but don't give up put your effort in it but more important than that to know is this man is not made for the SI days man is made for the seventh day that's why the seventh day never ends when you look at it on um Genesis 2:2 it says by the seventh day God has finished the work he has been doing and so on the
00:43:12 seventh day he rested from all his work then God blessed the seven day and made it holy because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done the entire purpose of creation is coming back to what the West Minister catholism is saying for us to glorify God to rule with him and to enjoy God forever we are not created for work but work is very important part of your life yeah so for all the beautiful things and dreams that you have remember this thing you may not be able to finish it but God will
00:43:42 restore Eden Eden will be restored one day if you read Revelations 22 it says the Throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city and his servants will serve him so if you want to work by you people for you retire don't when go to heaven there's more work for you we are supposed to work in heaven as well we are supposed to rule with Christ to reign with him and read over here at the last for the Lord God will give them light and they will rain forever and ever so I hope this gives you an idea of
00:44:16 what work is work is not something that you do just for money God has a plan for you you take together the entire scripture everything you learn about the parable talents are shared last time on that God has given you amazing talent and you have something to do on Earth so go and do good work on Tuesday [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] let us all arise please [Music] give thanks with a grateful heart give thanks to the Holy One give thanks because he's G us Jesus Christ his son give
00:46:36 thanks with a grateful heart give thanks to the Holy One give thanks because he's given Jesus Christ his son and now let the weak say I am strong let the bir say I am because of what the Lord has done for us and now let the weak St High am strong let the PO say I am rich because of what the Lord has done for us give thanks Let's us give thanks to the Lord give thanks with a grateful heart give thanks to the Holy One give thanks because he's given Jesus Christ his [Music] son with a grateful heart give
00:48:20 thanks to the Holy One give thanks because given Jesus Christ his son and now let the weak stay high and strong let the PO say I am rich because of why the Lord has done for us thanks as uh music continues to play I just want to speak to all of you here as we bow our heads I want to ask you all this question as the music continues to play you heard this seron about work and work is something that all of us we want to do well working with so many company so many people out there I've never seen a single person who tells me I not be a
00:49:25 lousy employee I never seen a single boss who say I want to be a lousy boss but we know the work is frustrated and I want to pray for you today if you say that Lord I understand that you have asked me to rule with you to reign with you and to rule in my small little manner in the role that you've given me I want to obey you if that's you with everyone with your eyes close and your head bow I just want you to raise your hand so I can pray for you I see your hand you can put it down I see your hand I see your hand thank
00:50:02 you Lord thank you Lord I see your hand you can put it down I see your hand I pray for all of you here to say that life is not what the media says life is not what others tell us it's what the Bible says and I pray for all of you that you'll be a to do good work so that everyone May glorify your father in Heaven one last chance anyone else if you want to do good work you want to make your life count in the marketplace raise your hands thank you I see your hand you can put down your hands let's pray together father we
00:50:39 thank you for these hands Lord These Are Holy hands and Lord you can see Lord that all of us here many of us here really want to do a good job for you what can be frustrating our bosses can be tough but Lord we know that we work for you we serve the almighty and Lord I pray that you help us to be able to work with people to be able to Humble ourselves to know that we are created in your image male and female you created us for us to say that Lord we are not alone and with the Brothers and Sisters
00:51:05 in Christ we have people out there they sent to be our easer to be a deliverer Lord help us to do good work to honor you with our hands to honor you from Monday to Sunday in all that we do we thank you Lord I pray that you you keep this in our hearts and help us to to Really follow you all the days of our lives and even for those who are no longer working actively now I pray that Lord you help them to find meaningful work not necessary employment but even work to serve their neighbors in church
00:51:35 or whatever they do Lord bless them Lord thank you for all this Lord in Jesus name we pray [Music] amen give thanks to the Holy One give thanks because he's given Jesus Christ his [Music] son with a grateful heart give thanks to the Holy One give thanks because he giv Jesus Christ his son and now let we say I am strong and the poor say I am rich because of what the Lord has done for [Applause] us where we say I am strong let the poor say I am reach because of want the Lord has done for us be [Music]
00:53:16 F he [Music] [Applause] F he [Applause] you may be seated it's benediction right benediction sorry I messed up things a bit right shall we uh shall We rise and can you can you actually uh lift your hands for the benediction this is taken from Hebrews 13: 20 now may the God of Peace who through the blood of the Eternal Covenant brought back from the day our lord Jesus that great Shepherd of the sheep equip you with everything good for doing his will and may he work in us what is pleasing to him through Jesus
00:54:26 Christ to whom be glory forever and ever amen am service is over if anyone of you request prayer do to come over the elders um and pastors will be here to pray for you thank you
