WHEN WORK BECOMES WORSHIP
1 Corinthians 7.17-24
1 Corinthians: Resisting The Drift – Part 6 of 7
c. 6.20 “You were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” (esv)
Proverbs 16.3 “Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.” (esv)
Gen 2.2 “By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing …”
Gen 2.15 “God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it …”
WORK BECOMES WORSHIP AS WE …
VALUE OUR Sanctification MORE THAN OUR Social Location
v. 19 “Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what counts.” (niv)
John 15.14 “You are my friends if you do what I command you.” (esv)
1 Thessalonians 4.3 “It is God’s will that you should be sanctified …” (niv)
LET Our Calling DEFINE US RATHER THAN Our Comfort
v. 21 “Were you called while a slave? Do not worry about it …” (nas)
v. 21 “But if you can become free, by all means take the opportunity.” (csb)
vv. 22-23 “For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ. You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men.” (esv)
Mark 8.36 “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?” (niv)
LET God’s Presence IMPRESS US MORE THAN Our Paycheck
v. 24 “So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.” (esv)
v. 23 “You were bought with a price …” (esv)
Genesis 3.17–19 “The ground is cursed … You will eat from it by means of painful labor … It will produce thorns … You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow …” (csb)
Colossians 3.23–24 “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men … It is the Lord Christ you are serving.” (niv)
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