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 All right, good morning. I think it's 9.02 or 8.02 for those of you whose bodies are still adjusting to daylight savings.

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! But I will go ahead and get started. We have quite a bit of ground to cover today.

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 And so I will say welcome everyone to this new series on work, vocation and the gospel.

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 This class is a natural sequel to the Sunday School class on the doctrine of creation that we just concluded.

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 And for those of you who may have not listened or at least as a good reminder before we start,

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 in that class we began or Luke began, I should say, by exploring the different ways to understand the creation story.

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 Especially looking at ways we can remain faithful to core anchoring truths that I believe he referred to as non-negotiables.

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 I think at some point in the class.

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 Even as we hold them in tension to the contemporary and scientific accounts that are prevalent today.

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 Then after this, Nick turned our attention to the doctrine of the creation of man.

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 Exploring or expounding what it means to be created in the image and likeness of God and the implications of that today.

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 Now, John Hinkson built on that by discussing the cultural mandate that is given to man in Genesis 1, 26-27.

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 And tracing how that mandate intersects with the arc of the gospel.

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 Creation for redemption and new creation.

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 That class in many ways serves as the functional introduction to this one.

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 And it's actually the bridge to this.

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 So, if you haven't listened to it, Nick sent out a newsletter highlighting it.

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 I would, again, encourage you to do so.

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 Because much of what we will discuss across this series will connect to themes that John introduced in that class.

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 But, because it is that important, if I could attempt to paraphrase John here.

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 The cultural mandate, as he described it, derives from being created in the image and likeness of God.

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 And it is essentially man's call to continue God's work of creative cultivation, which he, that is God, demonstrated in his work of creation.

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 So, how does that cultural mandate serve as a bridge to this class, this series?

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 John may have said it implicitly, but I will attempt to do so explicitly for the sake of this class.

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 Work, at its core, as I see it, is essentially how we go about fulfilling that cultural mandate that God has given to us.

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 Or, in other words, how we continue to creatively cultivate God's good creation.

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 Our goal, then, in this class, or in this series, I should say, is to unpack, over the next seven to eight weeks,

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 what the concept of work in the broader context of the story of salvation looks like.

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 What is God's original intention and design for work?

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 How sin and the fall corrupted and continues to corrupt God's grand design for it?

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 And how, through the power of the gospel, our work can be and is redeemed today in a way that not just restores God's original design,

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 but foreshadows and provides a foretaste of the fullness of what we would experience at the dawning of new creation.

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 My goal, specifically today, is to set the stage for the rest of the series by taking a closer look at God's original design for work,

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 as revealed in the Garden of Eden.

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 And from there, if we have time, I will quickly sketch out the rest of the terrain that the remaining classes will cover.

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 I'm not sure we will have time, but we'll try to get to that.

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 And then I stated in the announcement blurbs for the series, our guide will be this book,

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 Every Good Endeavor, written by Tim Keller.

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 Alex and I, who will be teaching this course together, will borrow liberally from this book as we teach this series.

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 We will supplement some of its ideas with a few of our own,

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 but we'll recommend getting the book and going through it as we go along,

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 so that you can, in some way, start to engage the ideas, even be ahead.

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 We talked about setting a class atmosphere before people started coming in.

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 You can read ahead and then come to class with questions that you have.

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 So, with that, let us turn to the Lord in prayer to ask for his help as we begin to look at this topic together.

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 Father Lord, we thank you for creating work and making it the means through which we join you in tending the rest of your good creation.

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 Give us wisdom and insight as we look now into your work to explore your design for it.

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 May that picture reveal to us ways you may be calling us now to reorient the work which we currently do to align with how you have made us

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 and the purpose for which you made all things.

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 That is, for the praise and glory of your name.

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 I ask in Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 Alright, so like I said,

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 today we are going to be spending much of our time looking at God's original intention and approach to work.

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 And it is helpful in that case to look at the context where work first arose.

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 And so, I will ask you to turn with me your Bibles to Genesis 1, 26.

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 And I will read until the end of chapter 2.

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 I may skip a few verses as we go.

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 Because much of our class will be in some way like an exposition of these verses,

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 Beth has kindly printed copies if you don't have your Bible.

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 And I will ask you to follow along as I read.

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 And then at the end, I am going to ask the class a couple of questions around,

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 what do you see from this passage pertaining to God's design for work?

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 And I will try and bring them all together after we do so.

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 So, I will start.

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 Again, I would say, I skipped a couple of verses.

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 But anyway, if you are following in the passage,

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 all I am going to read in the handout,

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 all I am going to read is here.

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 Okay, so, starting from verse 26, Genesis chapter 1, it says,

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 Then God said,

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 Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

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 And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

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 and over the birds of the heavens,

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 and over the livestock, and over all the earth,

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 and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

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 And God blessed them, and God said to them,

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 Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it,

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 and have dominion over the fish of the sea,

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 and over the birds of the heavens,

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 and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

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 And God saw everything that he had made,

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 and behold, it was very good.

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 And there was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

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 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,

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 and all the hosts of them.

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 And on the seventh day, God finished his work that he had done,

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 and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.

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 So God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy,

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 because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

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 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created,

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 in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

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 When no bush of the field was yet in the land,

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 and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up,

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 for the Lord had not caused it to rain on the land,

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 and there was no man to work the ground,

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 and a mist was going up from the land,

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 and was watering the whole face of the ground.

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 Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground,

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 and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.

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 And the man became a living creature.

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 And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east,

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 and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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 And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up

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 every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food.

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 The tree of life was in the midst of the garden,

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 and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden

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 to work it and keep it.

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 And the Lord commanded the man, saying,

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 You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,

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 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat.

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 For in the day that you eat of it, you shall surely die.

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 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field

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 and every bird of the heavens,

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 and brought them to the man to see what he would call them.

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 And whatever the man called every living creature,

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 that was its name.

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 The man gave names to all livestock,

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 and to the birds of the heavens,

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 and to every beast of the field.

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 But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.

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 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man,

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 and while he slept, took one of his ribs,

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 and closed up its place with flesh.

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 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man,

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 he made into a woman,

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 and brought her to the man.

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 All right.

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 Hopefully as you were reading, you were thinking.

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 So now this is where I open up the class,

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 to get your ideas.

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 What does this passage,

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 or what are some of the things you observed from this passage,

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 about God's design for work?

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 Yes, ma'am.

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 God all the time made,

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 and everything he made perfect.

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 Okay.

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 You can see this to the perfection.

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 Okay.

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 God made everything perfect.

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 Yes.

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 How did God,

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 was the process by which God made everything perfect?

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 But please,

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 all right.

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 Yes.

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 How is that?

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 Yeah.

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 Okay.

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 With his work.

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 Yeah.

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 And with using man to take care of the field,

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 and take care of the garden.

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 Okay.

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 So God created man to take care of the garden.

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 Anything else?

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 That's the problem of seeing when humans feel bigger than God.

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 Ah.

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 That's how it is.

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 Nobody,

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 I mean,

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 you can even,

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 you know,

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 we are a grasshopper.

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 Yes.

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 So sin,

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 we will find later,

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 corrupts God's work.

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 Yes.

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 But,

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 it's not in the passage today.

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 Today is God's good design for work.

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 What do we see?

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 Yes.

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 So work is good,

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 it's a harsh part of our life,

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 but it has limits.

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 Okay.

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 Work is good,

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 work has limits.

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 Where do we see that,

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 that work has limits?

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 That work has limits.

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 God rested from his work.

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 Okay.

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 God rested from his work.

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 Maybe God's work has limits.

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 Why do we know that those limits apply to us?

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 I should have mentioned,

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 by the way,

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 sorry,

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 Susan,

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 I should have mentioned,

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 we see many ideas here that are amplified in the rest of scripture.

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 So it's not,

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 feel free if you have to defend to go outside of scripture.

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 Yes.

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 All right.

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 All right.

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 So we come in?

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 Uh-huh.

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 Yes.

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 So we find out later that this was a specific pattern that God had for us,

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 even though it doesn't say it so very explicitly in this passage.

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 What else?

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 There's still quite a few more.

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 What do we see or learn about work in the passage?

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 Well,

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 Adam has administrative responsibilities.

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 Okay.

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 According to verse 26.

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 Uh-huh.

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 So what does that mean about work in general?

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 Well,

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 every job I've ever had

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 has a certain amount of administrative responsibility,

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 even if it's very circumscribed.

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 Okay.

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 Okay.

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 Okay.

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 So there are different elements or parts to the work that God gives us to do,

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 is how I would generalize it.

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 Ma'am.

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 Can you perhaps fulfill God's purpose?

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 Work is meant to fulfill God's purpose.

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 Did I hear that right, Ma'am?

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 Yeah.

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 Yeah.

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 Okay.

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 Yeah.

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 I think that's fair.

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 Yes.

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 Again, Peter?

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 Work isn't meant to be alone.

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 Mmm.

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 Like God created a helper.

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 Yeah.

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 I struggle to include that.

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 But I think it is true.

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 We will come back to that at the implications.

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 But yes.

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 Work is not meant to be alone.

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 I agree.

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 I have a question.

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 Do we have to rest for seven days?

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 Do we have to rest?

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 No, yeah.

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 Like, you know, like special days.

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 Okay.

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 Ma'am, I will again come back to that.

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 Oh.

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 We will.

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 No, no, no.

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 It's good.

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 Do we have to?

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 So over the course of the class, there's a lot of the questions that, the implications for which we will tackle.

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 Yes.

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 Tackle.

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 Yes.

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 Alex, do you have?

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 Okay.

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 Anyone else?

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 Josh?

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 It seems like our work is meant to be an extension of God's authority or dominion.

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 Mmm.

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 He says have dominion.

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 Okay.

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 Yeah.

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 Over creation.

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 Yes, indeed.

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 We, in some way, work underneath God's work.

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 And that, I think, we will see also in the rest of the passage.

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 Yes, Richard?

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 So the passage is not exclusively about work because in verse 28, he says, be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth and subdue it.

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 That's true.

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 But increasing in number is not work.

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 Yeah.

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 So the cultural mandate of work is not the entire mandate that God gives us.

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 And I think we're just looking at that particular mandate of, you know, subdue the earth.

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 And I think John talked about it actually quite a bit in his class.

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 But, yes, the entire mandate is not limited to work.

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 Be fruitful and multiply is not essentially the work.

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 But we're looking especially at the work element of it.

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 Anyone else?

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 The multiply can be to make things better, to multiply good.

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 Okay.

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 Okay.

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 Or you make it easier.

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 Okay.

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 I think, like, work is tending beauty but also functional.

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 Ah.

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 So, Lord God made us bring up every tree that is pleasant to sight and good for food.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Mm-hmm.

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 Yeah.

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 Yeah.

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 I think, John, again, sorry, I keep referring to it.

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 I really recommend you listen to the class.

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 I listened to it twice and I read it.

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 The transcript, it is that good.

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 John talked about it.

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 He, like, the creative, the word creative cultivation in some way brings together those two ideas of both the beauty,

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 the creativeness, but the cultivation bringing order to it.

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 And so, yes, 100%.

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 Okay.

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 Yes?

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 Yes, ma'am.

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 God is in order.

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 He perfectly ordered.

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 Yes.

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 God's order.

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 Our creative cultivation is actually patterned after God's way of work.

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 Yes.

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 So, God was also doing that ordering creation even after making it.

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 All right.

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 So, we have quite a number.

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 So, I will walk through a couple of them just for comprehensiveness and then discuss what these observations tell us about the way God designed work to operate.

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 I think, first of all, God worked, I think somebody may have said, and delighted in his work.

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 We see this in verses 2, in chapter 2, verses 1 to 3.

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 There is an inherent goodness to work, but it is something that God did and God enjoyed.

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 It is in contrast with the perspective and myths of some of the ancient Greeks and also in some quarters today, which we will talk about later.

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 The second is that it's not at least obvious because our Bible is in English, but I think Tim Keller in his book talks about how the word that was used to describe God's work was pedestrian work.

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 It was a pedestrian work.

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 It was the same word that was used to describe human work.

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 God, in creation, was willing to get his hands dirty.

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 And he literally got his hands dirty in forming man from the dust of the ground.

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 And so, there is an essence in which God work is, it's not just, there is not a humbling aspect of work, but work takes on a great range of forms.

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 And God's work spans that range from what we did creative to the actual manual and practical.

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 And all of those, all that work is good.

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 The next one somebody mentioned was work is done, I think, in rhythms.

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 That's what Susan was talking about, like this, rhythms of work and rest.

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 We see this dimly in each day.

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 We didn't read Genesis 1, but we see that dimly in Genesis 1.

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 Then we see it a bit more clearly in Genesis 2, verse 3, in the sense of God's work.

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 But as I discussed, it comes to life more fully as we go further in Scripture.

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 And then the explicit pattern in Exodus 20 is where it's set before us.

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 And it states in verse 18, remember the Sabbath to keep it holy.

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 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.

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 On it you shall not do any work.

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 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.

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 Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

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 I read this and I thought it was funny.

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 God, I don't think this is exactly what he's saying, but it sounded like, I made the heavens and the earth in six days.

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 You can rest from your work because you're not making the heavens and the earth.

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 I don't think that's exact.

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 But it's like, yeah, you know, like how busy can you be that you cannot rest on the seventh day?

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 A thought to consider.

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 If we keep moving in the passage, we will also see that work was something that God created man to do and something that God calls him to do.

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 And we see this in chapter 2, verse 15.

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 And I will just try and find it here.

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 It said,

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 The Lord took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

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 Work was part of our original creation and purpose.

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 And we will in some way come back to that later.

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 Then next, we are designed to benefit from and enjoy the fruit of our work.

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 We see this in chapter 2, verse 16.

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 And it's a point that while it begins here, it's amplified in scripture.

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 I think you all may be familiar when Paul picks this up.

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 Deuteronomy picks this theme up about do not muzzle an ox while it is shredding the grain.

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 And Paul, twice in the New Testament, picks this pattern up that the idea that we are, it's a good thing to be able to enjoy and reap the fruits of your work.

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 And that's how work has always been.

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 And so God, in asking the man to tend the garden, also encouraging him to eat of its fruit.

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 Yes, ma'am.

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 In heaven, we're going to walk too.

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 Yes, that was a point that John made as well.

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 Yes, indeed.

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 We're going to walk.

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 It's not going to be singing and, you know, all kinds of that.

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 No, you know what I mean.

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 Yeah, yeah, no, no, no.

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 It's thinking, oh, more, more.

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 We're going to be busy.

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 Yes.

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 Yes, indeed.

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 And then finally, someone mentioned that we are called to a variety of work.

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 I think Sarah, that was the point.

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 I think Richard, it's Richard, right?

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 Yes.

00:19:49.140 --> 00:19:49.620
 Okay, yeah.

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 Like Richard, you mentioned the administrative component of work.

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 We see in this passage, Adam called to different kinds of work.

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 He's called to creative work in naming the animals.

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 He's also called to manual, practical work in 10 in the garden.

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 There is a spectrum and a variety of work that God designs us to do.

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 And then I think Peter mentioned a point that I didn't want to make too much of, but I do

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 think it's very important that work was designed to be done in community, in a sense.

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 I think community is a strong word because, you know, here the pattern, the bigger pattern

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 at the core of this passage is marriage and the partnership in marriage.

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 But I think it was a point that embedded in the nature of work helps us to see that that

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 social component of work is a critical component.

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 Actually, studies have shown that for those who go back to work, who may not even need to

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 go financially for work, especially those who have rich retirement age, the social and

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 meaning component of work is a primary driver of why many go back to work.

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 So that part is definitely something that is worth us to consider.

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 So how do these observations together tell us about the way God designed work to operate

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 in a way that I think we can in some way engage on today?

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 I think, first of all, work is good.

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 I said that before.

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 God's working and delighting in his work reminds us that there is an inherent goodness to work

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 for it is something God did and enjoyed.

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 I think, okay, I guess it comes in the second one.

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 The second one is that we were created to work.

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 I think it's, the Lord God made man in some way to tend the garden.

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 If you read that, when he said, when, when it, in some way we start the narrative and talking

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 about the creation of man, it talks about, you know, when there was no fruit or no shrub

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 coming up in cultivation because there was yet no man to work the land.

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 And God made man and God planted him in the garden to work the garden.

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 We were made to work and work thus is a critical component of a meaningful life.

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 Now, while work may take on different forms in different stages of our life,

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 it is a key part of it.

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 A life purely of pleasure and leisure, while often romanticized sometimes,

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 is a life at risk of being devoid of meaning.

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 We were designed to work and it's not something we have to do, but what we were created to do.

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 So, if we are offered dreams of a life without any kind of work, sometimes that's the AI,

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 the AI mantra.

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 That dream is not, in some way, it's almost more closer to hell than heaven.

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 In part because if you think as a, ma'am, I don't think I remember your name.

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 Is it Julia?

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 Oh, yeah.

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 Julia?

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 Yeah, yeah.

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 Okay, yes.

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 Working or serving.

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 Yes.

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 You can serve all made around.

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 You know, not necessarily a serving.

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 Serving community, serving anything.

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 Yes.

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 Yes, ma'am.

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 But as Julia had said earlier, that if, as John put it in his class,

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 that work will continue in the new heavens and new creation that God will bring about.

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 You can then imagine, by definition, life without any form of work cannot be heaven.

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 And if it is not heaven, I leave it to your imagination what that life is exactly.

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 Maybe it is in hell that people don't work.

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 They just suffer.

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 But work is meaningful and is critical to the meaningful component of a life worth living.

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 I think third is that God called man to work.

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 Man did not define or create his own work, but responded to God's call to work.

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 Now, underneath this is a couple of ideas that I think came up in the course of our discussion.

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 First is that this work has a variety of forms.

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 It's intellectual work, practical work, and neither of them set up intention against the other

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 or as one being superior.

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 And that goes a grain to grain of our world today, where depending on where we sit on that divide of intellectual work,

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 white-collar work, or blue-collar work, we often tend to magnify one and demean the other.

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 We see both of them coming together in the garden, and it's also coming together actually in God's own work itself,

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 not necessarily just in man's work.

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 And so we are reminded that there is no superiority in either of these kinds of work.

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 But that said, even though we are called to a variety of work, Adam was still called to particular work.

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 Now, you will notice that Adam was called to tend to a specific garden.

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 He wasn't called necessarily to feed the birds of the air or the fish in the sea.

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 He was called to tend the garden.

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 And so maybe perhaps as humanity became fruitful and multiplied and filled the earth and subdued it,

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 that broader mandate would have been picked up as it is in the variety of work.

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 But if you look at Adam particularly, he was called to specific work.

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 And thus, it is a reminder to us that there may be a variety of things that we are, but we are called to specific work.

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 I don't want to go too deep in this because this is something that I think Alex, in his class next week on work as a calling,

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 will speak in more detail about.

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 In particular, as it relates to the idea that what God called Adam to,

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 I mean, Alex, I'm speaking on your behalf, but I imagine,

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 what God called Adam to was what is seemingly secular work.

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 But it's actually in contrast to what we think about calling today.

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 Adam was called to work the garden.

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 And it was a great cry of the Reformation that all God, all work is God's calling to work.

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 It's not all good work, I would say.

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 It's God's calling to work.

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 There is no special class for spiritual work that the people in the church do.

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 We can all be called to the work that we're doing.

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 But I will leave Alex to expand on that later.

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 Next, and I think this goes deeper into what Susan had mentioned.

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 This work that we are called to do came with constraints that were designed to remind us that we are not masters of our own selves.

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 But our work is underneath a greater work, which is God's work.

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 And our work is ultimately directed to the person who calls us to work.

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 I think we had, in one of the sermons in the past, in the series that we're currently going to,

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 the idea that when you are called, like being a steward of resources,

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 you are called to do and manage them on behalf of someone.

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 And we see these constraints that God has given.

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 God put constraints in place in work, even in Eden,

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 as a reminder of that reality,

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 that we do not work as unto ourselves, but unto somebody,

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 unto God who made us.

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 And there are two, these constraints we see in two specific places.

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 First, in the Sabbath.

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 We talked a little bit about the Sabbath.

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 And then secondly, we see it in the restriction God gives Adam

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 to not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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 But because we generally chafe at the idea of constraints,

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 we all think about, you know,

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 best life is a life with all options and unconstrained.

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 I can do whatever I want.

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 But, I mean, as some of you know,

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 there is this thing called the paradox of choice, right?

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 Like if you are presented with too many options,

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 you actually, it's harder to make decisions

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 than when you are given a set of constrained choices.

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 So even though we chafe at the sound of constraints,

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 it is within the scope of these constraints

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 that we are designed to enjoy and find meaning in our work.

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 So if we look at the Sabbath, for example,

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 we know that rest is good

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 because being finite creatures is good for our recovery.

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 But this rest was patterned after God's rest.

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 And God, as we know in Psalm 121,

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 neither slumbers nor sleep.

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 So the primary purpose of this rest as a pattern

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 is not just rest, physical rest,

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 as it is, even if we look at Exodus 20,

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 where it talks about the Sabbath is unto the Lord.

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 The goal of rest, it came at the end, at the seventh day,

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 almost as a sense that it is a pointer to an end to work.

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 Now, end here I use not in the sense of chronological end,

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 like it's finished,

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 but in the teleological sense,

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 in which there is an end as a purpose

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 to which work is designed and oriented.

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 When we enjoy the Sabbath,

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 the goal of the Sabbath is meant to point us

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 to an end to work,

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 an end and a purpose and not a meaninglessness.

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 And I think Keller points out this in his book

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 around when he talks about leisure,

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 that good leisure allows us to see and appreciate

00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:47.900
 and reflect on the beauty and the purpose

00:29:47.900 --> 00:29:49.119
 and the end of work.

00:29:49.379 --> 00:29:50.859
 It's not really just,

00:29:51.339 --> 00:29:53.599
 oh, I'm tired, I need a break after six days of work.

00:29:53.839 --> 00:29:55.639
 It's actually an opportunity for us

00:29:55.639 --> 00:29:57.160
 to step back and see

00:29:57.160 --> 00:30:01.099
 this greater purpose of rest.

00:30:01.099 --> 00:30:03.379
 And then furthermore,

00:30:04.139 --> 00:30:06.079
 this is pre-fall or pre,

00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:08.159
 yeah, this is even before the fall.

00:30:08.819 --> 00:30:09.699
 After the fall,

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:13.859
 this idea of rest takes on an even bigger perspective

00:30:13.859 --> 00:30:15.579
 in the rest of scripture.

00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:18.500
 Hebrews talks about it ultimately,

00:30:18.740 --> 00:30:20.399
 and I think picking up on Psalm 95,

00:30:20.639 --> 00:30:21.779
 this idea of rest,

00:30:22.099 --> 00:30:23.919
 that when we enter God's rest,

00:30:24.259 --> 00:30:25.439
 we rest from our own labor.

00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:27.500
 And that I think we're talking about

00:30:27.500 --> 00:30:28.859
 in this series on Galatians,

00:30:28.859 --> 00:30:31.839
 that ultimately we rest from our works

00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:33.479
 in God's completed work.

00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:36.339
 And that pattern was already set in the garden

00:30:36.339 --> 00:30:38.579
 and set in this idea of Sabbath.

00:30:38.699 --> 00:30:42.039
 So the Sabbath is not really just physical rest,

00:30:42.500 --> 00:30:45.719
 but this idea of an end to work

00:30:45.719 --> 00:30:47.119
 and an end, like I said,

00:30:47.399 --> 00:30:48.779
 in the teleological sense,

00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:50.279
 which means work,

00:30:50.719 --> 00:30:53.439
 we can see work as purposeful and meaningful

00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:57.460
 when we see it through the lens

00:30:57.460 --> 00:30:59.259
 of the rhythms God has designed

00:30:59.259 --> 00:31:00.620
 for work and rest,

00:31:00.840 --> 00:31:01.980
 as revealed in the Sabbath.

00:31:02.660 --> 00:31:06.320
 Then the second constraint we see in 2.17,

00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:08.740
 where God gives man a command

00:31:08.740 --> 00:31:11.500
 not to eat of the fruit of the tree

00:31:11.500 --> 00:31:12.860
 of the knowledge of good and evil.

00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:16.180
 Now, presumably that restriction

00:31:16.180 --> 00:31:18.720
 did not mean that man was not allowed

00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:20.120
 to tend the tree.

00:31:20.360 --> 00:31:21.860
 Remember, that tree was in the garden,

00:31:21.859 --> 00:31:24.240
 and Adam was called to tend the garden.

00:31:25.099 --> 00:31:27.979
 Yet he was forbidden to eat from that tree.

00:31:28.179 --> 00:31:31.000
 And depending on how you think about it,

00:31:31.019 --> 00:31:31.939
 some commentators say

00:31:31.939 --> 00:31:34.519
 there was nothing really special about that tree

00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:36.719
 as it was meant to be a symbol

00:31:36.719 --> 00:31:39.919
 of the constraints around which

00:31:39.919 --> 00:31:42.240
 God had set man to work.

00:31:43.019 --> 00:31:44.339
 It reminded Adam,

00:31:44.539 --> 00:31:45.719
 whenever he tended that tree

00:31:45.719 --> 00:31:46.779
 but not eating of it,

00:31:46.779 --> 00:31:51.240
 that his work was as a subject

00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:52.899
 of somebody who was greater.

00:31:53.099 --> 00:31:54.279
 But if you notice,

00:31:54.460 --> 00:31:58.619
 that restriction does not constrain Adam

00:31:58.619 --> 00:32:02.019
 from enjoying everything else in the garden.

00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:03.720
 And that, like,

00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:05.619
 satisfying the restriction of,

00:32:05.819 --> 00:32:07.160
 I will not eat from this tree

00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:07.759
 did not mean,

00:32:08.220 --> 00:32:09.379
 oh, now I'm suffering.

00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:11.079
 He could eat from whatever tree.

00:32:11.139 --> 00:32:12.420
 He could eat from the tree of life,

00:32:12.619 --> 00:32:13.879
 from all these other trees,

00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:15.960
 as long as he remembered

00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:17.600
 that this tree,

00:32:18.360 --> 00:32:20.260
 that knowledge of good and evil

00:32:20.260 --> 00:32:22.600
 was a tree that he was forbidden from eating.

00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:23.300
 Yes, ma'am.

00:32:23.300 --> 00:32:24.600
 I have a question about that.

00:32:24.800 --> 00:32:25.020
 Yes.

00:32:25.300 --> 00:32:30.820
 So, as well as the point of his authority

00:32:30.820 --> 00:32:32.000
 over Adam,

00:32:32.380 --> 00:32:35.060
 would it not be important

00:32:35.060 --> 00:32:37.360
 that he not eat of that tree

00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:39.679
 because when he did,

00:32:39.879 --> 00:32:40.659
 he had to leave?

00:32:41.879 --> 00:32:42.259
 Yes.

00:32:42.859 --> 00:32:43.839
 But, yeah.

00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:44.339
 That tree,

00:32:44.959 --> 00:32:45.219
 I mean,

00:32:45.299 --> 00:32:45.479
 it was,

00:32:45.779 --> 00:32:47.459
 it was even more than,

00:32:47.859 --> 00:32:49.639
 it was as well,

00:32:49.819 --> 00:32:50.719
 as well as God's authority,

00:32:51.199 --> 00:32:55.339
 that tree held a door open

00:32:55.339 --> 00:32:57.219
 that was shut down

00:32:57.219 --> 00:32:59.199
 because he chose it.

00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:00.199
 Yeah,

00:33:00.500 --> 00:33:03.500
 I think there are two elements

00:33:03.500 --> 00:33:04.459
 in which we can talk about

00:33:04.459 --> 00:33:05.199
 the tree of the knowledge

00:33:05.199 --> 00:33:05.679
 of good and evil.

00:33:05.839 --> 00:33:06.439
 Like there could be,

00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:06.960
 like I said,

00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:08.380
 some commentators would say,

00:33:09.059 --> 00:33:09.400
 I said,

00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:09.880
 some would say

00:33:09.880 --> 00:33:11.240
 there was nothing special about the tree.

00:33:11.360 --> 00:33:11.779
 Some may say

00:33:11.779 --> 00:33:13.200
 there was something special about the tree.

00:33:13.700 --> 00:33:14.580
 Regardless of whether

00:33:14.580 --> 00:33:15.539
 there was something special

00:33:15.539 --> 00:33:16.539
 about the tree or not

00:33:16.539 --> 00:33:18.220
 in a practical sense

00:33:18.220 --> 00:33:18.900
 of what it did,

00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:20.559
 there was a bigger point

00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:21.080
 to the tree.

00:33:21.580 --> 00:33:22.200
 And that was,

00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:23.360
 at the very least,

00:33:23.420 --> 00:33:24.259
 it would remind Adam

00:33:24.259 --> 00:33:26.559
 that you are not the commander

00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:27.420
 of this garden.

00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:27.660
 Right.

00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:28.240
 You,

00:33:28.620 --> 00:33:29.360
 this garden,

00:33:29.700 --> 00:33:31.059
 you are putting here to work

00:33:31.059 --> 00:33:33.220
 underneath the command

00:33:33.220 --> 00:33:34.240
 of someone.

00:33:34.980 --> 00:33:35.460
 And I'm,

00:33:35.460 --> 00:33:36.819
 knowledge of tree

00:33:36.819 --> 00:33:38.079
 opened the door

00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:38.840
 to the earth

00:33:38.840 --> 00:33:40.120
 of science.

00:33:40.539 --> 00:33:41.220
 And a lot of people

00:33:41.220 --> 00:33:42.299
 don't believe that.

00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:42.759
 Yeah.

00:33:43.100 --> 00:33:43.460
 Maybe,

00:33:43.700 --> 00:33:44.579
 I don't know.

00:33:44.779 --> 00:33:45.220
 No,

00:33:45.380 --> 00:33:46.579
 I think,

00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:48.200
 I'm trying to avoid

00:33:48.200 --> 00:33:48.940
 the conversation

00:33:48.940 --> 00:33:50.160
 around the elements

00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:50.640
 of the tree

00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:51.539
 because I do think

00:33:51.539 --> 00:33:52.220
 that regardless

00:33:52.220 --> 00:33:53.000
 of what you think

00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:53.759
 about the purpose

00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:54.240
 of the tree,

00:33:54.799 --> 00:33:56.059
 the bigger purpose

00:33:56.059 --> 00:33:56.559
 of the tree

00:33:56.559 --> 00:33:57.860
 still stands.

00:33:58.860 --> 00:33:59.059
 Yes,

00:33:59.140 --> 00:33:59.400
 ma'am.

00:33:59.400 --> 00:34:00.460
 Could it be also

00:34:00.460 --> 00:34:01.140
 obedience

00:34:01.140 --> 00:34:02.259
 and honoring God?

00:34:02.380 --> 00:34:02.600
 I mean,

00:34:02.640 --> 00:34:04.300
 God is asking

00:34:04.300 --> 00:34:05.019
 that,

00:34:05.100 --> 00:34:05.740
 of course,

00:34:05.840 --> 00:34:06.400
 you're going to

00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:08.400
 honor and be obedient.

00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:09.180
 Yes,

00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:09.860
 exactly.

00:34:10.019 --> 00:34:10.260
 Yes.

00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:11.039
 So the point is

00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:12.519
 that the signifying

00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:13.300
 obedience

00:34:13.300 --> 00:34:14.440
 is how we,

00:34:14.539 --> 00:34:15.519
 we work

00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:16.440
 underneath

00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:17.780
 God.

00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:18.579
 It's like a symbol

00:34:18.579 --> 00:34:20.160
 of man's status

00:34:20.160 --> 00:34:21.220
 relative to God.

00:34:21.460 --> 00:34:22.639
 We are not gods

00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:23.639
 of our own selves.

00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:25.199
 We are created

00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:26.079
 underneath

00:34:26.079 --> 00:34:27.099
 someone

00:34:27.099 --> 00:34:29.659
 to work.

00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:30.219
 I think,

00:34:31.539 --> 00:34:32.219
 yeah,

00:34:32.359 --> 00:34:33.879
 so we see this point,

00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:34.440
 by the way,

00:34:34.859 --> 00:34:35.500
 picked up

00:34:35.500 --> 00:34:36.739
 in different parts

00:34:36.739 --> 00:34:37.519
 of scripture

00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:38.139
 later on.

00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:39.000
 This idea that

00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:39.900
 even though

00:34:39.900 --> 00:34:41.460
 we enjoy the benefits

00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:42.199
 of our work,

00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:43.299
 there are portions

00:34:43.299 --> 00:34:43.980
 of the benefits

00:34:43.980 --> 00:34:44.659
 of our work

00:34:44.659 --> 00:34:45.900
 that are restricted

00:34:45.900 --> 00:34:46.799
 to us somewhat

00:34:46.799 --> 00:34:47.759
 as a reminder

00:34:47.759 --> 00:34:49.019
 that the work

00:34:49.019 --> 00:34:49.699
 is not ours.

00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:50.859
 We see in the

00:34:50.859 --> 00:34:51.779
 Old Testament

00:34:51.779 --> 00:34:53.000
 this idea of the tithe

00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:54.300
 that was God's

00:34:54.300 --> 00:34:55.719
 portion in the

00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:56.300
 things that he had

00:34:56.300 --> 00:34:56.739
 given them.

00:34:56.940 --> 00:34:57.340
 Presumably,

00:34:57.539 --> 00:34:57.679
 again,

00:34:58.420 --> 00:34:59.159
 a way I'm not saying

00:34:59.159 --> 00:34:59.860
 there's one-to-one

00:34:59.860 --> 00:35:00.320
 correlation,

00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:01.320
 but this idea

00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:02.619
 that there are

00:35:02.619 --> 00:35:03.760
 reminders in the

00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:04.480
 work that we do

00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:05.079
 and the fruit of

00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:05.500
 our work,

00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:06.039
 even though we

00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:06.900
 can enjoy it,

00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:07.980
 that remain to

00:35:07.980 --> 00:35:08.320
 God.

00:35:08.739 --> 00:35:09.119
 When God,

00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:10.059
 beyond even the

00:35:10.059 --> 00:35:10.380
 tithe,

00:35:10.500 --> 00:35:10.659
 right,

00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:11.400
 when God was

00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:11.860
 giving the

00:35:11.860 --> 00:35:12.659
 Israelites laws

00:35:12.659 --> 00:35:13.400
 about harvest,

00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:14.119
 they were not

00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:14.800
 to harvest to

00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:15.739
 the very edge

00:35:15.739 --> 00:35:16.800
 of their field

00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:17.880
 and harvest every

00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:18.619
 little grain.

00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:19.579
 They were meant

00:35:19.579 --> 00:35:20.559
 to leave things

00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:21.099
 as they went,

00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:22.019
 things that fell off.

00:35:22.019 --> 00:35:23.039
 It gained that

00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:24.000
 idea that there

00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:24.599
 was a portion

00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:25.219
 in our work

00:35:25.219 --> 00:35:26.199
 that does not

00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:27.039
 belong to us.

00:35:27.219 --> 00:35:28.019
 As we think

00:35:28.019 --> 00:35:28.559
 about that,

00:35:28.699 --> 00:35:29.699
 regardless of

00:35:29.699 --> 00:35:30.259
 what you believe

00:35:30.259 --> 00:35:30.840
 today about

00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:31.480
 tithe or not,

00:35:31.980 --> 00:35:32.820
 there is a sense

00:35:32.820 --> 00:35:33.920
 that of the

00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:34.460
 work that we

00:35:34.460 --> 00:35:34.699
 do,

00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:35.780
 all of the

00:35:35.780 --> 00:35:36.400
 fruit does not

00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:37.159
 belong to us

00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:38.199
 because it's a

00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:39.159
 reminder that

00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:40.039
 our work

00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:40.780
 comes from

00:35:40.780 --> 00:35:41.239
 someone else.

00:35:41.239 --> 00:35:41.959
 prayer.

00:35:41.959 --> 00:35:42.039
 Prayer.

00:35:42.539 --> 00:35:42.979
 Prayer.

00:35:43.219 --> 00:35:45.819
 You have time

00:35:45.819 --> 00:35:46.439
 for God.

00:35:46.799 --> 00:35:47.099
 Prayer.

00:35:47.659 --> 00:35:48.539
 Prayer is very

00:35:48.539 --> 00:35:48.959
 important.

00:35:48.959 --> 00:35:50.279
 Yeah, that is

00:35:50.279 --> 00:35:52.919
 fair.

00:35:53.299 --> 00:35:54.099
 So what's the

00:35:54.099 --> 00:35:55.019
 definition of work?

00:35:55.139 --> 00:35:56.659
 Ah, what is the

00:35:56.659 --> 00:35:57.419
 definition of work?

00:35:57.479 --> 00:35:58.119
 I thought I said

00:35:58.119 --> 00:35:59.839
 it implicitly in the

00:35:59.839 --> 00:36:00.679
 beginning, but I

00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:01.539
 think it's a good

00:36:01.539 --> 00:36:02.979
 one and I will

00:36:02.979 --> 00:36:03.639
 call it back.

00:36:03.899 --> 00:36:04.699
 I will go back to

00:36:04.699 --> 00:36:04.819
 that.

00:36:04.820 --> 00:36:05.920
 I think work

00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:07.120
 is the way we

00:36:07.120 --> 00:36:08.280
 continue God's

00:36:08.280 --> 00:36:09.480
 mandate in this

00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:10.620
 creative cultivation

00:36:10.620 --> 00:36:11.420
 of the world

00:36:11.420 --> 00:36:11.760
 today.

00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:12.740
 That is work.

00:36:13.260 --> 00:36:14.039
 That is how we

00:36:14.039 --> 00:36:14.600
 were meant to

00:36:14.600 --> 00:36:15.400
 fulfill the

00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:16.559
 cultural part of

00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:17.100
 that mandate.

00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:18.860
 Like Richard

00:36:18.860 --> 00:36:19.440
 mentioned, there

00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:19.880
 are multiple

00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:20.519
 parts of this

00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:21.240
 mandate that he

00:36:21.240 --> 00:36:22.360
 gave in 126 to

00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:23.720
 27, and that's

00:36:23.720 --> 00:36:24.220
 what we would

00:36:24.220 --> 00:36:25.140
 unpack in Genesis

00:36:25.140 --> 00:36:26.240
 126 to 27.

00:36:26.920 --> 00:36:27.820
 That part of

00:36:27.820 --> 00:36:28.740
 continuing his

00:36:28.740 --> 00:36:30.580
 creative cultivation

00:36:30.580 --> 00:36:32.039
 of the world

00:36:32.039 --> 00:36:33.620
 is work.

00:36:33.619 --> 00:36:33.659
 work.

00:36:34.319 --> 00:36:34.980
 How we do

00:36:34.980 --> 00:36:36.480
 that is what's

00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:36.739
 work.

00:36:37.219 --> 00:36:38.659
 Now, that

00:36:38.659 --> 00:36:39.799
 definition, though,

00:36:39.859 --> 00:36:40.579
 I would say is

00:36:40.579 --> 00:36:41.440
 not complete.

00:36:41.880 --> 00:36:42.920
 It's not complete

00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:44.900
 because the New

00:36:44.900 --> 00:36:45.859
 Testament picks

00:36:45.859 --> 00:36:47.480
 up more.

00:36:47.779 --> 00:36:48.619
 There is almost

00:36:48.619 --> 00:36:49.599
 like a component

00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:50.699
 of that element

00:36:50.699 --> 00:36:52.000
 that we see more

00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:53.179
 clearly in the

00:36:53.179 --> 00:36:53.900
 New Testament, but

00:36:53.900 --> 00:36:54.420
 I want to hold

00:36:54.420 --> 00:36:56.519
 that thought for

00:36:56.519 --> 00:36:57.440
 when we then

00:36:57.440 --> 00:36:58.139
 come back to

00:36:58.139 --> 00:37:00.440
 what is added to

00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:01.339
 that definition

00:37:01.339 --> 00:37:02.619
 of work, that

00:37:02.619 --> 00:37:03.239
 the New Testament

00:37:03.239 --> 00:37:04.019
 really, really

00:37:04.019 --> 00:37:04.439
 amplifies.

00:37:04.539 --> 00:37:05.000
 Josh, you had a

00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:05.239
 question?

00:37:05.939 --> 00:37:07.059
 This might go

00:37:07.059 --> 00:37:07.859
 wrong with that,

00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:09.119
 but we touched

00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:10.000
 on the end of

00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:10.799
 the purpose, the

00:37:10.799 --> 00:37:12.019
 telos of work, but

00:37:12.019 --> 00:37:12.939
 I wasn't clear on

00:37:12.939 --> 00:37:15.099
 did we come down

00:37:15.099 --> 00:37:16.059
 on that somewhere?

00:37:16.179 --> 00:37:17.019
 Did we define that?

00:37:17.459 --> 00:37:18.159
 The purpose of

00:37:18.159 --> 00:37:18.419
 work.

00:37:18.939 --> 00:37:20.239
 That was the last.

00:37:20.759 --> 00:37:21.679
 Well, the purpose

00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:22.679
 of work I mentioned

00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:23.659
 earlier in the

00:37:23.659 --> 00:37:24.899
 prayer, but it was

00:37:24.899 --> 00:37:25.759
 actually the subject

00:37:25.759 --> 00:37:27.119
 of Nick's last

00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:27.739
 class in the

00:37:27.739 --> 00:37:28.419
 previous series.

00:37:28.659 --> 00:37:29.739
 The purpose of

00:37:29.739 --> 00:37:31.419
 all is for God's

00:37:31.419 --> 00:37:32.219
 ultimate glory.

00:37:32.219 --> 00:37:34.359
 That's the end

00:37:34.359 --> 00:37:35.259
 of all creation.

00:37:35.579 --> 00:37:36.239
 Okay, you did

00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:36.659
 say that.

00:37:36.779 --> 00:37:38.179
 Yes, but yeah,

00:37:38.279 --> 00:37:38.839
 no, I think.

00:37:39.500 --> 00:37:41.639
 Okay, so if this

00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:42.639
 is what work was

00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:43.639
 meant, let me pause

00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:44.919
 because before we

00:37:44.919 --> 00:37:45.739
 transition to the

00:37:45.739 --> 00:37:47.819
 rest of this

00:37:47.819 --> 00:37:49.000
 class, any

00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:50.179
 further questions?

00:37:50.379 --> 00:37:50.879
 I have tried to

00:37:50.879 --> 00:37:51.659
 take a few as we

00:37:51.659 --> 00:37:52.139
 went along.

00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:55.119
 No?

00:37:55.579 --> 00:37:55.879
 Okay.

00:37:56.359 --> 00:37:56.899
 I'm going to write

00:37:56.899 --> 00:37:57.639
 it down to daylight

00:37:57.639 --> 00:37:58.079
 savings.

00:37:58.279 --> 00:37:58.799
 People are still

00:37:58.799 --> 00:37:59.139
 booting.

00:37:59.139 --> 00:38:01.179
 It's still 840.

00:38:01.259 --> 00:38:02.000
 It's 840.

00:38:02.299 --> 00:38:02.960
 Yes, Sarah.

00:38:03.119 --> 00:38:03.319
 Yes.

00:38:04.099 --> 00:38:05.339
 Just to provide a

00:38:05.339 --> 00:38:06.099
 perspective to

00:38:06.099 --> 00:38:07.920
 like maybe thinking

00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:08.819
 about the scope of

00:38:08.819 --> 00:38:09.519
 work as broader

00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:10.859
 than just vocation,

00:38:11.679 --> 00:38:12.460
 but, you know,

00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:13.279
 some of like,

00:38:13.539 --> 00:38:14.079
 let's say,

00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:15.339
 I'm hearing people

00:38:15.339 --> 00:38:16.179
 and other things

00:38:16.179 --> 00:38:17.739
 just to throw some

00:38:17.739 --> 00:38:20.739
 kind of other

00:38:20.739 --> 00:38:21.699
 perspectives out

00:38:21.699 --> 00:38:21.879
 there.

00:38:22.420 --> 00:38:23.199
 Yeah, so.

00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:23.759
 I mean, all that

00:38:23.759 --> 00:38:24.539
 falls under what

00:38:24.539 --> 00:38:25.519
 you said, but just

00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:26.199
 to kind of make it

00:38:26.199 --> 00:38:26.599
 explicit.

00:38:26.599 --> 00:38:27.880
 So, no, I agree.

00:38:28.659 --> 00:38:29.860
 We will notice it

00:38:29.860 --> 00:38:30.779
 says nothing about,

00:38:31.259 --> 00:38:31.960
 I mean, even though

00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:34.679
 we are enjoined to

00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:35.679
 benefit from the

00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:36.460
 work, it says

00:38:36.460 --> 00:38:37.199
 nothing about being

00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:38.059
 paid for the work.

00:38:38.179 --> 00:38:38.759
 And so sometimes

00:38:38.759 --> 00:38:39.179
 people are like,

00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:39.759
 ah, if the work

00:38:39.759 --> 00:38:40.360
 I'm not paid is

00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:41.460
 volunteer, like being

00:38:41.460 --> 00:38:42.039
 a stay-at-home

00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:42.339
 parent.

00:38:42.819 --> 00:38:44.019
 Well, you could

00:38:44.019 --> 00:38:45.199
 even say that the

00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:45.880
 Bible shows that

00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:46.799
 that is really work.

00:38:46.900 --> 00:38:47.779
 There was a stay-at-home

00:38:47.779 --> 00:38:48.619
 parent who was

00:38:48.619 --> 00:38:49.480
 actually paid to be

00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:50.299
 a stay-at-home parent

00:38:50.299 --> 00:38:51.199
 in Scripture.

00:38:51.579 --> 00:38:52.139
 Do you know who

00:38:52.139 --> 00:38:52.559
 that is?

00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:56.440
 Somebody who was

00:38:56.440 --> 00:38:57.400
 paid to be a

00:38:57.400 --> 00:38:57.719
 parent.

00:38:58.539 --> 00:38:59.440
 Was it Moses'

00:38:59.699 --> 00:38:59.940
 parents?

00:38:59.960 --> 00:39:00.360
 Exactly.

00:39:01.019 --> 00:39:02.059
 Moses' mom was

00:39:02.059 --> 00:39:04.860
 paid to be a

00:39:04.860 --> 00:39:05.119
 mom.

00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:06.239
 In some way, like,

00:39:06.279 --> 00:39:07.079
 so if you argue

00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:08.079
 that, like, it's

00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:09.079
 not paid, well, it

00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:09.920
 has been paid in

00:39:09.920 --> 00:39:10.159
 Scripture.

00:39:10.679 --> 00:39:11.079
 And, like, I

00:39:11.079 --> 00:39:12.460
 mean, for those of

00:39:12.460 --> 00:39:14.360
 us who work, who

00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:15.219
 keep our kids in

00:39:15.219 --> 00:39:16.699
 daycare, we pay

00:39:16.699 --> 00:39:17.440
 people to care for

00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:17.799
 our kids.

00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:18.840
 So even though

00:39:18.840 --> 00:39:19.860
 there's not

00:39:19.860 --> 00:39:21.740
 necessarily a, to

00:39:21.740 --> 00:39:22.539
 your point, a

00:39:22.539 --> 00:39:24.200
 financial exchange

00:39:24.200 --> 00:39:25.600
 in that, like, this

00:39:25.600 --> 00:39:26.060
 is work.

00:39:26.180 --> 00:39:26.860
 Because even

00:39:26.860 --> 00:39:27.480
 children are the

00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:28.400
 gifts of God, and

00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:29.580
 we are called to

00:39:29.580 --> 00:39:31.360
 cultivate them in

00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:31.900
 some way.

00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:32.519
 I mean, we use

00:39:32.519 --> 00:39:33.080
 different words

00:39:33.080 --> 00:39:33.660
 because they are

00:39:33.660 --> 00:39:34.420
 human beings.

00:39:34.820 --> 00:39:36.640
 But in the way

00:39:36.640 --> 00:39:37.519
 of the Lord, and

00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:38.480
 that creative

00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:39.720
 cultivation that

00:39:39.720 --> 00:39:40.360
 is done as

00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:42.100
 parents is part of

00:39:42.100 --> 00:39:43.360
 God's design for

00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:43.580
 work.

00:39:43.680 --> 00:39:44.240
 Even though you

00:39:44.240 --> 00:39:44.940
 could argue that

00:39:44.940 --> 00:39:45.900
 because it's a

00:39:45.900 --> 00:39:46.940
 special class, we

00:39:46.940 --> 00:39:47.680
 call it something

00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:47.960
 else.

00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:48.460
 We call it

00:39:48.460 --> 00:39:48.859
 parenting.

00:39:49.500 --> 00:39:50.799
 But it is as

00:39:50.799 --> 00:39:51.739
 much work as

00:39:51.739 --> 00:39:53.639
 regular work as

00:39:53.639 --> 00:39:54.440
 most people who

00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:55.319
 have kids will

00:39:55.319 --> 00:39:55.699
 attest.

00:39:56.099 --> 00:39:57.960
 I think from a

00:39:57.960 --> 00:39:58.919
 worldly standpoint,

00:39:59.460 --> 00:40:00.539
 being a stay-at-home

00:40:00.539 --> 00:40:01.599
 mom for a number of

00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:02.599
 years, raising my

00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:03.899
 kids, I had to

00:40:03.899 --> 00:40:04.679
 finally realize,

00:40:04.799 --> 00:40:05.319
 instead of always

00:40:05.319 --> 00:40:06.299
 defending myself,

00:40:06.940 --> 00:40:07.379
 like, you know,

00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:08.000
 people would say,

00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:08.639
 oh, it must be

00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:08.940
 nice.

00:40:09.079 --> 00:40:09.859
 Yeah, it's a joy.

00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:10.599
 You know, it's

00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:11.000
 wonderful.

00:40:11.619 --> 00:40:12.519
 Was that the day

00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:13.759
 that my value is

00:40:13.759 --> 00:40:14.619
 equated to a

00:40:14.619 --> 00:40:16.639
 paycheck written by

00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:17.599
 someone of this

00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:19.279
 world totally

00:40:19.279 --> 00:40:20.839
 negates my value as

00:40:20.839 --> 00:40:21.739
 a child of God.

00:40:22.339 --> 00:40:23.099
 And there's no

00:40:23.099 --> 00:40:23.639
 connection.

00:40:24.420 --> 00:40:25.059
 And when you can

00:40:25.059 --> 00:40:26.199
 finally, when I

00:40:26.199 --> 00:40:27.119
 could, at least me,

00:40:27.219 --> 00:40:27.679
 could finally,

00:40:27.860 --> 00:40:29.739
 clearly, I stopped

00:40:29.739 --> 00:40:31.519
 defending myself as,

00:40:31.659 --> 00:40:32.159
 well, I'm not

00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:32.980
 working right now,

00:40:33.039 --> 00:40:33.799
 but I will again

00:40:33.799 --> 00:40:34.179
 someday.

00:40:34.880 --> 00:40:35.719
 I've been working

00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:36.519
 since the day I was

00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:37.460
 born, and I will

00:40:37.460 --> 00:40:38.420
 until the day I die

00:40:38.420 --> 00:40:39.339
 for God's glory.

00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:40.299
 And that's all I was

00:40:40.299 --> 00:40:40.519
 doing.

00:40:40.519 --> 00:40:43.239
 And that was really

00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:44.219
 important for me.

00:40:44.420 --> 00:40:45.699
 So, you know, when

00:40:45.699 --> 00:40:47.539
 you say what the

00:40:47.539 --> 00:40:49.179
 work is, it's all

00:40:49.179 --> 00:40:49.880
 for His glory.

00:40:50.820 --> 00:40:52.480
 And it's, we

00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:53.659
 benefit from us,

00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:55.059
 but He didn't have

00:40:55.059 --> 00:40:55.880
 to give us all

00:40:55.880 --> 00:40:56.860
 those benefits that

00:40:56.860 --> 00:40:57.460
 He gave us.

00:40:58.199 --> 00:40:58.699
 He could have

00:40:58.699 --> 00:40:59.280
 said, I don't want

00:40:59.280 --> 00:40:59.880
 you to eat anything

00:40:59.880 --> 00:41:00.340
 out of the garden.

00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:01.119
 Just go and take

00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:01.840
 care of it in order

00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:02.380
 to get the dog

00:41:02.380 --> 00:41:02.800
 else to get it.

00:41:02.980 --> 00:41:03.340
 Exactly.

00:41:03.340 --> 00:41:04.660
 I mean, but,

00:41:05.220 --> 00:41:05.800
 you know, in our

00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:06.579
 sin, obviously,

00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:07.260
 that's the whole

00:41:07.260 --> 00:41:07.700
 other part.

00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:08.400
 We mess it all

00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:08.680
 up.

00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:09.740
 Yeah.

00:41:11.120 --> 00:41:11.440
 Okay.

00:41:11.920 --> 00:41:12.500
 Even like

00:41:12.500 --> 00:41:13.320
 retirement, you

00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:13.640
 know, just

00:41:13.640 --> 00:41:14.420
 different phases

00:41:14.420 --> 00:41:15.300
 of life work can

00:41:15.300 --> 00:41:15.880
 take a very

00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:16.660
 different picture

00:41:16.660 --> 00:41:18.240
 than just, you

00:41:18.240 --> 00:41:19.260
 know, plan-clied

00:41:19.260 --> 00:41:20.000
 vocation or

00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:20.660
 whatever we think

00:41:20.660 --> 00:41:21.300
 of traditionally,

00:41:22.300 --> 00:41:23.100
 just calling that

00:41:23.100 --> 00:41:23.380
 out.

00:41:23.740 --> 00:41:24.320
 I agree.

00:41:24.980 --> 00:41:25.500
 Yes, ma'am?

00:41:25.660 --> 00:41:26.280
 And parenting

00:41:26.280 --> 00:41:27.260
 is not the most

00:41:27.260 --> 00:41:27.720
 important.

00:41:27.940 --> 00:41:28.400
 It's certainly

00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:30.820
 most important,

00:41:30.820 --> 00:41:31.660
 very important,

00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:32.960
 and,

00:41:33.340 --> 00:41:34.500
 it's 24,

00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:35.360
 you know,

00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:36.200
 24-7,

00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:37.039
 but it's,

00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:38.480
 it's, yeah.

00:41:38.780 --> 00:41:39.079
 Yeah.

00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:40.480
 I think it's the

00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:41.100
 most important

00:41:41.100 --> 00:41:41.720
 thing that we

00:41:41.720 --> 00:41:42.220
 are called,

00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:42.720
 I think we are

00:41:42.720 --> 00:41:43.039
 the most,

00:41:43.059 --> 00:41:43.480
 it's the most

00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:44.000
 important thing

00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:44.380
 that we are

00:41:44.380 --> 00:41:44.940
 called to do

00:41:44.940 --> 00:41:46.640
 because everything

00:41:46.640 --> 00:41:47.640
 else we have

00:41:47.640 --> 00:41:49.000
 to do are

00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:49.579
 dealing with

00:41:49.579 --> 00:41:50.059
 things that

00:41:50.059 --> 00:41:50.840
 will pass away.

00:41:51.539 --> 00:41:52.600
 But the souls

00:41:52.600 --> 00:41:53.680
 of the kids

00:41:53.680 --> 00:41:54.079
 that we are

00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:54.579
 giving are

00:41:54.579 --> 00:41:55.000
 eternal.

00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:55.840
 Like, we are

00:41:55.840 --> 00:41:56.600
 human beings

00:41:56.600 --> 00:41:57.160
 and caring for

00:41:57.160 --> 00:41:57.380
 people,

00:41:57.500 --> 00:41:57.900
 actually, I

00:41:57.900 --> 00:41:58.340
 would say,

00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:00.079
 maybe more

00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:00.880
 extendedly,

00:42:00.960 --> 00:42:01.240
 right?

00:42:01.360 --> 00:42:01.800
 Like, people

00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:03.260
 are the one

00:42:03.260 --> 00:42:03.880
 eternal thing

00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:04.940
 that we walk

00:42:04.940 --> 00:42:05.360
 around and

00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:05.640
 exchange,

00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:06.600
 and engage

00:42:06.600 --> 00:42:07.120
 with, and I

00:42:07.120 --> 00:42:08.160
 think engaging

00:42:08.160 --> 00:42:09.540
 with eternal,

00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:10.420
 I think, is

00:42:10.420 --> 00:42:11.860
 definitely important.

00:42:12.940 --> 00:42:13.560
 All right, so,

00:42:13.860 --> 00:42:14.600
 if this is the

00:42:14.600 --> 00:42:15.680
 design for work,

00:42:15.740 --> 00:42:16.220
 we can see that

00:42:16.220 --> 00:42:16.680
 there are many

00:42:16.680 --> 00:42:17.560
 elements of this

00:42:17.560 --> 00:42:18.220
 design that

00:42:18.220 --> 00:42:19.500
 still resonate,

00:42:19.680 --> 00:42:20.140
 or still,

00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:21.520
 we can think

00:42:21.520 --> 00:42:22.220
 about as we

00:42:22.220 --> 00:42:23.080
 consider work

00:42:23.080 --> 00:42:24.120
 today.

00:42:25.120 --> 00:42:25.680
 Even though

00:42:25.680 --> 00:42:26.240
 sin has

00:42:26.240 --> 00:42:26.880
 corrupted,

00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:28.300
 sin in its,

00:42:28.500 --> 00:42:29.260
 sin actually

00:42:29.260 --> 00:42:30.800
 corrupts much

00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:31.780
 of what was

00:42:31.780 --> 00:42:32.660
 God's original

00:42:32.660 --> 00:42:34.240
 design for

00:42:34.240 --> 00:42:34.560
 work.

00:42:34.900 --> 00:42:35.620
 If we go

00:42:35.620 --> 00:42:36.200
 back to the

00:42:36.200 --> 00:42:36.660
 list that I

00:42:36.660 --> 00:42:37.420
 had, right,

00:42:37.500 --> 00:42:37.920
 like, what

00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:38.460
 did it mean?

00:42:39.620 --> 00:42:40.160
 That, you

00:42:40.160 --> 00:42:40.560
 know, the

00:42:40.560 --> 00:42:40.980
 idea that

00:42:40.980 --> 00:42:41.600
 work is good

00:42:41.600 --> 00:42:42.120
 is corrupted

00:42:42.120 --> 00:42:42.820
 by sin,

00:42:43.019 --> 00:42:43.400
 like people

00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:44.060
 think, and

00:42:44.060 --> 00:42:44.420
 there is

00:42:44.420 --> 00:42:44.880
 work that

00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:45.440
 is evil,

00:42:45.600 --> 00:42:46.180
 and it's

00:42:46.180 --> 00:42:46.900
 evil because,

00:42:47.260 --> 00:42:47.460
 you know,

00:42:47.500 --> 00:42:48.420
 men have in

00:42:48.420 --> 00:42:49.019
 their desire

00:42:49.019 --> 00:42:49.500
 for some of

00:42:49.500 --> 00:42:49.860
 the other

00:42:49.860 --> 00:42:50.820
 characteristics of

00:42:50.820 --> 00:42:51.240
 good work

00:42:51.240 --> 00:42:52.180
 have corrupted

00:42:52.180 --> 00:42:52.740
 the goodness

00:42:52.740 --> 00:42:53.860
 that is in

00:42:53.860 --> 00:42:54.780
 work.

00:42:54.780 --> 00:42:59.120
 work being

00:42:59.120 --> 00:43:01.140
 good is

00:43:01.140 --> 00:43:02.280
 corrupted by

00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:03.220
 sometimes,

00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:03.460
 like,

00:43:03.620 --> 00:43:03.960
 meaningless

00:43:03.960 --> 00:43:04.500
 work,

00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:05.500
 droning on

00:43:05.500 --> 00:43:06.200
 work, or,

00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:06.640
 you know,

00:43:07.420 --> 00:43:07.780
 we probably

00:43:07.780 --> 00:43:08.220
 have, like,

00:43:08.600 --> 00:43:09.160
 working in

00:43:09.160 --> 00:43:09.760
 sweatshops,

00:43:09.980 --> 00:43:11.160
 or labor

00:43:11.160 --> 00:43:13.000
 that the

00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:15.760
 corruption of

00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:16.540
 sin has

00:43:16.540 --> 00:43:17.080
 seeped into

00:43:17.080 --> 00:43:18.200
 God's design.

00:43:19.040 --> 00:43:20.140
 Work being

00:43:20.140 --> 00:43:21.100
 really fruitful,

00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:21.940
 so if we see

00:43:21.940 --> 00:43:22.420
 the garden,

00:43:22.540 --> 00:43:22.820
 the Bible

00:43:22.820 --> 00:43:23.600
 talks about

00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:26.960
 God planting

00:43:26.960 --> 00:43:27.679
 a garden that

00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:28.239
 yielded so

00:43:28.239 --> 00:43:28.779
 much fruit,

00:43:29.279 --> 00:43:29.860
 and then Adam

00:43:29.860 --> 00:43:30.500
 was just called

00:43:30.500 --> 00:43:31.000
 to tend,

00:43:31.500 --> 00:43:32.279
 and then after

00:43:32.279 --> 00:43:33.279
 they sinned,

00:43:33.500 --> 00:43:34.159
 the first thing

00:43:34.159 --> 00:43:34.880
 God tells Adam

00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:35.839
 is that the

00:43:35.839 --> 00:43:36.719
 ground will no

00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:37.619
 longer be

00:43:37.619 --> 00:43:38.079
 fruitful,

00:43:38.279 --> 00:43:38.819
 that by the

00:43:38.819 --> 00:43:39.319
 sweat of his

00:43:39.319 --> 00:43:39.799
 brow, the

00:43:39.799 --> 00:43:40.739
 idea that we

00:43:40.739 --> 00:43:41.659
 sometimes labor

00:43:41.659 --> 00:43:43.000
 so much to

00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:44.119
 produce only

00:43:44.119 --> 00:43:44.819
 very little,

00:43:45.380 --> 00:43:46.480
 that is a

00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:46.980
 function of

00:43:46.980 --> 00:43:47.440
 sinning, and

00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:48.059
 it's a reality

00:43:48.059 --> 00:43:49.119
 that we still

00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:50.519
 live in today.

00:43:51.299 --> 00:43:53.219
 I think our

00:43:53.219 --> 00:43:54.559
 desire to

00:43:54.559 --> 00:43:55.879
 define and

00:43:55.879 --> 00:43:56.519
 create our

00:43:56.519 --> 00:43:57.099
 work, it is

00:43:57.099 --> 00:43:58.219
 the mantra of

00:43:58.219 --> 00:43:58.579
 today.

00:43:59.139 --> 00:43:59.980
 You can be

00:43:59.980 --> 00:44:01.459
 everything you

00:44:01.459 --> 00:44:02.259
 ever wanted to

00:44:02.259 --> 00:44:03.099
 be, like, your

00:44:03.099 --> 00:44:04.000
 mind is the

00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:04.519
 limitation.

00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:06.059
 You can, of

00:44:06.059 --> 00:44:06.779
 course, identify

00:44:06.779 --> 00:44:07.579
 the good that

00:44:07.579 --> 00:44:08.219
 people are trying

00:44:08.219 --> 00:44:08.819
 to point to

00:44:08.819 --> 00:44:09.639
 in some of

00:44:09.639 --> 00:44:10.699
 that, like,

00:44:11.059 --> 00:44:11.739
 John also

00:44:11.739 --> 00:44:12.279
 mentioned in

00:44:12.279 --> 00:44:12.959
 this class about

00:44:12.959 --> 00:44:13.500
 being good

00:44:13.500 --> 00:44:14.399
 cultural critics

00:44:14.399 --> 00:44:15.259
 that recognizing

00:44:15.259 --> 00:44:16.399
 the good in

00:44:16.399 --> 00:44:16.839
 some of these

00:44:16.839 --> 00:44:17.879
 things, and yet

00:44:17.879 --> 00:44:18.399
 the corruption

00:44:18.399 --> 00:44:19.459
 of sin, but

00:44:19.459 --> 00:44:20.039
 yet, as we

00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:20.719
 find out in the

00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:21.379
 garden, that is

00:44:21.380 --> 00:44:22.099
 actually not

00:44:22.099 --> 00:44:22.539
 true.

00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:23.539
 We are

00:44:23.539 --> 00:44:24.440
 designed to

00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:25.140
 be all that

00:44:25.140 --> 00:44:26.660
 God calls us

00:44:26.660 --> 00:44:27.599
 to be, and

00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:28.220
 the work is

00:44:28.220 --> 00:44:28.980
 figuring out

00:44:28.980 --> 00:44:29.880
 what God

00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:31.039
 calls us to

00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:31.320
 be.

00:44:31.680 --> 00:44:32.079
 I think there's

00:44:32.079 --> 00:44:32.640
 a quote, I

00:44:32.640 --> 00:44:33.920
 forgot to look

00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:34.420
 it up, that

00:44:34.420 --> 00:44:35.800
 Einstein said,

00:44:36.059 --> 00:44:37.220
 or it's attributed

00:44:37.220 --> 00:44:38.039
 to Einstein, that

00:44:38.039 --> 00:44:39.480
 if a fish spends

00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:40.280
 all his time

00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:41.420
 trying to, like,

00:44:42.300 --> 00:44:42.980
 climb a tree,

00:44:43.099 --> 00:44:43.380
 you may think

00:44:43.380 --> 00:44:43.840
 he was made

00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:44.360
 for nothing,

00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:45.160
 but that's

00:44:45.160 --> 00:44:45.980
 because that's

00:44:45.980 --> 00:44:48.760
 not where the

00:44:48.760 --> 00:44:49.680
 fish was designed

00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:50.259
 to operate.

00:44:50.739 --> 00:44:51.159
 And so some

00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:53.219
 of that idea

00:44:53.219 --> 00:44:54.480
 of recognizing

00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:55.359
 the constraints

00:44:55.359 --> 00:44:56.039
 of which the

00:44:56.039 --> 00:44:56.579
 work that we

00:44:56.579 --> 00:44:56.879
 have been

00:44:56.879 --> 00:44:57.480
 called to do,

00:44:58.199 --> 00:44:58.779
 what God

00:44:58.779 --> 00:44:59.399
 has called us

00:44:59.399 --> 00:44:59.919
 to do is

00:44:59.919 --> 00:45:00.899
 where work

00:45:00.899 --> 00:45:01.460
 has always

00:45:01.460 --> 00:45:02.059
 been fruitful

00:45:02.059 --> 00:45:02.759
 and flourish.

00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:04.300
 everybody has

00:45:04.300 --> 00:45:05.280
 different work,

00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:05.760
 you know,

00:45:05.820 --> 00:45:06.560
 everybody is

00:45:06.560 --> 00:45:07.360
 important, so

00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:08.440
 somebody is

00:45:08.440 --> 00:45:09.280
 saying mindless

00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:09.980
 work, but

00:45:09.980 --> 00:45:12.340
 everybody is

00:45:12.340 --> 00:45:12.740
 different.

00:45:13.820 --> 00:45:14.400
 Yeah, that's

00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:14.600
 fair.

00:45:14.740 --> 00:45:14.960
 Beth?

00:45:15.760 --> 00:45:17.020
 It seems

00:45:17.020 --> 00:45:19.860
 like work is

00:45:19.860 --> 00:45:20.400
 sort of this

00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:21.060
 way of

00:45:21.060 --> 00:45:23.400
 participation in

00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:24.880
 creation, and

00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:26.740
 when we are

00:45:26.740 --> 00:45:27.440
 working as

00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:27.900
 unto the

00:45:27.900 --> 00:45:29.780
 Lord, or we

00:45:29.780 --> 00:45:30.300
 think working

00:45:30.300 --> 00:45:31.140
 pre-fall

00:45:31.140 --> 00:45:32.380
 mentality, it

00:45:32.380 --> 00:45:33.500
 sort of is

00:45:33.500 --> 00:45:33.900
 both an

00:45:33.900 --> 00:45:34.640
 expanding of

00:45:34.640 --> 00:45:35.740
 us and a

00:45:35.740 --> 00:45:36.519
 cultivating of

00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:38.060
 us, as well

00:45:38.060 --> 00:45:38.980
 as expanding

00:45:38.980 --> 00:45:39.740
 and cultivating

00:45:39.740 --> 00:45:41.300
 God's created

00:45:41.300 --> 00:45:41.660
 order.

00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:42.519
 I think we

00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:43.560
 like, we

00:45:43.560 --> 00:45:44.519
 grow, I guess

00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:44.880
 would be a

00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:45.360
 simple way to

00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:45.720
 say that.

00:45:45.940 --> 00:45:47.240
 I think what

00:45:47.240 --> 00:45:48.039
 seems to enter

00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:49.440
 in through the

00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:50.320
 fall is

00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:51.480
 exploitation.

00:45:52.860 --> 00:45:54.240
 Like, even

00:45:54.240 --> 00:45:55.340
 when we're

00:45:55.340 --> 00:45:56.460
 toiling and

00:45:56.460 --> 00:45:56.960
 it's not

00:45:56.960 --> 00:45:57.800
 yielding much

00:45:57.800 --> 00:45:58.400
 harvest,

00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:00.139
 it's sort

00:46:00.139 --> 00:46:00.539
 of like

00:46:00.539 --> 00:46:03.280
 exploiting, and

00:46:03.280 --> 00:46:03.740
 then when we

00:46:03.740 --> 00:46:04.280
 think about the

00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:05.980
 interpersonal power

00:46:05.980 --> 00:46:06.700
 dynamics and

00:46:06.700 --> 00:46:07.920
 whatnot, there's

00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:08.740
 often just that

00:46:08.740 --> 00:46:09.460
 entrance of

00:46:09.460 --> 00:46:10.539
 exploitation as

00:46:10.539 --> 00:46:11.599
 opposed to

00:46:11.599 --> 00:46:12.160
 cultivating.

00:46:12.980 --> 00:46:13.200
 Yeah.

00:46:13.860 --> 00:46:14.840
 I think that's

00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:15.079
 fair.

00:46:15.260 --> 00:46:16.840
 I think that

00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:17.440
 sense of

00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:19.340
 exploitation, I

00:46:19.340 --> 00:46:20.139
 think, connects

00:46:20.139 --> 00:46:21.000
 quite well to

00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:22.200
 this idea of

00:46:22.200 --> 00:46:23.280
 not all the

00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:24.660
 often results

00:46:24.660 --> 00:46:25.300
 when we are

00:46:25.300 --> 00:46:26.019
 trying to get

00:46:26.019 --> 00:46:27.180
 everything we

00:46:27.179 --> 00:46:27.960
 can from the

00:46:27.960 --> 00:46:28.460
 work that we

00:46:28.460 --> 00:46:28.659
 do.

00:46:29.419 --> 00:46:30.139
 But the idea

00:46:30.139 --> 00:46:30.679
 that, like I

00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:31.819
 mentioned, work

00:46:31.819 --> 00:46:32.460
 had originally

00:46:32.460 --> 00:46:33.460
 always been

00:46:33.460 --> 00:46:34.639
 designed in

00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:35.440
 some way for

00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:36.119
 there to be a

00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:36.559
 part of our

00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:37.119
 work that is

00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:38.500
 not really for

00:46:38.500 --> 00:46:39.159
 us or about

00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:39.440
 us.

00:46:39.659 --> 00:46:40.059
 And I think

00:46:40.059 --> 00:46:41.179
 in relating to

00:46:41.179 --> 00:46:41.679
 that, I think

00:46:41.679 --> 00:46:42.419
 your point around

00:46:42.419 --> 00:46:43.879
 exploitation and

00:46:43.879 --> 00:46:44.379
 where some of

00:46:44.379 --> 00:46:45.299
 that comes from

00:46:45.299 --> 00:46:46.419
 and a desire to

00:46:46.419 --> 00:46:47.359
 grab and hold

00:46:47.359 --> 00:46:48.039
 on to everything

00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:49.319
 that we can, I

00:46:49.319 --> 00:46:50.359
 think definitely

00:46:50.359 --> 00:46:51.739
 stems from

00:46:51.739 --> 00:46:52.019
 that.

00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:52.699
 Yes,

00:46:52.759 --> 00:46:53.019
 Christina.

00:46:53.019 --> 00:46:53.699
 Could we

00:46:53.699 --> 00:46:54.840
 also expand

00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:55.960
 the topic of

00:46:55.960 --> 00:46:56.519
 children to

00:46:56.519 --> 00:46:57.659
 spiritual children

00:46:57.659 --> 00:46:58.539
 and discipleship

00:46:58.539 --> 00:46:59.699
 for those who

00:46:59.699 --> 00:47:00.179
 don't have

00:47:00.179 --> 00:47:01.039
 children and

00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:02.219
 yeah, kind

00:47:02.219 --> 00:47:02.920
 of outside of

00:47:02.920 --> 00:47:03.119
 them?

00:47:03.420 --> 00:47:04.139
 Yeah, I

00:47:04.139 --> 00:47:04.599
 think so.

00:47:04.699 --> 00:47:05.159
 But in that

00:47:05.159 --> 00:47:05.500
 case, you

00:47:05.500 --> 00:47:05.880
 could even

00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:06.340
 think about

00:47:06.340 --> 00:47:06.840
 that work

00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:07.360
 as almost

00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:08.599
 directly spiritual

00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:10.360
 work, which

00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:10.739
 we would

00:47:10.739 --> 00:47:11.659
 actually recognize

00:47:11.659 --> 00:47:12.320
 today as

00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:13.360
 spiritual work

00:47:13.360 --> 00:47:14.639
 of people who

00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:16.920
 disciple others.

00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:18.019
 In some

00:47:18.019 --> 00:47:18.559
 churches, they

00:47:18.559 --> 00:47:19.000
 even have

00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:19.719
 positions of

00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:20.500
 spiritual director

00:47:20.500 --> 00:47:21.099
 or something.

00:47:21.099 --> 00:47:22.239
 So, yes, we

00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:24.460
 can because we

00:47:24.460 --> 00:47:25.179
 already do so

00:47:25.179 --> 00:47:25.839
 in any case.

00:47:28.179 --> 00:47:28.619
 Okay.

00:47:29.420 --> 00:47:29.839
 All right.

00:47:30.539 --> 00:47:31.000
 So, we were

00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:32.279
 talking about

00:47:32.279 --> 00:47:32.960
 other ways in

00:47:32.960 --> 00:47:33.460
 which sin

00:47:33.460 --> 00:47:36.299
 corrupts God's

00:47:36.299 --> 00:47:37.199
 grand design.

00:47:37.319 --> 00:47:37.880
 I think I was

00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:39.759
 talking about the

00:47:39.759 --> 00:47:40.739
 idea that we are

00:47:40.739 --> 00:47:41.360
 the masters of

00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:42.299
 our own work and

00:47:42.299 --> 00:47:43.539
 I think this idea

00:47:43.539 --> 00:47:45.159
 is a sinful

00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:45.619
 idea.

00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:47.239
 We are created

00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:48.259
 to work as God

00:47:48.259 --> 00:47:48.880
 calls us to

00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:50.099
 work and we

00:47:50.099 --> 00:47:50.619
 need to be

00:47:50.619 --> 00:47:51.480
 figuring out

00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:52.920
 what does that

00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:53.519
 mean to be

00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:53.900
 called.

00:47:54.219 --> 00:47:55.319
 And again, that

00:47:55.319 --> 00:47:56.039
 I think is a

00:47:56.039 --> 00:47:56.659
 topic we will

00:47:56.659 --> 00:47:58.039
 discuss in the

00:47:58.039 --> 00:47:58.619
 next class.

00:47:59.139 --> 00:48:00.599
 Work also, as

00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:01.079
 Keller talks

00:48:01.079 --> 00:48:01.579
 about in his

00:48:01.579 --> 00:48:02.480
 book, becomes

00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:03.119
 selfish.

00:48:03.299 --> 00:48:03.920
 It becomes all

00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:04.400
 about us.

00:48:04.859 --> 00:48:05.559
 It downstream

00:48:05.559 --> 00:48:06.699
 of that idea

00:48:06.699 --> 00:48:07.859
 of being

00:48:07.859 --> 00:48:08.359
 masters.

00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:09.759
 And he uses

00:48:09.759 --> 00:48:11.779
 the Tower of

00:48:11.779 --> 00:48:12.900
 Babel as an

00:48:12.900 --> 00:48:14.099
 example of that

00:48:14.099 --> 00:48:16.380
 selfish, self-oriented,

00:48:16.619 --> 00:48:17.519
 self-glorifying

00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:18.519
 element of work

00:48:18.519 --> 00:48:19.519
 that was not

00:48:19.519 --> 00:48:20.840
 designed in the

00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:21.139
 beginning.

00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:24.099
 And so, over

00:48:24.099 --> 00:48:25.300
 the course of

00:48:25.300 --> 00:48:26.440
 this class, we

00:48:26.440 --> 00:48:27.239
 will talk about

00:48:27.239 --> 00:48:28.920
 this part of

00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:29.420
 work, like

00:48:29.420 --> 00:48:30.380
 going into detail

00:48:30.380 --> 00:48:32.000
 and how work

00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:32.759
 has been

00:48:32.759 --> 00:48:33.659
 corrupted and

00:48:33.659 --> 00:48:34.480
 how then

00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:35.539
 ultimately landing

00:48:35.539 --> 00:48:36.599
 at how the

00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:37.559
 gospel redeems

00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:38.820
 work.

00:48:39.460 --> 00:48:40.420
 The gospel

00:48:40.420 --> 00:48:41.440
 gives us a

00:48:41.440 --> 00:48:42.500
 new narrative

00:48:42.500 --> 00:48:43.239
 for work and

00:48:43.239 --> 00:48:43.940
 a new power

00:48:43.940 --> 00:48:44.780
 and a new

00:48:44.780 --> 00:48:45.860
 purpose for the

00:48:45.860 --> 00:48:46.460
 work that we do.

00:48:46.460 --> 00:48:47.740
 And maybe to

00:48:47.740 --> 00:48:48.300
 the point that

00:48:48.300 --> 00:48:48.780
 I mentioned

00:48:48.780 --> 00:48:50.099
 earlier, in

00:48:50.099 --> 00:48:51.659
 the gospel, and

00:48:51.659 --> 00:48:52.079
 that's the

00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:53.079
 addendum to the

00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:53.760
 definition of

00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:54.220
 work that I

00:48:54.220 --> 00:48:55.360
 said in the

00:48:55.360 --> 00:48:56.500
 beginning, in

00:48:56.500 --> 00:48:57.199
 the gospel we

00:48:57.199 --> 00:48:57.780
 see work

00:48:57.780 --> 00:48:59.159
 repeatedly being

00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:00.519
 talked about in

00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:01.519
 the context of

00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:02.460
 service to

00:49:02.460 --> 00:49:02.860
 others.

00:49:03.420 --> 00:49:04.880
 And so, you

00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:06.099
 could argue that

00:49:06.099 --> 00:49:06.659
 it is sort of

00:49:06.659 --> 00:49:07.400
 embedded in that

00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:08.320
 creative cultivation

00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:09.300
 that I defined

00:49:09.300 --> 00:49:10.500
 earlier, but it's

00:49:10.500 --> 00:49:11.860
 not as explicit.

00:49:12.420 --> 00:49:13.300
 That work is

00:49:13.300 --> 00:49:14.400
 continuing this

00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:15.179
 work of God's

00:49:15.179 --> 00:49:16.179
 creative cultivation.

00:49:16.460 --> 00:49:17.760
 work in the

00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:18.679
 service of

00:49:18.679 --> 00:49:19.119
 others.

00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:20.500
 And that lens

00:49:20.500 --> 00:49:22.519
 of working to

00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:23.340
 serve others is

00:49:23.340 --> 00:49:23.960
 a lens that we

00:49:23.960 --> 00:49:24.559
 will come back

00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:25.340
 to in the

00:49:25.340 --> 00:49:26.099
 final phase of

00:49:26.099 --> 00:49:26.980
 the purpose of

00:49:26.980 --> 00:49:27.159
 work.

00:49:27.760 --> 00:49:28.900
 Paul admonishes

00:49:28.900 --> 00:49:30.380
 he that steals

00:49:30.380 --> 00:49:31.079
 should steal no

00:49:31.079 --> 00:49:32.119
 longer, but

00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:32.760
 work with his

00:49:32.760 --> 00:49:33.079
 hands.

00:49:33.440 --> 00:49:34.179
 Not so that he

00:49:34.179 --> 00:49:34.980
 can stop stealing

00:49:34.980 --> 00:49:36.639
 to satisfy, but

00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:37.920
 so that he may

00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:39.280
 have something to

00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:39.639
 give.

00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:41.179
 Because actually

00:49:41.179 --> 00:49:42.320
 working was a

00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:43.280
 way to transform

00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:45.019
 stealing from

00:49:45.019 --> 00:49:46.440
 taking to give

00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:46.579
 everything.

00:49:47.019 --> 00:49:49.059
 Because work is

00:49:49.059 --> 00:49:50.260
 meant to be done

00:49:50.260 --> 00:49:51.460
 in service of

00:49:51.460 --> 00:49:51.840
 others.

00:49:52.240 --> 00:49:52.800
 In fact, we

00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:53.480
 will talk about

00:49:53.480 --> 00:49:54.280
 that in the

00:49:54.280 --> 00:49:55.400
 latter part of

00:49:55.400 --> 00:49:56.159
 the class, about

00:49:56.159 --> 00:49:56.840
 the gospel's

00:49:56.840 --> 00:49:57.980
 redemption of

00:49:57.980 --> 00:49:58.159
 work.

00:49:59.079 --> 00:49:59.940
 So, yes

00:49:59.940 --> 00:50:00.220
 ma'am.

00:50:00.219 --> 00:50:02.539
 God doesn't like

00:50:02.539 --> 00:50:03.019
 pride.

00:50:03.699 --> 00:50:04.839
 Very, very

00:50:04.839 --> 00:50:05.859
 against God.

00:50:05.980 --> 00:50:07.299
 So, somebody

00:50:07.299 --> 00:50:08.839
 working for, you

00:50:08.839 --> 00:50:10.399
 know, for

00:50:10.399 --> 00:50:12.199
 pride, yeah,

00:50:12.319 --> 00:50:13.179
 God doesn't like

00:50:13.179 --> 00:50:13.539
 pride.

00:50:13.899 --> 00:50:15.819
 Yeah, no,

00:50:15.959 --> 00:50:16.839
 absolutely.

00:50:17.839 --> 00:50:19.159
 And that embracing

00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:20.839
 that humility that

00:50:20.839 --> 00:50:22.119
 comes with work is

00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:23.099
 also something that,

00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:24.599
 to Julia's point,

00:50:24.980 --> 00:50:25.599
 the New Testament

00:50:25.599 --> 00:50:26.339
 picks up.

00:50:26.340 --> 00:50:28.140
 I think Paul

00:50:28.140 --> 00:50:28.700
 mentions, I

00:50:28.700 --> 00:50:29.300
 think it's in

00:50:29.300 --> 00:50:29.980
 Thessalonians,

00:50:30.120 --> 00:50:30.539
 like, you know,

00:50:31.100 --> 00:50:31.980
 aspire to live a

00:50:31.980 --> 00:50:33.000
 quiet life and to

00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:33.539
 work with your

00:50:33.539 --> 00:50:33.940
 hands.

00:50:34.420 --> 00:50:35.039
 Not because

00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:35.680
 working with your

00:50:35.680 --> 00:50:36.220
 hands, in some

00:50:36.220 --> 00:50:37.039
 way that, because

00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:38.220
 in that culture

00:50:38.220 --> 00:50:38.940
 working with our

00:50:38.940 --> 00:50:40.460
 hands was seen

00:50:40.460 --> 00:50:41.460
 as, you know,

00:50:41.800 --> 00:50:42.880
 second grade to

00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:43.500
 working with your

00:50:43.500 --> 00:50:44.280
 minds in the

00:50:44.280 --> 00:50:45.340
 Greek and the

00:50:45.340 --> 00:50:46.220
 Roman culture of

00:50:46.220 --> 00:50:46.559
 the day.

00:50:46.940 --> 00:50:47.380
 And so that

00:50:47.380 --> 00:50:48.559
 humbling aspect of

00:50:48.559 --> 00:50:50.300
 the humility that

00:50:50.300 --> 00:50:51.220
 comes with service,

00:50:51.220 --> 00:50:52.260
 I think is

00:50:52.260 --> 00:50:53.280
 something that is

00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:54.400
 part of the new

00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:55.559
 narrative of how

00:50:55.559 --> 00:50:56.200
 we should think

00:50:56.200 --> 00:50:57.059
 about work.

00:50:57.860 --> 00:50:59.160
 So I think I

00:50:59.160 --> 00:51:00.180
 will end there

00:51:00.180 --> 00:51:00.860
 unless there are

00:51:00.860 --> 00:51:01.660
 more questions.

00:51:02.599 --> 00:51:03.200
 Yes, Richard.

00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:06.059
 If work is good,

00:51:06.500 --> 00:51:07.160
 and I agree,

00:51:07.340 --> 00:51:10.980
 is unemployment

00:51:10.980 --> 00:51:12.460
 a great evil?

00:51:16.860 --> 00:51:18.780
 I think it would

00:51:18.780 --> 00:51:20.119
 depend on what

00:51:20.119 --> 00:51:21.220
 the drivers of

00:51:21.220 --> 00:51:21.900
 the unemployment

00:51:21.900 --> 00:51:23.000
 are.

00:51:24.400 --> 00:51:25.340
 Yeah, I think

00:51:25.340 --> 00:51:25.820
 it depends.

00:51:26.680 --> 00:51:27.559
 What's causing

00:51:27.559 --> 00:51:28.180
 the unemployment?

00:51:29.340 --> 00:51:30.180
 Well, most

00:51:30.180 --> 00:51:31.059
 economists would

00:51:31.059 --> 00:51:32.579
 agree that a

00:51:32.579 --> 00:51:33.599
 certain level of

00:51:33.599 --> 00:51:34.579
 unemployment is

00:51:34.579 --> 00:51:35.360
 desirable.

00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:39.800
 Yeah, I think

00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:40.820
 that that is,

00:51:41.820 --> 00:51:42.760
 I don't know

00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:43.519
 then that it's,

00:51:43.740 --> 00:51:46.119
 so I think it

00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:46.780
 depends on how

00:51:46.780 --> 00:51:47.420
 you define

00:51:47.420 --> 00:51:48.320
 unemployment and

00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:49.059
 the context in

00:51:49.059 --> 00:51:51.139
 which when they

00:51:51.139 --> 00:51:51.660
 talk about

00:51:51.660 --> 00:51:52.440
 unemployment, I

00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:52.740
 think they

00:51:52.740 --> 00:51:53.480
 generally talk

00:51:53.480 --> 00:51:54.760
 about paid

00:51:54.760 --> 00:51:55.500
 employment.

00:51:56.639 --> 00:51:57.280
 So unemployment

00:51:57.280 --> 00:51:58.360
 in that regard

00:51:58.360 --> 00:51:59.880
 maybe you could

00:51:59.880 --> 00:52:00.960
 debate, but

00:52:00.960 --> 00:52:01.579
 whether you are

00:52:01.579 --> 00:52:02.159
 paid or not,

00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:03.159
 people who work

00:52:03.159 --> 00:52:03.820
 at home, I

00:52:03.820 --> 00:52:04.460
 don't think are

00:52:04.460 --> 00:52:05.780
 technically, I

00:52:05.780 --> 00:52:06.360
 don't know how

00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:07.000
 they are accounted

00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:07.440
 for in the

00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:08.300
 unemployment numbers,

00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:09.639
 but we've talked

00:52:09.639 --> 00:52:10.340
 about, right,

00:52:10.420 --> 00:52:12.099
 like that is still

00:52:12.099 --> 00:52:12.920
 work in God's

00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:13.159
 eyes.

00:52:13.659 --> 00:52:15.480
 So I don't

00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:15.659
 know.

00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:16.300
 I think there's

00:52:16.300 --> 00:52:18.539
 a clear yes or

00:52:18.539 --> 00:52:19.360
 no to that answer.

00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:19.860
 I think it

00:52:19.860 --> 00:52:20.680
 really depends on

00:52:20.680 --> 00:52:21.640
 the kind of

00:52:21.640 --> 00:52:22.120
 the unemployment

00:52:22.120 --> 00:52:24.680
 and the

00:52:24.680 --> 00:52:25.300
 reasons for it.

00:52:28.300 --> 00:52:30.680
 Oh yeah,

00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:31.200
 that's true.

00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:31.960
 That's also a

00:52:31.960 --> 00:52:32.660
 reason why people

00:52:32.660 --> 00:52:33.340
 can be unemployed.

00:52:36.380 --> 00:52:37.039
 All right,

00:52:37.240 --> 00:52:38.280
 well, thank you

00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:38.820
 for coming.

00:52:39.220 --> 00:52:40.039
 If you have any

00:52:40.039 --> 00:52:41.019
 questions, happy to

00:52:41.019 --> 00:52:41.780
 stay behind till

00:52:41.780 --> 00:52:43.519
 10 and answer

00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:44.120
 them, but

00:52:44.120 --> 00:52:44.940
 otherwise we'll

00:52:44.940 --> 00:52:45.519
 see you next

00:52:45.519 --> 00:52:45.760
 week.