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13: Spiritual Sandpaper · Finding God at Work

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  (Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Hi, I'm Chris.
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  This is Finding God at Work.
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  Just a reminder that Finding God at Work
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  isn't just a podcast, it's also an online
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  course.
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  Check it out at findinggodatwork.org.
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  Our current series is Meaningful Work, Calling, Formation,
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  Service, and Love.
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  Is there anything that you do pretty regularly
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  at your job that you just dislike doing?
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  Just gets on your nerves, it's not your
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  favorite thing.
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  I have something that I did, so not
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  my current job, but previous job that was
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  like this.
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  We had a database with a lot of
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  information that multiple teams needed.
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  And when I came in, I was asked
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  to kind of help with cleaning up the
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  database and seeing if there were processes that
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  could be improved.
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  And one thing I noticed was that there
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  was somebody who was spending several hours every
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  week copying and pasting information from the database
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  into this Excel spreadsheet.
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  And so I thought, couldn't we automate this
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  in some way?
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  And so they did eventually say, well, how
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  would you figure it out?
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  So what was frustrating, though, was that I
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  could never fully automate it.
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  I kind of half automated it, I got
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  an export from the database that would then
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  go into Excel and there were some, you
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  know, pre-created formulas that would then feed
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  things.
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  But then I still had to do copying
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  and pasting by hand.
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  And it was so frustrating because I'm like,
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  I know there's a way that this could
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  be fully automated, but I don't know who
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  to ask.
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  And I would go to other Excel people
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  at work and be like, do you have
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  an idea of how this could be automated
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  further?
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  And part of the problem was that people
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  were so used to using that Excel spreadsheet
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  that it couldn't be recreated each week from
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  scratch.
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  There were other teams and other departments that
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  were making manual updates based on the information
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  in there over several weeks.
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  And so if you come and do a
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  weekly update and wipe out what they've done,
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  it wouldn't work.
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  So anyways, I found myself every Friday having
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  to take a couple hours and do these
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  manual steps to a process that I knew
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  in theory should just be a couple of
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  clicks and fully automated.
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  With my personality, that really gets under my
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  skin, like this idea of like if we
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  just could do it the right way, this
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  job would be way easier.
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  And yet here I am stuck just, you
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  know, shoveling the poop out of the barn
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  is what it feels like copying and pasting
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  in the Excel spreadsheet.
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  So what's like that for you in your
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  work?
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  As we've been talking about the meaning that
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  we can find in our work, again, meaning
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  that may already be there, we've talked about
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  calling quite a bit.
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  How do we hear the voice of Jesus
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  and distinguish his voice from every other voice?
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  How do we listen to our own desires
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  while also having an openness to doing difficult
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  and unpleasant things?
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  How do we make those decisions with the
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  help of community and people around us?
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  How do we pursue a call on our
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  lives that may be bigger than just what
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  we do for paid work while also taking
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  up that responsibility to provide for ourselves and
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  our loved ones?
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  Lots of different aspects of calling.
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  As we've looked at all those different aspects
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  of calling, I hope that it's become clear
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  that as disciples of Jesus, we should not
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  expect to always love every single aspect of
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  the work we do.
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  We should, in fact, expect work to sometimes
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  be annoying, unpleasant, distasteful, unlikable, not all the
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  time.
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  Right.
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  And I'm not saying we should ignore our
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  feelings or how we respond, but realistically, every
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  job is going to have some things that
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  you just dislike about it.
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  That's just life.
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  And that doesn't change even when we're we're
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  following the call of Jesus.
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  In fact, Jesus may call us to do
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  unpleasant things.
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  And a part of our obedience to him
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  is being willing to lean into those things.
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  So in this episode, I kind of want
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  to turn the corner from calling to formation.
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  And we're kind of looking at four aspects
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  in this series, calling, formation, service and love.
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  And so as we turn the corner from
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  calling to formation, I want to look at
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  how can we respond to those aspects of
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  our work that we just really dislike?
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  And is there actually a spiritual opportunity there?
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  Because if you're like me, the way that
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  you respond is just sort of like by
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  gritting your teeth and white knuckling through it.
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  Right.
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  My tendency for anything that I dislike about
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  my job is just to get it over
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  with.
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  Right.
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  Figure out how to how to motivate myself
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  enough to get it done and then forget
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  about it.
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  I don't necessarily look at it as something
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  with deep meaning to be probed.
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  It's just sort of like, well, it's there
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  and it has to be done.
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  Right.
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  It's poop in the barn that you got
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  to shovel out.
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  You know, there's nothing more to it.
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  But I think even though, you know, sometimes
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  just being like, OK, let's get this done
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  might be the right attitude.
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  We might be missing on something that God
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  intends to do in us and through us
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  if we don't reckon with the things we
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  dislike about our jobs with a little bit
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  more sensitivity and openness to what the Holy
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  Spirit might do through them.
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  So I want to go to a couple
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  of different scripture passages as part of this.
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  So first, a really familiar scripture passage.
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  This is when Jesus talks about taking up
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  your cross.
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  I'll read the one from the Gospel of
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  Luke.
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  So this is Luke chapter nine, starting in
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  verse twenty three.
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  And Jesus said to all, if anyone would
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  come after me, let him deny himself and
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  take up his cross daily and follow me.
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  For whoever would save his life will lose
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  it.
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  But whoever loses his life for my sake
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  will save it.
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  We've talked about this verse before.
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  It's a classic verse of just the nature
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  of discipleship that just as Jesus went to
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  the cross in obedience to his father for
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  our sake and for the sake of the
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  world, he calls us to take up our
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  cross and follow him.
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  But I want to focus on that phrasing.
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  Sometimes you hear people talking about bearing a
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  cross, you know, as though a cross is
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  something that's kind of imposed on us and
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  we just have to kind of tolerate it
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  or put up with it.
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  That's not what Jesus says.
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  Jesus says, if anyone would come after me,
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  let him deny himself and take up his
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  cross daily and follow me.
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  Take up is an active verb.
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  So Jesus is saying that the cross, again,
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  an image of suffering, an image of dying
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  to himself, that's something that we actively engage.
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  We take it up.
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  We don't just tolerate it.
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  We don't just white knuckle and grit our
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  ways through it.
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  We embrace it.
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  We take it up.
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  OK, what does that mean?
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  Well, I want to go to another passage,
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  probably a less familiar passage.
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  This is from First Corinthians chapter three.
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  And Paul is addressing a lot of issues
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  in the life of the church in First
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  Corinthians, and he's addressing the kind of factionalism
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  that had arisen in the Corinthian church where
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  some people said, like, hey, we're part of
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  the Paul faction.
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  And other people said we're part of the
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  Apollos faction, Apollos being another early apostolic leader
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  alongside Paul.
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  Other people were saying other things.
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  And so Paul's kind of addressing this and
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  saying, that's not how it's supposed to work.
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  You're not supposed to divide into these different
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  personality led factions.
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  Seems like it might be relevant for us
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  here, even in the 21st century in the
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  United States, right?
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  Like, don't devolve into personality oriented movements where
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  it's focused on someone other than Jesus.
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  But what does Paul say?
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  And we're going to kind of get to
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  this idea of suffering in the workplace as
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  we go through this passage.
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  So this is, again, First Corinthians three, starting
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  in verse six.
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  Paul writes, I planted, Apollos watered, but God
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  gave the growth.
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  So neither he who plants nor he who
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  waters is anything but only God who gives
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  the growth.
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  He who plants and he who waters are
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  one and each will receive his wages according
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  to his labor.
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  For we are God's fellow workers.
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  You are God's field, God's building.
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  Okay, we'll stop there.
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  We've got a few more verses to go
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  through, but there's a lot even right there.
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  So so one thing is Paul's kind of
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  using two different images here, right?
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  An agricultural image of like the church community
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  as a field where something is growing.
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  And then he also at the end, he
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  talks about God's building.
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  And, you know, you need outbuildings when you've
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  got a farm and fields growing things, barns.
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  And, you know, like we said, if we're
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  going to muck out the barns, we need
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  barns in the first place.
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  So there's this kind of rural image that
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  that Paul seems to have in mind.
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  We've got some outbuildings.
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  We've got the plants themselves.
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  And what are we doing?
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  Well, we're planting, right?
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  I planted, he says.
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  We're watering.
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  Apollos watered, he said.
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  We're seeing it grow, he says.
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  But God gave the growth.
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  So this image of the church, like as
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  the plants in this field that are kind
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  of growing up because of God's grace in
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  them.
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  And what Paul's saying is like, look, the
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  point is not who does which task.
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  The point is not who waters or who
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  plants or who's mucking out the barns.
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  Right.
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  The point is that God is doing something
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  in the community and we get to participate
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  in it.
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  And then he says these things at the
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  end that are really key.
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  He says, each will receive his wages according
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  to his labor.
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  And for we are God's fellow workers.
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  Okay.
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  Each will receive his wages according to his
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  labor.
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  Really important here in the bigger context of
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  Paul's writing, this is not about earning something
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  from God in terms of our salvation.
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  We know salvation is a gift.
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  That's part of the whole grace that's being
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  announced that that causes this farm to exist
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  in the first place.
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  So that we are saved by grace through
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  faith, as Paul says in Ephesians chapter two,
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  and yet there is this sense of receiving
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  something according to your labor, each will receive
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  his wages according to his labor.
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  And it goes with the second part for
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  we are God's fellow workers.
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  What Paul is saying is that even though
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  God is the one who's bringing the You
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  have a role to play.
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  You have a task.
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  You have a job to play in maintaining
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  this farm.
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  It's like a family farm where we're somehow
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  we're the plants that are growing, but we're
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  also the ones who are growing plants alongside
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  God and God expects you to, to put
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  in, you know, the, the sweat equity on
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  the family farm and he will reward you
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  for doing so.
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  God wants to reward us.
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  God wants to give us more of his
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  life, more of himself over time.
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  So we were meant to be motivated in
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  the work that we do by this sense
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  that God sees our work.
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  He's pleased with it and he will reward
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  it with more of his grace.
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  There are certain graces that we can only
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  experience if we put in the effort by
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  God's grace and us to get to that
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  place of, of God saying, well done here,
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  come and share in this experience of working
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  with me, we'll never know the grace of
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  working with God if we refuse to work
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  with him.
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  Okay.
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  So it's a very interactive image of us
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  working.
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  Now I do want to clarify this work
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  is not limited to what we do at
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  our job, right?
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  The work that Paul has in mind here
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  is anytime that we're putting out effort and
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  obedience to God and obedience to Jesus' teachings
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  to love God and love neighbor.
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  So it includes more than our work at
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  our paid jobs if we have a paid
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  job, but if we have a job, it
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  doesn't include less, right?
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  The work that we're doing at work is
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  also part of this work where we're God's
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  coworkers, where we're going to receive this reward
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  from the Lord.
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  Okay.
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  Let's keep going.
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  So this is starting in verse 10.
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  According to the grace of God given to
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  me, like a skilled master builder, I laid
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  a foundation and someone else's building upon it.
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  Let each one take care how he builds
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  upon it.
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  For no one can lay a foundation other
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  than that, which is laid, which is Jesus
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  Christ.
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  Okay.
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  So, so now Paul's like mixing the metaphor
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  even a little bit more.
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  And he's saying, if there's a foundation to
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  this whole farm, if there's a foundation to
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  the buildings, right, what's the foundation it's Jesus.
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  Jesus himself is the foundation.
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  So, so again, Paul loves mixing his metaphors.
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  Um, I don't know if, if, uh, his,
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  uh, high school English teacher would have given
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  him critiques about that.
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  Um, but it's what we've got inspired by
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  the Holy spirit in scripture.
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  And so we're imagining God's the one who's
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  giving the growth, but Jesus is also the
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  foundation of all the building that's happening.
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  And again, Paul says, this is by grace,
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  according to the grace of God, given to
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  me, like a skilled master builder, I laid
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  a foundation and someone else is building upon
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  it, but each one take care how he
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  builds upon it.
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  So the starting place again, is the grace
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  of God.
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  The starting place is the good news about
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  Jesus.
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  The starting place is Jesus himself, his presence
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  and life in the community.
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  And then each of us has a task
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  to do.
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  We are called to build upon that foundation
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  as God gives us grace.
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  Paul's using himself as an example of that,
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  but then he's also saying, this is true
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  of you too.
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  You also are building on this foundation.
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  Take care then how you build.
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  Now, what does it mean to take care
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  how we build?
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  Well, uh, Paul unfolds this starting in the
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  next verse, verse 12.
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  He writes now, if anyone builds on the
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  foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay,
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  straw, each one's work will become manifest for
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  the day will disclose it because it will
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  be revealed by fire and the fire will
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  test what sort of work each has done.
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  If the work that anyone has built on
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  the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
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  If anyone's work is burned up, he will
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  suffer loss, though he himself will be saved,
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  but only as through fire.
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  Okay.
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  Whoa, suddenly we're dealing with a passage about
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  divine judgment, but did you get what Paul
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  did there?
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  He said, there's different qualities of the work.
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  You might do work with gold, silver, precious
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  stones that when they're tested by the fire,
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  they make it through.
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  Or you might do work with wood, hay,
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  straw.
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  And when it's tested by the fire, it
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  just burns up and you still may be
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  saved.
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  Again, it's not a works, righteousness, salvation.
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  God still saves us if we've put our
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  faith in him.
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  But if we're not willing to, to make
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  those sacrifices that the work requires, if we're
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  not willing to join God in the work,
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  then it might still be something, but it's
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  not something very valuable.
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  It's not something that passes the test.
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  It's wood.
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  It's hay, it's straw rather than gold, silver,
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  precious stones.
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  So what are the gold, the silver and
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  the precious stones?
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  Well, this is when we're going to get
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  back to where we started the episode, which
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  is how do you respond to those aspects
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  of your work that you dislike?
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  I would contend that we build with gold,
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  silver, and precious stones when we respond to
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  difficulties, to annoyances, even to suffering at work
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  as instances of spiritual opportunity.
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  Now, why would I think of these things
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  as spiritual opportunity?
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  Okay.
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  We're going to go to the third passage,
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  right?
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  This is also from Paul, Romans five.
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  What does he say starting in verse three?
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  Not only that, but we rejoice in our
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  sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance and strength.
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  and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.
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  And hope does not put us to shame
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  because God's love has been poured into our
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  hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been
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  given to us.
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  Why would even suffering at work be a
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  spiritual opportunity?
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  Because suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character,
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  and character produces hope, and hope does not
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  put us to shame.
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  Suffering produces endurance.
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  Now remember, a couple episodes ago, I introduced
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  that Dallas Willard quote, that what God gets
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  out of your life is not the achievements
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  you accomplish, it's the person you become.
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  I think that's really relevant when we think
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  about all the annoying things at work, all
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  the difficult things at work, even suffering at
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  work.
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  Because what if God is using those things
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  to shape our character?
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  Let's just think about the character we might
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  aspire to.
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  Could you become a more patient person?
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  I sure could.
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  Well, how do you become a more patient
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  person?
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  Is it by being in an environment where
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  everybody around you is just lovely all the
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  time and never tests your patience?
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  No, you become a more patient person by
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  having to deal with human beings who are
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  annoying sometimes.
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  And so what if that coworker that's annoying,
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  or that task that's difficult, or even that
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  experience of pain in your vocation that's a
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  form of suffering, what if that's an opportunity
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  that God is using to produce endurance in
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  you, to produce a Christ-like character in
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  you?
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  And again, what's the invitation?
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  It's to take up the cross, to say
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  yes, to say, I'm going to be present
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  in this difficulty.
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  And rather than just gritting it out and
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  trying to get through it, I'm gonna receive
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  what God might be doing in me and
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  through me in this difficulty.
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  Okay, again, I would contend that's what it
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  means to build with precious work, to build
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  with gold, with silver, with precious stones, to
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  build in a way that will lead to
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  the reward that we deeply desire from God.
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  So what could that look like for you
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  this week?
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  What could it look like for you to
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  take up your cross at work?
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  To have confidence that suffering produces endurance and
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  endurance produces character and character produces hope, to
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  build with gold, with silver, with precious stones,
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  to be God's coworker, to join him in
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  the work with that view that he will
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  reward you.
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  What could that look like in your work
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  this week?
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  I wanna encourage two ways to think about
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  it.
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  One is a metaphor, and this is spiritual
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  sandpaper.
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  As we're talking about building and building work,
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  could it be that God is giving some
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  abrasion to your life, right, so some abrasive
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  experiences, so that you can sand down some
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  rough edges in your character.
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  So when you're facing a difficulty, don't just
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  think about the difficulty, think, oh, could this
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  be spiritual sandpaper?
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  What could this be sanding down in me?
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  If you find that you're losing your patience
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  with something, oh, maybe God is sanding down
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  my impatience.
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  And see it not just as the task
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  that needs to be done, the barn that
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  needs to be mucked out, but as a
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  spiritual opportunity to grow in Christ-like character,
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  in patience, in that example.
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  Because that's the first way, is when you
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  face the difficulty, when you face the annoyance,
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  to ask, could this be spiritual sandpaper, right?
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  And the second thing is, once you've asked
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  that, to ask for God's presence.
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  I find it helpful even to just put
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  my hands open, take them off the keyboard,
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  put them open and up, and say, God,
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  I welcome you here in this, fill in
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  the blank, in this annoying task, in this
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  copying and pasting in Excel that should be
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  automated if I just knew how to do
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  it better, I welcome you.
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  And even just that little posture, that little
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  pivot of welcoming God's presence, that can help
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  you take up your cross, that can help
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  you engage the work, that can help you
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  be God's fellow worker, building in his field,
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  in his building.
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  Lord Jesus, thank you that you make us
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  women and men who are full of your
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  grace, full of your power to do work
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  with you that matters in the world.
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  And that you know our frailty and our
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  weaknesses and how easy it is for us
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  to get tripped up and annoyed and impatient.
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  Show us how to greet those moments of
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  friction and abrasive experiences at work as moments
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  where you are working on us.
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  Jesus, do your work in us as we
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  do our work with you.
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