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All right, welcome back. Day five, the final day of uh how do we glorify God at work? Okay? We've talked about sharing our faith, we've talked about watching our mouth, we've talked about the reality that God has called us as co-creators with him to bring order to chaos for his glory and also for human flourishing. Now I want to tell you if you want to bring God glory at work, then you be this kind of worker. Be the kind of worker, be the kind of boss, be the kind of employee where you care more about how people are doing than what people are doing. That's right. You care more about humans than the bottom line. Where do you get that, Pastor? Matthew chapter 22, verse 34. The Bible says, But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked Jesus a question to test him. And he says, Teacher, which is the greatest commandment of the law? And Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all of your mind. By the way, that's Deuteronomy chapter 6. That is the Shema. And then he adds one to it in verse 38. He says, This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and all the prophets. In other words, what Jesus is saying is if you could just get these two commandments right, you wouldn't actually need any other commandments. That the greatest thing that we can do with our entire life is to love the Lord our God with all, all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Now, don't miss this. A part of the reality of what Jesus is saying is the greatest commandment is impossible. Because apart from what Christ has done for us, we can't love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Has there ever been a time in your life where you didn't love God intensely and as a priority? And the answer is of course. And so God sends Jesus to die on a cross to be resurrected from the grave, that God would make him to be sin in our place, that for whoever would believe, we would be made the righteousness of God. That Jesus justified us at the cross when we put our faith in him, and that is how we are to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. First and foremost is to surrender our life to Jesus. But when we do that, what the believer does, who has been fully loved by God, then we are supposed to be a conduit of God's love towards other people, and not a cul-de-sac of that love. So let me ask you, how are you doing at loving God and loving your coworkers, loving the people that work for you, loving the people that you work for, loving the people that buy and sell from you? You see, my definition of love is this my joy in the Lord towards others at great expense to myself. So how do we care more about how people are doing than what people are doing? Well, here's a few ways. Be patient. Yeah. The Bible says love is patient. So are you patient at work? Another way is you can be kind. The Bible says be kind. I mean, when you walk into the room at work, does peace walk in or fear? You see, now I'm not saying we don't hold people to account. Of course we do. We have clear goals, and it is for the glory of God that we help hold people accountable to do a really great job because everything we do is as unto the Lord. But there is a way that we can be about this that is kind, that treats people with respect and dignity. The Bible says that when we love people, that we do not envy. So at work, do you spend a whole lot of time trying to get credit when other people are getting credit? Do you look at other people being promoted and think that's not fair? Well, listen, man, fair is not a biblical value. How about spend more time praying about those people instead of being envious of those people? You want to love people well, do not boast. That's right. Don't demand credit. You don't have to brag about it. The Bible says that to love one another is to keep no record of wrong. At work, are you keeping a scorecard? Well, aren't you glad that God does not keep a scorecard on us? That when we put our faith in Jesus Christ, then he nails the record of debt to the cross and counts it against us no more. The Bible says to love is to not demand your own way. The Bible says to love is to bear all things. The Bible says to not rejoice in evil, but rejoice in the truth. So this does not mean that to love one another just means you hug everybody and, you know, and you and you hum lullabies together. No, no, no, no, no. You hold people to truth, you hold people to accountability, but you do it in such a way where you care more about how they're doing than what they're doing. The Bible says to love is to believe all things, to trust all things, that love never fails. So is this you? Be honest. Are you loving God and loving your coworkers, your neighbors, as yourself? Now, does it mean you can be firm? Yes. But you also have to be forgiving. Is Jesus firm? Yes. He's the perfect judge. But is he forgiving? Yes. Because he's more concerned about how his people are doing than what they are doing. And if we get the how we're doing right, like when we realize that Jesus came on a rescue mission for us, we are to be overwhelmed by his grace, and then that grace drives us to be in alignment with obedience. You want to glorify God at work, care more about how people are doing than what people are doing. I hope this week has helped.

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