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All right, welcome back to day four of the Daily Blade this week as we do a deep dive on how to honor God, bring God glory at work. Now, this one is just uh this one might throw you for a little loop, okay? It's amazing the impact your mouth can have at your job site. Here's what the Bible says. Uh, in Philippians chapter 2, beginning in verse 14, the ESV says it this way do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God, without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation among whom you shine as lights in the world. Now, I memorized most of the Bible that I know in um the new interven the new international 1984 edition, okay? And the way it said it is this Philippians 2.14 says, do everything without complaining or arguing, that you may shine like stars in a crooked and depraved generation. So one of the ways that you can bring God glory at your job is this do everything without complaining or arguing. So let me ask you, do you complain and argue? And you'd be like, Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you don't understand my boss, or you don't understand my tax situation, or you don't understand these work hours that I've been given, or you don't understand my circumstance. Okay, that's great. No problem. You're right. I don't understand. But let me ask you, is the thing that you're complaining about, does it fall under the everything category? Okay, it does, right? Well then what you were supposed to do is that you are supposed to not complain about that. While everybody else is gossiping and talking about all the other people, while everybody else is arguing with whatever the boss said to do, where while everybody else is grumbling or disputing, you simply keep your mouth shut, and the Bible has the audacity to say that when we do everything without complaining or arguing, then we will shine like a star in a crooked and depraved generation. In other words, you will stick out so far in your company that you would be like if they took the sun and put it in the middle of your office complex. Why? Because we have a propensity to talk about people. We have a propensity to complain, we have a propensity to blame, and if you can just in those moments not, you'll just be different. You see, in Matthew, Jesus says that you and I are supposed to be salt and light. That we are supposed to take good news into dark places. One of the things that salt does is salt preserves, preserves good things. That as Christians, as believers in this world, we are so we are supposed to make this culture better. We are supposed to make our office space better simply by being there. And so this means that we should be men of high moral character. This means that we should be men. If you claim to be a Jesus follower, that we should be people of integrity. That means we do what's right no matter what. When everybody else is cutting corners, that's not what we do because it's simply not right. That means that we don't act one way on Sunday morning at church and act another way on the job site and the way we speak, and the way we treat other people, and the way we talk about our wives, and the language that we use. In fact, that word integrity comes from the word integer, which just means one. The Shema says, The Lord our God, the Lord is one, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. What that means is when you get a picture of the one and only true God, then we are to love him with our one life, that we don't have a compartmentalized life. We don't have an online life and a family life and a work life and a church life. We have one and only life, and it should be consistent. That we should be hard workers, we should always tell the truth. That's right, that we stand on honesty, that when everybody else leaves, when it gets hard, that we should persevere, that you and I should be men that are trustworthy. And when everybody else is complaining because things are not fair, it's unbelievable the sermon you can preach with your silence when everybody else is complaining or arguing. In fact, that might just be the bridge for you to tell the folks, you know what, that that my whole life does not revolve around the circumstances here at work. That I I have decided that my hope, my value, my joy is not going to be rooted in what happens in this job, but I have a higher purpose, I have a higher calling, and I have a deeper sense of joy because I have Jesus. You want to shine like a star on your team, in your field, in your office, then do everything without complaining or arguing. And it is a way that we bring God glory at work.

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