Hard Work
Series: Thank God it's Monday
Speaker: Chris Jones
Date: 30th June 2013
Passages:
00:00:00 --> 00:00:02 We live in very uncertain economic times,
00:00:02 --> 00:00:05 perhaps more uncertain than we have known for a long time.
00:00:06 --> 00:00:08 Sitting in the coffee shop this week,
00:00:08 --> 00:00:10 it's a great place to try and prepare a message
00:00:10 --> 00:00:14 and be away from some of the other clutter that impacts you.
00:00:15 --> 00:00:17 But I heard three different conversations.
00:00:19 --> 00:00:21 So be careful what you say in a coffee shop
00:00:21 --> 00:00:22 because people might be listening.
00:00:24 --> 00:00:26 One man had just been sacked
00:00:26 --> 00:00:31 and he was arguing the fairness with the person
00:00:31 --> 00:00:32 who was obviously responsible.
00:00:36 --> 00:00:40 A woman was talking about how she could rearrange her finances,
00:00:41 --> 00:00:44 how she could redraw her loan for the time being
00:00:44 --> 00:00:47 after being laid off.
00:00:49 --> 00:00:52 And she was worrying about others in her office.
00:00:52 --> 00:00:57 And another man was talking on the phone
00:00:57 --> 00:01:00 about needing to ask about a new job next week.
00:01:05 --> 00:01:08 Fear, uncertainty, anxiety.
00:01:10 --> 00:01:12 Now, Timothy Keller, you know the book,
00:01:12 --> 00:01:14 this is the book that we've been using,
00:01:14 --> 00:01:16 lying behind the series that we're just preaching
00:01:16 --> 00:01:17 and we've run out of copies at the back.
00:01:17 --> 00:01:18 We've sold them all.
00:01:18 --> 00:01:21 But he writes that just after the GFC,
00:01:22 --> 00:01:26 the global financial crisis began in 2008-2009,
00:01:28 --> 00:01:30 a columnist in the New York Times
00:01:30 --> 00:01:32 wrote about a woman who had just been laid off.
00:01:34 --> 00:01:39 She was known amongst her friends in her workplace
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00:01:43 --> 00:01:47 and she had been really generous with her money towards friends
00:01:47 --> 00:01:48 and very charitable.
00:01:52 --> 00:01:53 Her work specialty
00:01:53 --> 00:01:58 had been parceling up high-risk debt
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00:02:02 --> 00:02:04 She was doing something in her work
00:02:04 --> 00:02:06 that played a sinister role
00:02:06 --> 00:02:09 in the downfall of the world economy.
00:02:09 --> 00:02:14 She didn't think about it.
00:02:16 --> 00:02:18 She was just doing her job,
00:02:18 --> 00:02:19 ethical in her personal life,
00:02:20 --> 00:02:23 unthinking about this area of ethics in her employment.
00:02:25 --> 00:02:27 And Keller says that these things have happened
00:02:27 --> 00:02:29 because the business community
00:02:29 --> 00:02:31 had a distorted ethical compass.
00:02:33 --> 00:02:34 Their compass said
00:02:34 --> 00:02:36 that if the practice is legal
00:02:36 --> 00:02:38 and everybody is doing it,
00:02:38 --> 00:02:40 the only fundamental question is
00:02:40 --> 00:02:41 can money be made?
00:02:45 --> 00:02:46 The driving ethic?
00:02:47 --> 00:02:48 Can money be made?
00:02:48 --> 00:02:49 How do I maximise profit?
00:02:51 --> 00:02:54 And lying behind the ethic is the question,
00:02:54 --> 00:02:56 who am I responsible to?
00:02:56 --> 00:03:02 Now, I reckon most of us operate within the law.
00:03:02 --> 00:03:05 We would think of ourselves as law-abiding citizens.
00:03:05 --> 00:03:06 We don't cheat on taxes.
00:03:07 --> 00:03:09 We obey most of the road rules.
00:03:12 --> 00:03:15 I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall
00:03:15 --> 00:03:16 in the community groups this week,
00:03:16 --> 00:03:17 those that met,
00:03:17 --> 00:03:19 because I think the first discussion question
00:03:19 --> 00:03:21 was the statement,
00:03:21 --> 00:03:24 if it's legal, it is right.
00:03:24 --> 00:03:25 Discuss.
00:03:26 --> 00:03:28 If it's legal, it is right.
00:03:28 --> 00:03:28 Discuss.
00:03:28 --> 00:03:30 Did anybody go to town on that one?
00:03:32 --> 00:03:32 No, Lynn?
00:03:35 --> 00:03:36 You did?
00:03:36 --> 00:03:37 What was the answer?
00:03:38 --> 00:03:43 Just because it's done doesn't mean it's right.
00:03:43 --> 00:03:44 Did anybody come up with a different answer?
00:03:46 --> 00:03:47 Well, that's good.
00:03:50 --> 00:03:52 Because the law permits a lot of things
00:03:52 --> 00:03:53 that clash with the view of life
00:03:53 --> 00:03:55 driven by the lordship of Jesus Christ.
00:03:56 --> 00:04:00 You can legally drive at the speed limit in wet weather,
00:04:01 --> 00:04:02 but it might not be safe.
00:04:05 --> 00:04:07 You can visit a brothel
00:04:07 --> 00:04:08 or you can work in a brothel
00:04:08 --> 00:04:09 and it's legal.
00:04:09 --> 00:04:14 A future day may come
00:04:14 --> 00:04:17 when you can legally marry a person of the same gender.
00:04:19 --> 00:04:22 At the Nuremberg trials of former Nazis
00:04:22 --> 00:04:23 after the Second World War,
00:04:24 --> 00:04:25 defendants continually stepped forward
00:04:25 --> 00:04:26 and they said,
00:04:27 --> 00:04:29 I was only following orders.
00:04:30 --> 00:04:31 It's another way of saying
00:04:31 --> 00:04:32 I was following my leaders,
00:04:33 --> 00:04:35 I was being faithful to my leaders' instructions.
00:04:35 --> 00:04:42 See, it doesn't matter how good a person you think you are,
00:04:43 --> 00:04:48 life with Christ is going to bring you into conflict with the world.
00:04:48 --> 00:04:51 And that means in our life's vocations.
00:04:53 --> 00:04:54 Throughout this series,
00:04:54 --> 00:04:56 we have said that we live in a fallen world,
00:04:57 --> 00:04:59 that we've said that work in a fallen world
00:04:59 --> 00:05:02 is distorted from God's good creation purposes.
00:05:02 --> 00:05:06 We have difficulties in our workplaces,
00:05:06 --> 00:05:08 we have difficulties in our families,
00:05:09 --> 00:05:13 we have difficulties in our schools and our universities.
00:05:14 --> 00:05:18 And sometimes those difficulties are a direct consequence
00:05:18 --> 00:05:20 of who we are in Christ and what we believe.
00:05:22 --> 00:05:25 Godly parents say no to children sometimes.
00:05:26 --> 00:05:29 Godly employees will not sign off on everything
00:05:29 --> 00:05:30 that they are asked to.
00:05:30 --> 00:05:34 Jesus said,
00:05:34 --> 00:05:35 John 15,
00:05:35 --> 00:05:36 If the world hates you,
00:05:36 --> 00:05:38 keep in mind that it hated me first.
00:05:40 --> 00:05:41 If you belong to the world,
00:05:42 --> 00:05:43 it would love you as its own.
00:05:44 --> 00:05:45 As it is,
00:05:45 --> 00:05:47 you do not belong to the world,
00:05:47 --> 00:05:49 but I have chosen you out of the world
00:05:49 --> 00:05:51 and that is why the world hates you.
00:05:56 --> 00:05:57 Faith in Jesus Christ
00:05:57 --> 00:06:00 brings us to a very distinctive view of the world.
00:06:00 --> 00:06:01 It brings trouble.
00:06:02 --> 00:06:03 It brings joy.
00:06:04 --> 00:06:07 And sometimes they both come at the same time.
00:06:08 --> 00:06:11 Last week I think I said that the earth is the Lord's
00:06:11 --> 00:06:12 and everything in it,
00:06:12 --> 00:06:13 all people,
00:06:13 --> 00:06:15 live under the ordinary grace of God
00:06:15 --> 00:06:17 whether they believe in God or not.
00:06:19 --> 00:06:21 And it's really liberating
00:06:21 --> 00:06:22 because it sets us free
00:06:22 --> 00:06:25 to be appreciative of the skills
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00:06:26 --> 00:06:27 and the graces
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00:06:30 --> 00:06:34 because ultimately their abilities
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00:06:35 --> 00:06:38 even if they do not acknowledge him.
00:06:40 --> 00:06:42 And it also sets us free
00:06:42 --> 00:06:44 because free from feeling like
00:06:44 --> 00:06:46 we have to excel at everything.
00:06:46 --> 00:06:51 It's absolutely ridiculous
00:06:51 --> 00:06:53 to expect our children
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00:06:59 --> 00:07:01 We are to be the people
00:07:01 --> 00:07:02 that God wants us to be
00:07:02 --> 00:07:04 in the place where God has put us
00:07:04 --> 00:07:06 and imperfect as I am,
00:07:07 --> 00:07:10 I will continue to try to be
00:07:10 --> 00:07:11 the man who loves my wife
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00:07:12 --> 00:07:15 better than any other man on the planet.
00:07:15 --> 00:07:16 I can be distinctive
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00:07:17 --> 00:07:18 in the place
00:07:18 --> 00:07:19 where God has put me.
00:07:22 --> 00:07:23 They know the first bit,
00:07:24 --> 00:07:25 imperfect as I am.
00:07:26 --> 00:07:27 Just thought I'd better put that in.
00:07:34 --> 00:07:35 Faith in Jesus Christ
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00:07:36 --> 00:07:37 a very distinctive work ethic.
00:07:39 --> 00:07:40 Whether we are in paid
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00:07:41 --> 00:07:42 or whether our vocation
00:07:42 --> 00:07:43 is nurturing a family
00:07:43 --> 00:07:44 or going to school,
00:07:44 --> 00:07:45 being at uni,
00:07:45 --> 00:07:45 working hard,
00:07:45 --> 00:07:46 whatever it is there,
00:07:47 --> 00:07:48 the ethical view
00:07:48 --> 00:07:49 that we should drive us
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00:07:50 --> 00:07:51 of Jesus himself.
00:07:52 --> 00:07:53 When he was asked
00:07:53 --> 00:07:54 what the greatest commandment
00:07:54 --> 00:07:55 in the Bible was,
00:07:55 --> 00:07:56 he gave two.
00:07:56 --> 00:07:57 Matthew 22.
00:07:58 --> 00:07:59 Jesus said,
00:07:59 --> 00:08:00 Love the Lord your God
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00:08:01 --> 00:08:02 and with all your soul
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00:08:05 --> 00:08:06 This is the first
00:08:06 --> 00:08:07 and greatest commandment.
00:08:08 --> 00:08:10 And the second is like it,
00:08:10 --> 00:08:11 you shall love
00:08:11 --> 00:08:12 your neighbour as yourself.
00:08:12 --> 00:08:14 all the law
00:08:14 --> 00:08:14 and the prophets,
00:08:14 --> 00:08:15 all the scriptures
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00:08:22 --> 00:08:24 And those commandments
00:08:24 --> 00:08:25 say that relationships
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00:08:26 --> 00:08:28 of Christian living.
00:08:31 --> 00:08:31 Keller's book
00:08:31 --> 00:08:32 tells the story
00:08:32 --> 00:08:33 of a woman
00:08:33 --> 00:08:35 who left a highly paid job
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00:08:37 --> 00:08:38 She co-wrote this book.
00:08:38 --> 00:08:41 And she was going on one day
00:08:41 --> 00:08:42 about all her contacts
00:08:42 --> 00:08:43 and what she was going to do
00:08:43 --> 00:08:44 and the pastor
00:08:44 --> 00:08:45 very gently said,
00:08:46 --> 00:08:48 In this business,
00:08:48 --> 00:08:50 we call them people.
00:08:57 --> 00:08:59 So we're not bums on seats
00:08:59 --> 00:09:02 or consumers of products
00:09:02 --> 00:09:05 or resources to be redeployed
00:09:05 --> 00:09:07 or assets to be let go of.
00:09:09 --> 00:09:10 In God's sight,
00:09:11 --> 00:09:11 we are people.
00:09:14 --> 00:09:15 And the creator,
00:09:15 --> 00:09:16 God of the universe,
00:09:16 --> 00:09:17 loves us enough
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00:09:19 --> 00:09:20 with himself
00:09:20 --> 00:09:22 and his love for us
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00:09:23 --> 00:09:24 one another.
00:09:27 --> 00:09:28 So in 1 John chapter 4,
00:09:28 --> 00:09:29 this is love,
00:09:29 --> 00:09:30 not that we love God,
00:09:30 --> 00:09:33 but that he loved us
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00:09:38 --> 00:09:38 Dear friends,
00:09:38 --> 00:09:40 since God so loved us,
00:09:40 --> 00:09:41 we ought to love one another.
00:09:44 --> 00:09:45 God's love is
00:09:45 --> 00:09:47 other person-centred,
00:09:47 --> 00:09:48 sacrificial love.
00:09:50 --> 00:09:50 In love,
00:09:50 --> 00:09:52 Christ gives of himself
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00:09:54 --> 00:09:55 We are called
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00:10:00 --> 00:10:01 The word ministry
00:10:01 --> 00:10:03 means service.
00:10:05 --> 00:10:06 It's about giving
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00:10:11 --> 00:10:13 It's about asking questions
00:10:13 --> 00:10:13 like,
00:10:13 --> 00:10:14 what does it mean
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00:10:15 --> 00:10:16 in the best interests
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00:10:21 --> 00:10:23 It's part of what it means
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00:10:24 --> 00:10:25 Keller quotes
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00:10:27 --> 00:10:28 on Proverbs
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00:10:30 --> 00:10:31 that the very definition
00:10:31 --> 00:10:33 of a righteous people
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00:10:35 --> 00:10:37 disadvantage themselves
00:10:37 --> 00:10:39 to advantage others.
00:10:41 --> 00:10:42 The wicked
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00:10:50 --> 00:10:54 front pages
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00:10:57 --> 00:10:58 Senior New South Wales
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00:11:04 --> 00:11:05 Their guilt
00:11:05 --> 00:11:07 is yet to be determined
00:11:07 --> 00:11:09 but one thing
00:11:09 --> 00:11:10 is really clear.
00:11:10 --> 00:11:11 They have been
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00:11:13 --> 00:11:14 themselves.
00:11:14 --> 00:11:20 And in Isaiah 58
00:11:20 --> 00:11:21 God confronts us
00:11:21 --> 00:11:22 his people
00:11:22 --> 00:11:23 over similar issues.
00:11:24 --> 00:11:25 Verse 2
00:11:25 --> 00:11:26 Day after day
00:11:26 --> 00:11:27 they seek me out
00:11:27 --> 00:11:29 they seem
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00:11:32 --> 00:11:33 they were a nation
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00:11:39 --> 00:11:40 They ask me
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00:11:41 --> 00:11:42 and they seem
00:11:42 --> 00:11:43 eager for God
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00:11:48 --> 00:11:49 Why have we
00:11:49 --> 00:11:49 fasted
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00:11:50 --> 00:11:51 seen it?
00:11:52 --> 00:11:53 Why have we
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00:11:55 --> 00:11:55 not even
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00:11:58 --> 00:11:58 And yet
00:11:58 --> 00:11:59 on the day
00:11:59 --> 00:12:00 of your fasting
00:12:00 --> 00:12:00 you do as you
00:12:00 --> 00:12:01 please
00:12:01 --> 00:12:01 and you exploit
00:12:01 --> 00:12:02 all your workers.
00:12:04 --> 00:12:05 God's people
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00:12:06 --> 00:12:06 they're doing
00:12:06 --> 00:12:07 their Bible studies
00:12:07 --> 00:12:08 they say that
00:12:08 --> 00:12:08 they're eager
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00:12:12 --> 00:12:12 time they're
00:12:12 --> 00:12:13 exploiting their
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00:12:13 --> 00:12:14 they might have
00:12:14 --> 00:12:15 the law on their
00:12:15 --> 00:12:16 side but they
00:12:16 --> 00:12:17 don't have God's
00:12:17 --> 00:12:17 law they're
00:12:17 --> 00:12:18 looking after
00:12:18 --> 00:12:18 themselves.
00:12:22 --> 00:12:23 And then in 6
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00:12:23 --> 00:12:25 Is not this
00:12:25 --> 00:12:25 the kind of
00:12:25 --> 00:12:26 fasting I have
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00:12:27 --> 00:12:28 To loose
00:12:28 --> 00:12:29 the chains
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00:12:31 --> 00:12:31 the cords
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00:12:34 --> 00:12:35 break every
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00:12:36 --> 00:12:37 Is it not
00:12:37 --> 00:12:37 to share
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00:12:42 --> 00:12:43 see the naked
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00:12:50 --> 00:12:50 See instead
00:12:50 --> 00:12:50 of looking
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00:12:51 --> 00:12:52 they're exhorted
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00:12:59 --> 00:13:00 they're a bunch
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00:13:01 --> 00:13:03 I lived in
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00:13:05 --> 00:13:06 really easy
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00:13:07 --> 00:13:08 evangelistic events
00:13:08 --> 00:13:09 can you believe
00:13:09 --> 00:13:09 that?
00:13:09 --> 00:13:10 It was
00:13:10 --> 00:13:11 really easy
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00:13:12 --> 00:13:13 them to
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00:13:14 --> 00:13:15 You know
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00:13:15 --> 00:13:16 worked?
00:13:16 --> 00:13:17 Because there
00:13:17 --> 00:13:17 were some
00:13:17 --> 00:13:18 wonderful
00:13:18 --> 00:13:19 Christian bosses
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00:13:19 --> 00:13:21 Some of the
00:13:21 --> 00:13:22 farm owners
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00:13:22 --> 00:13:23 workers to
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00:13:24 --> 00:13:24 that's what
00:13:24 --> 00:13:24 they did
00:13:24 --> 00:13:26 and the
00:13:26 --> 00:13:27 workers came
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00:13:28 --> 00:13:29 to the boss
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00:13:47 --> 00:13:47 workers knew
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