7 31 22 Matters Of Life & Death Outline

Excelling More In Life: Hard Work & Love     

1 Thessalonians 4:9-12 (NASB)
⁹  Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;
¹⁰  for indeed you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more,
¹¹  and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,
¹²  so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.

1. Responsibility Of Work

1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 (NASB)

Genesis 1, 2, & 3 (NASB)

2. Rules Of Work

1 Thessalonians 4:11 (NASB)

2 Thessalonians 3:10-13 (NASB)
¹⁰  For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.
¹¹  For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies.
¹²  Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread.
¹³  But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary of doing good.

3. Reward Of Work

1 Thessalonians 4:12 (NASB)

Ephesians 4:28 (NASB)
²⁸  He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need.