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Taking Care of Business
Part 3: Going Public
Matthew 5:13-16 \\ \\
Sunday October 19, 2008
Work – a 4 letter word?
Passion?
Something to put up with?
Week 1: We: *where* we work; *what* we do; *how much* we are paid.
God: *how* we do our work.
Week 2: the “who” not the “what” when it comes to authority.
One more “work” story – you think YOU have a tough job?
Heard a story this week about a man who was looking for work without any luck for many weeks.
So he decided to take a break and visit the zoo.
While he was at the zoo, he asked the zookeeper if they had any openings.
The zookeeper motioned the man over to a tree and whispered, "Our gorilla just died last night, and we’re expecting a group of children to come this afternoon.
They will be very disappointed if they don’t get to see a gorilla.
If you’re willing to get into a gorilla outfit and just swing around in the cage, I’ll pay you $10 an hour."
The man thought about the children, and he thought about the money, and then he said, "yes."
So he got into the gorilla suit and entered the gorilla cage.
Just then, the children began to file by.
The man decided he was going to give the children a show by swinging on a tire.
He swung so high, that he landed into the next cage, the lion’s cage.
Immediately the man in the gorilla suit began to scream and rattle the cage.
The children also began to scream as the lion slowly approached the gorilla.
When the man in the gorilla suit thought all was hopeless, the lion said, "Mister, you better shut up before we both lose our jobs."
We think sometimes that our relationship with God is supposed to be “personal and private” just between me and God.
I’ll go to church on Sunday, pray, read my Bible – but on the job, I’ll kind of keep everything between me and God.
Quiet.
Maybe that comes from a good place – I don’t want to offend others.
Perhaps we believe that there is a “wall” that divides our life.
At church, we talk about God, at work we don’t.
At home, we may, but work is work – church is church and we’ve got to keep the 2 separate.
But, it is part of our personality to share with others what we are excited about!
A new restaurant, a new cosmetic, golf course, TV show – we want to tell others!
2 reasons why a “wall between my job and my faith” doesn’t work:
1.
If following Jesus was a religion, I would agree.
No one goes to work to be harassed by someone else’s religion.
But following Jesus isn’t a religion but a relationship!
“and praise your */Father/* in heaven.”
:16
A relationship is the same no matter what the setting.
Try this: “Honey, at home and at church we are married – but at work, I am single.
I will take off my ring and leave it in the car, I won’t put any family pictures up on my desk; I know you’ll understand.”
“While you are hiding your ring in the car, why don’t you just sleep in it too?”
A relationship doesn’t change with geography!
2.
People will spend eternity somewhere!
If everyone went to Heaven, I would agree.
We can all just believe what we want, do what we want, and there are no consequences.
It’s all OK; all roads lead to heaven just like all phone #’s ring at your house.
That isn’t true?
Of course not!
You have to dial 675-5141 to ring my house, not all #’s lead there, not all roads lead to Seattle!
But the people you work with have an eternal destiny!
Everyone will spend eternity somewhere!
God has you where he does for a reason, a purpose, a destiny!
It is not all about you, but for you to be a light to those around you.
In the Old Testament, God wanted Israel to be a light to the rest of the world.
He wanted people to see that Israel was different, that they had a special relationship with God.
When they saw that they would say “I want that too!”
Is.
42:6; 49:6 “a light for the Gentiles” a “delivery boy” for salvation to the world.
They didn’t do that, they got off track, by the time Jesus came they were just wanting to “hold on” and play defense.
“You are the salt of the earth.
But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?
It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.
14 “You are the light of the world.
A city on a hill cannot be hidden.
15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl.
Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.
16 In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”
*Mt.
5:13-16*
Jesus came and gave that responsibility to his followers.
“You are the light of the world!”
Where is light needed?
In dark places!
Is your job dark?
You aren’t called to be the light to the church!
In your world, on your job.
I know that it is dark – that is why YOU are there!
We don’t need a light to shine in the church!
It is plenty bright in here.
One of the reasons to come to church is to get your battery recharged so you can go out into the dark world and shine.
“a city set on a hill cannot be hidden”.
As travelers, they knew that they did not want to be outside of the city walls after dark.
Bandits, no safe place to be – as they traveled, they knew that they had to make it to the next city, they could see it on the next hill – before the lights would come on.
“Whose fault is it?
Let me put it like this: if the house is dark, there is no sense blaming the house.
That’s what happens when the sun goes down.
The question to ask is: “Where is the light?”
\\ If the meat goes bad, there is no sense blaming the meat.
That is what happens when bacteria are allowed to breed unchecked.
The question is: “Where is the salt?”
If society becomes corrupt like a dark night or a stinking fish, there’s no sense blaming society.
That’s what happens when fallen human society is left to itself and human evil is unrestrained and unchecked.
The question to ask is: “Where is the church?”
John Stott
New perspective: I am where I am for a reason; it is not an accident.
God has placed me here for my light to shine, for others to see my light and to look to my Father.
You ARE the light of your office, your place of work.
Over time, we turn inward.
We don’t mean to or do it intentionally.
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