4D LABOR

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="048085a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>FOUR  DIMENSION LIVING Plus ~ The Web Site For Insight         </B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FOUR DIMENSION LIVING Plus The Web Sit"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What is 4 Dimensional Living?"><U>What is 4 Dimensional Living?</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="OBJECTIVE REASONING"><U>OBJECTIVE REASONING</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="OBJECTIVE PARENTING"><U>OBJECTIVE PARENTING</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="OBJECTIVE WORSHIP"><U>OBJECTIVE WORSHIP</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FRANS PAGE"><U>FRAN'S PAGE</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="How To Understand The Bible"><U>How To Understand The Bible</U></A>   |   <B>4D LABOR</B>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Counseling in 4D"><U>Counseling in 4D</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U>Contact Us</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="049d2e83.jpg"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Most Christians</div> <div> think  God  wants  to give  them a job. Rather, He wants to give rest, companionship, love, joy, peace; simply learning what He is doing!</div> <div> Jesus said to Martha,</div> <div> "Martha, Martha, you are careful and troubled about many things; but one thing is needful; and Mary has chosen that good part which shall not be taken from her." - Luke 10:41,42</div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="04a07073.jpg"> <div> <I>4D LABOR</I></div> <div> First Comes Rest, then Labor! This statement seems contradictory to our common three dimensional view of work. We think of resting after we labor. Yet Sunday precedes the new "work week."  Before starting a new job or difficult task most of us like to get "a good night’s rest." Furthermore, as babes in arms we started our journey in this world carefree!</div> <bR> <div> <U>TWO CALLS</U></div> <bR> <div> Two calls have been extended to every soul born into this world. They are calls given by Jesus Christ himself to every human being regardless who or where the person may be.</div> <bR> <div> The first is a call to rest from our works:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.</div> <div> - Matthew 11:28</div> <bR> <div> The second is a call to rest in Christ’s work:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Take my yoke upon you and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart,</div> <div> and you shall find rest unto your souls. - Matthew 11:29</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <U>TWO CURSES</U></div> <bR> <div> Adam, by his transgression, subjected us all to hard labor.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Cursed is the ground for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life....In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground.  - Genesis 3:17b, 19a</div> <bR> <div>   Note the ground, not Adam, received the curse.</div> <bR> <div> It was Jesus Christ, the Second Adam, who came to provide for us eternal rest:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> For we who have believed do enter into rest.  -Hebrews 4:3a</div> <bR> <div> But note again the Lord Jesus Christ became accursed for you and me because we have all sinned and broken God's commandments:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law,</div> <div> having been made a curse for us; for it is written [in Deuteronomy 21:23],</div> <div> "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree."  -Galatians 3:13</div> <bR> <div> Is not his the reason people use that beautiful name in profanity as they do no other?</div> <bR> <div> <U>MANY CURES</U></div> <bR> <div> When we become a true believer in Jesus Christ, our entire perspective is changed. A job should no longer be a drudgery. The point is, we no longer work for our employer; we work for Christ to our employer’s benefit:</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Servants, be obedient to them who are your masters according to the flesh...</div> <div> with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not to men. - Ephesians 6:5,7</div> <bR> <div> And whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus,</div> <div> giving thanks to God and the Father by him. - Colossians 3:17</div> <bR> <div> Someone has put it tersely:</div> <bR> <div> I will not work my soul to save, for that my Lord has done;</div> <div> But I will work like any slave for love of his dear Son!</div> <bR> <div> There is much more that can be said on this subject, of course. But I trust this supplements the idea of the transformation that takes place in the human heart and life when Jesus Christ the Son of God enters one's being, for it is</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Not by works of righteousness which we have done,</div> <div> but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration</div> <div> and renewing of the Holy Spirit. - Titus 3:5</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Next Page: </FONT><A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Counseling in 4D"><U>Counseling</U></A> in 4D</div> <div> Clyde W. Brogan. Publication Rights Reserved (See Home Page <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >Footnote</FONT>)</div> </td> </tr></table></body>