DAILY TRUTH - The Effects Of The Curse
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The curse is not that hard work pays off less. The curse is that work and hard work pay off less, that is a vexation to our work, there is a frustration to our efforts, that our work is not as fruitful as it otherwise would have been if sin had never entered the world.
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but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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i think it's also worth mentioning that not only is work not a result of the curse but we could
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also say that that difficult work or hard work is also not a result of the curse when we're careful
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and we look at genesis chapter 3 as we will in the coming weeks and we see the curse that god
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prescribed even to the ground, to the earth itself, the curse is that the earth would work
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against our work. There would be a sense of opposition. Now, that doesn't mean that work
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is good, which it is, and that hard work is the result of the curse. No, it means that hard work
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paying off less, hard work producing less, that's the result of the curse. See, to be in an
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environment, to be in a vocation, if you will, where you're very gifted, and perhaps for whatever
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reason, the variables are just lining up to where there's just not a lot of opposition. There's not
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a lot of hindrances in that field, or at least at that time, as it pertains to you. That means
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there's not, your work is not working against you. And so what's the result of that? The result
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is that you don't have to work very hard. No, the result is you can work really hard and your hard
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work will really pay off. I think of prodigies. Think of Mozart. The fact that he was a prodigy
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and that in many ways music came naturally and easy for him doesn't mean we shouldn't look to
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someone like that and say Mozart never worked hard a day in his life. What we would say is Mozart
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worked just as hard, if not even harder, than other people in the field of music, but his work
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paid off immensely more. You see? So Adam was called by God to work, and he was called by God
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to work hard. The curse is not work. The curse is not hard work. The curse is that work and hard
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work pay off less. There's a vexation to our work. There is a frustration to our work. That our work
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is not as fruitful as it otherwise would have been if sin had never entered the world.
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