What was your first job?
The Lord God took the
man and put him in the
Garden of Eden to work it
and take care of it.
Genesis 2:15 - NIV
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in
our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the
sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all
the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move
along the ground.”
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:26-27 - NIV
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all
their vast array.
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had
been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all
his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made
it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of
creating that he had done.
Genesis 2:1-3 - NIV
The Lord God took the
man and put him in the
Garden of Eden to work it
and take care of it.
Genesis 2:15 - NIV
NKJV: …to dress it and to keep it.
AMP: …to cultivate and keep it.
ESV: …to work it and keep it.
MSG: …to work the ground and keep it in order.
Genesis 2:15 - NIV
abad (pronounced: ‘A - VAD’ )
TO WORK, SERVE
1
to labour, work, do work
2
to work for another, serve another by labour
3
to serve as subjects
4
to serve (God)
5
to serve (with Levitical service)
to be worked, be tilled (of land)
to make oneself a servant
to be worked
Whatever your hand
finds to do, do it with
your might
Ecclesiastes 9:10- NIV
. . .obey in everything those who are your
earthly masters, not by way of eye-service,
as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of
heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do,
work heartily, as for the Lord and not for
men, knowing that from the Lord you will
receive the inheritance as your reward. You
are serving the Lord Christ
Colossians 3:22-24