I. EXORDIUM:
Will you just return to the dust just like that?
No. I will make sure I will have sweat, toil and labor to work for the Kingdom of GOD before I go.
1 Corinthians 15:58 (Amplified Bible)
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be firm (steadfast), immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord [always being superior, excelling, doing more than enough in the service of the Lord], knowing and being continually aware that your labor in the Lord is not futile [it is never wasted or to no purpose].
II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:
Believers/unbelievers
III. OBJECTIVES:
To show that urgency of death is inevitable to everyone, and that we still have time to evangelize.
IV. TEXT:
Genesis 3:19 (Amplified Bible)
In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.
V. THESIS:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You made me firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, doing more than enough in the service of the LORD, knowing continually that my labor in the LORD is not in futile or in vaint.
VI. TITLE:
Sweat of our face and return to the ground
VII. EXPLICATION:
A. Author: Moses
B. Date written: 1450 - 1410 B.C.
C. Purpose: Book of Origins
D. To whom written: People of Israel
E. Main theme: Man's sin and initial steps for his redemption initiated by GOD.
F. Keyword: Beginning
G. Key verse: First Messianic Promise -
Genesis 3:15 (Amplified Bible)
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her Offspring; He will bruise and tread your head underfoot, and you will lie in wait and bruise His heel.
VIII. MAIN BODY:
Genesis 3:19 (Amplified Bible)
In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.
Genesis 3:19 (New King James Version)
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."
A. In the sweat of our face shall we eat food
"In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread"
Ecclesiastes 1:3 (Amplified Bible)
What profit does man have left from all his toil at which he toils under the sun? [Is life worth living?]
Ecclesiastes 1:13 (Amplified Bible)
And I applied myself by heart and mind to seek and search out by [human] wisdom all human activity under heaven. It is a miserable business which God has given to the sons of man with which to busy themselves.
2 Thessalonians 3:10 (Amplified Bible)
For while we were yet with you, we gave you this rule and charge: If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.
1 Thessalonians 2:9 (Amplified Bible)
For you recall our hard toil and struggles, brethren. We worked night and day [and plied our trade] in order not to be a burden to any of you [for our support] while we proclaimed the glad tidings (the Gospel) of God to you.
Sweat or "zeah" in the the Hebrew language meaning: "perspiration" meaning that all work on this earth are not easy, you will somehow sweat before you accomplish your goals in life. In this life, we have the LORD JESUS residing in us, that's why we are strengthen, and unlike the unbelievers, we are working to please the LORD GOD in every way, and we are quickly promoted compared to unbelievers because we wait upon Him.
Colossians 3:17 (Amplified Bible)
And whatever you do [no matter what it is] in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and in [dependence upon] His Person, giving praise to God the Father through Him.
Colossians 3:23 (Amplified Bible)
Whatever may be your task, work at it heartily (from the soul), as [something done] for the Lord and not for men,
1 Corinthians 10:31 (Amplified Bible)
So then, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you may do, do all for the honor and glory of God.
Isaiah 40:31 (Amplified Bible)
But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired.
And we are greatly comforted from this perspiration.
Psalms 71:21 (Amplified Bible)
Increase my greatness (my honor) and turn and comfort me.
Psalms 32:10 (Amplified Bible)
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but he who trusts in, relies on, and confidently leans on the Lord shall be compassed about with mercy and with loving-kindness.
2 Corinthians 1:4-5 (Amplified Bible)
Who comforts (consoles and encourages) us in every trouble (calamity and affliction), so that we may also be able to comfort (console and encourage) those who are in any kind of trouble or distress, with the comfort (consolation and encouragement) with which we ourselves are comforted (consoled and encouraged) by God.
For just as Christ’s [own] sufferings fall to our lot [as they overflow upon His disciples, and we share and experience them] abundantly, so through Christ comfort (consolation and encouragement) is also [shared and experienced] abundantly by us.
2 Corinthians 2:14 (Amplified Bible)
But thanks be to God, Who in Christ always leads us in triumph [as trophies of Christ’s victory] and through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere,
1 Thessalonians 3:9 (Amplified Bible)
For what [adequate] thanksgiving can we render to God for you for all the gladness and delight which we enjoy for your sakes before our God?
2 Corinthians 7:6 (Amplified Bible)
But God, Who comforts and encourages and refreshes and cheers the depressed and the sinking, comforted and encouraged and refreshed and cheered us by the arrival of Titus.
2 Corinthians 7:13 (Amplified Bible)
Therefore we are relieved and comforted and encouraged [at the result]. And in addition to our own [personal] consolation, we were especially delighted at the joy of Titus, because you have all set his mind at rest, soothing and refreshing his spirit.
B. For out of the ground we were taken, and we will return to the ground when we die.
"until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return"
Ecclesiastes 3:20 (Amplified Bible)
All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 (Amplified Bible)
Then shall the dust [out of which God made man’s body] return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God Who gave it.
Daniel 12:2 (Amplified Bible)
And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake: some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt and abhorrence.
John 5:29 (Amplified Bible)
And they shall come out—those who have practiced doing good [will come out] to the resurrection of [new] life, and those who have done evil will be raised for judgment [raised to meet their sentence].
1 Corinthians 15:21-22 (Amplified Bible)
For since [it was] through a man that death [came into the world, it is] also through a Man that the resurrection of the dead [has come].
For just as [because of their union of nature] in Adam all people die, so also [by virtue of their union of nature] shall all in Christ be made alive.
IX. CONCLUSION:
Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You made me firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the LORD, doing more than enough in the service of the LORD, knowing continually that my labor in the LORD is not in futile or in vaint.
