{"id":6345,"date":"2023-09-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6345"},"modified":"2023-09-03T15:01:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T21:01:30","slug":"its-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6345","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Labor Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-11.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-11.png?resize=474%2C314&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-11.png?w=999&amp;ssl=1 999w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-11.png?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-11.png?resize=768%2C508&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-11.png?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6318\" target=\"_blank\">pastor<\/a>&nbsp;asked me to preach yesterday, and I opened the way I usually do on&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=5018\" target=\"_blank\">Labor Day<\/a>, talking about the importance of work. I told them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You serve God <strong><em>by <\/em><\/strong>your work. Your work is a continuation of God\u2019s work in the world.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You serve people <strong><em>at <\/em><\/strong>your work: your clients and co-workers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you do #1 and #2 well, you can advance the Kingdom <strong><em>from <\/em><\/strong>your work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I flipped the script. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. (Genesis 2.1 &#8211; 3, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Six days you shall labor, and do all your work&#8230; (Exodus 20.9, ESV. <\/em>Also Exodus 23.12, 31.15, 34.21, 35.2, Leviticus 23.3, Deuteronomy 5.13<em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our&nbsp;pastor&nbsp;asked me to preach yesterday, and I opened the way I usually do on&nbsp;Labor Day, talking about the importance of work. I told them: Then I flipped the script. Stay tuned. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s Labor Day!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1El","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6426,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345\/revisions\/6426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}