As workers, don’t pursue wealth - live out the wealth you already possess.

• When you’re excellent in what you do, profit will chase you down.

• All you have to do is your thing, and do it well. Then let God do His thing.

• Backstory:

• In the first 3 chaps of Ephesians Paul talks about the wealth each of us have in Christ.

• We were saved by grace, reconciled to God, joined into a new body called “church,” and now we have victory over Satan, sin, and death.

• Now, in light of that wealth, we need to “walk it out!”

• Def:

• Riches - the abundance of a valuable possession.

• Profit - anything that leads to life.

• Wealth - the constant flow of both.

• Vs 1- walk in a way that’s suitable to your high rank, especially toward those who try your patience.

• The workplace is the context for discipleship and evangelism - the place where people press your buttons!

• So how do we walk it out?

• Vs 2:

• Be humble - focus on the spiritual wealth you already have, not the financial wealth you want.

• Be gentle - like a surgeon, you’re in the problem-solving business.

• Be patient - patients always wait on doctors - let God do His thing, wait on Him.

• Be accepting - accept people for who they are - “you are who you are, and that’s ok with me!”

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