DAILY TRUTH - The Effects Of The Curse clarifies that the Genesis 3 curse isn't hard work itself, but the earth's resistance to human labor reducing fruitfulness. While Mozart exemplifies how natural gifts amplify effort, the host argues sin inherently limits payoff despite diligence. Listeners are urged to support this biblically faithful content with five-star reviews. Ultimately, the episode reframes the biblical narrative to emphasize divine opposition in a fallen world rather than condemning labor. [Automatically generated summary]
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Hard Work Is A Curse00:03:27
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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 also say that difficult work or hard work.
Is also not a result of the curse.
When we're careful and we look at Genesis chapter 3, as we will in the coming weeks, and we see the curse that God prescribed even to the ground, to the earth itself, the curse is that the earth would work against our work.
There would be a sense of opposition.
Now, that doesn't mean that work is good, which it is, and that hard work is the result of the curse.
No, it means that hard work is good.
Paying off less, hard work producing less, that's the result of the curse.
See, to be in an environment, to be in a vocation, if you will, where you're very gifted, and perhaps for whatever reason, the variables are just lining up to where there's just not a lot of opposition, there's not a lot of hindrances in that field, or at least at that time as it pertains to you.
That means there's not, your work is not working against you.
And so, what's the result of that?
The result is that you don't have to work very hard.
No, the result is you can work really hard and your hard work will really pay off.
I think of prodigies.
Think of Mozart.
The fact that he was a prodigy and that in many ways music came naturally and easy for him doesn't mean we shouldn't look to someone like that and say Mozart never worked hard a day in his life.
What we would say is Mozart worked just as hard, if not even harder, than other people in the field of music.
Music, but his work paid off immensely more.
You see?
So Adam was called by God to work, and he was called by God to work hard.
The curse is not work, the curse is not hard work, the curse is that work and hard work pay off less.
That there's a vexation to our work, there's a frustration to our work, that our work is not as fruitful as it otherwise would have been if sin had never entered.
The world.
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