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  WORKERS USED OF GOD
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: God works in and through His people to accomplish His purposes,
and He intends for His people to be productive and work according to His
will.

Topics: "Human Responsibility", "Divine Work"
Scripture References: Genesis 2:15, Proverbs 6:11, John 5:17, Philippians 2:13

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A.W. Tozer emphasizes that while God works through His people, it is
ultimately God who accomplishes His work. He references Jesus'
declaration of continuous work alongside the Father and Paul's
affirmation of God's active role in believers' lives. Tozer clarifies
that this does not negate the necessity of human effort, as the Bible
illustrates God's intention for His people to engage in work, starting
from Adam in the Garden of Eden to Jesus' choice of active disciples. He
warns against laziness, highlighting the consequences of idleness as
noted in Proverbs.

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In a close and final sense no one can do God's work. Nor does He turn
His work over to others to do. He works in His people and through them,
but always it is He who works.

Jesus said, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I,
too, am working" (John 5:17); and Paul said, "It is God who works in you
to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

This is not to teach that men should not work. One has but to run his
eyes over the pages of the Bible casually to become convinced that God
intends His people to work. He put the man in the Garden of Eden "to
work it and take care of it" (Genesis 2:15). Our Lord was a carpenter
and He chose active men for His first disciples. The book of Proverbs
has some scathing things to say about the sluggard who loafs away his
days in careless indolence only to have poverty come upon him at last
like an armed man (Proverbs 6:11).

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/aw-tozer/workers-used-of-god/
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