For the final night of Summer in the City, Grant Partrick comes to speak on the idol of Hustle. After spending the summer identifying and uncovering idols in our lives, Grant presses into the importance of identifying the root of most of our idols: self-exaltation. While work is a good and godly thing, he warns us about the danger of working hard for self-ambition rather than godly ambition.
Scripture References
8.Their land is full of idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their fingers have made.
4.“ ‘Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God.
1.“ ‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.
18.“Of what value is an idol carved by a craftsman?
Or an image that teaches lies?
For the one who makes it trusts in his own creation;
he makes idols that cannot speak.
15.The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
The Fall
1.Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2.The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3.but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”
4.“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5.“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6.When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7.Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
8.Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9.But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10.He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
11.And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12.The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
13.Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14.So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
and you will eat dust
all the days of your life.
15.And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring3:15 Or seed and hers;
he will crush3:15 Or strike your head,
and you will strike his heel.”
16.To the woman he said,
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
17.To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’
“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
18.It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
19.By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”
20.Adam3:20 Or The man named his wife Eve,3:20 Eve probably means living. because she would become the mother of all the living.
21.The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. 22.And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.” 23.So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24.After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side3:24 Or placed in front of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
23.Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters,
10.For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”
17.You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” 18.But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.19.If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.
8.Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws,26:8 Or judgments
we wait for you;
your name and renown
are the desire of our hearts.
1.Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2.As people moved eastward,11:2 Or from the east; or in the east they found a plain in Shinar11:2 That is, Babylonia and settled there.3.They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4.Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”5.But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6.The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7.Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”8.So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9.That is why it was called Babel11:9 That is, Babylon; Babel sounds like the Hebrew for confused.—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
3.For it is we who are the circumcision, we who serve God by his Spirit, who boast in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— 4.though I myself have reasons for such confidence.
If someone else thinks they have reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: 5.circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; in regard to the law, a Pharisee; 6.as for zeal, persecuting the church; as for righteousness based on the law, faultless.7.But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.
About the Contributor
Grant Partrick is a part of the team at Passion City Church and serves as the Cumberland Location Pastor. He is passionate about inspiring people to live their lives for what matters most. Grant and his wife, Maggie, live in Marietta, Georgia with their daughters, Mercy, Ember, and Charleigh. He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary where he earned a masters of theology degree. View more from the Contributor.