Learn From the Great Teacher

Why We Need to Work
WHAT do you like best, to work or play? -Really, there is nothing wrong with playing.  The Bible speaks of Jerusalem being "filled with boys and girls playing in her public squares." -Zechariah 8:5.

The Great Teacher enjoyed watching children at play. Before he came to earth, he said:  "I came to be beside [God] as  master worker . .  . being glad before him all the time."   Notice  that Jesus was a worker with Jehovah in heaven. And when he was there, he said:  "The things I was fond of were with the sons of men."  Yes, as we have learned before, the Great Teacher had a real interest in everyone, including young ones. -Proverbs 8:30, 31. 

Do you think Jesus played when he was a child? -He probably did. But since he had  been "a master worker" in heaven, did he also work on earth? -Well, Jesus was called "the carpenter's son."  But he was also called "the carpenter."  What does this show? -Joseph, who raided Jesus as his son must have taught him. So Jesus also became a carpenter. -Matthew 13:55; Mark 6:3. 

What kind of carpenter was Jesus? -Since he was a master worker in heaven, don't you thing he became a master carpenter on earth?-Consider what hard work it as to be a carpenter at that time. Jesus probably had to go out and cut down a tree, cut the tree into pieces, carry the wood home, and then shape the wood to make it into tables, benches, and other things.  

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