Authentic Manhood

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Authentic Manhood
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Session 14
Making a Name for Yourself at Work
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Whats in a Name?
Hopefully, a growing and good reputation.
A good name is to be more desired than great
riches.
Proverbs 221
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Five Proven Practices for Establishing Your Name
at Work
A. Dont just work work to be really
good at something.
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will
stand before kings he will not stand before
obscure men.
Proverbs 2229
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Five Proven Practices for Establishing Your Name
at Work
B. Be responsive to those above you and
earn their trust.
A faithful employee is as invigorating as a cool
day in the hot summertime. He refreshes the soul
of his boss.
Proverbs 2513
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Five Proven Practices for Establishing Your Name
at Work
C. Overdeliver
Poor is he who works with lazy hands, but hard
working hands get rich.
Proverbs 104
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Five Proven Practices for Establishing Your Name
at Work
D. Be an encourager and team builder.
Therefore encourage one another and build up one
another, just as you also are doing.
1 Thessalonians 511
Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth,
but only such a word as is good for the building
up of one another according to the need of the
moment, so that it will give grace to those who
hear.
Ephesians 429
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Five Proven Practices for Establishing Your Name
at Work
E. Keep your word.
But let your statement be Yes, yes or No,
no anything beyond these is of evil.
Matthew
537
He swears to his own hurt, yet he does not
change.
Psalm 154
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Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name
at Work
A. Never lie or cheat.
He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he
who perverts his ways will be found out.
Proverbs 109
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Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name
at Work
A. Never lie or cheat.
1. Four most common lies at work
Lying to get a job.
Lying to make money.
Lying to advance ones career.
Lying when called on the carpet.
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Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name
at Work
A. Never lie or cheat.
2. Decide now ... not later ...
To always say no to deception.
A wise man foresees the evil ahead and prepares
for it the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers
the consequences.
Proverbs 223
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Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name
at Work
A. Never lie or cheat.
2. Decide now ... not later ...
To always say no to deception.
To trust God for the outcome.
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Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name
at Work
B. Avoid immorality at all cost.
Flee immorality ... 1
Corinthians 618
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Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name
at Work
B. Avoid immorality at all cost.
1. Its vocational self-destruction.
The one who commits adultery with a woman is
lacking sense he who would destroy himself does
it.
Proverbs 632
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Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name
at Work
B. Avoid immorality at all cost.
2. It leaves a long term stain on your
name.
Wounds and disgrace an immoral man will find, and
his reproach will not be blotted out.
Proverbs 633
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Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name
at Work
B. Avoid immorality at all cost.
3. Watch out for the black widow.
And behold, a woman comes to meet him, dressed as
a harlot and cunning of heart. She is boisterous
and rebellious, her feet do not remain at home
she is now in the streets, now in the squares,
and lurks by every corner. I have come out to
meet you, to seek your presence earnestly, and I
have found you.
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Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name
at Work
B. Avoid immorality at all cost.
3. Watch out for the black widow.
With her many persuasions she entices him with
her flattering lips she seduces him. Suddenly he
follows her as an ox goes to the slaughter, until
an arrow pierces through his liver as a bird
hastens to the snare, so he does not know that it
will cost him his life.
Proverbs 710-12, 15, 21-23
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Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name
at Work
B. Avoid immorality at all cost.
4. Decide now ... not later ...
To never travel with a woman alone.
To have a see through office.
To avoid innocent flirting as a married
man.
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Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name
at Work
B. Avoid immorality at all cost.
4. Decide now ... not later ...
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, nor let
her capture you with her eyelids. Can a man take
fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?


Proverbs 625, 27
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Two Crucial Commitments for Protecting Your Name
at Work
B. Avoid immorality at all cost.
4. Decide now ... not later ...
To never travel with a woman alone.
To have a see through office.
To avoid innocent flirting as a married
man.
To have a partner watching out for you.
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The Benefits of a Good Name
A. People admire you as a man.
B. You influence others in a positive way.
C. Young men seek you out.
1. For advice
2. For mentoring
D. God is honored and you feel His
pleasure.
E. You feel a deep satisfaction about your
work.
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