Job Interviews - Interrogation Or Discussion? We Know Which We Prefer
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Sin is a method to keep you abiding by Christianity. Grow up.
How to Prepare For a Job Interview - Preparing For a Good Job
- You wouldn't be transgressing God's law anyway, you'd be breaking Saint Augustine's. He's the one that decided to make a law requiring people to go to church on Sunday, and the practice originated with him.
He made an exception for farmers who needed to work their land on Sunday, explaining that the "bounty of heaven" would be lost otherwise. The same rationale has been applied to emergency workers and other people, and situations where not working on Sunday would cause harm or destruction.
Rome's laws no longer apply to us. However, if you are trying to abide by that law, then this my advice:
If you did not schedule the interview deliberately for Sunday, or you did schedule it but could not schedule it for any other day, then you did not break the law. Same thing if your boss schedules you for a Sunday; not working on a Sunday just to make a point would cost your employer a day's work and you your job, and would benefit no one. In any of those situations, the "bounty of heaven" would be lost, so do what you have to do on Sundays and know that you are a-okay with the Lord. And with St. Augustine too.
Ethically speaking though, if there is no good reason for you to work on Sundays, you would be wrong not to bring up your needing Sundays off with your interviewer tomorrow. Church on Sundays was a Law, after all. There's sensible exceptions, and then there's taking advantage of loopholes, and it's usually pretty obvious which one is which. - Matt 12 : 5 Or have ye not read in the law, hom that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profare the sabbath, and are blameless
Matt 12 : 6 But I say unto you. That in this place is one greater than the temple
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God won't angry with you. Do the interview job for your future. Show your regrets. Because Matt 12 : 8 says : For the son of man is lord even of the sabbath days - You are not a party to the old covenant law. That law of God was for the Israelites only. God's law for Christians is about the spirit of the law sans the letter (Rom 7:6).
Paul stated that the OC law is not of faith, and that anything that is not of faith is sin. If you believe you have to keep any of the OC letter of the law, you sin under the new covenant. You violate faith.
. - If it bothers you to work on the Sabbath why would you schedule a job interview for the Sabbath in the first place? Personally I would not, I try not to even answer the phone when I know or suspect it is work related.
- Exodus 35:2- God demands the death of those who work on the Sabbath day.
Well, you better make sure your interviewer isn't a Catholic baiting you into a death trap (it's happened before) - Go just GO GO GO dont u dare decide not to go. This is crazy you could be throwing away a job interview because you dont wanna make "god" angery that is insane you need to go
- dont break it.
- "i told God i dont wanna break his commandments anymore"
Well praise the Lord! God is well pleased when we seek to follow Him who loves us!
"would i be trangressing Gods law if i went to a job interview i have scheduled for tomorrow at 12:00? the way i look at it, its not really working"
Isn't the other person who is interviewing you working? I think we would agree yes. Also how could you witness to such a person then? Also Exodus 20:8-11 says even our manservants (helpers) should not do secular work. It would be breaking God's law, and also putting something ahead of time with God.
Think about it also this way, if you reschedule, the other employee may not have to come in and work on the Sabbath!
I highly recommend that you call them and reschedule. Simply explain your belief. No company would dare say "well we can't hire you then because you can't be interviewed on Saturday". They could get sued for discrimination, and it's also against the law. You'll find that if you follow God, He will bless you. So don't worry, God will open the door. In fact God may only allow you to get the job if you choose not to violate the Sabbath.
Also 12:00... uh.... my brother what time does your church end? :) You don't want to be sneaking out of church when the preacher is finishing his sermon so you can drive to a place of employment. Right? :) :)
Hope that helps! Remember that God will take care of you if you put Him first.
Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?' or ‘What shall we drink?' or ‘What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. ~ Matthew 6:31-33
Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. ~ Revelation 22:14
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. ~ James 1:2-4 - Here's what you fail to realize... Christ fulfilled the Law. If you don't have time to read 2 Corinthians 3, make time, it's really short, but it addresses this exact issue. Romans, Galatians, and the Ephesians should also help you. But let me tell you why:
Every man ever in existence has sinned against a Holy God, with the exception of Christ (1 Peter 2:20-25), whom is God (John 1:1-14, Colossians 1:13-17, Hebrews 1:8, Revelation 1:7-18). Every man, both great and small, both rich and poor -- all have sinned. Do you know what the Law says about those who commit a sin worthy of death? "And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance." -- Deuteronomy 21:22-23
Jesus Christ, God incarnate, the Son of God the Father; the Creator of heaven and earth was accursed by His own Father. It was God that took our stead, that took our place on that tree. God sent His only begotten Son (God the Son) to die for our sake. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." -- Galatians 3:13-14
Having faith in Christ is the only way a person can attain righteousness. For it is by faith that the righteousness of Christ is imputed unto us (Romans 4:4-6, Romans 4:20-24). And it is by grace through faith that we are saved, not of our own works (Ephesians 2:8-9). The only way we can inherit the kingdom of God is to be born again. Being born again is a complete, and supernatural work of the Holy Spirit, of God working in, and through you. One of the many evidences of someone's faith is that they will bear good fruit. Not the fruit of your own flesh, but the fruit of the Spirit. "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." -- Galatians 5:22-23
People typically confuse the grace of God, and think, because we are no longer under the Law (2 Corinthians 3, Romans, Galatians, and Ephesians) that we can still act in carnality. But what they fail to realize is that the evidence that you've been saved is that the Holy Spirit of God is working in and through you. How can someone filled with the Holy Spirit of God lead a life full of carnality? Is the Holy Spirit of God carnal? God forbid. When you are born again, you will walk in the newness of life, and of the Spirit -- not in the oldness of which once was.
"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin." -- Romans 6:3-6
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