Good morning, our Fire-starter comes from 1 Chronicles 9. Our
Fire-starter thought is: this work is serious!!!!!

Have you ever had someone that always was taking their job as a joke?

They do their job very poorly and then expect everything to be great and
the boss to love them and even give them a raise or commend them for
their work .

The job that God gives is a serious one not one to be joking about!!!!

We are living in a day where Christianity is a joke in the eyes of the
world they see us not taking the things of the house of God seriously,
they also notice how we carry ourselves and our, how our conversation in
the neighborhood is and they wonder if what we have is good or not
simply because we treat things sometimes as a joke.

We look at God when he gives a certain task and we say you can’t be
serious Lord. You want me to go tell my neighbor about you, you want me
to do what? Go and tell this person, that I’ve had bitterness towards,
I’m sorry and make things right.

We are living in a day where the things of God are not taken seriously.

As I read this chapter and I’m sure as you read this chapter you will
find as I found that there were serious jobs in this passage of
scripture. There was no joking around with the things of God.

Those that saw it as a joke God took out. If you don’t believe me look
at the two sons of Eli, hophni and Phinehas.

God takes his work seriously!!!!

Several key things I want to bring out this morning.

1. Everyone has a specific task given to them
     In our text you can read what everyone had to do. Some were
porters. What is a porter? a door keeper, someone that receives
messages, a very Important job!!!!
Some were responsible for the shewbread. Making sure the bread was fresh
every Sabbath.
Some were singers, they were employed In that work day and night
according to Verse thirty three
2. Everyone must take this task seriously or the work will not be done.

If you don’t take the job seriously then you won’t care whether or not
the work gets completed.

Some of us don’t take our calling seriously, we have been told to get
the gospel out yet we don’t. We have been commanded to be right with
fellow man yet we don’t there are things God had given us to do that we
do not take seriously!!!

3. Others suffer when we do not take things seriously.

I remember in school there was the one child that didn’t take things too
seriously, if you know what I mean? If the teacher said, if you talk,
you will get in trouble and they would say yeah right, and keep talking
and then end up in trouble and then try to use their, I’m important,
pass to get out of trouble. They never took things seriously.
They never took chapel seriously, they never took church seriously they
were always wanting to get out of doing the task.
Others suffered because of one person that didn’t take the work
seriously. With that in mind, how many suffer because the Christians
don’t take the task that God gives us seriously? How many will die and
go to hell because of the task that we don’t take seriously? How many
people have their walk with God hindered because they don’t take serious
the task that God has given them? I encourage you this morning, take
things seriously!!!!

1 Chronicles 9:1-44 KJV
So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were
written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried
away to Babylon for their transgression. [2] Now the first inhabitants
that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were, the Israelites,
the priests, Levites, and the Nethinims. [3] And in Jerusalem dwelt of
the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the
children of Ephraim, and Manasseh; [4] Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son
of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the
son of Judah. [5] And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his
sons. [6] And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six
hundred and ninety. [7] And of the sons of Benjamin; Sallu the son of
Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hasenuah, [8] And Ibneiah the
son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and
Meshullam the son of Shephathiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
[9] And their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and
fifty and six. All these men were chief of the fathers in the house of
their fathers. [10] And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and
Jachin, [11] And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the
son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the
house of God; [12] And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the
son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the
son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer; [13] And
their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and
seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service
of the house of God. [14] And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of
Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of
Merari; [15] And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of
Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph; [16] And Obadiah the son of
Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son
of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the
Netophathites. [17] And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and
Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief; [18] Who
hitherto waited in the king’s gate eastward: they were porters in the
companies of the children of Levi. [19] And Shallum the son of Kore, the
son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his
father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the
gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host of the
Lord, were keepers of the entry. [20] And Phinehas the son of Eleazar
was the ruler over them in time past, and the Lord was with him. [21]
And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation. [22] All these which were chosen to be
porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by
their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did
ordain in their set office. [23] So they and their children had the
oversight of the gates of the house of the Lord, namely, the house of
the tabernacle, by wards. [24] In four quarters were the porters, toward
the east, west, north, and south. [25] And their brethren, which were in
their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time with
them. [26] For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set
office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
[27] And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge
was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.
[28] And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that
they should bring them in and out by tale. [29] Some of them also were
appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the
sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the
frankincense, and the spices. [30] And some of the sons of the priests
made the ointment of the spices. [31] And Mattithiah, one of the
Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set
office over the things that were made in the pans. [32] And other of
their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread,
to prepare it every sabbath. [33] And these are the singers, chief of
the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for
they were employed in that work day and night. [34] These chief fathers
of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at
Jerusalem. [35] And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose
wife’s name was Maachah: [36] And his firstborn son Abdon, then Zur, and
Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab, [37] And Gedor, and Ahio, and
Zechariah, and Mikloth. [38] And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also
dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, over against their brethren.