Full-Time Christian Service (Eph 6:5-9) Introduction The Lord gives you a new job altogether. You ask one man what he's doing, and he says, “I'm laying brick.” But another says, “I'm building houses for the Lord.”
Aside: The Bible on Slavery (come back tonight) 1. You could not legally just let slaves go. 2. The Christian church and then the Christian state both felt that the Bible condemned Greco-Roman slavery and thus ended it. 3. God's view of slavery is given in the law, but it is nothing like the situation here. 4. The Bible focuses here on issues of the heart and universal principles. 5. Paul does not advocate Christians remaining in slavery if they can be made free or keeping slaves if they can be let go (1Cor 5, Phlm 12-16). 6. Regardless, in the church, and before the Lord, there is neither bond or free.
Exposition This applies to all of us, v. 7-8.
Slaves are given 1. a new Lord,
2. a new attitude (see Rom 12:11), and
3. a new reward (see Col 3:23-25, Pr 15:3, Heb 13:4)
Masters are told 1. deal similarly,
2. deal kindly, and
3. deal fairly (see Luke 16:10, Matt 25:21).
Application to those who serve their work more eagerly than they serve the Lord
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