Serve at Work As If Serving Christ

And let me tell you, it's not just a paycheck. It's not just to get the spot on the team. He says this, do it with a sincere heart, obey with fear and trembling, and then he says this, as you would Christ. As he's saying, obey your earthly boss or your earthly authority as you would Christ. Now you might be sitting there and being like, are you serious? Are you serious? You haven't met my boss. They are nothing like Christ. [00:31:06] (34 seconds)  #ServeWithSincereHeart

Because that ought to be our mindset. Lord, I want to strive towards these heavenly rewards. I pray that you guys think about heavenly rewards often. Think I don't talk about them enough? The bible's not super clear on what they are, so it's hard to talk about, but it talks about them over and over again, that whatever we do in this life is going to be rewarded ten, fifty, a hundredfold in the life to come. [00:43:28] (25 seconds)  #WorkForEternalRewards

And I wanna tell you that all of that stems out of one problem, and that is greed. Right? That is greed, and it's selfishness saying, I want as much as I can while giving the least. And that's a problem that has been inside the human heart. It's not something new. It's not something that is just happening. It's something that has been inside the human heart. And the Lord has something to say about that for both sides. He's gonna go and he's gonna say, you ought to put others above yourself. [00:12:06] (33 seconds)  #FightGreedChooseOthers

He says at the beginning of that, five eighteen, he says, do not get drunk with wine, but be filled with the holy spirit and submit to one another in love as in Christ. Right? And so this is the guide for our marriages. This is the guide for our parenting. This is the guide for our workplace relationships. If we want to have it go well in our families, in our parenting, in our workplace, serve others, lift one another up. [00:14:48] (28 seconds)  #SubmitInLove

I truly believe that if we are in Christ, we should have a model marriage, a model family, and a model work in business life. Doesn't mean you're gonna be perfect, but that is the goal is to say, look. I've been filled with the holy spirit, and the lord has transformed me, and it should transform the way we have our family and our relationships. Amen? [00:15:16] (24 seconds)  #SpiritTransformedRelationships

This idea where you can kidnap somebody and use them against their will and just own them like they are cattle or like they are a beast of burden, the Bible says you're not allowed to do this. In fact, in Exodus 21, it's rule after rule about how you are to treat the servant or the bondslave that's among you. Now you say, why do they have slaves at all? We're picturing, you know, American slavery. We go kidnap somebody and beat them. [00:19:30] (25 seconds)  #NoHumanAsProperty

Right? The other reason and and Sean, Dylan brought this last week. He said, one of the reasons could be that they were so focused on the return of Christ, and they believed that it was so imminent and so soon coming. He said that if you think that Jesus is coming back on Wednesday, you only have a couple days, then you're not gonna try and overhaul these massive systems. What you're gonna do is just try to win as many people for Jesus as possible. [00:24:49] (26 seconds)  #ImminentReturnFocus

Means just do what you're supposed to do. Do what you're asked to do. Do it without complaining. Do it even before you're asked to do. You could be a great worker by thinking, like, what is what am I called to do? What am I supposed to do? And you just get ahead of it, and you do it. So he says, obey. So that's just doing the right thing. Letter b is doing it with the right perspective. K? What does it mean by the right perspective? [00:27:21] (27 seconds)  #DoYourWorkWell