Weekly Sermons

Christians and Their Workplace

Read Colossians 3:22-4:1            Christians and their workplace             Let’s Pray!

Old Testament laws on slavery were more like time-dated work contracts. You knew how long it would be, and you could purchase your way out of your ‘debt’ early. If your Master so much as chipped your tooth in discipline, you went free.

Under Roman law slaves were legally non-personas with limited rights. Roman law already had a path to freedom for slaves when the first churches were planted, As the gospel spread, legislation toward freedom escalated rapidly.   

You CAN legislate morality from the outside in, but lasting change only happens from the inside out when our hearts and minds are changed through knowing God and biblical truth.

Four commands for Christian workers:

Do everything your boss expects, even when they are not watching              V. 22

Do your best in all your work as if God was signing your paycheck                  V. 23

It’s good to hear “well done” from a boss, but what you really want is the applause of Heaven!

Don’t just earn an earthly paycheck but a heavenly reward                              V. 24

Don’t be known for wrongdoing and its punishment                                           V. 25

2 Commands for Christian bosses

Treat your workers right                                                                                                 4:1a

“Management is developing people through work.”

Remember you are not the big boss!                                                                          4:1b

Here is the teaching that changed the Roman Empire – no human is ever the ultimate authority in any earthly relationship – God Himself will have the final word, rewarding all that was right and avenging everything that was wrong.

Hebrews 9:27 says it is appointed unto man once to die, and than the judgment!

So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.          -Romans 14:12