Obey your masters in everything, not just when they are watching to look good, but serve honestly because you respect the Lord. Work to the best you can, work as if you are working for the Lord, not for people. You're serving Christ, and you will receive your reward from God.
Okay so God has given us people who have authority over us, parents, teachers, the police etc.
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| hehe, this amused me greatly! |
work as if you are serving Christ is a hard one, but it focuses your attention on how we should be treating jobs, work, things we have to do, and how we should respect and treat our authorities. If a teacher told us we have to do 5 pages of maths for tommorow, you'd grumble about it. However, if Christ did it, we'd probably do 10 pages, just to try and please him. We need to have a similar attitude as we were serving Christ.
Slaves in bible time, didn't get inheritance, but the bible here, promises they'll get their reward when they are in heaven. Similar to us, we'll get ETERNAL LIFE, so if you're ever a bit miffed over a reward, remember, if you're serving Christ, there's like the most amazing reward waiting for you in heaven.
But as a side note, doing revision is working towards God, so there's no excuse not to do, unfortunately. . :P
v25
whoever does wrong, will be punished, and God treats everyone the same. Okay so when God judges us, he judges us equally, God doesn't have favorites, we'll be judged on the right and wrong we do. God also, just slight side note, the wrong will be punished by God. so there is absolutely no excuse for "revenge", if someone wrongs you, and treats you badly, don't retaliate.
4v1
Talked about slaves, now masters. Paul says that they should be good and fair to their slaves, as they have a master in heaven. so Paul hated slavery, he wanted to get rid of it, and he wanted to change hearts and then society would change. if masters loved their slaves, and slaves loved their masters then slavery would eventually come to an end. Mini history lesson, anyone whose seen the best film ever called amazing grace will know slavery never officially ended til 1833. that's over 1000 years when Paul was trying to abolish slavery. wow. mind boggling!
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