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Well. If you are able,
please remain standing and let's give our attention
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to God's word. Now in Tiedus, chapter two, tied us two,
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verses nine through fourteen, Titus two, verses nine through fourteen. Bond servants
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are to be submissive to their own
masters. In everything. They are to
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be well pleasing, not argumentative,
not pilfering, but showing all good faith,
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so that in everything they may adorn
the doctrine of God. Our Savior
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for the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training
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us to renounce on godliness and worldly
passions and to live self controlled, upright
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and Godly lives. In the present
age, waiting for our blessed hope,
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the appearing of the glory of our
great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
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gave himself for us to redeem us
from all lawlessness and to purify for himself
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a people for his own possession who
are zealous for good works. May God
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bless his word. Word, please
be seated. As Christians, we believe
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that our actions make a difference and
make a difference to God and they make
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a difference to how other people perceive
our God. As Paul gives instructions to
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tied us this pastor on the things
he used to instruct his people, both
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old and young men, old and
young women, I'm older and younger,
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and now also to bond servants or
two slaves. I'm we've seen now three
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times, three different ways in which
I'm God has told us that our actions
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make a difference. In Verse Five, after in Verse Five, we read
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that good works prevent the reviling of
the word of God. They keep people
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are when we act in a Christian
way, people are kept from reviling God's
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word. In Verse Eight, we
read that when we act well, when
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we do good works, this shames
the opponents of God by taking away all
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hope of any true accusation. If
they can't bring true accusations, they're left
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to only live in their lives.
I'm to stand on falsehoods. These are
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the first thing. Two things are
that are mentioned. Our good works prevent
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the reviling of the word of God. They shame opponents by taking away the
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hope of true accusations. And now, in verse ten, we read that
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are good works also adorn the doctrine
of God, our Savior. This is
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an amazing thing to say, like
a painting, a beautiful painting that can
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certainly stand all on its own.
That's what the doctrine of God is like,
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the doctrine of God our savior.
What might be included in the doctrine
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of God our savior will all kinds
of things. His triune nature on his
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saving plan, his perfect will,
his goodness, His grace, is justice,
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His mercy, his infinitude, his
all powerfulness. All of these things
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would be included in the doctrine of
God our savior. We are talking about
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the god of the universe as he
enters into the world to save his people.
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That's the painting, and what Paul
Tells Titus is that these bond servants,
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when they do good works, they
amazingly by those good works, are
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able to adorn the painting, like
taking a great masterpiece and putting it in
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a frame that holds it up,
displays it, magnifies it all the more.
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What an amazing thing to say that
our good works can adorn the doctrine
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of God our savior. We often
doubt these kinds of things. We doubt
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that our good works do much of
any good. We doubt this a lot,
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and often we use this doubt as
an excuse not to be zealous and
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good works. We think that our
actions can't really have any good effect.
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But let the Christian slave, or
the instructions to the Christian slave, put
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this particular doubt to rest. If
anyone would ever think that they were too
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below the possibility of making a difference, of doing something like adorning the doctrine
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of God, of preventing the reviling
of his word or shaming the opponents of
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his God, of God, consider
the slave. Consider the position of a
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Christian who is a slave, who
is weak, who is oppressed, who
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is no doubt in all kinds of
difficult circum stances that would lead one to
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things like depression and frustration and all
kinds of anxieties. Think of the slave.
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And here God speaks directly to the
lowest person in civil society, the
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most troubled, the most bound,
and tells them that when they do good
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works, they adorn the doctrine of
God, our Savior. An amazing thing.
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If that's true of the good works
of a slave, certainly that's true
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of the good works of those of
us who have the luxury and the blessing
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of being more free. So as
God sets his loving eye on Christian slaves,
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bond servants. What is it that
he requires of them? God does
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not pass over them. God does
not say the are unworthy of receiving his
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commands, of belonging to his kingdom, of being called his servants. Know,
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he speaks to them directly and says, you are my servants, I
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have instructions for you to follow.
What does he require of them? He
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requires of them good works. He
requires them to do things well, to
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do them by faith and to glorify
God. These are three good things to
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member as a kind of a side. If you ever are asking yourself,
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but what is a good work,
it's always these three things. It's it's
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an accord with the Commands of God, it proceeds from faith and it is
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unto God's glory. Missing any one
of those three and it's not really good
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work. When you think about that, you'll quickly realize how weak our works
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are. Maybe, sometimes, sometimes
they might be in some ways somewhat in
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accord with God's commandments, but do
they proceed from faith or are they done
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out of our selfish ambition, our
pride? Are A man pleasing? Are
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they done for our glory or for
God's this is, of course, why
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we need Jesus to save us,
not only for them our evil, but
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also, in a very real sense, from our good, properly defined and
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evaluated. But this is what a
good work is. It's done in accordance
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with God's commands, it's the fruit
and evidence of true faith, and it's
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done for his glory. And though
they are never perfect and require the blood
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of Jesus Christ to cover them and
perfect them and present them before the father
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is a sacrifice, they are nevertheless
in this way good and God is pleased
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by them. They adorn born the
doctrine of God, our Savior. Well,
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what are the specific good works that
God calls Christian slaves too, and,
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by extension, all of those who
are called to be under the authority
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of others, who are called to
obey and in one sense or another?
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Well, the first thing God says
to them is that they are to be
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submissive, they are to have a
posture towards their earthly masters of obedience.
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They are to be ones that are
desiring to honor the authority of the one
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who is over them. Now,
God doesn't say here that this is only
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a honor, that is to this
honor is to be given only in those
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cases where there is a good master. There are times, the Bible will
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tells us, and of course we
know from experience when people who rule over
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us are not good. They are
even evil and require a very difficult things
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in requiring sin. God, of
course, would never have his servants obey
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an earthly master at the expense of
their heavenly master. But in everything else
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the answer is yes. It's the
clear teaching of scripture here and in several
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other places throughout the New Testament that
bond servants, these slaves, are to
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be submissive to the ones who are
over them. We read they then Paul
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gives some specifics to that. I'm
not only are they to be submissive,
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but they are to be well pleasing. They are to be well pleasing,
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which means that they are to aim
not only to get the job done,
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but to aim for the pleasure of
the ones that they serve. You know
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this at work. It's a big
difference to simply do the job that you're
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acquired to do and do it with
a spirit that is aiming to bring pleasure
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to those who are over you.
One way to avoid this or or too.
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I mean rather to accomplish this is
by the next command, not being
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argumentative. People who are under authority
are often attempted to be argumentative about things,
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making the tasks that they are called
to do and the authority of the
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ones who are over them very difficult, fir challenging. When we when a
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servant is argumentative with his master,
it disrupts the entire household. It challenges
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the relationship at every point. It
makes things difficult. Children, you know
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this when you are argumentative with your
parents. It doesn't make life easy.
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It does and make it their jobs
easy for them. In fact, they
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end up doing it with much groaning. It becomes challenging and difficult and it
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is not pleasing to the Lord.
The same is true for workers who are
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at work. It's one thing to
respectfully ask why a thing might be done
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or challenge in an appropriate way to
lead towards good things. It's another thing
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altogether to be argumentative, and this
honestly doesn't need a whole lot of time,
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does it? We know what this
means. Next, we are told
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that slaves are also not to be
pilfering. It's a turn. That means
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basically stealing, taking things that don't
belong to you. And this, of
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course, is a great temptation of
those who are called to be under the
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service and authority of another because,
as you know, masters do not all
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are not always fair with wages,
with time, with all kinds of things,
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and there's a temptation, strong temptations, and ones that feel justified that
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well, of course, I can
take this home and I can use this
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for myself, but often times the
stealing that happens is not justified at all.
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It's simply I want what I want
and I want it now. Employee.
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Theft, as many of you know, is a big deal and some
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of your own businesses you have all
kinds of safeguards and protections and policies to
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guard against this very thing, because
it's a very real thing. It costs
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our country, our economy on all
kinds of money all the time and it
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ends up affecting the way that we
make transactions and live in the market place.
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Well, imagine if this was happening
not just in the marketplace and in
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common society, but but in your
own home. Stealing, thieving, pilfering,
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not just things, of course,
but time as well. When a
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servant is lazy and doesn't use his
time to the best of his ability is
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essentially taking from his master or his
employer. We can think of other things
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as well, but the point is
that in all respects, the one who
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is a servant must be careful.
We remember, Jesus is parable of the
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servant who received the talent and didn't
embezzle it and didn't lose it, just
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didn't do anything with it, and
he was still condemned. Servants are called
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not merely to hold on to what
they are given, but actually do something
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for the profit of those who rule
over them. And finally, this is
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a shown, or this is summarized
by the expression showing all good faith.
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It's not just in these particular little
things, but in a very comprehensive sense.
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Those who are slaves, Christian slaves, and, by extension, others
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of us who are under authority in
similar ways, were called to be faithful
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in all things, not just in
the pleasant tasks, not only when it's
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fair or would justified, not only
when the job makes sense or when it's
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to one's own advantage, but in
everything, in everything, God says,
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they are to be well, pleasing, submissive, not argumentative, but showing
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good faith now, my guess is
that most of our struggles are not as
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hard as a slave's might be.
But how do you do in the position
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of a higher and a freer person, in a position of freedom that you
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have and belong to? How do
you do in these things as a child,
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as an employee, as a citizen? Are you argumentative? Are you
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submissive? Are you pilfering? These
are things for us to consider. These
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are the good works that God calls
Christians to, even in very difficult and
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challenging circumstances. Will you remember what
a good work is? It's not only
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to be done in accordance with God's
commands, but also out of faith and
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to the glory of God. What
does that mean? Well, it means
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that the Christian slave finds his strength
to do these hard things. He finds
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his strength and will and knowledge of
these goods in his God, his savior.
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What does that mean? Well,
a lot of different things. It
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means that he knows that the fruit
he bears, the good works he bears,
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are the fruit of grace and the
product of faith in God, our
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Savior. The Christian remembers Romans One, thus fourteen, twenty three. For
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whatever does not proceed from faith is
sin. He looks to God, his
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savior, to advance these things in
him. In his difficult circumstances, in
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his challenges, in the ways in
which he falls short. He looks to
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God to be the one who produces
these things in him, to to establish
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him in faith so that good might
proceed from it. He knows that salvation
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has come. This is what verse
eleven tells us, for the grace of
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God has appeared, bringing salvation for
all people, even for the slave,
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the Christian slave, the one who
wants to be zealous for good works,
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even in Him Pos position, knows
that salvation has come even for him or
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her, and that in Christ he
has been set free. He knows and
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he believes that in his union with
Christ, he no longer lives aimlessly or
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for the pleasures and lusts of in
of his flesh, but he lives as
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directed and as empowered by the Holy
Spirit himself. As Paul says, this
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God has is the one who is
training us to renounce on godliness and worldly
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passions, to live in faith and
be zealous for good works. is to
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be one who enters into this training
with a measure of excitement and trust that
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it is going to do some good. This is often why we don't exercise
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right we really wonder is this going
to produce benefit? But here we are
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promised that God is training us and
he does produce benefits in our lives.
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He puts to death, that's which
is worldly in us. He strengthens us
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in zeal for good works. This
is what the Christian does. He looks
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to God for these things, he
trusts him for these things. Another thing
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the Christian does is he seeks his
satisfaction, his comfort and his peace and
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his care not from material possessions or
worldly honor or even the care of a
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good master. In fact, he
is willing to endure the loss of all
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of these things because of what he
believes. He believes that the salvation of
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God has appeared and in that the
Kingdom of God has come and that he
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belongs to it. He knows that
he doesn't have to pilfer and steal and
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be a man pleaser because his treasures
are in heaven. He knows he can
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be a good worker and submit even
in difficult circumstances, because his master is
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the greatest master of all, his
savior and his king. He knows that
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he has cared for it by God, because he believes that on the Cross,
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Christ has borne his sins, his
grief and has set him free from
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sin and death and the evil one. He knows that his troubles, even
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the troubles of his slave, will
one day be lifted up with Christ in
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glory. And this is why,
quoting from these final passages, a final
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verses eleven through fourteen, he waits
for the blessed hope, the appearing of
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the glory of our Great God and
Savior Jesus Christ. Though he seeks to
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be well pleasing to his earthly master, he's not a man pleaser in that
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negative sense. He seeks to be
well pleasing because he's a God pleaser.
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He finds his satisfaction and his hope
in the God who has saved him.
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He finds his hope not in front
of him, in his household and his
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duties and his job at this particular
moment, but ahead of him. He
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awaits for the appearing of our great
God and Savior, Jesus Christ. This
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is why a Christian can work difficult
jobs, jobs that are terrible and frustrating
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and seem like there's spinning nowhere,
and and and and all the other things
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we complain about. He can do
these kinds of things because God calls the
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Christian slave to obey and to produce
these kinds of works and promises to work
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in him. As he puts his
faith in Christ, the God will do
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these things in him and, as
he does as a slave, produces this
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kind of good works. We see
that a person who believes these things,
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these good things about the doctrine of
God our savior, will be a different
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sort of person. If you believe
these things about the salvation that has come,
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the hope that is to appear,
the training that is currently going on,
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you will be a different kind of
worker, different kind of person.
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You'll be the kind of person who
can walk up right when the world and
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your master pulls you down. You'll
be the kind of person who can breathe
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in freedom even while you're a slave. You'll be the kind of person who
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whose works will prevent the reviling of
the word of God, whose good works
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will put to shame the accusers of
the saints and whose good works, by
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God's grace, will adorn the doctrine
of God our savior. This, of
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course, is all to the praise
and glory of our God. This is
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what it means to be the frame
that adorns the picture. It is to
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receive the glory from the picture and
send it right back to God and his
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ever increasing glory as he magnifies himself
and his name. This is what it
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means to be a Christian, to
work for God and to be loved by
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him. May God teach us these
things and how to live in this world
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in a way that is pleasing to
him. Let us pray
