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“psychological” victory. I looked at my boss, Fred, and
pretended he was Jesus. Everything he told me to do I just
clicked my heals, “Yes, Sir”, and I would go to town. I was
pretending that I was doing it unto the Lord. It didn’t take long
until I fell on my face, in utter failure.

Notice in chapter 6:5, it doesn’t say, “As if it were Christ,” but it
says, “As to Christ.” See what I’m saying? This is not a game.
We aren’t playing pretend. The slave was reminded that he was
actually doing it unto the Lord. Not as if it were the Lord, or let’s
pretend it’s for Jesus. It’s unto the Lord.

Let’s say that the boss is unworthy, oppressive, and cruel. That
he’s ungrateful, and doesn’t appreciate your hard work. Certainly
the slave must have felt that way many times. “What a waste of
time and labor. This work is wasted on this unfeeling beast.” God
is saying, “A waste? Never! You are employed by the Lord
Jesus. I don’t care what your job is. It wasn’t fate that got you
there. You are to do all things unto Me”.

Let me use a human illustration, and again I speak as a fool.
Let’s say that the Lord Jesus were to come into your life in the
flesh, personally, so that you could see him. If he were to knock
at your door and say, “Would you do me a favor?” You recognize
Him as the second Person of the Godhead, your Savior. He says,
“Would you clean up this trash for me?” What would you do?
Would you clean up the trash? You know you would run for that
broom in a heartbeat!!! Would you do a good job??? Would you
miss any pieces? If the Lord Jesus asked you to wash the
windows, would you have trouble washing the windows? Would
you leave any spots on the windows? It’s not pretend. It’s not
make-believe.

That’s what the slave was told by the Lord. You are not to do it as
to a human employer. As a slave, you have a high position.
You are employed by the Lord Jesus Christ. All your service, and
all your ministry, is unto Him. You are to do it in sincerity of heart,
not as men pleasers, but as to the Lord Jesus Christ. Knowing