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that you will receive from Him, your wages, your final wages,
your rewards.

Verse 6, “Eye service”. No, not just service that looks good. I
remember when I was working at a plant nursery, and I was told
to cut out all the weeds and put peat moss down. I said, “The
boss won’t know if I don’t take out all the weeds. I’ll just cover it
with peat moss.” So, I didn’t take out all the weeds. I just put the
peat moss on top. Guess what he discovered in a couple of
weeks? Eye service, or unto the Lord? You see, if we had the
Lord Jesus there as our employer, we wouldn’t cheat, or cut
corners. We wouldn’t waste things or be sloppy and slipshod.
These are not games. It is the Lord Jesus we are working for.
The slave was told to submit to his master, not for human wages,
but for eternal rewards.

Do you realize that every time we complain, it’s a practical denial
of the sovereignty of God? No matter what we complain about.
In this case I’m talking about our jobs. But really, anytime we
complain, we’re saying that God has nothing to do with it. It
denies His absolute sovereignty. Answer this for me. If God
could burn this principle indelibly into your heart and you lived
accordingly. Do you think that any human boss on the earth
would be disappointed? If you did it to please Him, you’d be the
finest worker on earth. Verse 9,

“Masters, do the same things to them. Give up threatening,
knowing that both their master and yours is in heaven and
there is no partiality with Him.”

Masters are always ranked higher than slaves on earth. The
employer seems to have it a bit better than the employees. Those
who work for someone else, are just a number, just hired hands.
Sometimes they don’t even know you. But God is reminding the
bosses, that before God, there is level ground. The slave and his
master, have the same Lord in common.