How to be a better Christian employer/employee

 

 

Ephesians6:5-9 (KJV)

 

5) Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

 

6) Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

 

7) With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

 

8) Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

 

9) And ye master, do the same thing unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him. {forbearing; or, moderating }

 

     Let me start by saying that we all are not perfect, and everything we do will not be perfect. But through the Love of Jesus Christ we can do better.

     At work is the hardest time for any of us to show our best side. It is easy to say on Saturday or Sunday, which ever is the day you worship God, we say we are ready to show our best we can be at work. If you work at a good Christian place, you are blessed. Most of us work with all kind of different kind of people. So it is hard to know what that day will hold for us. Paul write to us in Ephesians a guideline for all of us to follow. Is it an easy one to follow? It all depends on the people you work around. I know it is not easy to do, it is impossible. Only through Jesus can we even come close to doing a good job at it.

     As you read the verses and think it is only talking about the slaves and their masters, you are wrong. It is about us today, how we are suppose to act and do our work. How many of us fall short on God's scale for being an employee or employer. It is easy to compare your self to someone else you work with, and say I am better then him, but how about on God's standers, how do you thing you rate?

     As an employee do you for short cuts, easy way out of doing thing, doing the minimum that you can? Are you always looking for the boss, so you can work harder, so he can see it and are you only being a manpleasers to your boss, or are you trying to please God in your work? If we can please God with our work then we are doing the best we can, and that will make any Christian boss happy. A Christian employee won't cheat, curse, lie to his boss, won't hold grudges. Now am I saying you won't get mad, or curse, but you won't feel good about doing it and you should be known for it. We ask Jesus to for give us for doing it so we can be forgiven. Will this get you further up in the business you are now working in? Maybe or maybe not, but it will please God. To please God is always better then pleasing any man.

     Now if you are lucky enough to be in charge of other people you are not to think you are better then the people under you. For you will have to answer to God also. As a boss/supervisor you are not to threaten, favor one over the another, but to hold everyone to the same rules as others in that position.

     No matter what you do, employee or employer, or owner, you will be answering to God for what you did, or didn't do, how you treated them. We all will be looking up to God to answer to Him. Keep that in mind next time you think you are better then the other person.

 

Thank you for your time.

God Bless

Rev. Dale Merchant

 

why some get sickness

 

     John 9:3) Jesus answer, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

 

     A lot of people think when someone get a sickness, that they must have done something wrong. But I am here to let you know that that that it is not always true, as we read in John 9:3, that it can be a tool for God. We can use it to bring other closer to God. It is how we deal with it as a Christian. We all can say how great Jesus is when all thing are going good in our life, but what happens when something hit us hard. What is the first thing you do? It should be to go to Jesus in prayer to ask for Hos help. It is what people see us do that truly show our faith in God. Job was a great person to look at to get a picture of what we should do or not do. God is putting us through this sickness to glorified Him. God is counting on you to lead other people to him, God is making you stronger to, not all sickness is bad, it will show us, and other just how much faith we really do have.

 

     John 11:4) When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.

 

     Here is another verse that show that God uses sickness to bring other non believers and also to show other believer that are weak in the Holy Spirit to grow. We all must keep growing in the Lord Jesus Christ, so that other can see that. Through Jesus Christ we can take anything, and that we really believer what we tell them. If it were us that is sick or a love one, other people are watching us to see our actions. It is so easy to talk about how we would or should act and believe, but it is totally different to show them.

     Many people want to know what they did or what our love one did to have this done to them. It could be that you or them did nothing. But God is using this sickness to His glory. It is hard to go through an illness, but we must believe in God and want what God wants. As Paul said, Let God be the glory for it. As Christians we have to live it day in and day out. Sure we are going to have bad days. But we have a forgiving God. Jesus is always with us or is he carrying through the trouble time. We can not always understand what we are going through. We must believe that Jesus is always with us and it is to glorified Him in some way. It is hard to see the bright side of the sickness as we are in it, but when we make it through we are stronger for it.

     We must stay strong, and lean on Jesus Christ, only through Jesus can we get stronger and make a true different for Him. I know it hard now, but we have to be thankful for the sickness we have. For through it God is leading other to him or making another Christian stronger. So I thank God for all my health problems. Even though there are days I wish he would take it all from me. But in the long run I know deep in side, God is King of kings, Lord of lords. All praise go to God.

 

Thank you and God Bless

Reverend Dale Merchant

 

Can you be as blunt as John the Baptist?

 

     I like to talk about John the Baptist today. He was one of the greatest people in the Bible I think. ( Matthew 11:11  Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of woman there hath not risen a greater then John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater then he.) He did what God told him to do and did not ask for anything in return. I think we all can learn a lot about him and use all of it in our life today for Gods glory. Now let us look at John and see who he was and what he did.

     John was born of a man and woman. Their was no Holy Spirit that got his mother ( Elisabeth) with child, it was just a regular man like you and me. No special woman, his parents follow the angel directions to the best way they could. They both were born of sin like all men and woman, but they were faithful to God. Can you say that to your kids? ( Luke 1:13-17  But the angel said onto him, fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and gladness: and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in spirit and power of Elias, to turn hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.)

     John was full of the Holy Spirit, and use it to get other people to repent, and Baptist them in the name of God. This does not make him different then you or me, we are born from man and woman, then when we confess our sins to God, and ask Jesus Christ to forgive us, and believe in Jesus. We are filled with the same Holy Spirit as John was. ( Romans 10:9  That if thou confess with they mouth the Lord Jesus,  and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.) Jesus send the Holy Spirit into us so we can learn and grow in to something special for God. It is how we used and grow in the Holy Spirit that make us different then John the Baptist. ( Acts 1:8  But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witness unto both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth.)

     John the Baptist use his gift foe God and Jesus. He lead people to God, but first you to show them what they are doing wrong and for them to confess to God through Jesus Christ. ( Romans 3:10-12  As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one. There is none understandeth, there is none that seeth after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no not one.) So when I hear men of God who are so call leaders say it not up to them to point out what sin they are doing, I feel sorry for the people he is suppose to be leading. John was blunt with all the people around him. from the Kings to the poorest of people. he pointed out there sins, in fact John lost his head because of not holding back what he saw. ( Mark 6:18 For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.       Mark 6:27 And immediately the King sent for the executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and behead him in prison.) We all get gifts from God to use, they list them out in the New Testament, it is up to us to learn to use them. ( 1Corinthians 12:1  Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.)

     There is so much more we can and need to learn from John the Baptist. I only started to show a little of him and how we are not different from him. All of us need to keep growing and doing God's work.

 

God Bless

Reverend Dale Merchant