The morning Manna will be provided at
6am. Thanks. Studying Ephesians in the SSnet.org series Lesson 11, may the Holy Spirit be
the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: Ephesians 6 and the
same Master for boss and slave for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Ephesians. The Opening Hymn will be 229
"Spirit of the Living God". The Sabbath School Quarterly,
downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 140ff. The SSnet.org allows anyone, anywhere to
read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God
speaking also to your heart. Why don’t you click on this link right
now: https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2023:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ323_011.pdf ---For today’s reading on the slaves,
one should read one verse to the Master, Ephesians 6:9 which tells the master
that Christ is their Master also. Look at the word “also”. ---It is a 1+1 situation. The one is the
master, who is the other? The slave. ---So here is the essence of the
relationship between the master and slave. Christ belongs to both. ---Since they worship the same God and
He is identical to them, Paul adds to the Master that Christ does not select on
the basis of ranks, honor, this person above that person. ---So the Christian slave knows his
Master (Christ) and can work for his master (boss) who’s Master is also Christ.
---They sit together in church. At the
worksite he works under his boss. ---He sometimes eat together at the same
table as the boss and his family but many times not, because the boss has a
family. ---But that is if the boss is a
Christian that knows Christ. ---Obedience is to the Law of God.
Righteousness is described by the Law of God (Reflecting on Christ page 274). ---Righteousness is by faith in the same
Law and same Christ for master and slave and Christ is their Master of labor
for both. ---There are not two sets of treatments
by Christ of master and slave. ---Christ do not ask title, occupation,
schooling, education, blood type, gender, race, culture, nation, country,
people group, denomination, politics, the slave or master is from. ---No pleasing of persons. No acceptance
by persons’ achievements but faith and obedience expected and rendered. ---So if the boss is not a Christian but
agnostic or atheistic? ---Work as if you are doing it for
Christ. He is not Christ but the Christ in you, do it for Him. ---And the boss will be so impressed
that he will consider twice about your faith, about your church, about Christ. ---I head this indirectly from data
given to me 8 months after I retired. The university could not get a
replacement for my position. Then they got one. They announced that they are
happy because he is just like their previous Seventh day Adventist teacher. ---Maybe Paul had a point. Correct? ---Compromise to work on a Sabbath? No.
Cannot. Though the heaven fall. ---And you? Working on Sabbath? Stop.
When? Immediately.