Monday, August 19 | Unnoticed and Unappreciated—what do I do? (Ephesians 6:5-9)

Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelly

Kurt Skelly

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Ephesians 6:5-9 One out of every five people who lived during the first century were slaves. What was a Christian supposed to do in such an unjust institutional system? Where is the fairness? How should Christians relate to their “bosses,” and what attitude should a Christian “boss” have toward those who work for him?

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0:00.0	The Bible has a whole lot to say about what your attitude should be when you go to work.
0:06.5	Whether you're the worker with the lowest minimum wage job or whether you're the boss and the CEO of the company.
0:14.7	The fact is, God values us all just the same and we all answer to him anyway. Find out how it works on today's
0:24.3	episode. Welcome to Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelly. We believe the Bible is true and relevant to
0:31.6	everyone, everywhere, every day. If today's conversation is a help to you, take a moment to leave a review or share it with a
0:40.2	friend. Thanks for listening. Now, let's join Kurt for today's episode. Hey, friends, we're in Ephesians
0:47.5	chapter number six today, and we're finishing a series of direct commands. I love when the Bible gets so specific, there's absolutely
1:00.3	no way for us to weasel our way out of it. For instance, we've talked directly to wives.
1:06.8	We've talked directly to husbands and to children. Last episode, we talked directly to dads.
1:13.7	And now this sermon, I was going to say, this is not a sermon.
1:18.4	But on this episode, we'll talk about that, and it's really not a perfect fit,
1:25.0	but I think you'll see what I'm talking about here in a moment.
1:27.5	Let's talk about the employer-employee relationship.
1:33.1	Now, I want to just say that this is not an exact fit because here in Ephesion 6, we're talking about a cultural phenomenon that was true back in the Roman Empire that is not true today.
1:48.1	And that is there was institutional slavery back in those days. Now, it wasn't the kind of slavery
1:57.1	that maybe you and I as Americans would think about as we think about chattel slavery
2:02.7	back in, you know, the dark chapter of our own American history, when, you know, slavery was
2:11.8	legal, horribly, a horrible thing. And so grateful that that is in our rearview mirror. But here in the Roman
2:23.2	Empire, one out of every five people in the Roman Empire were slaves. So if there were 50 million
2:31.0	people in the Roman Empire, I mean, think about that. Then there were 10 million
2:35.7	slaves, up to 10 million. And a lot of it just had to do with prisoners of war. There was no
2:43.2	particular race or type of person that could be a slave. It was just happen to be sometimes your impoverished condition,
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