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Now here's Dr. Keller with today's teaching.

The scripture reading is taken from Ephesians chapter 5, verse 21, and chapter 6, verses 5 through 9.

Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Slaves obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.

Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but like slaves of Christ doing the will of God from your heart.

Serve wholeheartedly as if you were serving the Lord, not men, because you know that the Lord will reward everyone for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.

And masters, treat your slaves in the same way, do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their master and yours is in heaven.

And there is no favoritism with him. This is God's Word.

The sermons this fall have to do with the gospel in the world.

What we're asking is what happens when you take the gospel out of the private life and out of the church into the world, what happens?

And one of the answers, which we're looking at last week and this week, is that the gospel affects how you do your work, how you do your job, how you pursue your vocation.

In this passage, we have Paul saying, if you are a believer in Christ, how does that affect your work?

How does that affect your work if you're a worker, how does that affect your work, if you're a manager, how does that affect your work?

And that's what we're going to explore tonight.

This particular passage is not so much a high lofty preaching. It's more of a down to earth practical teaching. It's not inspirational, it's more practical and has resulted in it's incredibly useful.

But if we're going to understand it, I think we need to do a little background work.

Once we do a little bit of background work to understand, to help us, I think, put what is being said here into historical context, then we're going to see two principles and a power.

In other words, background work, practical principle one, practical principle two, and the power to carry them out.

Background, principle, principle power.

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