Our fallenness makes us want to fight back, want to demand our rights, to strike against authorities,

to protest, to complain, to be insubordinate, to be unsubmissive, but that is sin. Welcome to Grace to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

If your boss hasn't given you a raise in years or promotes someone else less qualified than you.

What is the biblical response?

Should you demand certain rights and a certain amount of respect from your employers.

Whether you love your job or dread going to work,

whether you work for a fair and honest boss,

or you don't, make sure you stay here,

as John MacArthur shows you what the Bible says about the work you do and the bosses you interact with

Today's lesson is part of John's current study called singing the Lord's song in a strange land.

So take your Bible now and follow along in 1st Peter chapter 2

as John begins the lesson.

Let's open our Bible as we come together for the study of God's word to 1st Peter chapter 2.

1st Peter chapter 2. We are so blessed to be sitting at the feet of Peter, that beloved apostle of Christ.

Peter, although he is a central figure in the Gospels, did not write that much just these two very brief

epistles. There is none of us who have walked with the Lord for any length of time and studied the Bible at all

who don't have a special affection for Peter. I don't want us to forget who it is

that is our teacher as we look together to this text.

First Peter, chapter 2 and verses 18 through 21.

Servants be submissive to your masters with all respect.

Not only to those who are good and gentle but also to those who are

unreasonable for this finds favor if for the sake of conscience toward God a man bears up under sorrows when suffering unjustly.

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