Masters - Colossians 4:1

March 16, 2024 Pastor: Terry Embke Series: Colossians - Jesus Is Lord In All of Life

Topic: Jesus Is Lord In All Of Life Passage: Colossians 4:1

031724...“Masters”...Colossians 4:1

Colossians 4:1...“Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven”

Colossians 3:22...“Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord”

Romans 1:21...“For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools”

Isaiah 29:15-16...“How foolish it is for you to fight against your Maker. You are only a clay pot among many clay pots. Does the clay ask the one who shapes it, ‘What are you doing?’” (ERV)

Isaiah 55:8-9...“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Ecclesiastes 11:5...“As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.”

Galatians 3:26-28...“In Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus”

Ephesians 6:9...“Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him”

Sermon In A Sentence: Every believer in a position of authority is under God’s authority & accountable for the way they exercise their authority.

Colossians 4:1...“Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven”

Principles For Believers Holding Positions Of Authority:
-Your Conduct: Must Be Just & Fair Toward Those Under Your Charge

Colossians 4:1...“Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven”

Principles For Believers Holding Positions Of Authority:
-Your Conduct: Must Be Just & Fair Toward Those Under Your Charge
-Your Example: Is The Lord Jesus Who Served Those Who Followed Him

Mark 10:42-45...“Jesus called them to him and said to them, ‘You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

John 13:12-16...“When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, ‘Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master”

Principles For Believers Holding Positions Of Authority:
-Your Conduct: Must Be Just & Fair Toward Those Under Your Charge
-Your Example: Is The Lord Jesus Who Served Those Who Followed Him
-Your Motivation: To Never Forget That You Answer To A Heavenly Master

Colossians 4:1...“Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven”

Principles For Believers Holding Positions Of Authority:
-Your Conduct: Must Be Just & Fair Toward Those Under Your Charge
-Your Example: Is The Lord Jesus Who Served Those Who Followed Him
-Your Motivation: To Never Forget That You Answer To A Heavenly Master

Colossians 3:23-24...“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ”

Sermon In A Sentence: Every believer in a position of authority is under God’s authority & accountable for the way they exercise their authority.