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Please take your Bibles interned with me to 1st Peter.

Chapter 2 First Peter chapter 2. Today, we are continuing our topic on the subject of submission.

Last time we saw submission to civil Authority.

And today we're looking at submission in the workplace submission in the workplace end.

It begins in 2:18 and takes down to verse 20.

Notice what it says 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.

This finds favor.

If for the sake of conscience to our God, a person bears up under sorrows when suffering and unjustly For What credit is there?

If when you treated in a harshly treated, you and endure with patience, but if when you do what is right and suffer for it, you patiently endure, in this finds favor with God.

There are several other passages that we find for breeding this one that equally your treatment to this subject.

One of them is on the screen in front of us.

Anna, this screen tells us here in Colossians 3:22 that slaves in all things are to obey, those who are your Masters on the earth, not with external Services.

Those who merely please men.

But with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

And of course, that's not the only passage.

We find.

Also in Titus Chapter 2, buying slaves, to be subject to their own masters and everything to be well, pleasing not argumentative, not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that they will Adorn.

The doctrine of God, our savior in every respect.

Knows I read these passages and especially when it's in front of us.

We have to see that there's a commonality and all of them.

All of them deal with behavior.

And all of them, also point out, a very common thing.

And that is simply this, that There was no rights whatsoever.

They were called slaves.

I know that our country has had a history of slavery and by God's grace that ended a long time ago, and it was because of the Gospel that brought that to an end.

But when we look at this whole concept of slavery slavery, we find out that this lack of Rights permeated in so many ways.

The New Testament.

It's been estimated that there were some 60 million slaves in the Roman Empire.

And that is many, as one-third of the populations of large cities, like Rome and Corinth in Ephesus had slaves.

In fact, the church was primarily made up of slaves.

So that makes a lot of sense when you read some of these passages and you hear some of the extra tations as to certain behavior when it came to slave.

Masters slavery was a way of life, then it covered every single occupation.

You had some slaves that did Manual laborers, you had some that did professional labor, like doctors and teachers and musicians and actors, and secretaries, and even pastors.

In fact, it's interesting that in Roman law as slave was not a person.

A slave was a possession, slave was a thing and had absolutely no legal rights whatsoever for that reason, there could be no such thing as justice as far as the slave was concerned.

Jay Vernon McGee said, the very nature of the Gospel.

Condemn slavery.

Eventually broke the shackles of slavery for the bodies of men and cut the feathers from their minds and Souls multitudes of slave came to Christ.

As we learn in Romans chapter 16, many of those named there were slaves or members of the praetorian Guard.

And so when we look at the Bible, we learn that the Bible itself doesn't necessarily speak against slavery, what it does?

It speaks against its abuse has

They have a system like that.

There was never any.

as we see in the New Testament, Anyone ever trying to overthrow that in terms of the church?

Let me give you some examples of what the Bible has to say about this over an exodus 21:16.

It tells us that he who kidnaps a man whether he sells him or he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death.

So there was actually a death sentence on those.

Who can it be kidnapped others.

We find also another passage in Exodus 21-20 6 and 27.

If the man strikes, the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he should let him go free on his account and if he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he should let him go free on account of his Tous.

There were certain types of slavery that we find in the Bible that was actually permitted or even advocated in the Old Testament.

And these were considered to be non-abusive and beneficial.

For example, if you had a thief who could not make restitution than he could be indentured until payment was worked out and denture had the idea of being required by contract to work for another week.

This would be like a subcontractor today that would work for somebody and pay off a debt.

Another example was found in Leviticus 25 and verse 44, where God says that the Israelites were allowed to buy slaves from the Pagan Nations around them, that fellow Israelites could not be bought or sold all that they could voluntarily indenture themselves until the Year of Jubilee according to vs. 39 + 40.

But when you go to versus 40 and 41 and verse 46 during their time of service, they were to be treated as hired workers and not as slaves.

Again it dealt with the behavior.

Reverend Deuteronomy 2315 and taught that a slave who fled from an oppressive master was be to given Asylum and protection.

You even notice here in Deuteronomy 23.

It says you should not hand over to his master, a slave who has escaped from his master to you.

He shall live with you and your men stand in the place which he shall choose in one of your towns where it pleases him and you shall not mistreat him.

So we find in these passages and even in Exodus 21 verse 2, and even in Deuteronomy, 15 13, 6 years.

And at the end, he was to be given liberal Provisions as a form of severance pay.

And every 50th year, which was the Year of Jubilee all slaves were to be freed and returned to their families.

Leviticus 25 10 says, you shall dust consecrate the 50th year and proclaim a released through the land to all its inhabitants, it shall be a jubilee for you.

And each of you shall return to his own property in each of you shall return to his own family.

But, you know, sometimes you would have a slave that loved his master and that would desire to stay with his master.

And so Exodus, 20 15 said if the slave plainly says, I love my master, my wife and my children, I will not go out as free.

Then his master shall bring him to God, then if she'll bring him to the door or the doorpost, and his master shall pierce, his ear with an awl and he shall serve him permanently.

So, when you find the Apostle Paul, are you find the Apostle Peter mentioning this subject of slavery.

They're not writing to overthrow it or to overthrow the Roman government order overthrow.

The many of these institutions.

They're riding to demonstrate the kind of behavior that a slave was to hand to his master and the kind of behavior that will a master was to have to his slave.

And whether they're Masters or slaves, are Christians, they were to be submissive.

In the text, we find here in 1st Peter, chapter 2 is referencing Christian slaves, and Christian and non-Christian Masters.

So I want you to notice here in verse 18, where he begins with the word servants.

This is not the common word that shoes for servants or slaves, which would be the Greek word.

Do lice.

This is the Greek word.

We could say and or referred to household slaves.

Household slaves, live with their masters.

Their duties were restricted to the household.

They loved and trusted the members of the family.

But here we see his admonition here, fits really more of a larger concept of honoring everybody.

We've already heard that he said in 417 honor all people.

So we can apply this word to our modern understanding because we don't have slavery today, praise God.

But we do have employees and employers and I know sometimes as an employee you you made me feel like a slave to your employer, right?

But again, as you look at these texts, you got to keep in mind that behavior attitude is what theater is after.

And so as a Christian employee, you are to be submissive to your Masters or be submissive to your employer's again.

Peter uses.

The word here for submissive is the Greek word who Picasso and he use it also in the present tense of used it back in verse thirteen, when he told his readers to submit yourselves for the Lord, say to every Human Institution is the same word that means to line up under Total line up under that Authority, and we all have authority s in our lives.

We all can't do just what we want to do.

We have government.

We have the police.

We had judges.

And in the home we have roles in the home in our workplace.

We have rolls and those who are in authority.

And he also uses here when he says that they are to be submissive.