Trabalhar para Deus
Trabalhar para Deus vai além do ofício secular. É dedicar a vida inteira — palavras, ações e atitudes — ao serviço do Reino, reconhecendo que cada tarefa pode glorificar o Senhor.
Servindo ao Senhor em tudo
Quando trabalhamos como para Deus, cada ação se torna um ato de adoração. Não importa a tarefa — o que importa é o coração dedicado.
23 And whatever you may do, work [it] from your soul, as to the Lord and not to men,24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.
15 Be diligent to show yourself approved unto God, a worker unashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
22 But become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
11 and that you aspire to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,12 in order that you may walk decently toward those that are outside, and may have need of nothing.
Chamados para as boas obras
Fomos criados em Cristo Jesus para boas obras, que Deus preparou de antemão para que andássemos nelas. Não somos salvos por obras, mas para obras.
10 For we are His handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by [the ]faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by [the] faith of Christ, and not by [the] works of the law; because no flesh shall be justified by [the] works of the law.
8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything always having all sufficiency, you may abound for every good work,
12 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;13 for it is God who is working in you, both to will and to do for His good pleasure.14 Do all things without grumbling and disputing,15 in order that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as light bearers in the world,16 holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain or labored in vain.
A missão do cristão
O chamado a trabalhar para Deus inclui a Grande Comissão: fazer discípulos de todas as nações, cooperando com Ele na expansão do Reino.
19 Go [therefore] and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
16 He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that does not believe shall be condemned.
9 For we are coworkers with God; you are God's field, you are God's building.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, in accordance with the things which he did, whether good or bad.