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 all, whatever you may do -- out of soul work -- as to the Lord, and not to men,24 having known that from the Lord you shall receive the recompense of the inheritance -- for the Lord Christ you serve;
15 be diligent to present yourself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;
22 and become you doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,
11 and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,12 that you may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack 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 of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.
16 having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'
8 and God is able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, you may abound to every good work,
12 So that, my beloved, as you always obey, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, with fear and trembling your own salvation work out,13 for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.14 All things do without murmurings and reasonings,15 that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom you do appear as luminaries in the world,16 the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;
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 having gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them -- to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
16 he who has believed, and has been baptized, shall be saved; and he who has not believed, shall be condemned.
9 for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building you are.
10 for all of us it behooves to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things done through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;