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.
Whatever ye do, work ye of will as to the Lord and not to men;
witting that of the Lord ye shall take yielding of heritage. Serve ye to the Lord Christ.
Busily keep [or Take care] to give thyself a proved, praiseable workman to God, without shame, rightly treating the word of truth.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
and take keep, [or and give work, or busyness], that ye be quiet; and that ye do your need, and that ye work with your [own] hands, as we have commanded to you;
and that ye wander honestly to them that be withoutforth, and that of no man ye desire anything.
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.
For we be the making of him, made of nought in Christ Jesus, in good works, which God hath ordained, that we go in those works.
know that a man is not justified of the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ; and we believe in Jesus Christ, that we be justified of [or by] the faith of Christ, and not of the works of the law. Wherefore of the works of the law each flesh shall not be justified.
And God is mighty to make all grace abound in you, that ye in all things evermore have all sufficience, and abound into all good work;
Therefore, my most dearworthy brethren, as evermore ye have obeyed, not in my presence only, but much more now in mine absence, work ye with dread and trembling your health.
For it is God that worketh in you, both to will, and to perform, for good will.
And do ye all things without grutchings, and doubtings;
that ye be without complaint, and simple as the sons of God, without reproof, in the middle of a shrewd nation and a wayward; among which ye shine as givers of light in the world.
And hold ye together the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ; for I have not run in vain, neither I have travailed 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.
Therefore go ye, and teach all folks, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost;
Who that believeth, and is baptized [or christened], shall be safe [or saved]; but he that believeth not, shall be condemned [or damned].
For we be the helpers of God; ye be the earth-tilling of God, ye be the building of God.
For it behooveth us all to be showed before the throne of Christ, that every man tell [or receive] the proper things of the body, as he hath done, either good, either evil.