{"id":37383,"date":"2022-09-13T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/in-what-ways-can-a-person-serve-god-while-occupied-in-secular-work\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:36:15","slug":"in-what-ways-can-a-person-serve-god-while-occupied-in-secular-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/in-what-ways-can-a-person-serve-god-while-occupied-in-secular-work\/","title":{"rendered":"In what ways can a person serve God while occupied in secular work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>If we find that all of our time must be taken in earthly matters, we can still do our work as &quot;unto the Lord&quot;. Ephesians 6:5-8 (NASB) says &quot;Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; (6) not by way of eye service, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. (7) With good will render service, as to the Lord, and not to men, &nbsp;(8) &nbsp;knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.&quot; If we are unable to use our time and talents directly in God&#039;s service, we may be blessed to have an opportunity to give money or other material help to those serving God faithfully.&nbsp; The wisest course of action would be to use our time well and to watch and pray for more opportunities to be used directly in the Lord&#039;s service.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we find that all of our time must be taken in earthly matters, we can still do our work as &quot;unto the Lord&quot;. Ephesians 6:5-8 (NASB) says &quot;Slaves, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ; (6) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/in-what-ways-can-a-person-serve-god-while-occupied-in-secular-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In what ways can a person serve God while occupied in secular work?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}