Ephesians chapter 6 reads, Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are
spiritual, restore such in one, in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest thou
also be tempted.
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
For every man shall bear his own burden.
Let him that is taught in the word
communicate unto him that that teaches in all good things.
Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap
For he that soweth to his flesh shall love the flesh reap corruption
But he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life as everlasting and
Let us not be weary in well-doing for in due season. We shall reap if we faint not
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who
are of the household of faith.
You see how large a letter I have written unto you with my own hand.
As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised,
only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
But God forbid that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be upon them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
From henceforth let no man trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
Alright, well, that was a good chapter, that was Galatians 6.
But if you could turn your Bibles to Ephesians 6, Ephesians 6, I'll be reading from verse
number 1.
Let's pray real quick.
Heavenly Father, thank You for this day, thank You for all the youth, Lord, that came
this morning and their parents.
I pray, Lord, that You would fill me with Your Spirit and that You give me boldness and
utterance.
And I pray, Lord, that people would be attentive, Lord, and that they would be challenged, Lord,
to do everything as unto You.
And I praise in Jesus' precious name, amen.
So you're there in Ephesians chapter six, Ephesians chapter six, look down your
Bibles in verse number one, the Bible says, Children, obey your parents in the
Lord, for this is right, honor thy father and mother, which is the first
commandment with promise, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live
long on the earth. And ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring
them up in the nurture and ammunition of the Lord. Servants be obedient to them
that are your masters according to the flesh.
According to the flesh, with fear and trembling and sickness of your heart as unto Christ,
not with eye service as man pleasers, but as the servants of Christ,
doing the will of God from the heart, with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men,
knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall receive
of the Lord, whether he be born or free. And the title of the sermon this morning is
As Unto the Lord, As Unto the Lord. And here we see Paul addressing the church at Ephesus
and instructing, you know, the parents, the children, the employees, the employer. But he
starts off by addressing the children and instructing them and telling them,
children, obey your parents in the Lord. And I think this is something that's very important,
today especially nowadays because what we see is a lot of children being defined you know to their mom
and dad not really taking them serious kind of disrespecting them and this is something that the
world in a way promotes through tv shows through you know ads through public school and this is
for the bible says right here obey your parents for this is right so what god sees as right and
what god wants his children
to do is to obey their parents and what I want to preach this morning is just a reminder to the
children, to the teens, to those of us that still live with our parents that you need to obey your
parents but you need to do it as unto the Lord and I'll get into that in a bit and I want to start
off by just as a way of introductions just by saying that you know today we do see a lot of
people having this problem this matter of obeying their mom and dad and the reason for that is
because a lot of people have problem with what we call authority and that's a word you know that
people kind of budge at and they have a problem with just because, you know, they have a problem
with their boss or even sometimes at home, you know, wives sometimes have problems with
their husbands or children with their parents and even in church, sometimes members have
problems with the pastor, but it shouldn't be so.
And if you go to Proverbs chapter 30, Proverbs chapter 30, let me just start off by saying
also that, you know, as Christians, we need to respect authority.
We need to submit to the authority that God has placed in our lives, you know, with the
You know, your mom and dad are in charge at home.
You know, your mom and dad are the ones that God gave to you to teach you, to raise you,
to teach you the ways of the Lord.
And, you know, that's something that we need to respect.
At work, your boss is the one that's in charge.
And, you know, whatever the rules are at work, you should learn to submit unto those rules.
And at church, you know, as a Baptist church, in this church, we have, you know,
we abide by the word of God, but we also have some rules in place that every single person
by and spirit and being able to submit into authority is a way that we can see you know
spiritual maturity because it's somebody that's immature when it's kind of hard for them to even
submit you know if a wife is not able to submit to her husband you know what does that really
say about her it's more so her being immature and you know kids if they're not able to submit
it to their parents a lot of times because they're just immature they got a lot of growing to do
I want to start off by saying, you know, with the children, and I won't go along because we got to go to, what was it, Camelot?
But in Proverbs chapter 30, let me read to you some verses there of how we see things today.
It says, there is a generation that cursed their father and does not bless their mother.
There is a generation that appeared in their own eyes and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
There is a generation, oh, how lofty are their eyes and their eyelids are lifted up.
So what is it saying? You know, there is a generation,
Even today, and even back then, in every generation, there's a group of people that curse their parents,
that curse their mom and dad, that they don't take their parents seriously,
they don't really respect them, reverence them, they lightly esteem them.
And the Bible here is saying, these are people that are prideful, that have their eyes lifted up,
because a lot of times teenagers nowadays,
And I don't know how it was back then, but they are very prideful, especially you can
see this like in TV shows or in public setting, that they're very prideful and they think
that they know more than their parents.
And people get to a certain age where, you know...
Whatever instruction your mom and dad gives you,
sometimes you don't really like it.
You think that they're out there to get you,
to forbid you from having fun.
But no, God gave you your parents to help you in this life,
to be able to instruct you,
to be able to teach you the word of God.
And as a parent, I want the best, what's for my children.
I have five right now, the oldest being six,
the smallest one being half a year.
And there's a lot of different age ranges here,
but at the end of the day, every single parent here,
whether you believe it or not, wants the best for you.
parents is that first of all, we want to see our children save, right? We want them to come to the
saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. We want them to believe on the Lord. Secondly, we want them,
you know, to serve God, to be able to be faithful to church, to be a faithful soul winner, to read
their Bible. There's a lot of things that as a parent, we desire for our children. And if you're,
you know, young right now, you live with your parents, you know, your parents
they're here in this church and they hear this kind of preaching all the time and just know that
they want the best for you as well. But go to Proverbs chapter 20 and Proverbs chapter 20.
The Bible says our briefs for you again verse number 13 Proverbs chapter 30 says that there is a generational hall lofty
or their eyes and their eyelids are lifted up and let it not be said of the children here or the teens
You know that they're lifted up
You know they get to a point in age where you know they think they know more than their parents and
it takes a lot of humility to be able to respect your parents to submit unto your parents and
This morning I want to preach on the subject of why we even do that in the first place because
obviously God commands it. This is something that he wants us to do. But if you're there in
Proverbs chapter 20, let me give you another verse when it comes to disrespecting parents,
it says, Whosoever, whoso curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure
darkness. Go to Proverbs chapter 28 verse 24, Proverbs chapter 28 verse 24. I'm going to read to
in verse number two, honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise,
that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest live long on the earth.
So children, if you want it to go well with you in this life, you want God to prosper you,
to bless you, the Bible says that you need to obey your parents, because it's the first commandment
with promise. And God is promising you here that he's going to bless you with the long life.
The Bible says that it's going to go well with you. And I think everybody here in this life
the moment that you died, you know, you'll be in heaven with Jesus Christ if you believed
on him.
But we're still going to be here on earth for quite a few time, you know, Lord willing.
And in those years that we're here, we want God to bless us.
We want God to, you know, help us prosper in everything that we do, whether it's at
school or at work.
Later on, when you get married and your marriage, you want God to prosper you, and one of the
best ways to do that is by you being able to honor your father and your mother.
But let me read to you in Proverbs chapter, I think I told you go to
Proverbs chapter 28, look down in verse number 24, it says,
Whosoorabeth his father, his mother, and saith it is no transgression,
the same is the companion of a destroyer.
And there's kids like this today, you know, even at a young age.
What do they do? They steal from their parents.
You know, they go into their father's wallet or their mom's purse and they take money out of that.
And that's, you know, that's not something that's uncommon, but the Bible says here, you know,
curse it, you know, whosoever robbed his father or his mother and say there's no transgression,
the same as the companion of the destroyer. And these people that do this, they don't even see it as a big deal.
And just know, if you do that, you know, that's a huge sin, you know, stealing from your parents.
You know, God is not pleased with that. Let me just say also that the eyes of the Lord are in every place,
level in the good so no matter.
you know, if your parents are not there or you think that they didn't see you,
you know, God saw you.
And if God sees everything, you know, he sees you from the moment that you wake up
to the moment that you go back to bed.
God is watching you at every time of the day.
And the Bible says right here, you know, who's to a rob it, his father, his mother.
There's people like this that don't even see it as a big deal.
And then again, let it not be said of the children in our church.
We're trying to teach them right. We're trying to teach them to do what's right.
We don't want anybody here to grow up to becoming a thief, right?
Because it's just a dollar now as a kid, or it's just some candy.
whatever you may think, that's not a big deal. But if you keep doing that, you develop a habit of
stealing, of taking from your parents, and then these are the same children because they go unpunished
or they think that nobody saw, they grow up to becoming these thieves. You know, later on stealing
from the store, later on stealing from people, just getting involved in all kinds of crime.
Now go to Colossians chapter three, Colossians chapter three.
I'm going to read to you from Deuteronomy, chapter 27, verse 16.
The Bible says,
Cursed be he that said it's light by his father, his mother, and all the people shall say, Amen.
So here the Bible says that, you know, cursed is him that lightly esteems his father and his mother,
because God has placed your parents there in your life so that you can respect them,
so that you can follow them, so that they can teach you the ways of the Lord.
Like I said, as parents, you know, we want the best for our children.
A lot of the children here are probably younger than 12, maybe,
Here's the thing you're not always going to be that age and right now just be thankful
You're in a home where God has blessed you to give you parents that you know read the Bible
That go to church that go out soul winning. You know, that's something that not every child
Has in their lives, you know, I don't
I would say I don't have that in my life, you know, I didn't grow up going to church
or I didn't grow up with my dad, you know, bringing me to church or anything like that.
But here you are in a church where you have your parents here, you have your mom and dad,
you have your friends in church, and you're actually like home school,
you get to spend more time with your parents. This is a different kind of living,
and you've been very blessed, just know that. So if you're there in Colossians chapter 3,
look down at verse number 20.
Colossians chapter 3 looked down on verse number 20, the Bible says children obey your parents in all things for this is well pleasing unto the Lord
Father's provoked not your children to anger lest they be discouraged
Servants obey in all things your masters according to the flesh not with eye service as men pleasers
But in singleness of heart fearing God and whatsoever you do do it heartily as to the Lord and not unto men
Knowing that of the Lord he shall receive the reward the inheritance for you serve the Lord
Christ. So here we see again this passage that is pretty similar to Ephesians chapter 6 where we
started. And the main point I want to drive to this morning is the reason why we obey our parents,
the reason why we respect our employers and do what's right. It's not necessarily because they're
going to get on us. It's not necessarily because we're going to get in trouble with them, although
we should do it for that reason. But because everything that we do in the Christian life,
we should do it as unto the Lord. Because at the end of the day, if you're honoring your parents,
obeying your parents, the Bible says God sees that as you directly obeying Him. If a wife
disrespects her husband or doesn't obey her husband, who should really disobey her God
at the end of the day? If the employer is not working hard, is not doing what he's supposed
to be doing at the end of the day, yes, they're stealing time, they're stealing money, but
at the end of the day, they're disobeying the Lord.
Now go to Ephesians chapter 6 again, just so we can read off right there, and look down in verse number 5.
and singleness of your heart as unto Christ.
And notice how in the following verses,
we see those three phrases.
We see in verse number five,
that it says as unto Christ.
And in verse number six,
we see as the servants of Christ.
And then in verse number seven,
we do see as to the Lord.
And God is driving this point
that whatever we do in this life,
you know, whether it's at work, at home,
whatever it is that you're doing in Christian life,
we need to do it as unto the Lord.
Because God at the end of the day
is the one that's watching us 24-7.
Now let me give you some examples of what this looks like at home for the little ones, you know,
if your parents, your mom and dad tells you to go throw the trash or clean them after you,
if you're obeying them, that's as you obeying the Lord. You know, God is watching you,
and you should have that attitude of saying, you know what, I'm doing this as unto the Lord.
And when you develop this attitude that you're doing it as unto God, you know, you're going to do
a better job at it as well.
You know, if you only do it because people are watching you
or you're afraid of what your dad might think or your mom,
you're not really gonna do that good of a job sometimes.
But if you always have it in the back of your mind
that God is watching you and God is pleased
when you obey them, you're definitely gonna do a better job.
Now, go to Colossians chapter one again.
Colossians chapter, oh, Colossians chapter one.
Colossians chapter one.
So let me give you three ways that we can have this attitude or this mindset of having it, you know, doing everything as unto the Lord.
Number one, we're going to do it by putting God first, by putting God first.
And we have to give him the preeminence.
Look at Colossians chapter 1, verse number 16.
It says,
for him and he is before all things and by him all things consist
and he is the head of the body the church who is the beginning of the
firstborn from the dead that in all things he might have the preeminence.
So what does God want from you? He wants you to put them first. He wants you to
put them in the forefront of your mind because God at the end,
God you know being the creator, being the God of this universe,
he should have top priority in our lives. You know it shouldn't be
our school, our friends, our job, you know whatever
be at the very top. And if you have God at the very top, then everything else follows.
You're going to do a lot better job being a better husband, being a better wife, being
a better father, a better child, a better employee. And the way that you do this by putting
God first, making him the preeminent in your life. Now go to
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 10.
And again, let me just repeat that when it says in Ephesians chapter 6, those three phrases that it says,
as unto the Lord, as the servant of Christ, as to the Lord.
It's just that reminder that God has for us that everything that we do in this life, we have to do it as unto the Lord.
And when we don't have that attitude of having God first,
yeah, sometimes things slip through the cracks,
sometimes we don't do that good of a job,
we don't take it that serious,
but if we purposely know that God is watching us
and we're trying to do the best that we can
to please the Lord, we're gonna do a better job at it.
Now, right there in 1 Corinthians chapter 10,
looked down at verse 31,
the Bible says,
whether therefore you eat or drink or whatsoever you do,
do all to the glory of God.
Go to Ecclesiastes chapter 9, Ecclesiastes chapter 9, so whatever it is that you do in this life,
whether you're eating, whether you're drinking, you know, obviously not wine,
but whatever you're doing, you need to do it to the honor and glory of God.
Number one way to do it is by having God in the forefront of your mind making him the preeminent one
Another way that you can do that number two is by having the right attitude
So if you're gonna do things that as unto the Lord you're gonna have a better attitude
You need to have a better attitude when it comes to doing that
And here's the thing a lot of people when they don't have it in their mind that they're serving God with what whatever task that they may be
Doing maybe it's a miscellaneous task like picking up trash or you know cleaning your room making your bed if you don't have
Christ
in the forefront of your mind, you're not going to do that good of a job, honestly.
So the Bible says that he doesn't want you to be lazy.
You know, as children, we shouldn't be lazy.
And if we have the right attitude and we're doing things as unto the Lord, we're going to be more diligent, we're going to be more, we're going to put more effort into it.
Now if you're there in Ecclesiastes chapter 9, Luke down to verse number 10, the Bible says,
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest.
So whatever you're doing, do it with all your might.
do it with all your energy, you know, be diligent about it.
A lot of people, I'm thankful for the people that help here at church,
for the people that, you know, pick up the trash, you know, pick up after others,
for people that help clean the restrooms and vacuum, all the things that they do,
you know, I see them and it looks like they do it as unto the Lord.
You know why? Because they do a very good job at it and they don't, you know,
do it half-heartedly or anything like that.
I see people moving fast, diligently,
picking up the trash everywhere,
and I'm very thankful for that.
But that's the kind of attitude
that we have to have in this church.
You know, whatever we do, we're doing it as unto the Lord.
Whether I see it, or Pastor sees it,
or anybody else sees it, God sees it.
And a lot of times, unfortunately,
people only do things if they're gonna get rewarded for it,
if they're gonna get some title for it,
or some position.
No, we need to just learn to do things
because God is pleased when we're serving Him.
Now, go to ProverShutter 14, ProverShutter 14.
At home, you know, the young children, the way that you can have a right attitude is if your mom and dad tells you to pick up your plate,
you know, put it away, clean up after yourselves, brush your teeth, whatever it is that they ask you to do, have the right attitude.
You know, don't do it grudgingly, don't talk back, don't roll your eyes at your parents.
Don't do any of that. You know, the Bible says that you should do it as unto the Lord.
And if you have that in your mind and your parent or your mom and dad tells you to do something, you're going to have the right attitude.
Now go to Proverbs chapter 14 and verse 23 that says,
In all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips tended only to pinery.
You know, too much talking, the Bible says, ends up, you know,
somebody ends up being poor by just talking, right?
The talk of the lips.
And the Bible says that in all labor there is profit.
So no matter what you're doing, whatever your job is,
those of you that work, you know, there's profit in doing the best that you can.
A lot of times people only do what's expected of them.
you know the bare minimum they don't try to do you know go above and beyond and do the second mile
and then if you you're at work and you know you uh let's say you applied for a
you know, cash register at a fast food place.
There's so many things that you can do,
even though that's your only title.
You know, a lot of people, they look at that and say,
well, I only handle the register, you know,
I'm not trying to clean,
I'm not trying to clean the restaurants,
I'm not trying to learn how to cook or anything like that.
But if you're doing it as unto the Lord
and you're working as a cashier,
you know, God would want you to do a better job.
And if you're diligent, you know,
you learn to do everything at that workplace.
You know, people that work and are diligent at work,
that's the way that they get promoted
because they're diligent.
don't just do what's asked of them they go above and beyond and we want as
Christians want to be you know 10 times better than other employees because we
have God on our side we have the Word of God we have the wisdom of God and so if
we're diligent God's going to look at that and he's going to bless us for it.
So go to Romans chapter 12, Romans chapter 12. So the title of the
sermon this morning is as unto the Lord and one of the ways that you can do
that first point being is by putting God first.
Giving him the preeminence in our lives number two is by having the right attitude when it comes to doing any task a number
Number three, the way that you can do that is by having the right mindset.
Having the right mindset. So if you're there in Romans 12, look at verse number nine, the Bible says,
Let love be without dissimulation, abhor that which is evil,
cleave to that which is good, be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love and honor,
preferring one another, not slothful in business, fervent spirits serving the Lord.
And again, we see this word here, not slothful in business.
And as Christians, again, whatever it is that you do,
do it wholeheartedly, do it with all your might, be diligent, don't be slothful.
One of the examples I could give is like if you're here, part of our
church and you're out so many, you know, when you're out there, be diligent.
You know, don't walk slow, don't drag your feet.
You know, don't look like a Jehovah's Witness.
No, you're out there on a mission.
You're out there to get people saved.
And you have to walk with purpose.
And if you're walking with purpose,
you're not dragging your feet.
You don't have your hands in your pocket,
like all slow, like this.
And believe it or not, there's a lot of times
when we're out there talking to teenagers,
you know, that's how they walk, right?
That's how, you know, they carry themselves
very like slothful.
They're not standing upright or slouching, and we've seen this all the time, but as Christians,
we need to walk with purpose, be diligent, go out there because we're on a mission, and that's to get people saved.
Another example I could give, if you're being slothful, if you know you're going to go out so many,
one of the things that you should do is bring a Bible.
bring some tracks, you know, don't expect for your partner to just have everything there for you,
the tracks, an extra Bible for you. And you know, that's happened to me, unfortunately, where I
forget my Bible in a different car or I forget the tracks. And you know, don't be like that. And
I'm sure everybody has gone through that where we forget something. That's the exception, right?
But don't let that be a habit where we were out there and we're just being slothful. We're not
Proverbs chapter 24. Oh go to Proverbs chapter 24
I'm gonna read to you from Proverbs 22 verse 13
The Bible says the slothful man say there is a lying without as she'll be slain in the streets
And here we see a man that what that makes excuses and as Christians
You know, this is something that we shouldn't do,
just make excuses as to why we can't do something.
If we're doing it as unto the Lord,
what are we gonna do?
We're gonna look for a solution.
We're not just gonna make an excuse
as to why we can't get something done.
And your employer, if you have a job,
you know, that's something that he's gonna appreciate
if you're a problem solver.
If you're just somebody that just finds ways
to make excuses as to why you can't do something,
you're not gonna last long in any area of life.
You know, for example, if you are asked to do
Something go clean the restrooms and you're like, oh, I can't I can't find the mop head. Just look for it
You know go around ask somebody before you ask the boss. Just make sure you look
Diligently so that you can find it little things like that
You know a lot of times people even when it comes to smaller things
You just make excuses as to why they can't do it or let's say I need you to be here at 8
I can't do it because I live far. No, you could do it. You just got to wake up earlier everybody that you know
has that goal to be diligent, to do it as unto the Lord,
they plan for it.
And they don't just, you know, they're not whatever about it.
And another way that we can do it too,
if doing it unto the Lord is like,
whatever ministry you have in this church,
do it wholeheartedly, be diligent, be your problem solver.
And I'm thankful again for everybody
that serves in this church,
whether it's with the parking ministry, the ushers,
the counters, anything that we do in this church,
I appreciate that people do it wholeheartedly.
And it's,
They do it because they're doing it as unto the Lord and if it were just up to them to do it because they're trying to please others
You know God is not pleased with that. God is not gonna bless them now go to Proverbs chapter 24
In Proverbs chapter 24, along the lines about being lazy,
the Bible says in verse 30,
I went by the field of the slothful
and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding,
and lo, it was all grown over with thorns and nettles,
had covered the faser of,
and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Now, how many have walked by a house that has a grass grown?
Have you guys seen the grass?
How many of these houses like that?
No, actually, but we've all seen these houses, right?
And unfortunately, sometimes, you know,
it could be that they just don't have somebody to help them.
They don't have somebody to maintain it for them.
But a lot of times, if somebody is diligent,
like I said, they're gonna find a way to get it done.
They're gonna trim it.
They're gonna cut it.
They're gonna take care of it.
And here the Bible is saying that somebody
that lets it be overgrown or a field is like that.
It's a sign, you know, that they're being slothful.
And then it goes on to verse 32.
Then I saw and consider it well,
So as Christians, you know, we should look at examples like this and try not to be that way.
You know, you don't want to be somebody that just lets things fall apart, that doesn't get it done.
You know, when things just get left undone, they tend to fall apart.
And whether that's for women, you know, if you leave the laundry there, it's still going to be there when you come back.
You know, it's never going to just go away. You know, you're not going to leave the laundry there.
Go out come back and it's going to be magically folded. No if you leave it there and they wash again and then you pile it up
That's going to be something right that's going to fall apart as many
You know and this is something that has happened to me a fortune and yeah, you know
I should work at it is you know taking care of your car right how many people have seen my car nicely, but
If you don't take care of your car, it falls apart.
If you're not maintaining it, if you don't put oil in it, whatever fluid that you need,
it's going to fall apart.
And the Bible's saying here is that we shouldn't be like that.
We should take heed and instruction so that we can avoid things falling apart.
Now go to Proverbs chapter 10, Proverbs chapter 10.
So the lazy person, like I said, would just let things fall apart instead of taking care
of it right away.
Verse number four the Bible says he become it poor that dealing with the slack hand, but the hand of the diligent make it rich and
People that are diligent they tend you know to be well off and yeah, of course guy will bless them
finances and all that, but anybody that's well-off or anybody that has some kind of
money or that has a good job, you know, that's a sign that they're diligent.
And that's something that everybody can do, right?
If you want a job that pays well, you know, you have to have the skills for it.
You can't just expect to have a good-paying job and look at somebody else and say, hey,
I want to make that kind of money.
but you're not skilled like them,
you're not diligent like them,
you're just being slothful.
You know, God's not gonna bless you with that.
And the way that we can do that
is by doing everything as unto the Lord.
Because if you're at work
and you're doing it as unto the Lord,
you know, you're gonna be diligent
and God's gonna promote you and bless you.
Now go back to Ephesians chapter six,
Ephesians chapter six.
And I'm almost done right here.
It says in Ephesians chapter six,
go look at verse number one,
the Bible says,
Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.
Honor thy father and mother again,
which is the first commandment with promise
that it may be well with thee
and that thou mayest live long on the earth.
So number two, number three, as I was saying,
the way that we can do things as unto the Lord
is by having the right mindset, the right mindset.
Go to Proverbs chapter four, Proverbs chapter four.
You know, one day our parents are no longer going to be here and, you know, one day you're going to move out and you're no longer going to be around your parents and everything that they taught you, you know, you're going to carry that with you.
And I'm sure every parent here is teaching their children good things, but one day they're not going to be living with us. They're going to be on their own.
And we need to make it our duty to teach them to always do things as unto the Lord.
To have the right mindset and you know even if your parents God forbid they stop coming to church one day as a child
You need to make it a goal to always be in church because you're not here
for your parents. You shouldn't be here for the pastor, although we do come here obviously because
a pastor is preaching, but we need to do it ultimately as unto the Lord. Because at the
end of the day, God commands us to be in church. You know, God commands us to read our Bible.
God commands us to be faithful until the end. And if we have that mindset that we're doing it for him,
then we're going to be more likely to stay in the fight.
And I go to Proverbs chapter 4, look at verse number 1, the Bible says,
Hear ye children the instruction of a father, and attend to no understanding.
Go to Proverbs chapter 15, Proverbs chapter 15.
So children, your parents do know more than you.
You know, they've been around longer than you.
They've been around the block more than you.
And whatever they tell you, there's a reason why they tell you the things that they do,
whatever advice that they give you.
not scoff at it but we don't take them that serious but later on when you have your own children
you'll you start to understand you know this is why my dad taught me this this is why my mom told
me do things this way because then you understand that parents do know best you know parents do
know what's right for you and if you're there in probably chapter 15 look at uh i'll read to you
from verse number one what says a full despise that his father's instruction but he regarded
So, only a fool will despise instruction, and you don't want to be known as a fool.
You don't want to be known as somebody that doesn't, you know, pay attention, that doesn't
listen to their parents, because he that, you know, it says he that regardless of proof
is prudent.
And as children, as teenagers, we need to learn how to take correction.
We need to learn how to take instruction for our parents, because they're there to instruct
us, to protect us from the dangers that are out there.
And right now, a lot of you guys are young, some of you guys are older.
you know, the more, as older as you get,
and as once you start going out into the real world,
then that's when you're presented
with a lot of these temptations.
And if we don't take heed as a child,
and later on we start ignoring what our parents taught us,
we start to fall, you know, in these dangerous situations
and stuff.
So go to Proverbs chapter five,
I'll give you an example of what one of them would be.
Proverbs chapter five.
Project after five, you know if your parents tell you stay away from this girl because they see something of that girl
You know that they're don't like or they see something that you don't see you should take heed to the instruction of your father
And if your mother and they tell you know what I don't want you hanging out with those friends
it's for a reason. You know, they see something that you probably don't see.
If they tell you, I don't want you going to these places, you know, late at night,
I don't want you watching that, I don't want you listening to that,
it's all for a reason because, you know, they want to protect you,
they want to keep your mind innocent, they want to, you know,
make sure that you don't fall into sin.
And here in Proverbs chapter 5, it has to do with the strange woman.
It says in verse number 7, after it talks about the strange woman,
Hear me now, therefore ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
It says, Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house,
Lest thou give thy honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel.
And it says, Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and thy laborers be in the house of a stranger,
And thou mourn at last when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, and say, how have I hated instruction, and my heart despised for proof, and have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor incline my ear to them that instructed me."
And here we see somebody that was clearly warned to stay away from the strange woman, and you can think about it in any way, you're warned to stay away from certain things, and when you
disobey and you go ahead and do them you reap the consequences and here we have somebody that's
mournful that's saying you know at last the mourn at last when their flesh is consuming they say
how have I hated instruction and you don't want to be that person that at the end of the day
you were told what was right you were told what you should have been doing you didn't listen
and at the end of the day you're just
regretting it. Now you have to deal with the consequences and the consequences are not going to go away
but instead you're going to have that attitude. It's like, how did I hate instruction?
And it could have all been avoided. That's the thing. A lot of things that happen in our lives
could be avoided if we take heed to what our parents tell us. And we're going to take heed even
if they're not there because at the end of the day we're serving God. We're doing things as unto the
Lord. So even if your parents are not there and you're there by yourself in whatever situation
in your mind, you're going to try to flee from every situation possible. You think about like
Joseph with Potiphar's wife, you know, he fled from that situation just like the Bible says,
flee fornication. Or you think about Daniel and his friends, you know, they did what was right,
even though their parents were no longer there. Now go back to Ephesians chapter 6 and I'll end
with this, you know, first of all, we say that everything that we do, we have to do it as unto the
Number one way to do that is by making God preeminent in your life.
Number two is by having the right attitude, not doing it grudgily, not having a bad attitude about it.
Number three, by having the right mindset, you know, knowing that everything that we do in this life,
if we do it as until Lord, God will be pleased.
And lastly, you know, we should know that we should do as until Lord, even if people
Don't ever thank you, even if people don't ever, you know, patch you in the back or get some
type of recognition, but God is pleased with you and God will reward you for everything that you do.
Look down at verse number five in Ephesians chapter six. Here's the last verses. It says,
servants be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling and
seeing as of your heart as unto Christ, not with eye service as man pleasers, but as servants of
So when you realize that you know God in the end is going to bless you
Oh, let's read number verse number 8 says knowing that what's ever a good thing any man do with the same shall he receive the Lord
Whether he be born or free so whatever it is that you do when you're serving Christ God will bless you for that
You know God will reward you. You know God is
Always watching and whether you think somebody you know sees you or not if you're only doing it for the recognition then
your motivation pretty soon is going to go away, your reason for doing things is not going to last.
But if you're doing it as unto the Lord and you know God's going to bless you and He's going to
reward you, you're always going to be in the fight, you're always going to do what's right.
And I'll end with this, you know, knowing that go to Colossians chapter 3 verse 24,
Colossians chapter 3 verse 24, the Bible says there, knowing that of the Lord, He shall receive
the reward of the inheritance where you serve the Lord Christ.
And notice how it says at the end of the day, who do we serve?
We don't serve man, we're not trying to please man.
The Bible says that we serve the Lord Jesus Christ.
And I want to encourage you this morning that you're here now in this church, you're young,
you have a long life to live, Lord willing,
and take advantage of that because you're in a good church,
you're in a church that has a lot of
people, a lot of adults that care for you, that pray for you, that want the best for you.
I myself, you know, I pray for you guys. I want you guys to succeed, you know,
go further than what we're doing when you're our age. And you guys are got a head start,
you know, you guys were born, some of you guys were born in this church, not in this church,
but you know, while you're being at this church. But you know, that's a blessing. And if you're
young and you're in church, take advantage of that.
you know, you could do a lot more for God
than what we're doing now,
because you have many more years above us.
But I want to encourage you guys,
even the teenagers, you know,
I'm thankful for Brother Christian and Robert,
they're young.
And I remember when Christian first came to church,
he was like 15, now he's like what, 19?
And he's still here, and I don't see his parents here.
You know, he's doing it as unto the Lord.
I'm thankful for people like that.
And there's other people that are here
that come on their own, like Brother Robert,
Brother Adrian, that they just,
come on their own. And at the end, they do it because they're doing it as into the Lord.
So the sermon this morning is just anything that you do, whether minimal, whether it's big,
you know, do it as into the Lord. Number one, we got to do it because God,
we need to make them first in our life. We need to have the right mindset, the right attitude,
and we need to realize that God is the one that's going to bless us. Let's pray.
And we follow the Lord. Thank you for this day. Thank you for
And give me an opportunity to preach.
I pray, Lord, for every single child and teen
and young person that's here present this morning.
I pray, Lord, that you continue to bless them
and help them, Lord, in their Christian life,
of those that are saved.
And I pray, Lord, for the little ones that are not saved
yet that they would get saved as they get older.
I pray, Lord, that they would always stay faithful to church,
always be thankful, Lord, for being in church
and being able to be here at a very young age.
continue to bless our church and help us, Lord,
to reach more young people.
Bless the remainder of the day
and every activity that's gonna happen this morning.
Bless the food in Jesus' name, amen.
So, turn, let me see.
Turn your hand nose to song 107, praise the Savior.
Psalm 107.
Song number 17.
Sorry for reading the wrong scripture.