“Y todo lo que hagáis, hacedlo de corazón, como para el Señor y no para los hombres; sabiendo que del Señor recibiréis la recompensa de la herencia, porque a Cristo el Señor servís. COLOSENSES 3.23–24 La Biblia condena la pereza, es escandalosa y pecaminosa. Proverbios tiene mucho que decir sobre esto (6.9–11; 10.5; 19.15; 21.25; 24.30–34), incluyendo el contraste de la pereza con la diligencia. «La mano de los diligentes señoreará; mas la negligencia será tributaria» (12.24). «El alma del perezoso desea, y nada alcanza; mas el alma de los diligentes será prosperada» (13.4; cp. 14.23). Si usted es diligente, es muy probable que haga dinero. Si usted es perezoso, es muy probable que no lo haga. El apóstol Pablo enseñó principios similares en el Nuevo Testamento. Exhortó a los creyentes de Tesalónica: «Si alguno no quiere trabajar, tampoco coma» (2 Tesalonicenses 3.10). Él le dijo a Timoteo que instruyera a los miembros de la iglesia en sus obligaciones laborales: «Si alguno no provee para los suyos, y mayormente para los de su casa, ha negado la fe, y es peor que un incrédulo» (1 Timoteo 5.8). Si usted no trabaja a conciencia y con diligencia para mantener a su familia, se está comportando peor que un incrédulo, porque la mayoría de los no cristianos trabaja arduamente para cuidar a sus familias. Debemos estar motivados a huir de la pereza, porque el trabajo es una tarea noble, que se debe realizar para agradar al Señor (Colosenses 3.22–24). Trabajar «no sirviendo al ojo, como los que quieren agradar a los hombres, sino como siervos de Cristo, de corazón haciendo la voluntad de Dios» (Efesios 6.6) debe ser nuestra motivación más elevada. ¿Qué puede hacer para mejorar sus hábitos de trabajo?”
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John F. MacArthur, Jr. is a fifth-generation preacher who serves as a pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. He is also a prolific author, conference speaker, and is president of The Master's College and Seminary. MacArthur received a B.A. from Los Angeles Pacific College, his M.Div. from Talbot Theological Seminary, Litt.D. at Grace Graduate School, and D.D. from Talbot Theological Seminary. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he regularly teaches Expository Preaching at the seminary and frequently speaks in chapel.
MacArthur's pulpit ministry has been extended around the globe through his media ministry, Grace to You, and its satellite offices in Australia, Canada, Europe, India, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa. In addition to producing daily radio programs for nearly 2,000 English and Spanish radio outlets worldwide, Grace to You distributes books, software, audiotapes, and CDs by John MacArthur. In thirty-six years of ministry, Grace to You has distributed more than thirteen million CDs and audiotapes.
John Fullerton MacArthur, Jr. is a United States evangelical writer and minister, noted for his radio program entitled Grace to You. MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker and has served as the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969, and as the President of The Master's College (and the related The Master's Seminary) in Santa Clarita, California.
Theologically, MacArthur is a conservative far-right Baptist, a strong proponent of expository preaching, a dispensationalist and a self-described Calvinist. He has been acknowledged by Christianity Today as one of the most influential preachers of his time, and is a frequent guest on Larry King Live as representative of an evangelical Christian perspective.
MacArthur has authored or edited more than 150 books, most notably the MacArthur Study Bible, which has sold more than 1 million copies and received a Gold Medallion Book Award. Other best-selling books include his MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series (more than 1 million copies), Twelve Ordinary Men, (more than 500,000 copies), and the children's book A Faith to Grow On, which garnered an ECPA Christian Book Award.