Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, and singleness of heart, as unto Christ;
Ephesians 6:5-6
Not with eyeservice (sic), as menpleasers (sic); but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart
Colossians 3:22
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice (sic), as menpleasers (sic); but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
Colossians 4:1
Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
1 Timothy 6:1-2
Let as many as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and is doctrine be not blasphemed.And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
1 Peter 2:18Christians and Muslims believe that Christ came to share with the people, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not the Pauline Gospel. Paul, who wasn't even an ordained apostle, rightly wrote kind letters to the new members of Christ's Church exhorting them to stay firm in the faith and not be given to fertility worship or idolatry. However, Paul's rather innocuous exhortations have been mistranslated, misinterpreted and misconstrued. As a consequence, Christendom has elevated the recently converted, very devote and ordained merely to preach (see article entitled Was Paul Really an Apostle?), Saul of Tarsus, to the same level of Jesus Christ, that of making and pronouncing doctrine!
Servants. be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also the froward (sic).
Christ's ministry was to bring peace and hope to mankind, not to overturn the apple cart. Christ's mission was to first instill love in the hearts and minds of the people and through love, the people would themselves bring about a new world order void of slavery in which everyone's human rights were protected.
But before Christ could influence man to respect the individual rights
of his fellowman, Christ taught a form of passive resistance and change
through love and being cooperative No! Slavery is anathema to the teachings
of God, but if it occurs which it has and will, change the system by changing
people's heart. Christ's mission was to instill love for each other in
the hearts of man and through love, change the world, not by war, coercion,
force or intimidation.
David R.W. Wadsworth
Servant of the Most High God
El Santuario Escondido
10387 Tioga Lake Drive
Escondido, CA 92029-5405
(760) 743-5293
drww@themillennialdispensation.org
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