The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - Suffering Well

Life is not fair. Most of the slaves in the Roman world of Paul's day were born that way. It is not as though they committed crime or accumulated massive amounts of debt and ended up as slaves by consequence of their own foolishness. This was according to god's law.

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00:00:52.020 Life is not fair.

00:00:55.180 Most of the slaves in the Roman world of Paul's day

00:00:57.800 were born that way it is not as though they committed a crime or accumulated massive amounts

00:01:03.440 of debt and ended up as slaves by consequence of their own foolishness this was according to god's

00:01:10.700 law the result in israel if someone was a slave in israel it was because of their sin

00:01:16.960 if israel was in fact obeying and following god's law but if someone was a slave in the african

00:01:23.700 slave trade or at rome it very likely was because not of their own foolishness not because of their

00:01:29.240 own sin but the sin of someone else who was mistreating who committed great acts of injustice

00:01:36.100 who was oppressing them and that's not the slavery that god permitted many of the slaves at rome

00:01:42.800 were not slaves due to their own foolishness but rather due to the injustice and sin of others

00:01:48.160 due to sin entering the world life is grossly unfair and the bible never pretends as if it

00:01:54.680 were anything otherwise see the good news of the gospel brings hope to those in despair

00:01:59.460 through faith in jesus these downtrodden slaves oppressed and mistreated they instantly became

00:02:06.960 beloved members of the body of christ with equal status to their masters in the sight of god and

00:02:12.760 they became co-heirs of the glorious hope of eternal life and yet these slaves were not

00:02:18.400 instantly liberated from their physical slavery the moment that they believed in jesus so in our

00:02:24.240 text paul commands slaves to regard their own masters as worthy of all honor so that for the

00:02:32.240 very reason that the name of god and the teaching that is christian doctrine may not be reviled

00:02:40.360 These words remind us that there is something greater.

00:02:43.520 Even for us who truly are victims, who truly are being mistreated,

00:02:48.240 there is still something greater at stake than our own personal rights and happiness.

00:02:54.040 How we choose to behave in the midst of unjust treatment bears witness to the God we serve

00:02:59.280 and the teachings he has called us to model.

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The NXR Podcast - January 27, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - Suffering Well

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