Enslaved

August 8, 2010 AM
Dave Marttunen

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We have a natural dislike to the word slave. We are convinced that all slavery is wrong, and all slave owners are bad. We think that independence is preferable to everything else. We so prize our independence which we synonymously define as freedom, that regardless of the cost—starvation for us and our children, illness and plague for us and our children—it is preferable to slavery. We believe deeply in our hearts that it is better to be a poor, uneducated, and sick free man than to be a rich, educated and healthy slave. With this value firmly in place, when we come to a Scripture like Romans 6 and read the language of slavery, we are immediately offended. When we read that in God’s view, we should consider ourselves his slaves, that he has in fact bought, paid for, and will eternally own us, we jump back in horror. God cannot be good and own us… can he? He cannot be righteous, loving, kind and merciful and own us… can he? He cannot be for us, if he enslaves us can he? Today we are confronted by this truth, we all serve something and whatever we serve will master us.

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