[blindchristian] Sound Words for Slaves, November 16, 2015

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What is the real and basic commonality between masters and slaves, between
any socio-differences, that should elicit mutual respect for one another?

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All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy
of all respect, so that God's name and our teaching may not be slandered (1
Timothy 6:1).

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Some of you have tyrants for bosses. I have worked for such supervisors
myself. They frustrate you; you see them as ignoramuses who do not know the
end from the beginning. How they ever got the job in the first place, you
cannot comprehend. Yet there they are in charge; they have you in a
stranglehold because they control your paycheck. The word of Scripture is
that you are not merely to treat them with respect, but that you regard them
as worthy of full respect.

Everything is going to rest upon how you feel about them. If you think they
are lunatics who are unworthy of your respect, then no matter how polite you
may be when they are watching, your attitude toward them will be one of
bitterness and resentment; you will be constantly trying to find ways to
goof off and justify it because of their attitude toward you. But Scripture
says, consider [them] worthy of full respect--no matter what they are like,
no matter how they treat you. Why? Because they are made in the image of
God. Just like you, when God's grace touches them, they are capable of
reflecting His glory and beauty; they are the potential bearers of God
Himself, so they are to be treated with respect.

The Bible never looks at people as being worthless. The Bible's view is that
humans are God's creation made in God's image, and, though they have fallen,
they are not worthless. If you regard people as created in God's image, you
can see an individual as worthy of respect and honor because of what God has
made him or her to be--a man or woman for whom Christ died. This is how
Christian slaves were to regard their masters in the first century. If they
were unbelieving masters, slaves were still to look upon them as worthy of
full respect in order that the name of the God who created them and stamped
His image upon them might not be defamed or His teachings scorned by the
world.

The satanic view of humans is exactly the opposite. Satan thinks people are
worthless; he regards them with scorn and despising. When you think of
people as worthless, you treat them that way, and you talk about them that
way by cursing them and using language about them that is disparaging and
depersonalizing. When you do that, you are reflecting Satan's view of
people. Whether slaves or masters, Christians are to treat each other and
all other people as worthy of full respect and not use language like that,
so that the name of God will not be defamed.

Thank You, Lord, that You have placed me where I am for a purpose. Help me
to treat those around me as worthy of all respect.

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What is the real and basic commonality between masters and slaves, between
any socio-differences, that should elicit mutual respect for one another?

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