A Love For Slavery?

God's people have to know that knowledge of Christ leads to God because knowing the Lord leads to a stronger hunger for Christ. The more you know about the Lord the stronger your passion for Christ and your love for God will become. The reverse is true for a child of God that is ignorant of the Father. So to briefly reiterate the prior point, knowledge of Christ leads to God, who is the one that will set you free, but ignorance of the Word of God will lead back to sin, which is bondage, captitivity, slavery. To know the Lord you must give more of yourself, through prayer and reading your Bible. For the scripture reads Joshua 1: 7-8 " Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not trun from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night.." This is your mandate as a believer of the Gospel. Knowledge of God is Needed for sustaining your Salvation. However, there are many ignorant people in the body of Christ. Many slaves that proclaim Christ! An ignorant man/woman of God will ultimatley fall to slavery, a slave to a carnal nature. Have you not seen the slaves? They are there every Sunday pleading for a Miracle! God pay my bills! God give me a man! God give me a house! God give me a job! Meanwhile, the Bible declares:
Matthew 6: 31-34 "So do not worry, saying 'What shall we eat? or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself." A sad sight indeed, to see God's people love a life of complacency, unnecessary struggle and unfulfilled prophecy, but this should not be. For the Bible declares that God's people are peculiar, we are instruments of Praise! Our only mandate is to stay connected to the Father who is our source, for our Salvation comes from the Lord. We who are God's people are to use everything we have for the Glorification and the Building up of God's temple, His Holy Name, the Kingdome of the most High God!! That is all we have to do!! Do you have hands? Well lift them up! Do you have a mouth? Well shout out his name! In prayer don't ask for things the Lord has already promised you, it's insulting. Don't seek God for things! Seek God for more God! His will! His Love!! The Bible declares Isaiah 65:24 "Before they call I will answer: while they are still speaking I will hear!" Don't we worship an Awesome God!! Isn't He Awesome!! Before you had the need He had the answer, before you had the problem He had the solution! So if God has already solved the problem why beg and cry out for it? Just seek Him and know that He has already worked it out!! You must know this!! Not feel it or say it 1000 times to yourself! Just know it and when you know something you don't talk about it, do you? When you are truly confident about something you keep it to yourself. There is no confirmation needed for something you know. For instance, what is 2 multiplied by 2? For those of you that don't know it's 4. But for those of you who did know the answer, did you need any emotional confirmation? No. You simply knew. If you were sick, would the answer have changed? If you were sad? Happy? Mad? No the answer is still 4. Well, when you Know the Word of God you simply Know it and don't need any worldly/flesh confirmation. You don't need to ask the opinion of one million people because you Know it. Regardless of how you feel Know His Word, Trust and Have Faith in His Word!! When you understand and walk in this you shall be kept in what the Bible describes as "perfect peace". A peace that is so divine, free from worry, free from stress and free from a life of horror. Unfortunately many do not know the Lord and his Word. Many meaning, saved and unsaved! Therefore, they walk as slaves, they submit to a life of toil without reward, a life of horror, a life of unfulfillment, a life without hope and a life without a Love that can not be described in any language. A Heavenly Love a Godly Love! For it is possible to share the same Love that Jesus had when He went to the cross. I am just beginning to tap into This Love and I can not describe it in words. It's truly unimaginable!! So why do they give up this Love? Why choose Slavery over Life? The answer differs for some. Some are just ignorant and do not read their Bibles and do not give God time to be God in their lives. On the other hand, there are some who simply love slavery! As awkward as it sounds it is very true. Open your Bible and read Exodus 21: 1-6. "Buf if the servant declares, I love my master and my wife and children and do not want to go free, then his master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door or the doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his servant for life!" A Love for Slavery? By staying Ignorant for so long, people may become so comfortable in their present enviornment untill they come to a point where they don't want to leave. In the book UP From Slavery (written by Booker T. Washington), there is a passage in which he describes the scene when the slaves became free. He describes the scene as being one in which "there is great rejoicing and thanksgiving and wild ecstasy" he continues to say "the wild rejoicing on the part of the emancipated coloured people lasted but for a brief period.....the great responsibility of being free, of having charge of themselves, of having to think and plan for themselves and their children seemed to take possession of them....within a few hours the wild rejoicing ceased and a feeling of deep gloom seemed to pervade the slave quarters.....deep down in their hearts there was a strange and peculiar attachment to "old Marster and "old Missus," and to their children, which they found it hard to think of breaking off.....one by one, stealthily at first, the older slaves began to wander from the slave quarters back to the "big house"!"
To all those who worship the Lord, don't love slavery don't look back to when you served the enemy, what God has in store for you is greater then what you had before!!
God Bless and as always, come back next week and tell a friend.