Posted on 04/12/2021 4:18:18 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread” (Proverbs 12:9).
Now, the general lesson here is that it is better to be blessed by God then to blow your own horn. We don't need to get off in this very deep, but once again we run up on that thing, even in America. America, a nation that was conceived in the Judeo-Christian ethic of the Bible. Is it not strange that even for a country based on the Bible that one of the thorns that everybody is always niggling at is the issue of servitude. We fought a war about that.
This whole issue of servitude provides a good test to see what kind of Bible believer you are. It's not about inferiority. The fact is you can read your New Testament and you will find servitude firmly ensconced with God blessing it and still giving boundaries and direction for it.
Even if we don't enforce certain things anymore, you know it's still important that you have the right kind of heart toward God. The area of greatest discord in our country and in our churches is on social issues. There's not that many churches split over the deity of Christ, but people get ripped up over social issues. You go read your New Testament through. Go study servants and what you will find is that servitude was not done away at the cross.
In America today where it basically has no import any longer. No matter what Jesse Jackson says, there are no slaves any more in America. It's against the law. Nobody does that, and nobody wants to go back to those days.
We don’t want to own anybody. Bible believers do not consider themselves superior to anybody racially. Well, I do think Jews are superior to me. I believe I am an inferior race. I'm a Japhetite. I believe that God blessed the Jews nationally and ethnically more than he did me. So, if you want to say I'm an inferior race, that’s fine; but verses like this are really an excellent test for your mettle as a Bible believer, because it says “He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.”
You can't find servitude demolished there and abhorred by God. Why? Because even in the New Testament it is present and God blessed it within certain narrow lines.
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Hmmm...true that.
Sounds like “a humble rich man is more blessed than an uppity poor man.”
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