Warning: Those of you with pride issues, humbling issues, understanding issues, or with sensitive feelings, don't feel insulted if. If my passion is too real and too "inappropriate" I apologize in advance but I mean these things out of pure love. I don't however apologize for what I said or what I believe in, rather I am apologizing my lack of expressing things which I strongly love and believe in.
" 24The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, 25with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, 26and they may come to thier senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been help captive by him to do his will."
Definition of a bond-servant - "devoted to another to the disregard of one’s own interests.” [www.thebondservant.org]
v24 - The Lord's bondservant.
- despite what the society says about being a bondservant, you are to be the Lords'. And like that definition above says... I think it speaks for itself.
How is it even possible for us to be bond-servants of ONE MASTER (Jesus) [Matt 6:24], when we keep putting all this crap in front of the line that has been drawn with Jesus' OWN SPLIT BLOOD [Rev 1:5]. HOW DARE YOU, pursue any other kind of riches or any other kind of gain, when God is all that matters. Who do you think you are to say that you are a Christian {Little Christ} and think you deserve more. We don't even deserve the title Christian if you not willing to lay down your pathetic worthless lives for someone like Jesus. As Jesus did.
Jesus HIMSELF did this for you guys. Because out of the worthlessness of our HUMAN being, he still loved us, and said Come and be my servant... wait, No! Not just my servant, A BOND-servant. Do this because my yoke is easy. So it is an honor to be even seen by Jesus, It's even more of an honor TO REPRESENT HIM as his servant. He is a Prince, the Bridegroom, the Messiah, the KING OF KINGS, and he has asked you TO GO WITH HIM. So how dare you misrepresent Him with your lies and deciet and malice, instead of being vulnerable, you harden your eyes and shut your mouth, and instead of going to your WIFE/HUSBAND for gentle correction you go to... Nobody. You wander in your own feces just waiting for someone to look where no one wants to go. Because you THINK, no one cares, becasue you ASSUME, that you are alone, and you feel pity for yourself instead of remembering, "Oh that is right I'm on a yoke." YOUR ON A FREAKIN' YOKE with Jesus Christ the KING OF KINGS, How can you possibly forget! [Matt 11:25-30]
This is a Yoke.
You are in bondage with Jesus on That. we as the Body of Christ are in BONDAGE with Jesus On that Thing like Oxen are to complete the work assigned to them... [Matt 28:19]
v25a - "with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition", At the end of v24, he says "Patient when Wronged," In other words WHEN you are wrong, not IF, but WHEN you are wrong, you are to be patient.
Now starting in this verse it says, when you are wrong or you are correcting someone else do it with gentleness, do you think you deserve to be spoken to like a child or better yet like an impudent, ignorant, child? No you are cool, funny, nice, and an awesome person and so are they. So treat him like that, if you have problems being nice to people, pray before you speak. Ask God what to tell you to say.
Side-Note:Hey chauvinists, did you notice that it didn't say anything about gender?
v25b - "if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth", Now pay attention, who among you thinks that you know everything about how God works? No ONE! Except for God, Himself. [Jeremiah 29:11] So stop thinking you know everything, it's simply annoying, and who knows, for those of you who like to learn, you can learn how to learn a different way... by shutting up.
Now onto the verse, |...may grant them repentance...| means that God will at HIS APPOINTED TIME help you out, however this depends on how Willing you are to actually receive from it. If a plant refuses to receive water, it will die. Luckily unlike a plant who cannot think for itself, we have that choice, whereas the plant doesn't. Now this part |...leading to the knowledge of the truth | is the cool part. So we all know Paul, I mean Saul... Persecuting the Church, assisted in the stoning of Stephen, Threatening and Murdering the disciples of the Lord [Acts 8-9:1], However at Acts 9:1 What happens? Sauls turns over a new leaf. We all know what happens onward however the thing I want to get at is this important act that took place.
Acts 9:8,18 - "8Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing; and leading him by the hand, they brought him into Damascus...... 18And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he regained his sight, and he got up and was baptized;"
If you want to get all of the story read it, It's great. If you notice in v8 at the very beginning, |Saul GOT UP from the ground...| If you just got blind and Jesus Himself told you that he blinded you, and He wants you to stop what your doing and become his SERVANT [Romans 1:1], To be honest most of you would not move from the Ground. However he Humbled himself and GOT UP, It was his first step that took place, then God came through. "But what if...", then Johan Interrupted and yelled, "FAITH!" And because he went through all that, |And immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales...| If you read in v17 he believes the Holy Spirit, cause he was WILLING to do what he asked of him because of the acknowledgement of authority that the Holy Spirit carried. After he receives truth spiritually, his body shows a representation of what just happened. And THEN He receives the Holy Spirit.
Note: How he didn't receive the Holy Spirit until after he finished "healing", because it was a process to get him where the Holy Spirit wanted him to be at.
v26 - "and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been help captive by him to do his will."
So basically the Devil goes around like a big bully but in reality he is a chump, kinda like those kids that are all talk but no show. [1 Peter 5:8; John 10:10]
Up until our "scales" fall off our spiritual sense and our physical sense, then, ONLY THEN, by the grace of the Lord's choosing, after receiving the Holy Spirit will you see what he sees, and know what the Spirit Knows. [I.E. Peter's Confession of Christ (Matthew 16:13-17)] The devil uses the things of this world to control you and make those things your master. Because he wants your will, to be for him, he is trying to steal that will, he is trying to work for him against God. So resist him and rub that dirt off your eyes and see the truth.
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