Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1Cor.7:23 You were bought with a price. Don't become bondservants of men.

The apostle Paul seemingly contradicts himself here, telling the Corinthian's not to seek a release if they were called too Christ as a bond-servant, than he says don't become a bond-servant of men?

Matthew 19:17 He said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments."

How can a person become a bond-servant too men? Simply in pleasing men over the Christ Jesus, whom is the only person a Christian's can become a bond-servant too spiritually in the body of Christ. Here in this Corinthian congregation as it true in most Christian's organizations, they were giving glory to fleshly teachers, following them instead of putting faith in Christ Jesus their invisible head, hence. pleasing men had become more important then pleasing God. Subsequently, making one a bond-servant of Christ Jesus by proxy through teachers, older men within the congregation.

1Cor. 3:1 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
3:2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
3:3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men? 3:4 For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," aren't you fleshly?
3:5 Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

Men who were put into position of power over others in the name of Christ Jesus where their approval became more important than serving in the body of Christ by faith unseen from human approval. No longer could these fleshly Christian's listen to the Spirit, the voice of the body of Christ Jesus, which is the anointing Christ promised would teach them all things, but rather they follow the dictates mere teachers going back too works of sins laws too please those in powerful position. Hence, these Christian's have made themselves bond-servants to human and not Christ Jesus.

John 8:15 You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.

Let us remember here, many of these Christian's were servants to a master working for them, but this is not the type of bondservant Paul refers to here. but instead, a willing submission of going back under sins-laws into the mundane shadow for idol worship through teachers willingly costing them their freedom in Christ.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Although, they justify their actions claiming them from Christ Jesus through teachers of sins laws, and the like, they deny also the leading of the Holy Spirit, which demands faith and godly jealousy first and always foremost over human approval. Many have defiled their own conscience in Christ by compromising God's direction in their lives inorder too pleases religious leadership, which is practiced in all false religions of our world.

Romans 6:19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

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