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Col.3:22 Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

We are all men pleasers just because we have religion and state we are not does no change the facts. This is the struggle of our fallen flesh, and in time if we come to be honest in this matter not fooling ourselves, we understand instead that we hold all things in common with humanity.

1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

It is our humanity that makes us a part of all that is good and evil in this world. It is doctrine, agendas, religion, education, politic, power, and wealth that lets us live a lie. Truth defined a fact, it does not fix the problem it points out something that is common to all mankind. These brothers and sisters were given a life, one that is perfect, sinless, from above called truth, Christ Jesus. Now they would struggle learning humility because of their commonality to all humanity in their fallen flesh. They would learn mercy, praying for others, because they would be faced with the power of sin in their members, the toxic strength of sin they hated to see in themselves, and in others.

James 4:5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"? 4:6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."{Proverbs 3:34}

Paul is saying we know we are men pleasers, and we know that its is wrong, let us not get proud, but instead let us conqueror it in Christ knowing we hold in common what is a fault in our brothers. Let not get righteous in some truth, judging as though we are better, or more powerful than a weakness we hate seeing in others, and have blinded ourselves to in us!

Matt.7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? 7:4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye? 7:5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

Coming up to something higher requires truth, descending into moral decay comes from living a lie. We can only live a lie when we think we are better than others by some rule of law, and not faith. We are the same, rules only defined what we fail in. God provides us truth, and Spirit to let us live in Christ, to help us up so we may pray for others as we would ourselves.

James 5:16 Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective. 5:17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months. 5:18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit. 5:19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back, 5:20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.

The prophet Daniel when praying to God, for the evils of his people put himself in common with those evils and sins of his brothers and sisters. The righteous Pharisee and a tax collector went up to the temple to pray, the tax collector was taken by his sins, the Pharisee was above his by his religion.

Luke 18:9 He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. 18:10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 18:12 I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.' 18:13 But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."

We hold Christ in common all of us, we have been given a free gift, not of our making, or works, but we also hold in common the sins of humanity let us be compassionate for we are surround daily with life and death, the life of Christ, and the death through our flesh. Paul spoke to a problem common in all human, in all cultures, and in all seats of authority that of pleasing others in power. It is a sicken sin, and we should hate it, but than, we would have to hate our own flesh.

Eph.5:29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly; 5:30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

First, we know God must root out this problem in humans, he is working on that right now, and has been for thousand's of years in his new creation subjected to what is common in all mankind. Where they stumble it will be to whiten, were they conquer it will be to God's glory and freedom for mankind. If we know, by Spirit what is common in all mankind, we will not be enslaved too them any longer, if we direct our worship to God, because we know what in Christ than we are solving the problems common to all mankind, by the truth.

1 Corinthians 3:9 For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

Rom.9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction, 9:23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory, 9:24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?

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