Post by Les Brewer on Sept 19, 2020 21:59:15 GMT
The Joyful Slaves of Christ
I want you to turn back to the fifteenth chapter of the gospel of John. This is a subject that has been much on my heart probably for fifteen years or so.
I remember flying to England, flying to London to do a Banner of Truth Conference, and for the first time really awakening to the truth that I want to point out to you today. I knew it was there, but it was below the surface until that particular flight. I spent hours tracing a specific word through the Scripture and coming to a fresh understanding of the concept of “slave,” slaves of Christ, which is the theme. And it was a few years later that I wrote a book, and I presented it to the publisher, and they were not sure that I should be allowed to title the book Slave. That term is fraught with all kinds of expectations and implications; and they tried to get me to change the title, and I refused to do that because essentially I was uncovering a cover up by using the word “slave,” and I wasn’t going to cover up uncovering of a cover up by changing the title. So it’s available, it’s called Slave.
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I want you to turn back to the fifteenth chapter of the gospel of John. This is a subject that has been much on my heart probably for fifteen years or so.
I remember flying to England, flying to London to do a Banner of Truth Conference, and for the first time really awakening to the truth that I want to point out to you today. I knew it was there, but it was below the surface until that particular flight. I spent hours tracing a specific word through the Scripture and coming to a fresh understanding of the concept of “slave,” slaves of Christ, which is the theme. And it was a few years later that I wrote a book, and I presented it to the publisher, and they were not sure that I should be allowed to title the book Slave. That term is fraught with all kinds of expectations and implications; and they tried to get me to change the title, and I refused to do that because essentially I was uncovering a cover up by using the word “slave,” and I wasn’t going to cover up uncovering of a cover up by changing the title. So it’s available, it’s called Slave.
To continue reading this message in text, please follow this next link or scroll down for the recorded message www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/81-91/the-joyful-slaves-of-christ
