“If you couldn’t pay a debt, you could work it off for a time, and then you would be set free. There were times when that slave would say, ‘Serving you is better than what I was doing before. I want to be here. I don’t want to go back […]
sermon date 2023-05-21
sermon manager Josh Gerard
Sermon Location Brooklyn, Iowa
James 1: Doulos
“If you couldn’t pay a debt, you could work it off for a time, and then you would be set free. There were times when that slave would say, ‘Serving you is better than what I was doing before. I want to be here. I don’t want to go back to where I was, I want to continue to be in this household, serving you.’ If the master agreed, the master would put a mark on him, and that person would be his slave, his doulos, for life. This is how James defines his relationship with Jesus.”
-Scripture References: James chapter 1, 1 Corinthians 15:5-8, Acts 12:17, Deuteronomy 26:1
