The morning Manna will be provided at
6am. Thanks. Studying Ephesians in the SSnet.org series Lesson 11, may the Holy Spirit be
the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: Ephesians 6 slave =
laborer = worker = Arbeit person for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson
Ephesians. The Opening Hymn will be 229
"Spirit of the Living God". The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable
from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 142ff. The SSnet.org allows anyone, anywhere to
read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God
speaking also to your heart. Why don’t you click on this link right now: https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2023:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ323_011.pdf ---Reading Daily Life in Rome by Jerome Carcopino 1938 pp. 55ff convinced me
that there is no difference between the slaves of Rome and the workers of large
companies anywhere in the world today. ---Our concept of “slave” and “slavery”
is bound to organized crimes of the centuries past stealing people from Africa
and transporting them to the West for harsh slavery treatments. ---It was the same in Rome. But, because
people are people, their sense of humanity and their conversion to Christianity
changed their perception of treating their slaves, following Ephesians 6. ---Slaves could have a testament. They
could get larger bonuses for extra work and buy their freedom by savings. ---They could be teachers for the children
of the Master. ---If a person added the suffix Por- to
his name, it means that he had a slave in Roman times. ---Slaves did not have it bad always as
most people are crying currently all over the world. ---They denounced it as if it is a pest.
---Do you work for $5 per hour cleaning
toilets and is paid by hour without food, without benefits of medical insurance
or the more? You are worse than the slaves of biblical times. ---So do not walk around with the
stereotype “slavery is a major evil in the world”. ---It is not slavery. It is systems and
social systems that exist legally that purport to help everyone but in reality
and practically have holes here and there where some are placed in an
unfortunate situation. ---Slaves were water-carriers. Do we
hire water-carriers in modern times? We call them “workers” and the Latin
people called them servi. They serve. They work. No difference. ---Are you as a CEO buy meals for your
workers every lunch? No. Well it was a duty of the owner of slaves in Ancient
times to buy them food and clothes to wear. Hello. ---The gravestone inscriptions indicate
that the owners were crying over their slaves. ---The slaves were like sisters to the
wife of the owner. When the slave dies the whole family mourn with the slaves’
family together. ---The concept of chains for the slaves
is a stereotype. ---There are pictures that display the
harsness of treating slaves from every period of history. ---One can see it on Assyrian
iconography or mural art. Pictures of the Neo-Assyrian deportations of peoples
shows the cruelty of captivated and kidnapped humans. ---The Bible describes the deportations
of Daniel. There is the kidnap and sale of Joseph. ---But, there is a God who in any period
of world history, come to rescue of the slave in ancient times and worker in
our times, and the same God convert the owner to Himself, instill His
compassion and feelings for His subordinates in him and imitating Christ’s
passion, are kind to them. ---Politics is a waste of time because
it is old sins repeated in different generation again all over in a different
garb. ---But I was given a gift by the head of police that
worked together to arrest Nelson Mandela who gave me a Court book of the
advocate of the state (Perci Yutar) on secret tapes that they put in the
ceilings of a farm to record communistic classes that were conducted there. I
have no interest in this and was a young student who received this gift many
years ago. ---Recently I page through it and two
women that were in a class in 1961/962 were discussing how wrong the Apartheid
system under prime minister Verwoerd is and how they could follow ideas that
Stalin and Friedrich Engels suggested to free the black “slaves” of South
Africa. ---Well, what were these two women
(Jewish ladies) suggestion of a replacement solution? She said, everyone in
society will then have enough of everything so they do not need salaries any
longer. Everybody can use everybody’s car. There was a communist lecturer Costa
with them. Well? ---Politics smells no matter who is
doing it. ---Slaves, workers or laborers would not
like these “transformation in progress” suggestions of the ladies in 1961-1962.
Whether they disliked the Apartheid system they would not like this one either.
---These ladies were against the Bible
because in one comment in the book or tapes, one said talking about a certain
Blaar Coetzee: “Do you know what he said about fossil fuels? He said that they
are coming from the Flood” All of them laughed at the class, meaning they do
not accept the Noah Flood of the Bible or the Bible as reality. ---So what is the problem with any
worker, labor, slave system in society? The role of the Trinity absent in
people’s lives. That is the key problem. ---But was the Middle Ages from 538-1798
not about church control of the empire? It was and it was a great mess. God
never intended religion to take over the state. ---Is your pastor involved in civil
right activism? Jesus was not a civil right activist. Neither any of the
apostles. God does not want us to make ourselves dirty with politics. Steer
away from it all the time. When? Immediately.