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LovingNeighbor
 
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My New Master - Free or Free to Serve a New Master?
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My New Master
For Parasha Bo
By Lovingneighbor 2-4-2006
Exo 21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:
Exo 21:6 Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.
This Parasha starts with the final plagues being brought on Par'oh for not letting Yisra'el go. As we dig a little deeper here we can contemplate why Par'oh(Satan) would not let Israel go. They were his servants and like wealth they were of substantial value. They served Par'oh all of their days and now they were going to leave to serve another. He did not desire good things for his servants, and yet they would go and serve a master who wanted the best for his servants. In many ways Par'oh may have not cared what the Children of Yisra'el did as long as he got what he wanted out of the relationship they could run wild. We see this kind of one sided acceptance in many areas of life. In many churches and religions you can basically go about doing as you please with little or no accountability as long as you tithe and believe a few common things they care not about how you conduct your lives. This is not the life of a servant. Israel here does not get the option of freedom. They are going from being a servant of Par'oh(Satan) to a servant of God. Somehow this got missed in modern day Christian theology for a large part. We are a spoiled servant who thinks of ourselves as free to do how and what we please. I believe this will be a rude awakening for many when Messiah returns.
Mat 21:33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
Mat 21:34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.
Mat 21:35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
Mat 21:36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
Mat 21:37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.
Mat 21:38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.
Mat 21:39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.
Mat 21:40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?
Mat 21:41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.
Many of Yisra'el and the mixed multitudes that came out of Egypt may have thought they were finally free from the servitude of their unloving master Par'oh only to be misled in their own minds that they could do as they pleased. Much of the rebellion in the wilderness I believe was them adapting to the concept of being free vs. having a new master who loved them. I see this in modern day Christianity. People come out of the world of sin only to decide they will now do as they see right not recognizing their new Master.
Deu 12:5 But unto the place which YHWH your Elohim shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall you seek, and there you shall come:
Deu 12:6 And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:
Deu 12:7 And there you shall eat before YHWH your Elohim, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand unto, you and your households, wherein YHWH your Elohim has blessed you.
Deu 12:8 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
Deu 12:9 For you are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which YHWH your Elohim gives you.
Deu 12:10 But when you go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which YHWH your Elohim gives you to inherit, and when he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety;
Deu 12:11 Then there shall be a place which YHWH your Elohim shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; there shall you bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow unto YHWH:
Pro 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkens unto counsel is wise.
Pro 21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but YHWH ponders the hearts.
Compare this to these verses:
Deu 13:18 When you shall hearken to the voice of YHWH your Elohim, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of YHWH your Elohim.
1Ki 15:4 Nevertheless for David's sake did YHWH his Elohim give him a lamp in Yahrushalayim, to set up his son after him, and to establish Yahrushalayim:
1Ki 15:5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of YHWH, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriyah the Hittite.
It is not doing what you find righteous, but finding the standard of your master (the Torah) and living accordingly measuring all actions by what he finds acceptable for his servant. That is why Much of Christianity who rejects the Torah are living by what is right in their own eyes. They are not recognizing their new Master's authority and therefore will be punished as unruly servants.Messiah explains this best when he says many come to me in that day saying lord, lord ( or master, master) and he will say get away from me you who work lawlessness I never knew you. They were not living by the standard of Torah and so he rejected them. They would then be as the tares in the wheat not belonging and needing to be tore out and burned.Let us recognize when he says remember this day, that you were brought out from Egypt by a strong Hand, that your new master brought you out and so you should serve him the way he wants you to serve him. If you came out of the servitude of the world and satan, then let it be to serve the Mighty Elohim who brought you out! Shalom!
A disciple should diligently search for the truth and humbly deny and reconsider it's possession.
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