Lord’s Freeman, Christ’s Servant (1 Corinthians 7:22)

2024-06-19

For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant. (1 Corinthians 7:22)

Whatever our lot is here on this earth, the Christian is the servant of Christ and the Lord’s freeman. Bondage to Christ is freedom. Without the servitude of Christ there is no freedom. “Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men” (1 Corinthians 7:23). “Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:31-32). “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Corinthians 3:17).

An emancipation order has gone forth in the call of Christ. The moment of our rebirth has set us free, but we have not realized so great an emancipation. Inner civil war still raged within. “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” (Romans 7:24). But His death delivered us. As He increased and I decreased, a greater law emerged from by His risen power. “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2). The more we abide, the more He reigns, the more we discover the victory. We are dead to sin and the world. So who will save me from the body of this death? “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 7:25).