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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

You're listening to Daily Truth. Life is not fair.

Most of the slaves in the Roman world of Paul's day were born that way.

It is not as though they committed a crime or accumulated massive amounts of debt and ended up as slaves by consequence of their own foolishness.

This was, according to God's law, the result in Israel.

If someone was a slave in Israel, it was because of their sin.

If Israel was in fact obeying and following God's law.

But if someone was a slave in the African slave trade or at Rome, it very likely was

because not of their own foolishness,

not because of their own sin, but the sin of someone else who was mistreating, who committed

great acts of injustice, who was oppressing them. And that's not the slavery that God

permitted. Many of the slaves at Rome were not slaves due to their own foolishness,

but rather due to the injustice and sin of others. Due to sin entering the world, life is grossly

unfair. And the Bible never pretends as if it were anything otherwise. See, the good news of the

gospel brings hope to those in despair. Through faith in Jesus, these downtrodden slaves,

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