Being a slave to Jesus Christ is beyond any kind of slavery that anybody ever knew because this

master makes us sons and pours out all the lavish riches in his possession for our own unmitigated joy and his own glory.

We wouldn't want to be a slave under that Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

Who would want to be called a slave, much less be one?

The concept, even the very word, is offensive to modern ears. It's loaded with cultural baggage. No power, no

rights, no resources of his own. A slave is stripped of everything except what

the master provides.

And yet slave is a dominating identity that God gives to those he saves, though the term

has all but disappeared from modern Bible translations, but there's much to gain by embracing what's been lost.

John MacArthur shows you that today in a lesson that will grab your attention.

It's called Slaves for Christ, and it's part of a series featuring

some of John's classic sermons titled Foundations Volume 2. So here's John

now with a lesson. We're going to turn to a subject in the New Testament that as I think about it is largely ignored and overlooked.

And I've been made aware of that in recent months.

It was not too many months ago that I was flying on one of those jumbo jets from Los

Angeles to London.

In the process process reading a book that dealt with the issue of

slavery in the New Testament time and in the New Testament text. It set me thinking in all kinds of directions. I actually

finished the book on the flight. I was so wrapped in my attention to this particular theme.

Being a slave of Christ may be the best way to define a Christian.

We are as believers slaves of Christ. You would never

suspect that however from the language of Christianity.

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