Critics of the Christian faith sometimes charge the Bible with condoning slavery.

However, just because Scripture addresses the topic doesn't mean it approves of it.

As David Platt points out in this message from 1 Timothy 6 verses 1 through 2,

Scripture forbids the mistreatment of anyone made in God's image.

Far from condoning slavery, Scripture actually lays the groundwork for undoing this practice

that has tragically been so common throughout human history.

Mistreating others should be unthinkable for those who have been redeemed from the slavery of sin.

This is the Radical with David Platt podcast.

Here is David with a message titled What About Slavery Paul.

If you have his word and I hope you do let me invite you to open with me to 1 Timothy 6.

1 Timothy chapter 6.

I'm turning there.

I just want to thank you for praying for me last week as that was in Minnesota.

A mission conference there.

It's a good thing to gather together with 3,000 brothers and sisters who are all intentionally

and intensively praying about how their lives can be used to make the gospel known among unreached peoples.

But it's even better to come back to a faith family of 4,000 plus where we are all looking intentionally at how our lives can be used

to spread the gospel to unreached peoples.

I trust that time in last half of 1 Timothy 5 was good leading us now in 1 Timothy chapter 6 verses 1 and 2.

4 score and 7 years ago our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Doubtless you recognize those words as the beginning one of the most famous speeches in American history the Gettysburg address delivered by then President Abraham Lincoln on November 19 1863.

A call for equality that was a direct affront to the practice of slavery in the Confederate South.

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