The Servant

Q: What does the Bible say about the servant in Exodus 21?

Exodus 21 outlines the rules regarding Hebrew servants, highlighting their temporary servitude and the option for permanent service based on love for their master. In Exodus 21:1-6, God provides laws concerning Hebrew servants, emphasizing that they shall serve for six years and be released in the seventh year without payment. If a servant expresses love for his master and chooses to remain, he undergoes a symbolic act of commitment—having his ear pierced, symbolizing his willing, lifelong servitude. This reflects the deeper biblical truth that servitude to God is based on love and commitment, much like the relationship between Christ and His followers.

Q: How do we know that Christ is the servant spoken of in Exodus?

Christ is the ultimate fulfillment of the servant role, as seen in passages like Isaiah which refer to Him as God's servant. The New Testament reveals Christ as the fulfillment of the Servant described in the Old Testament. In Isaiah, for example, He is called 'My Servant' (Isaiah 42:1). Christ's willingness to remain obedient to the Father, even at great cost, illustrates the love that the servant in Exodus 21 holds for his master and family. Moreover, Jesus embodies the ultimate servant role, as He came not to be served but to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many. This profound mystery of servanthood runs throughout Scripture, establishing Christ as the archetype of perfect obedience and love.

Q: Why is the concept of servanthood important for Christians?

Servanthood reflects the character of Christ and our relationship with God, emphasizing love, commitment, and obedience. For Christians, the concept of servanthood is foundational, rich with implications for personal faith and community life. Just as the servant in Exodus chooses to stay out of love, Christians are called to serve God and others out of love. This mirrors Christ's relationship with the Father and His church, portraying servanthood as not merely a duty but a loving response to the grace received. Obedience and servitude define the Christian walk; it is a manifestation of faith and gratitude, rooted in Christ’s example, illustrating that true freedom is found in willing submission to God's will.

These great hymns which we have
sung and those that Desi just sang, they help me to worship the Lord. I observe and I hear religionists of today indicate and insinuate that unless you're worshiping God with that
outward exuberance and emotionalism and the waving of the hands and
the clapping of the hands and all of these things that are
going on today, that you're a dead church, that you're not worshiping. They seem to indicate, if the
Spirit of God is there, that there's a lot of emotionalism
and excitement and display of flesh. Quite the contrary, quite
the contrary. I believe worship is a matter
of a soul and heart communion. with an
almighty, eternal, sovereign Lord. And generally that's carried
on with few words. Don't you think? Him speaking
more to me than my speaking to him. I don't have really much
sight to God, but I sure do need to hear from
him. I love these hymns, and I'm not
going to succumb to the pressures. If that's what people are looking
for, I just wish they'd look elsewhere. But if we're coming
together here to worship him and to seek his face and to seek
his presence and to confess our sins and to wait upon God, then
let's do it in a worshipful manner, don't you think? I just am happy
with the way God led you and me to conduct these services,
and I thank God for these hymns that reach my heart. Exodus 21, the title of my message
today, two words, very simple, The Servant. I'm going to read the first six
verses of Exodus 21. Now, these are the judgments which
thou shalt set before them. If thou buy a Hebrew servant,
six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out
free for nothing. If he came in alone, unmarried,
by himself, he'll go out by himself. If he were married, then his
wife shall go out with him. They'll both be free. But if
his master has given him a wife, and she hath borne him sons or
daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and the
servant shall go out by himself. shall plainly say, saying shall
say, I love my master, I love my wife, I love my children,
I will not go out free. Then his master shall bring him
unto the judges, and he shall also bring him to
the door, or unto the doorpost, and his master shall bore his
ear. his master shall bore his ear
through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever." Now, back in verse 2, here is
a Hebrew who has become a slave, a servant. Now, he's not a slave because
they went into his country and captured him and made him a slave,
like we did the black people of Africa. But this man, the
Hebrew, has become a slave, a servant, because of debt. His fault. He's gotten himself indebted,
and he's happened to become a servant or a slave to relieve that responsibility,
that debt, or perhaps crime, theft, or something of that sort.
And he has sold into slavery. He's entered slavery, and he
becomes the property of some master. Now, it says in verse
2, he'll serve him six years. That's all that the master could
require of him, whether because of debt or theft or crime or
whatever. This Hebrew, this Israelite,
would only be a servant, a slave, for six years. And in the seventh
year, he'll go out free. That is, he doesn't have to pay
anything. His debts are canceled. And rather, I'm told that the
master would give him a little property to take with him, a
donkey some sheep, oxen, something of that sort, if he'd been a
good servant, a good slave. Now, verse 3 said, if he came
in by himself, that is, single, unmarried, he came into this
condition, slavery alone, then that's the way it would go out. If he were married when this
happened, and he became a slave, His wife will go out with him.
That's understandable. He came in with a wife, then
he'll go out with a wife. He came in single, alone, he'll
go out alone. But if, while he was a slave,
his master's given him a wife, now this wouldn't be a Hebrew
woman, because a slave wouldn't be married to a Hebrew woman.
an Israelite woman. He wouldn't give him. He couldn't
give him. It's not his prerogative to give
a Hebrew woman to be married to a slave. This is a Canaanite
woman. This woman whom the Master gave
to this man to be his wife is also a slave. Canaanite woman
of the land in which the Israelites live. And the good possibility
he gave that, see this man's a slave, this man's a servant.
He's forfeited his individual rights. He's a slave. And the
master has given him this woman to be his companion, but to bear
sons and daughters who also would be slaves. This same system. You teach it, you teach it. It
was in our country in the South. So if the master, if he came
in single, and the master gave him a woman to be his wife or
companion, that woman's not his, belongs to the master. The master
gave her to him, and the children belong to the master. So when
he goes out, listen to verse 4, the wife and her children
shall be the master's, and he'll go out by himself. The wife and
children are the property of the master. at this where a Hebrew
woman, she'd be set free at six years, end of six years. But
she's not a Hebrew woman, she's Canaanite, she's a slave. And
she remains. Now then, but if the servant,
if the servant shall plainly say, clearly saying shall say,
I love my master, I love my wife, I love my children,
I turn down the offer of freedom. I will not go out free. I wish
to remain and serve my master as a bond slave. Willing, loving, obedient bond
slave. No coercion, but a bond slave. This is my choice. This is my
will. I love my master, I love my wife,
I love my children, I refuse to be set free. The only freedom
I want is to serve my master. Then his master shall take him
to the judges, to the very people who sentenced him, to the very
people who sold him, to the very people who found him guilty of
the debt or the theft or whatever crime. and sold him to this master. He'll take them, take the servant,
be servant to them for their satisfaction. It's called the
Sanhedrin. It's got to be official. This
has got to be official. It's not something done in the
corner or something done in the quiet. Those who sentenced him
must be consulted and be informed of his willingness to be a slave. They shall take him to the door.
What door this is, I do not know. Some have ventured to guess it's
the door here, door there, but some say it's the master's door.
Take him to the master's door. Take him to the place where he
is to be serving. The door, the one to whom he's
to be devoted. The master's door, doorpost.
and bore his ear, taken all, and bore his ear. Some say down
here, some say the upper part of the ear was bored. But there
was a mark put on his ear. He's not like the others. He's
not there unwilling, he's not there against his will, he's
there because he's serving because he wants to serve. Bore his ear,
and then it says, and he shall serve his master forever. Now, my friends, as I've preached
here through the years, the Old Testament is full of Christ. How are you going to preach Christ
from that scripture? Christ is why that scripture
is there. The Old Testament is full of
Christ. The scripture says, to him give all the prophets witness. Our Lord said to the Pharisees,
you search the scriptures, the Pharisees read this, they read
it often. But he said, there they which
testify of me, and you will not come to me that you might have
life. When our Lord was teaching his disciples, it says here in
Luke 24, listen, I'll read it to you, that he began at Moses. Now Moses wrote Exodus. This
is Moses writing here. Exodus 21, Moses wrote this. And it says, Christ began at
Moses and all the prophets and expounded unto them in all the
scriptures the things concerning himself. This concerns himself. And again it says, And he said
unto them, These are the words I spake unto you when I was with
you, that all things must be fulfilled which are written in
the writings of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms
concerning me." You see, Moses wrote Exodus, and Moses wrote
of Christ. And you take away Christ, and
this is what has been done in most what we call Sunday schools
and pulpits. is they've been teaching about
the ark, and about the fall, and about Daniel, and about Abel
and Cain, and about all these Old Testament heroes, and they
haven't preached Christ. They haven't made an application.
That ark is Christ. That rock smitten is Christ.
That manna from heaven is Christ. That brazen serpent lifted up
is Christ. The scripture tells us that.
That high priest going into the Holy of Holies is Christ. That
mercy seat is Christ. That Lamb slain is Christ. This
servant is Christ. That's who the servant is. It's
Christ, Jesus the Lord. You take Christ away and the
Old Testament scriptures are meaningless. That's the reason
so many people call it the Old Bible and the New Bible, because
they have discarded the Old Testament. And you may as well, if you take
Christ out of it, throw it away. It means nothing. The Old Testament scriptures
take Jesus Christ away, and the Old Testament scriptures are
darkness, meaningless. But let Christ appear, like I'm
going to try to show you right now in a moment, let Christ appear
by the enlightening grace of God in every type. Every shadow, every picture,
every promise comes alive. This is going to come alive.
This turns into a beautiful story. It's sad to think of slavery
and death and crime and people being separated from one another
and this sort of thing. That's sad, isn't it? You read
that and you relive what a lot of people lived actually, but
this comes alive when Christ is You see, every portion of
the first five books of the Bible is full of the glory of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Look here at verse 5, two words,
underscore, the servant. And if the servant, the Lord
Jesus Christ is called the servant throughout the scriptures. Could
I show you that? Beginning in the Old Testament,
Isaiah 42. Now, turn with me to Isaiah 42. This is Christ, Isaiah 42. He is the servant. Isaiah 42,
1. Listen. The Lord God, writing
through Isaiah the prophet, said, Behold my servant, whom I uphold,
mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth. I put my spirit upon him, he'll
bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up,
nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A bruised reed
shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench. He'll
bring forth judgment unto truth. He shall not fail, nor be discouraged,
till he set judgment in the earth, and the isles shall wait for
his law." Who is that? Who is that? That's Christ, my
servant. Turn to Isaiah 49. Listen to
this. Isaiah 49, verse 1, verse 5. Isaiah 49, verse 5. Listen to
this. Isaiah 49, 5. And now saith the
Lord that form me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him. Jacob is Israel. Though Israel
be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord,
and my God shall be my strength. And he said, It is a light thing
that thou shouldest be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob,
to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give thee for a light
to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the ends of
the earth." Who is that? Who is that servant? that he
formed from the womb. It's Christ Jesus. Turn to Isaiah 50, just over
one chapter. Isaiah 50, Isaiah 50 verse 10. Who would you say this is? Isaiah
50 verse 10. Who is among you that feareth
the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his that walketh in darkness, and
hath no light, let him trust in the name of the Lord, and
stay upon his garden. Behold, all ye that kindle a
fire, that compass yourself with sparks, walk in the light of
your fire, and in the sparks that you kindle. This shall ye
have of my hand, you'll lie down in sorrow. But those who obey
the voice of his servant shall prosper." Who is that servant? Now, let's turn to Isaiah 53,
verse 10. Listen to this, "'Yet it pleased
the Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief. When
I shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of
his soul, and shall be satisfied. And by his knowledge shall my
righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities."
Who is that servant? I could go on, and some of you
elders know this, you've studied this as well as I have, servant. Christ is that servant. And Paul
wrote over in Philippians, let this mind be in you, which was
also in Christ Jesus, who thought it not robbery to be equal with
God, who being in the form of God, made himself of no reputation,
took upon himself what? The form of a servant. a servant, and became obedient
unto death, even the death of the cross. And here in this picture,
here's a servant, here's a servant, a slave, who says to his master,
when he has the right to go free, he has the right to leave all
this servitude and hard work and labor, and go out free. What does he say? And the servant
shall plainly say, I love my master. I love my master. Now that's, here this man's married
now, and he's got children, a wife and children, but his first thoughts
are to his master. The Son of God, the Son of Man,
who was made in the form of a His first obedience and responsibility
and love is to his Father. I love my Master. You know, if
I were to ask you this morning, and here is where a lot of folks stumble and don't understand
the mercies of the Father. If I were to ask you today, why
did the Lord Jesus Christ come into the world? Why did he come into the world?
You would reply, and I would reply too, why to save sinners. Didn't Paul write in 1 Timothy,
this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that
Christ Jesus is coming to the world to save sinners and prove
I'm cheap? Isn't that what he said? Didn't Christ himself say, the
Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost? So that would
be true, he came to save sinners. But I'll tell you this, primarily,
foremost, uppermost, now think with me, Christ came into this
world to glorify God. His chief reason, even in the
salvation of sinners, is to glorify God. The chief end of every man
is to glorify God. Especially the work of the Redeemer
is to glorify God. The first recorded words of the
Lord Jesus Christ on this earth, what were they? The first recorded
words he ever spake on this earth in the flesh, having been born
of Mary, what did he say? First recorded words. He was up there in the temple,
he was just 12 years old, something like 11 or 12 years old. They
had taken him up there to do according to the law of Moses.
And the family packed up and left. They were going back home
to Nazareth. And they traveled a day's journey,
and it occurred to them that he wasn't with them. And they went back to Jerusalem,
and they found him in the temple. They found the Lord Jesus in
the temple conversing with the doctors and lawyers and Pharisees. And of course a mother, Mary
knew who he was, Joseph knew who he was. Joseph knew he didn't
conceive that child. Mary knew that Joseph didn't
conceive that child. Mary knew that he was conceived
of the Holy Ghost. She knew who he was. She knew
that he was the Son of God. And yet a mother's heart having
been grieved over him doing what he did. She said, doesn't it
bother you that your father and I have sought you? He said, first word, wish ye not
that I be about my father's business. You want to know why he came
into this world? To do his father's business. That's exactly right. And these preachers can run up
and down the country, yelling and screaming. I got a letter
from a man this week. He said, I like to listen to
you on television because you don't yell at me. He said, I'm so weary of preachers
yelling at me. And I, Doris and I were reading
that letter and I turned to her and I said, why do they do it?
Why do preachers yell? I'd like to know who started
it and when it started. Danny, you were Ronnie studying
history, found out what preacher started yelling. And all of them
took it up. Do you know when it started?
The apostles didn't do that. Calvin, Luther, Zwingli, Hus,
these men didn't do that. The old Puritans didn't yell.
They preached for three hours, they couldn't have yelled. And no other public speaker
yells. You don't stand in front of your
class and yell at them, do you? Stomp up and down, run up and
down, and holler. Why? You're trying to teach them,
and that's not the way to teach. What happened? What's happened
to the churches? What's happened to the pulpit?
What's happened to preachers? Someone down yonder, somewhere,
started yelling and screaming and brow-beating people. I don't know what happened or
when it happened, but our Lord said, I must be about my father's
business. That's why he came. to do his
Father's will. He said, I didn't come to do
my own will, I came to do the will of him that sent me. He
came to glorify God. The salvation of your soul is
in the will of God the Father, it's in the purpose of God the
Father, it's in the covenant of God the Father, and Christ
came to do that. When he prayed in Gethsemane's
garden before he went to the cross, what did he say? When
his life was over, when he looked straight at the cross, going
there to die, what did he say? His last prayer. It is said in John 17, And these
words spake Jesus, and lifted his eyes to heaven, and said,
Father, glorify thy Son, that thy Son
may glorify thee. I have finished the work you
gave me to do. I have glorified thy name." And this servant, this slave,
the first thing he said when he was confronted with freedom,
when he was confronted with his way and his will and his right
and his freedom, chose rather to remain And do whose will? His master's. He said, I love
my master. And I say unto you that the Lord
Jesus Christ came into this world as a servant, as a slave, to
the will of God, because of his love for the Father. But that's
not all. Hold it. And he said, I love
my wife. I love my wife. And I read someone
who said equally. And I kind of stumbled on that
a little bit, see, because I felt like his love for the Father
must exceed his love for me. But it doesn't, really, because
he can only love infinitely. I tell you, when confronted with
all that my righteousness and redemption required, I tell you, I'm just overcome.
I can't, how can I preach the love of God? How can I preach
the love of Christ? Here this man has served as a
slave for six years. Now he's confronted with this,
going out alone, free to do his thing, to do his will, to do
whatever, or to remain a slave and a servant. And he chose to
remain. Why? Because he loved his master. And he loved his wife and children.
Why did Christ come into this world? He said, no man takes
my life from me. No man takes my life from me.
I lay it down. I have the power to lay it down.
I have the power to take it again. Why did Christ suffer on that
cross like he did? I'll tell you why. Because he
loved the Father and he loved his church. That's why. Husbands, you love your wives.
as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. Let me show
you a beautiful picture. Genesis, turn to Genesis 49.
I beg your pardon, Genesis 29. I want you to turn to this. I want you to look at it. I want
you to mark it in your Bible. This servant said, I love my
master and I love my wife. Christ loved the Father and He
loved us. Thank God He loved us. Oh, how
He loved us. The love of God, how rich, how
pure, how merciless, how strong. It shall forevermore endure the
saints and angels song. Genesis 29, 18. You got it there? Genesis 29, 18. And Jacob loved
Rachel. And he said to her father, I'll
serve you seven years for Rachel, your youngest daughter. Now you
think about this, seven years, I'll be your servant, if you'll
let me marry your daughter. And Laban said, it's better that
I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another
man, so you abide with me. And Jacob served seven years
for Rachel, and those seven years seemed unto him but a few days.
Why? For the love he had for her.
Can you believe that? That's marvelous loving. Isn't
that something? Isn't that something? Some of
you single girls, I wish I could find a man like that. Love me
like that. It seemed to him that he was
just there a few days. He loved her so much. Our Lord
Jesus Christ endured the sufferings of man of sorrows acquainted
with grief because he loved us. Now let me tell you something,
don't get mad at me, I don't want anybody to get angry with
me and those who hear the tape later. The advocates and preachers of
universal love who contend that God loves in
the same way every son of Adam as he loves his wife, his bride,
the church. They don't know anything about
this love here. They don't know anything. They're talking about
some other kind of love. I don't know what it is, but
it's some other kind. This love Christ has for his
church, his elect, his people, is the same love he has for his
Father. Same love. This love that Christ
has for his people led him He said, I'll not go free. I'll
not go free. I'll not take freedom from suffering,
freedom from pain, freedom from sorrow, freedom from burden of
spirit. I'll not take that freedom. It
has no attraction for me because of my love for my master and
my wife. This man didn't stay here as
a slave because he lacked the community. because he liked his
job. There was one motive that led
him to remain a slave, a servant, and that was L-O-V-E, love, for
his people. For God so loved, he gave his
son. And I'm telling you, that for
which he gave his son will be accomplished. He shall not fail. My servant,
what he said in Isaiah 42, shall not fail. He shall not be discouraged. All right, look at verse 6. And
his master will bring him to the door, bring him to the judges.
This is all going to be done by law. Now, if you have any,
let me tell you something. If you have any doubt that this
is Christ, listen to this verse. Bring him to the judges, bring
him to the door, to the doorpost, Boil his ear, dig his ear with
an awl. Alright, turn to Psalm 40. If
you have any thought this is not Christ, turn to Psalm 40. Psalm 40, verse 6. Here's a Messianic Psalm. Psalm
40, verse 6. Sacrifice an offering thy does
not desire. Mine ears hast thou, what's that
word? It says open, digged. Bored my
ears. Whose ears? Read on. Burnt offering
and sin offering hast thou not required? Then said I, lo, I
come in the volume of the book it's written of me. I delight
to do thy will, O my God, I delight to do thy will. I'm your servant,
I'm your slave, and your law is within my heart. Dig my ear,
bore my ear, I'm here to stay, to do your will." And Paul, in
Hebrews 10, said, that's Christ. A body hast thou prepared me,
lo, I come to do thy will, dig my ear. Alas, and did my Savior
bleed, and did my Sovereign die? Would he devote that sacred head
for such a worm as I? Was it for crimes that I had
done that he groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity, grace unknown,
love beyond degree. Jacob, seven years, he said it's
like seven days. But drops of grief can never
repay the debt of love I owe. So Lord, I give myself away. That's all I can do. Now, I want
to show you something else before I quit. The last line of verse
6. Boy is here and he'll serve you
forever. Is Christ still a servant? In
a sense. This relationship never ceases. For where the children of the
covenant are, that's where their surety is. Where the sheep are found, there's
the shepherd. Where the redeemed sinners are
found, there's the mediator or redeemer. Where the lamb's wife
is found, there's the lamb. And Revelation 5 said, and I
saw a lamb, you know what it said? In the midst of the throne
as it had been slain. And the four and twenty elders
and the beast and all the thousands in heaven said to the lamb, unto
him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
to him be the glory." There's a sense in which even in glory
throughout eternity we're going to look upon him as the lamb
slain, as the loving serpent who said, I won't go free because
I love my father and I love my wife. I love my wife, I love
my children. In closing, let me share a letter with you. I
read this to my Sunday school class this morning. Let me take
a moment to read you this letter. I just wanted to write to tell
you, I've been watching you on channel 13. Thank God for your
messages. They're real. There's nothing
phony about them. I'm a Christian. I've been a
Christian a little over ten years, but I have so much to learn.
I keep striving to know the truth and what my relation is, my relationship
is with Jesus Christ. Here it is here. Servant. Paul called himself a bondslave.
In Romans 1, Paul said, Paul, a bond slave, my ear has been
bored. I've gone to the judges, to the
door, the door of the word, the door of his house, the door of
his will, the door of whatever, and I said, bore my ear. I've
gone to the baptistry and I said, put me under water. I want to
say to everybody, I want to wear a mark, I'm his. I'm his. Now she said, at this present
time I don't have a church home, because preacher, I don't want
religion. I want what's real. And I've had a difficult time
finding it. I'm not saying it's not there,
somewhere. I just hadn't found it. the right church I've not found.
I believe I have an attitude problem since I really don't
know how to fit in or become a part of a church. How do you become a part of this
family? Here it is, it's a bond slave.
The relationship with Christ is established. I don't want
to do my thing. I don't want freedom from him
and freedom from his word and freedom from his cross and freedom
from his offense and freedom from his gospel. I love my master. I love his people. I love his
family. I love my wife and I love his
children. I don't want to be part of it. You start with your relationship
with him. I love my master first. That's what I'm going to tell
her. Pray for me. I need the fellowship
of other true believers. Don't we though? I don't know
how to get in with them. Well you got to find them. Find
the message. That God glorified message. Do
other people have this problem? I don't want anything that's
not of God. I want to be real in my walk
with God. Pray for me. For I know it's
the most important thing in my life that I be what God wants
me to be. I think it's right here. I think
it's right here. Bore my ear. I'm here to stay. I'm here to stay. I got a lot
to learn. I like what you said there, don't
you? I got a lot to learn. I haven't arrived. Paul said
that. But I'll tell you this, I want to be a bond slave of
the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Why is the concept of servanthood important for Christians?

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