Edir Macedo

This is a mystery and we should already rejoice for having this understanding, for the secret things belong to God

To better understand the relationship between the Lord Jesus and His servants, we need to go back to the origins of the relationship between master and servant. In ancient times, the only difference between a servant and an animal was that the former was rational and the later was not. A servant or slave did not have possessions, had no right to express his thoughts, nor did he have the right to make his own choices.
Thousands of years ago, there were various ways for a person to end up as a slave.
The first was the slave trade, in which servants were bought and sold as mere objects, and became the property of those who bought them. This is the case of the true servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, since He paid a price for us — not with money, but with His precious blood.
The apostle Paul explains it better:
For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s. 1 Corinthians 6.20
The apostle John also said:
You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; for You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and have made us kings and priests to our God; and we shall reign on the earth. Revelation 5.9,10
As servants of hell, we were rescued when the Lord Jesus paid the price of His blood, making us kings and priests to God.
The second way for a person to become a slave in the past was by losing a war, whereupon prisoners of war were made into slaves.
The third method of becoming a slave took place at birth, because the children of slaves were