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The purpose of God's grace is to free you from your slavery to you so that you can live for a much, much better kingdom:
- Paul David Tripp
What we need most is a heart ruled by the Lord rather than by "evil desires." We need to be progressively freed from our slavery to the god-replacements that imprison us in self-absorbed pursuit of our own glory.
- Paul David Tripp
This is the upside-down world of ministry calling. The pathway to freedom is servanthood, the pathway to greatness is slavery, and the pathway to deep and lasting joy—joy that people and circumstance cannot take away—is denying yourself
- Paul David Tripp
Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
- Genesis 39:1
If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”
- Genesis 44:9
Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
- Genesis 47:19
After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
- Exodus 2:23
But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
- Exodus 12:44
So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
- Exodus 13:3
In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Exodus 13:14
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Exodus 20:2
And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.
- Exodus 21:7