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Romans 1:1 - Doulos - Corps - September 26, 1978

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Publication Date: September 26, 1978

On Ephesians 4:25 where I want to begin tonight, or where we will begin tonight , the first part of what the Research Team gave me is the work that Walter Cummins published in our wonderful Way Magazine on "The Spoken Word." Also, as we cover Ephesians 4:28 tonight, I had all the information in front of me from another article that Walter Cummins has in the... has had in the Magazine. The first article on Ephesians 4:25 is entitled "The Spoken Word." The one on Ephesians 4:28 is "Workers for God." Both of these pieces of work by Walter are absolutely superb. And I believe that they should appear and will appear in our research journal GMIR whenever we begin publishing that. {GMIR Aramaic word meaning ' to perfect, accomplish , mature, complete, arithmetically to be divisible without any remainder.}

And I noticed again that some of the things that were stated are just so beautifully and logically presented, I'm truly thankful for, not only Walter, but the whole Research Department. I think our Biblical Research Department is just second to none. And it' s even going to be better by God' s mercy and grace next year and in years to come than it is at this time. And right now I do not believe that our Biblical Research Department needs to take a back seat for any academic institution or work in the world.

And I thought today, I have never... I've never thought of Walter Cummins in any other capacity than to be my assistant. I know Vince Finnegan, you know, on the books is my assistant. And that' s great. But I've never thought of Walter Cummins in any other capacity for so many years as always being my assistant. And I think he' s just the most wonderful person that any president could have as his assistant. And also to be chairmen of the Department of Greek, and then the coordinator of the Biblical research of The Way International. For any one man to have that position and that responsibility is an awesome reality and I'm real proud of Walter and real thankful for him. But I am also thankful for the rest of our wonderful men and women in the Research Department.

I would like for the Corps all over the country to go to the Magazine and find "The Spoken_Word," that's the title of it, dealing with Ephesians 4:25 and other scriptures, and before the next Corps meeting next week, you endeavor to master that great piece of work by Walter Cummins. It's just, you know, the spoken Word. Over fifty Greek words are used in the New Testament in connection with the faculties of utterance. Over fifty. And then he takes the most important ones and he lists them and it' s just. .. it' s just a piece of research work that you should really as a Corps master in your heart and in your life.

Ephesians 4:25 in the King James reads, Wherefore put away lyin g, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

The ' putting away' was interesting to me again because of the Greek word aniko, a-n-i-k-o.

And this word is ' the putting away,' this word ' put away,' aniko, is the same root word as in 4:22, where we use the word ' rest,' meaning ' to rest.' Is that right? Yep, that is right. I taught you that,

didn't I? Did I or didn't I? Doesn't look right to me. It is the same root. What chapter am I missing? Am I missing anything? I don't know. Right now I'm screwed up, ha ha. First time today. You check the word again and I'll do that, too and see what I'm missing here.

But a-n-i-k-o is the word for ' putting away from you. ' To put away. And it' s the same root as the word ' rest.' I don't know where the word appears, but it's got to be in there.

Now, that word ' speak,' every man speak. That word ' speak ' is from the Greek word

laleo, l-a-l-e-long-o. And that' s where Walter' s article on "The Spoken Word"_c omes in because that is.. .he uses that word laleo in here, which I teach in Corinthians when I teach the Foundational Class. And he says the word is employed 24 times in I Corinthians chapter 14. I had forgotten that.

This word is truly significant. I couldn' t quite understand it Research Department, what  you said on page 26B 16, where you defined it ' to make vocal utterance,' ' to babble,' 'to talk,'  'to  exercise the faculty of speech without reference to the words spoken.' I just wondered if there might not be another word that could be substituted or utilized at this point. I know that Zachariah 8:16 is the quotation that is used here, or spoken of. And that Zachariah 8:16 adds force to what is said by using a quote, a quotation. That' s why my question to the Research Department is, How can it be without reference to what is spoken if it is truth plus the quotation of the Word of God that's given. It doesn't quite fit for me.

'With his neighbor' has to be a believing neighbor. This 'speak truth with his neighbor' is a figure of speech gnome, g-n-o-m-e, which simply is a citation. And that' s a citation from Zachariah 8:16.

There are a series of figures of speech, Corps, in chapter four which just put the 00mph, the highlight, to the particular things that are set whereby you put off the old man. This phrase here 'speak every man truth with his neighbor'  is one of them. The other one appears in verse 26, 'be  angry and sin not.' ' Steal no more' is another one. 'Corrupt communication' is the fourth one.  'Grieve not the  holy spirit' is the fifth one. ' All bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, evil speaking' is  the sixth. And  then  ' be kind' and so forth, is the seventh.

You see, the last phrase in that verse, in King James, For we' re members one of what? [Another] And it' s relative to the neighbor. Now you just look at that. Wherefore put away  lying, speak  every  man truth with his what? [Neighbor] For we are members  one of  another.  That  doesn't  mean just  a neighbor who lives next door, but it has to be a believing neighbor because  we are members  one of what? [Another]. You could not be a member ' one of another' ifhe  was an  unbeliever.  That's how I know this is going to  work. This tells me that the neighbor  is  a  believer.  And  this  ' we' re members one of another' continues the imagery of the Body of Christ.

The literal  according  to  usage of this verse is as follows:   Wherefore  put away the  lie... and I believe in my heart, before I go on with the literal that until man is born again, it's all a lie anyways. And that' s why I believe that this translation will fit in the light of that knowledge. Because when  a man is not born again, his whole  life is just a  lie. Now you're  born again,  and that ' s  why  I think the text states it ' wherefore put away the lie,' the life you' ve been living , the screwed up life you have lived outside of God. It' s been just a life of a lie. It' s not truth. It' s just the opposite of truth and that's my reason for translating it this way... Wherefore put away the lie.

You've got to go with that translation. You have no other text to go by both from Aramaic and Greek it's 'lie.' Not 'lying.' If the Research Department has anything to share in the light of that, I'd be blessed to hear, but you' ve heard my reasons for translating it, Research Department, this way.

Now since they're born again, their whole life is changed, so the life of lying, and living a lie, and being a lie, and being false, is to be put away.

And every man... this is the translation ... and everyone, everyone. The word ' man' you could use because it's an inclusive noun, but I prefer to use the word ' one.'

Wherefore put away the lie and everyone speak the truth with his neighbor for we are members one of another. That is literal according to usage.

Now for the expanded according to understanding. It's not bad. Because of this... What we coughing for? Everybody sick?...Because of this... and the reason I went in the expanded along this line is because verse 24 last week told us that we are created by God in righteousness and in true purity, through holiness. Twenty four.

That's why 25, Wherefore ... 'wherefore' can be translated 'because of this.' Because of this what? Being created in righteousness and truly pure. See it's an inside job.

Because of this being created in righteousness and truly pure by the grace and the love of

God.. .Because of this being created in righteousness and truly pure, you put away, completely lay to rest the lie that you have been and were living and each one of you speak the truth using a quotation from the Word with his believing neighbor for we are members one of another in the Body of the Church.

Robinson {Edward} said, he translated, 'speak every man truth with his neighbor' and he said it's from Zachariah 8:16 which adds force to what is said by using a quote. That's why I translated that. I think that' s great. It adds force to what is said. If you're speaking to someone, it adds force to what you say by using a quote, a quotation from God's Word. In other words, ' you share the Word with them.' That' s why I went with that translation. I want to give it to you again in this sense.

Speak the truth using a quotation from the Word, which means 'share the Word.' Quote the Word to them. Tell them what the Word says, with his believing neighbor. Why? For we are members one of another in the Body of the Church. This verse is just mind blowing.

Here, you have a born-again believer neighbor who needs to grow up a little more. So what do you do? Each one speak the truth to that neighbor, that believer, using the Word, quoting the Word because we' re members one of another in the Body of the Church. It's a real positive thing to do.

Verse 26 in King James reads, Be angry.. .ha ha... we like that one, don't we. Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

Here is a verse of Scripture that' s very, very difficult for most people. And it' s not too easy for us either. But I think we are able to share the truth of the greatness of this and it's been burning in my heart for a long time to do this with our people.

Everybody has problems with ' how can you be angry and not sin?' You know, how can raise hell with something and not be sinful in doing it? Teed off and not be sinful. And how can you go... and what does it mean 'don't let the sun go down upon your wrath?' See.

In the context, here, verses 26 and 27 deal with your believing neighbor, specifically. Then the Greek word for ' anger' which is from the root orge, o-r-g-long-e means 'anger together with the desire of revenge .' That' s bad. That' s a heavy. The Hebrew word means ' to kill, and all the tumults of passion that terminate in killing.' So it's a real heavy word when it said ' be angry.'

And the way I believe it's used in God' s Word, ' be ye angry' means ' it's a long time anger with your believing neighbor until a change has ensued.' The desire to... of revenge is a change. And I, knowing the Word in the light of the new birth, it's where a change finally comes about. Until that time, you just, long-term, you just stay put witnessing the Word, sharing the Word. You do not dislike the believing neighbor; you simply dislike that he is not fully accepting the Word and walking on it. So it' s a long-term anger until a change has ensued. You just stay faithful.

I don't know what else to do with those words. It is a righteous anger. Yet it is a righteous anger without sin.

Among the scholars, there is a disagreement on these words. Well, I don't know about my being a scholar; that I don' t anything about being about. But it's simple to me because righteous anger is commanded by God's Word when it says ' be ye angry.' Well, the scholars can fight about it. I don' t care. It' s a command. Not just permitted to get teed once in a while when somebody' s off of God' s Word, a believer is off of God's Word. You' re always teed off righteously at any believer, born-again believer, who is off of God' s Word. And for those of us in the Way Ministry, it' s been a lifetime.

Get into it with them on... Oh what subject do you want to talk about? Baptism? Food? One God? See. All that stuff.

The Aramaic is accurate in the words ' and sin not.' It literally translates ' and you will not sin.' Again, this ' be angry and sin not' is that figure gnome. Quotation. A citation from the Old Testament. It' s from Psalm 4:4. But in King James, Psalm 4:4, it's translated 'stand in awe.' The real sense of the Hebrew is ' one of admonition;' sin not. Where we' re admonished to not sin. Sin not.

' Let not the sun go down on your wrath. ' Ha ha. That again is beautiful. People went to bed when the sun went down, when it got dark. That's when they went to bed. So what that simply is saying, ha ha, ' don't go to bed teed off.' Don' t let the sun go down on your wrath. In other words, go to bed; don' t go to bed mad. ' When you go to bed' is what it means. Let not the sun go down when you go to bed. And they went to bed when the sun went down. When it got dark, they went to bed, see.

' Upon your wrath.' And the word ' wrath' here is basically ' irritation.' Ha ha. Previously when I taught Ephesians, I made mention of this fact, ' don' t let righteous anger shake you, wondering if it was right on. When you go to bed, go to sleep.'

Now, this is what we have done with it in the literal, ha ha, according to usage. I got more papers up here than Carter has liver pills, or something. Then, I can' t find my... whatever it is I take off of it.

Okay, verse 26. You be righteously angry.. .this is literal according to usage.. .and you will not be sinning. Don't go to bed even with a momentary irritation, ha ha.

I don't think you get nearly as much fun out of this as I do. It's neat. It's absolutely scrumptious, see. At the opening, is that heavy word, remember? Anger. So it's a real heavy time. So what he is saying, in the heavy time, when your standing on God' s Word  and sharing that with the  believing  neighbor, you' re righteously angry... you're not sinning. And  you don't  even go to  bed with a momentary irritation. In other Words, when you go to bed, thank God the day is over. Say your last prayer and start snoring.

Boy, that would save a lot of sleeping pills, wouldn' t it? Practicing that principle. Boy, oh boy, what a tremendous Word. And hardly anybody understands verse 26. They argue about it, but they don' t get the understanding.

Now this is the expanded one according to understanding, I hope. And again, I would like to just lay some things before the Corps, and especially before the Research Department. I translated the first part of verse 26, You always stay angry with an all-out desire to have them to change which anger will not be sin on your part.

Then I have another translation of that first part of it: You be righteously angry, 'teed off' with sin... 'Teed off' I put in quotes. But don't  you sin  by acting  ' holier than thou'  vaunting  yourself  by acting so righteously like you never sin.

I do not know which one of those two the Research Department feels would be the better. The last part of the phrase that I translated which would go with both of these that I have given you here on the expanded one for understanding. This, the last part, goes with that first one and with the second ... also.. .even if it is only a momentary irritation.  When you go to  bed, go to sleep. That's what I did with it.

Now, verse 27. King James says, Neither (or neither) give place to the Devil. The word 'place' is simply a portion, a part. No believer will give full place to the Devil, but he may be giving a part, a portion. He' ll mark off a spot, ' this is Devil' s permission over here, over here, no permission, you know. And you really give the Devil a portion or a spot if you stew about it after you go to bed and you toss and you tum and can' t sleep.

This word 'the Devil,' ' the Devil' in the Aramaic is a very interesting and exciting Word to me and it blesses my heart. It' s a compound word where the first part means ' to eat' or ' to devour.' The latter

' to slander' or ' to accuse. '  So when I got to translating  this, literally according  to usage, verse 27 reads: Do not give any portion or space or an opportunity to the Devil. So I used those three words synonymously: portion, space, opportunity. Do not give any portion or space or an opportunity to the Devil.

The expanded according to understanding: And you will not give a toehold, an opportunity or an occasion for the Devil to eat you. Ha ha. I get more fun than you ever will out of working this stuff, huh.

You see, and to me, that communicates to my understanding. John 10:10. The thief cometh not but for to what? [Steal, kill, and destroy] Right. To eat you out. To beat you. And that's why that Aramaic word, on the word ' Devil' really thrilled me.

And that ' s why I put it into the expanded translation: And you will not give a ' toehold.' Now, at L.E.A.D., you know how important it is to get a what? [Toehold] Ha ha. And when you' re really climbing in, you' re blessed for a toehold. How thankful you are when you get a foothold. Now the adversary can never get a foothold in a believer' s life until he first has a toehold. That's why I translated it that way.

Do not give... and you will not give a toehold ... shave all the rocks off... an opportunity or an occasion for the Devil to eat you. And that' s exactly what he likes to do to believers.

Now we go to verse 28. King James says, Let him that stole steal not more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. And here again, is another great work that I believe should be in our research journal GMIR, Walter' s work on " Workers for God."

It' s just tremendous where he... you know... he just goes into God' s men are called many things in the Word. They' re called: fellow workers, ministers, or servants, slaves, fellow slaves, partners, messengers, soldiers, fellow soldiers, athletes, fellow athletes, stewards, ambassadors, witnesses, all of those. And he covers them so beautifully. And I love very much how he covered the word ' slave,' because it' s a much stronger word than to be a minister, or to be a servant. It is to be one who is branded, marked out, sold out. And baby, from that day on, there are no ifs, and' s, or but' s. You never budge on it. You are branded. Most believers are never branded. They may be servants, they may be ministers, but they are not branded. When you' re branded, you stay faithful. You do not budge. You do not change. You stay put. If all hell breaks loose, you still live the believing Word.

I think the prophet once said, If I was in the midst of hell, God I know you' d be there. (Psalm 139:8) He' d be there. That' s the doulos. That, of course, is just a tremendous piece of work.

And the other great part that I think... and this is a second piece that I want the Corps to master before next Wednesday night, " Workers for God," the work on ' witness.' You see, it's the same word basically that's translated ' martyr,' see. And we got a lot of those canonized. That's not at all what a witness is. A witness is a living example, not a dead one. The word 'martyr' simply means that you lay down your life in witnessing. And boy, when you put the doulos together with ' witness,' then you' ve got power for abundant living. It's just a fantastic work by Walter and I' m real grateful that it was published. Because once it' s in print, people can take a look at it if they want to.

I'd like a cup of coffee, please.

Now, we are in verse 28. The Aramaic translation is ' and he who was stealing.' I understand it from the English, ' let him that stole,' past tense. The Aramaic is real simple, real strong. ' And he, the one who is born again, who was, past tense, stealing.'

Thank you.

His whole life was one of those before he was born again.

Whenever you bring a cup of coffee to a right-hand man, you put the handle to the right. When you serve a cup of coffee to a left-hand man, you put it on the left-hand side and put the handle to the left. Corps principle number seven or something, ha ha. Mrs. Wierwille would say, Well, be thankful you even get a cup of coffee. [Laughter] Ah, you're wonderful.

See, ' let him who stole, steal no more.' 'Stole and steal,' that' s a figure of speech and is polyptoton p-o-l-y-p-t-o-t-o-n. It' s a repetition of the same root word in different parts of speech or reflections. But, that's not earth shaking right now in my heart.

You see, in some Eastern culture, it was not considered a sin or a shame to steal because that's the way they lived, the only way they lived. Somebody told me... or not only told me, one of our people, but it was in a national magazine, that the basic culture of Russia today is to steal. And in some respects I can understand this. If you don't have anything and you're starving to death and there' s a loaf of bread you can get a hold of... steal the dam thing. I understand that.

So this verse is really sharp, really sharp. Let him who stole, even though that man previously considered it the way to live and there was no shame in it, no sin in it. He said, Well, let that fellow who stole, steal no more. Something has happened on the inside of that man. Something that happened, where He is able to meet all of our need according to His riches in glory. Christ in you, the hope of glory. More than conquerors.

A record in the Old Testament, I forget where it is, but it's in there, that it' s never, you never need to borrow or steal bread or... what is that in the Old Testament? Begging bread. One person stand and tell me. {Psalm 37:25, I have been young and now am old; yet have I seen the righteous forsaken, nor His seed begging bread.} Psalm 27:25 who? {Psalm 37:25} 37:25. All the years, he's never seen the righteous to have to do what? {Beg bread} Beg bread.

First of all, I wish the Christian world could hear this. Secondly, I wish our government in the United States could understand it. The Word says, If you don't work, you don' t eat. A lot of that stuff. Well, what we've been doing is stealing from the people who are willing to work to give to the people who don' t want to work. That's a bunch of crap. That's stealing. That's why this verse is so hot in my soul tonight. Let him who stole, quit stealing, dang it. See.

Many years ago I was really knocked for a loop along some of this line in India, from Dr. Williams. I think he loved India maybe like I love the United States, I don' t know. Because only a man knows how much he loves his own country, I guess.

But... as we were traveling together, he said to me, Dr. Wierwille, I hear you have whores in the United States.

You know, I never had given it a thought. I just took it for granted. [Laughter] And I said, yeah. He said, Why does a rich country like the United States have whores?

And I said, I don't know.

And he said, I can't understand it. Cannot your women make enough money to live? Yeah, but they figure that' s cheaper and more pleasurable or something, I don' t know. And he said, Well, I think it's sinful that the United States has whores.

And I said, What do you mean?

And he said to me, why, I can understand India. He said we don' t enough food, we don' t have enough of anything hardly for a lot of people. And we have whores because that' s the only way they can continue to live physically.

And I thought to myself, well boy, that' s slapping me in the face good. And I took it as a wonderful lesson. There is no excuse in the United States for any women being a whore because she doesn' t need to get screwed and paid for it in order to get money so she can live. There's plenty of work available and if there isn' t she ought to get born again, then there' s a guarantee of work. ..other work, available. I tell you, when you' re honest, some of these men in other countries have some real logic behind their thinking. How would you have liked to have handled that? I just simply admitted, Well, I think we' re wrong in the United States. But I said, I think you' re wrong in India, too, because no reason to have whores here if you get them born again.

So I don' t know. But this verse today as I worked the final working on this verse 28 is when my heart really went back and burned with that truth that Dr. Williams had stated. Because in many Eastern cultures, it was not considered as sin or as shame to steal, if it was a matter of livelihood. You sometimes wonder who will live in the greatest condemnation before God and justice and judgment when the time comes.

For in most of what are called poor countries even, there is sufficient money, food, and other things for the people to live if those in positions of authority were not so selfish and egotistical, and want it for themselves , and let the rest of the world die... or a country die.

The word ' labor' in verse 28 is the word which literally means ' hard work resulting in fatigue.' That's how I felt coming from the woods last night. And I didn' t do anything. It was just hard work being there with the rest of you. Today I got so tired of being with some, I came home. Ah, you' re wonderful.

' Working with his hands' is an Eastern cultural type of thing. Today in our culture, you could have it, you know, the truth is working with your mind or working with your hand, whatever you' re working at. But in Eastern culture, every son was to be trained to work with his hands, even if he was the son of a king. Had to learn a trade, a profession of business.

Jesus Christ was a saddle maker. He made them to ride, I guess, what do you want? Tennessee Walkers , or? See. I think not only did he do that, Paul did it, too, you know. Someday I'm going to find a...or Walter, or some of those, are going to find me a manuscript to prove it. .. and a wonderful carpenter by trade. Many times doing carpentry work and being a saddle maker were sort of in the same household, because building carpentry and having saddles to use for their business and carrying on, were very, very closely aligned. Well, I won' t argue the point, but I wish we' d keep looking.

II Thessalonians.. .Do your hands ever get so dry you can hardly hold anything? Golly, mine are so dry tonight, I wonder why? II Thessalonians, chapter 3:10... this we commanded you that if any would not work, neither should he what? [Eat] Right. Even unemployment is no excuse for stealing. He just doesn' t eat. Goes and gets work. Boy, when I first saw the greatness of these principles many years ago, and then of course, I uniquely by God' s grace, inculcated that into our W.O.W. program and very dynamically in the Corps leadership.

ROMANS 1:1
“DOULOS”
September 26, 1978
I brought in this evening a copy of the Englishman’s Greek Concordance of the New
Testament. One of the reasons I brought it is because there are discrepancies in Young’s
Analytical and Bullinger’s concordances relative to a word that I used last week with the
Corps. That word is the word logizomai. I had letters this week saying I was really wrong
in what I said. I think I was wrong in what I said, because I have the script in front of me
and it says in the script that the word, “imputed, reckoned, counted,” is the Greek word
logizomai, and it’s used twelve times in Romans. What I meant to say is that it’s used
twelve times in the first four chapters of Romans. The real thing I wanted to say was that
it’s used eleven times in the fourth chapter alone. Its first usage is in Romans 2:26.
One of the mistakes that we made is that I said that it’s translated “imputed, reckoned,
counted.” Just those three words are all I gave you in those chapters. It’s translated other
ways in other places in the Book of Romans, which I will handle when we get to it. The
reason I stated this is because I was getting ready to show you that in this fourth chapter, it
shows God as the active one and the believers in the passive sense. To be used eleven
times in one chapter is really significant. So I apologize to all of you for not being more
accurate in what I said. I do want to thank you for immediately sending me the notes
reminding me that I was not accurate.
I discussed reckoned, imputed and counted. Tonight I’ll give you all of them. Here are the
records from the whole Book of Romans. The word logizomai, completely in the Book of
Romans is used nineteen times. Eleven of those are in one chapter, and only one precedes
the fourth chapter to make the twelve that I was talking about.
It’s used in Romans 2:3 as “thinketh.”
Romans 2:26 as “counted”
Romans 3:28 as “conclude”
Romans 4:3 as “counted”
Romans 4:4 as “reckoned”
Romans 4:5 as “counted”
Romans 4:6 as “imputed”
Romans 4:8 as “impute”
Romans 4:9 as “reckoned”
Romans 4:10 as “reckoned”
Romans 4:11 as “imputed”
Romans 4:22 as “imputed”
Romans 4:23 as “imputed”
Romans 4:24 as “imputed”
Romans 6:11 as “reckoned”
Romans 8:18 as “reckoned”
Romans 8:36 as “accounted”
Romans 9:8 as “counted”
Romans 14:14 as “esteemeth”
Logizomai is an interesting word.
I also said to you last week that the more you become a slave for Jesus Christ, the more
10 Romans 1:1 "Doulos"
freedom you have, which I described as a paradox. It’s true. Freedom is not determined by
where you are but by what and in whom you are. Paul was in jail, yet he was totally free.
Others are not behind bars in jail and are totally in bondage, enslaved. The more you
become a slave of the Lord Jesus Christ, the greater freedom you will have in your life.
The second word in the Book of Romans is this word “slave.” The first word is Paul. The
second word is the indefinite article, “a.” The third word is doulos. That’s the word
translated “servant,” which means a branded slave.
When a child is born, that person is born to live. For an individual to be born again, he is
born to serve. Anyone who is ever called to be an apostle will have to absolutely be a
servant, a doulos, a marked out one, and that by self-will and determination, a slave to the
master by his own will and by his own choice because of his love for the master where his
whole heart is.
Tonight I’d like to set for the Corps all the great principles from the Word on doulos. I do
not know how many more verses there are than those I’m going to cover tonight. But I do
not know of any more principles in the Word.
First of all, Jesus Christ was a doulos, and Jesus Christ is the primary example to every
born again believer.
I Peter 2:21
Philippians 2:5-8
To me it’s absolutely significant that the second word in the Book of Romans is doulos,
telling me that we are beginning to unfold the church epistles. And the first thing for that
man or woman is doulos. If you don’t have that, the rest of your life is just going to be
messing around. That’s why I believe it stands first in Romans, so you never forget it.
“Form of God” has caused no end of confusion. “Form” is the genitive of origin. It
literally means “who being in an eternal appearance given by God.” That was because he
was conceived in the womb of Mary by God’s creation. That’s how he got the form. God
created that seed within Mary. Mary nurtured that baby within her.
“Equal” is agree.
Our example, Christ Jesus, equal or agreeing with God. (Number one quality)
No reputation is number two quality of a doulos. No reputation means empty of self, place
your life under by your will, by your self-determination.
Jesus Christ made himself of no reputation. That means he placed himself under, emptied
himself. He humbled himself.
“Took” is lambanō.
“Servant” is doulos.
He wasn’t born; he took it. He had freedom of will, self-determination. He deliberately
took upon him the form of a slave. He had the form of God. Now he took upon him the
form of a servant, slave, doulos.
You become what you look at. Jesus Christ looked at God’s Word. He looked at what
God’s son was to be and he took upon him the form of a doulos. Jesus Christ took the form
of a doulos. A man who had at his command legions of angels, all the power, the authority.
Made in the likeness of men – That is item number four. He looked like a man; he acted
like a man. Men who are real men have to be doulos; they have to stand.
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“Fashion” is schēma.
Humbled himself – opposite of being proud.
Became obedient is number seven. He was obedient all the days of his life. Obedient to the
end that if he had to die, he still was going to be a doulos by being obedient to God.
Hebrews 12:2
Philippians 2:8
Philippians 2:9
Because he was a doulos God exalted him.
Those are the eight great principles that I see in Verses 6-9 of Jesus Christ as a doulos.
Romans 1:4
“Declared” is marked out, a doulos.
Jesus Christ was not only our example; he was a doulos. He was the son of God but you
are a son of God. And you must become a doulos.
Hebrews 3:1
Jesus Christ was not only our example; he was not only a doulos; he was an apostle.
Hebrews 3:2
Appointed – chose; That’s what, a doulos is – faithful, steadfast, trustworthy, even unto
death. He’s one that agrees with God. How can I agree with God? I have to know the Word
and I have to believe the Word and speak the Word that tells about God.
Hebrews 3:5
“Servant” – slave; Moses was a doulos.
Joshua 1:1
Servant – doulos
Joshua 1:2
Servant – doulos
Numbers 12:7, 8, 9
A doulos is faithful.
So not only was Jesus Christ an example, a doulos, an apostle, but Moses was also a
doulos. To a doulos God said He was going to talk mouth to mouth. That’s fantastic.
If you’re a doulos, committed, sold out with these characteristics that the Word or God
sets, God will speak to that man or woman mouth to mouth.
The first usage of this word in the New Testament speaks loudly also.
Matthew 8:8
“Servant” is the word for child, pais.
Matthew 8:9
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The man under authority was the centurion unto whom Jesus had said that he would come
and heal that child in Verse 7.
Mark 13:34
Servants – doulos; a doulos is a man or one under authority.
Matthew 8:9
That’s a doulos. The Word of God says something and you just do it.
A man under authority is a doulos. That’s its first usage in the New Testament.
Matthew 10:24
Disciple – follower
Servant – doulos
No slave; doulos, is ever above his lord. The master is still the master. You and I are never
above the Lord Jesus Christ.
John 13:16
Servant – doulos
Sent – apostle
Who sent the Lord Jesus Christ? God. The slave, doulos, is never greater than his lord. Nor
is an apostle greater than the one who sent him. No person will ever be an apostle without
being a doulos.
John 15:20
Servant – doulos
Matthew 20:27, 28
Servant – slave, doulos
A principle of a doulos, one who ministers. So if you are going to be a leader, you have to
be a doulos. No great leadership will ever be resident in a man or woman who is not a
doulos.
Mark 10:44
Acts 4:29
Here’s a principle of a doulos. Boldness. A doulos who speaks the Word with all boldness.
Romans 6:16, 17, 18
Servants – doulos
Romans 6:20
I Corinthians 7:22, 23
The more you become a slave to Jesus Christ, the more freedom you will have. That’s
what this verse is saying.
Servant – doulos
Christians, for the most part, have not been doulos of the Lord Jesus Christ; they have been
doulos for religion.
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You’re bought with a price.
Putting that together with II Corinthians 4:5.
II Corinthians 4:5
Servants – doulos
Galatians 1:10
Servant – doulos
You can’t please men and be a doulos of Christ.
Galatians 4:7
Servant – doulos
That doulos as a son – You are no more a servant, but you have become a son. We are sons
of God by birth. [The Children of] Israel were sons of God by adoption. But we are no
longer doulos, but a son, means we have been brought into the family. Now we are closer
than we’ve ever been before. Now by freedom of will being a son, I choose to serve him as
a doulos to the uttermost.
Exodus 21:2-6
“Plainly say” means by freedom of will. This is not a cruelty. The master doesn’t do it to
hurt because this individual has chosen to serve the master, to be his doulos, willfully. So
the master puts his brand on him.
(Example of Tick Jr.)
The word for “master” is lord. When you confessed with your mouth the Lord Jesus, did
he put a hole in your ear? But what did he give you? You spoke in tongues. Speaking in
tongues is the external manifestation that you are a doulos. You’re marked. You’ve got the
brand. That is the Holy Spirit’s marking of a doulos. Old Testament, ear lobe. Book of
Acts, speaking in tongues.
Deuteronomy 15:12-17
Nailing him to the door meant that he was forever his, not to misuse but to bless. Not for
the master to get him to do tasks the master himself was not willing to do, but because of
love. He became a doulos. The master loved the doulos.
Acts 2:4
The Hebrew doulos, what was the evidence when he moved among the people that he was
a doulos? What was the evidence in Acts 2:4 that they were born again. They plēthō.
That’s the Christian’s mark that God puts on him. Like the master put the awl through the
ear to the door. It was the master’s mark upon him.
I John 4:19
The Old Testament doulos loved the master because the master first did what? We love
God and His wonderful son, Jesus Christ, because He first loved us. That’s why we
become doulos and love Him. Isn’t that wonderful?
Ephesians 6:6
Servants – doulos
Doing the will of God from the heart because as doulos that’s the least we can do, because
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God so loved that we love, because He first loved us we love Him. And we deliberately
allow Him to nail us to the door. By the freedom of our will we are sold out.
I Peter 2:16
Servants – doulos
The more you become a doulos of Jesus Christ the more freedom you have because Jesus
Christ is your savior, but God is our Father. By way of His son, Jesus Christ, we are free.
You are not free to sin, but you are free to live with the love of God in the renewed mind in
manifestation. You’re a doulos. That’s where the freedom is. There is no freedom in sin,
only enslavement. People use the freedom as a cloak of maliciousness to draw other people
away.
See why I told you the Book of Romans started with doulos?
Colossians 1:7
fellowservant – fellow doulos; now in a different category. So far I’ve only been dealing
with doulos, but I saw on the horizon the fellow doulos. I saw it where Christ is my savior
but God is my Father, so I am a fellow doulos with Christ for God. But here is the scripture
that defines a fellow doulos. Epaphras was one who heard the Word from Paul and he was
a fellow slave, fellow doulos to Paul. Like Paul, he too was a doulos of Christ, his savior,
walking for him to glorify God, his Father.
Colossians 4:7
fellowservant – fellow doulos
We are fellow doulos in the lord. Yet, these men were fellow doulos to Paul who taught
them the Word.
Someplace in the epistles it says you are not to forget the man who taught you the Word.
Galatians 6:6
Galatians 6:7
That’s the fellow doulos.
Philippians 1:1
Timothy was also a doulos.
Colossians 4:12
Now you understand the difference when the Word speaks of a fellow slave? A fellow
slave is a slave of a slave. Paul was a slave of Jesus Christ. He taught the Word, then those
men became slaves of Paul. That’s what the Word means when you read in Acts that they
ministered to him. Here it says Epaphras was a doulos of Christ.
James 1:1
Servant – doulos
Paul was a doulos, Moses, Joshua, all those men doulos. Paul, Timothy, Epaphras, James.
II Peter 1:1
Servant – doulos
Jude 1:1
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Servant – doulos
Romans 1:1
Paul, doulos of Jesus Christ. Let’s watch that doulos.
Acts 9:5
The first thing on the road to Damascus when Paul was born again, the first’ thing, in
Verse 5 is, “Who art thou, Lord”? The first thing is to know the Lord. The way you know
the Lord is through His Word.
The second thing he said was “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do”? (Verse 6)
Acts 9:15
a chosen vessel – doulos
That is Paul, Romans 1:1, Paul a doulos.
Who are thou? What will you have me to do? It all starts there for a doulos.
Acts 27:23
Moses, remember? Mouth to mouth. Paul – There stood by me the angel of God.
Here’s the reason. “Whose I am and whom I serve.” It’s God whose he was and God
whom he served.
I Corinthians 7:22, 23
I Corinthians 6:19, 20
In 7 it talks about an individual being bought with a price. Individuals bought with a price
make up the body. The individual is the tabernacle. The individual is a doulos of God. The
individuals together make up the temple. All the tabernacles together make up the temple
that it’s talking about in 6:19. That temple we have of God, you are not your own, because
you are bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in the body of the temple. No one is
ever a doulos until you know what he, Christ Jesus did FOR you. Nor will you be a doulos
until you know what he, Christ Jesus, did IN you. How he gave remission and forgiveness
of sins. How He made you His son.
You have to have the great knowledge and recognition of whom you really are, to whom
you really belong, not only as an individual but as a body. That’s why the word says to be
especially good to the household, because you can be a member of a household and
extricate yourself by your walk, by your broken fellowship. You are still in the family but
you are outside the household. You have split off from the temple, the body, because you
are doing your own trip. We are no longer of one mind, same opinion, same judgment. But
true doulos are of that one body, the temple, and we are especially good to the household
of faith.
I Timothy 1:15, 16
Grace is unmerited favor. Mercy is his deliberate withholding of judgment. Merited
judgment.
If you are a doulos, you are going to be longsuffering to those who are about to believe on
him to life everlasting. (Example of baby)
Romans 1 – Paul a doulos. From the chief of sinners to a doulos. From the road to
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Damascus, from the stoning of Stephen to a doulos is quite a trip.
I Corinthians 15:8, 9, 10
From being the chief of sinners persecuting the church to Romans 1:1 where the Word of
God says, “Paul a doulos.” That’s not Paul talking; that’s God talking. Paul’s vocabulary
but God’s Word. Paul, doulos, sold out, committed, branded, marked, slave. Really
something.
Luke 7:37, 38, 47
You never have any problem forgiving others as long as you remember that you were the
chief of sinners. You won’t have any difficulty as a doulos to remember to be kind and
longsuffering with new children in the family if you’ll remember how longsuffering God
in Christ Jesus has had to be with you.
Luke 8:2
Matthew 28:1
You don’t have devil spirits in you unless you have broken fellowship someplace along the
line. Jesus had said to the woman with many sins that she had loved much and was
forgiven. Here is Mary Magdalene. Who do you think went back to take a look? Mary
Magdalene.
Matthew 27:55
Women who were doulos. Women who were sold out. Paul, chief of sinners, a doulos.
Mary Magdalene, woman with seven devils, a doulos.
Acts 2:18
Servants – doulē (women)
Acts 2:22
Who do you think God would be the doulos to? Who do you think He’d be the apostle to?
Jesus of Nazareth, example, doulos, a man, approved of God.
Acts 2:23
determinate – marked out, the doulos counsel; The doulos will. Jesus had been all marked
out, all staked out, all bonded, by his own will and because of His foreknowledge. God
knew that Jesus of Nazareth would be a doulos. He knew that he would study to show
himself approved by rightly dividing the Word. He knew that even though he would be
tempted in all things, yet he wouldn’t sin. He was the example of all examples, the doulos.
That’s the meaning of “determinate.”
II Corinthians 4:10
I do not believe that Paul when he held up his hands had the forms of a cross in his palm
with the blood running out of it. Paul was marked out. Paul was a doulos. Paul was
branded. He had the insignia. What right does an unbeliever have to touch the brand of
God? They do it all the time if they can. None whatsoever. The Adversary has no right to
put his dukes on God’s branded people. We’ve been bought with the price of God’s only
begotten son. And we’re branded.
Galatians 6:17
II Corinthians 4:5
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Servants – doulos
II Timothy 1:3
Paul, a doulos, an apostle. I thank God whom I serve. Forefathers served. Paul also served.
Why? Because he was a doulos.
A man is born to live. A man is born again to serve. Except a man is born again, all he can
do at best is just live, which means exist until the end comes. When you are born again,
you have eternal life. Having eternal life, the least you can do is to serve. When you are
Way Corps, sell out. Sell out to serve, because you have a greater knowledge of God’s
Word, you must be a greater doulos. That’s the Word. If you want to bring stuff on
yourself and live below par, then just do less when you’re a Corps grad than when you first
got born again.
Here are some of the characteristics.
II Timothy 2:22-26
A doulos of the Lord has to be apt to teach. Able to teach. Patient in humility or meekness.
Reason? That people may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, and that people
will come to the acknowledgment of the truth (Verse 24).
Romans 1:1
Paul, a doulos. called, separated unto the gospel of God. Romans 1:4, 5, 6 Jesus Christ,
marked out the son of God.
People, I know nothing greater than to be a doulos.