Slave Quotes

“But the language of slavery does more than merely picture the gospel. In fact, it is central to the message of salvation. That is because the slavery metaphor points to the reality of Christ's lordship, and the lordship of Christ is essential to the biblical gospel.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“Over the last twelve chapters we have considered the crucial difference between servants and slaves- noting that while servants are hired, slaves are owned. Believers are not merely Christ’s hired servants; they are His slaves, belonging to Him as His possession. He is their Owner and Master, worthy of their unquestioned allegiance and absolute obedience. His Word is their final authority; His will their ultimate mandate.

Having taken up their cross to follow Him, they have died to themselves and can now say with Paul, “I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live nut Christ lives in me” (Gal. 2:20). As the apostle elsewhere explained, “[Christ] died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf” (2 Cor. 5:15).

In reality, all of life should be viewed from that perspective. As Christians, we are slaves of Christ. What a radical difference that truth should make in our daily lives! We no longer live for ourselves. Rather, we make it our aim to please the Master in everything.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“You and I believed the gospel, not because we were wiser or more righteous than anyone else but because God graciously intervened, opening our hearts to head His Word and believe.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“To be a Christian is to be a slave of Christ.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“I am a free man, the slave of Christ;”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“Paul was far more concerned with obeying his divine calling than with gaining man’s approval. Only one thing mattered—pleasing the Master.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“He call us to obey, not because He needs us but because He knows we need Him.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“Genuine believers are characterized by a deep love for Christ, and that love inevitably manifests itself in obedience. By contrast, those who do not love the Lord, either by what they say or how they live, evidence the fact that they do not belong to Him.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“The freedom of the Christian is not freedom to do what he or she wants but freedom to obey God—willingly, joyfully, naturally.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“The only right response to Christ’s lordship is wholehearted submission, loving obedience, and passionate worship.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“On the flip side, those who profess salvation but later fall away, demonstrate that their profession was never genuine (1 John 2:19).”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“We did nothing to earn our adoption into God’s family, and we can do nothing to lose it either.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“[Man’s] nature is so corrupt that he has neither the will nor the power to come to Christ unless drawn by the Spirit.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“Like Lazarus lying motionless in the tomb, the unredeemed soul remains lifeless until the voice of God commands it, “Come forth!”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“All those who are truly born again will be kept by God's power and will persevere as Christians until the end of their lives, and that only those who persevere until the end have been truly born again.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“The story of Lazarus not only demonstrates Christ's divine power over death (both physical and spiritual); it also demonstrates the converse theological truth---namely, that the dead cannot raise themselves.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“To be a slave of Jesus Christ is the greatest benediction imaginable. Not only is He a kind and gracious Lord, but He is also the God of the universe. His character is perfect; His love is infinite; His power, matchless; His wisdom, unsearchable; and His goodness, beyond compare.23 It is no wonder, then, that our relationship to Him as our Master brings us great benefit and honor.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“Rather than walking in the flesh, they now “walk by the Spirit” (v. 25), being characterized by a growing desire to obey the Word of God.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“Jim Elliot was one of five American missionaries to Ecuador who were martyred by the Waodani Indians. He is famous for his statement “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“Such slavery is the only freedom.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“And how can one be a slave and not a slave?” When he does all for God: when he feigns nothing, and does nothing out of eye-service towards men: that is how one who is a slave to men can be free.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“preach Christ as Savior but not as Lord is to present a gospel message that is incomplete.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“While nothing in the Bible is contradictory, many of the Bible’s most provocative and profound truths appear to us paradoxical.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“Like the saints of old, we no longer chase after the passing pleasures of this world.34 Instead, our eyes are fixed on heaven, our true home, the place where Christ is.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“If our adoption were not permanent, we would have great reason to fear. Our sin might yet condemn us.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“The doctrine of adoption establishes the reality that believers, once saved, are always saved.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“In Roman times, the master paid only for the slaves he was purchasing. So also, the saving benefits of Christ’s redemptive work are applied only to those whom God has chosen for Himself.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“Murray Harris has observed: One of the classic Christian paradoxes is that freedom leads to slavery and slavery leads to freedom.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ

“As Richard Baxter so vividly expressed, “So then, let ‘Deserved’ be written on the floor of hell but on the door of heaven and life, ‘The Free Gift.”
― John MacArthur, Slave: The Hidden Truth About Your Identity in Christ