Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Making Slaves. Breaking Slave Masters. (Quotes From My Teacher Fredrick Douglas)

"I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday."


To become a slave, deprive yourself of your origin. Believe in no beginning.  Ridicule those who know and remember their ancestors, even if they do so on the shortest month of the year.


To break a slave master, remember your Savior and Deliverer, through whom you were born again.


"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man."


To become a slave, hate manhood and womanhood, and all of the glory of God's reflection in their distinctions.  You can not be free without God's glory and the glory of God's glory:  Masculinity.  Femininity. 


To break a slave master, remember your Creator, who said, "In the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."


"I did not hesitate to let it be known of me, that the white man who expected to succeed in whipping, must also succeed in killing me.  From this time I was never again what might be called fairly whipped, though I remained a slave four years afterwards. I had several fights, but was never whipped." 


To become a slave, believe the lie that when Jesus said, "Turn the other cheek," He meant to let yourself be beaten, spirit, soul, or body.  We both know what Jesus meant.  We know He meant patiently seeking reconciliation, as God seeks, when He "turns the other cheek." But we also know that God retaliates in justice.  We are His image and likeness. 


To break a slave master, resist, fight, be unconquerable.  As it is written, "Your body is the temple of God. Whoever destroys God's temple will be destroyed."


"Their object seems to be, to disgust their slaves with freedom, by plunging them into the lowest depths of dissipation. For instance, the slaveholders not only like to see the slave drink of his own accord, but will adopt various plans to make him drunk. The most of us used to drink it down, and the result was just what might be supposed; many of us were led to think that there was little to choose between liberty and slavery. We felt, and very properly too, that we had almost as well be slaves to man as to rum.  So, when the holidays ended, we staggered up from the filth of our wallowing, took a long breath, and marched to the field,--feeling, upon the whole, rather glad to go, from what our master had deceived us into a belief was freedom, back to the arms of slavery."


To become a slave, sin.  Jesus said it. Those who sin are slaves of sin.  Sin, and let people sin against you.  Let them tell you that you will be a slave to your body or their body. To your selfish will or to their selfish will.  Never God's will.  Yours or theirs.


To break a slave master, choose your True Master: Jesus The Savior. God the Creator.  The Holy Spirit, to whom you belong if you believe in Jesus.  Don't be under the influence of alcohol, anything else, or anyone else, but instead be under the total influence of the Holy Spirit. 


Know the definition of true freedom: 

Whom the Son sets free is free indeed.
Only those set free by Jesus are free indeed.




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