LESSONS FROM A MOVIE, COURAGE TO LOVE. (Part Four)

There is another positive objective we learned from Israel being allowed to experience the iron furnace of slavery in Egypt. That when they regained their freedom eventually, they would urgently learn to treat their brethren and strangers with respect and compassion. A feat they would have achieved by abandoning or forgetting every habit they acquired under oppression and tyranny.

But Israel failed to learn this lesson. As they were eventually sold into Babylonian captivity when Nebuchadnezzer invaded and sacked Jerusalem. Why? Because the ruling princes of Judah were taking as slaves their less fortunate brethren who failed to pay off their debts. And God was angry at the recalcitrance of the princes who refused to forgive their debtors. (see Jeremiah 34:8-17)

Needless to say, the institution of slavery is evil. Slaves are treated by their masters with contempt and disdain. Because they are seen as non-persons or sub-humans. To break the fighting spirit of Israel, and destroy their spirit of determination, Pharaoh enslaved and afflicted Israel.

Not satisfied, and to intensify his depopulation of Isreal slaves, the Pharaoh ordered every male child born to a Hebrew woman to be killed upon delivery.

It's the duty of every freedom-lover to resist being treated  as a slave. You have a responsibility to urgently scale down any attempt from any quarter or power to treat you as slave.
Forget their diplomatic facade or hypocritical smile: they are people all around you that want to enslave you. There are pastors who treat their followers  as slaves. There are husbands who want to enslave their wives. There are rulers who want to enslave their subjects...

Freedom is not negotiated but seized. You don't require another man's permission to be free. As true freedom doesn't come by human legislation.  When Nigeria gained independence from Great Britain on October 1960, were the citizens of Nigeria free? No, they only gained the illusion of freedom.  When Abraham Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation in 1891 to free the black slaves, were African Americans truly free? While it'd be uncharitable to treat the Emancipation Proclamation with contempt, African Americans only gained the illusion of freedom.

Freedom comes into place when a person embraces the authority of truth, having abandoned or forgotten the fear of death permanently.
This is realised when a person cultivates and develops new habits capacitated by eternal life to replace the old habits acquired through fear of death.

To be continued.