It's Not Business, It's Personal by Bob Sorge

Author:Bob Sorge
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Bible, End of the World - Biblical Teaching, Religion, Jesus Christ - Person and Offices - Biblical Teaching, Public Worship - Baptists, Christian Life, International House of Prayer, New Testament, General, Church - Biblical Teaching, Marriage, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation, Marriage - Biblical Teaching, Church, Jesus Christ - Teachings, Christology, Public Worship, Love & Marriage, Christian Theology, Second Advent - Biblical Teaching
ISBN: 9780974966465
Publisher: Oasis House
Published: 2009-04-13T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

SPIRITUAL EUNUCHS

The last thing we want is to become competitors of Jesus. And Jesus has similar feelings. The last thing Jesus wants is for His friends to enter into an adversarial role with Him because they've conducted themselves inappropriately in the presence of His Bride.

Jesus is willing to do whatever it takes to preserve the integrity of His friends, so that they don't try to establish their own personal relationship with the Bride. In order to help His friends preserve their integrity with the Bride, Jesus will make eunuchs of His friends. He will make us into spiritual eunuchs so that we might serve the Bride as His true friends.

I want to explain what I mean by "spiritual eunuchs," and to do that I need to show how eunuchs were used by royalty in ancient times.

THE ROLE OF EUNUCHS

The book of Acts tells a fascinating story about a man who served the queen of Ethiopia as a eunuch in her court. He was traveling back to Ethiopia from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and could not understand his readings in Isaiah about the Messiah. To help him understand, the Spirit of God sent Philip so that Philip could show him how Jesus fulfilled the prophecies of Isaiah.

We are told that this man was "a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury" (Acts 8:27). So we find ourselves asking the question, "Why would a queen place a eunuch over all her treasury?"

The answer would be found in analyzing the nature of the relationship between the queen and her treasurer. The queen would need someone who is brilliant and competent to serve as her national treasurer, and she would need to interface with that person in some very personal and private ways. Assuming that Candace had a husband, I can imagine her husband piping up at this point, "Whoever works with you as your chief treasurer, he'll be working very closely with you, and I need to be assured he won't try anything inappropriate around you. Whoever you choose, therefore, must be a eunuch."

So in the case of Candace, she used eunuchs in primary roles of leadership in her court, knowing that they would not interfere in her relationship with her husband.

Eunuchs were used not only by queens, but also by kings. It was common practice in ancient times for a king to forcibly make eunuchs of men and then bring them into his court as servants. It appears, for example, that this is what Nebuchadnezzar did with Daniel and his three friends, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego (Daniel 1:7). "Why would a king," you might ask, "want eunuchs in his court?" For basically the same reason Candace had eunuchs around her. A king would have eunuchs in his court because of his bride. Once made eunuchs, these men could be trusted in the presence of the queen.

Kings of old often had their choice of the most desirable maidens in the land. The bride chosen by the king would be stunningly beautiful, which was a plus for the king.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.