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Colossians 3:25
25 But [de] he that doeth wrong [adikeo] shall receive [komizo] for the wrong [adikeo] which [hos] he hath done: [adikeo] and [kai] there is [esti] no [ou] respect of persons. [prosopolepsia] KJV-Interlinear
25 For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of the wrong which he has done, and that without partiality. NASB
Any slave, has an obligation to care for the property of the master, which has been placed in the care or handling or maintenance by the slave.
God is the master. Humanity is the slave. Bible doctrine is Gods property. Truth is Gods property. And by those two, all things exist. Therefore, any waste, indifference, misuse, abuse, theft, fraud, etc., etc., etc., is a wrong performed by each person.
God gave man life and doctrine and volition, and those three capital items present tremendous potential value to the slave (each individual believer).
Humanity is obligated to God for their life. Those who reject God and remain unbelievers with regard to Christ, cheat on everything. They take, without giving anything back. Even the support of religions, which are all false, is a waste of Gods resources. And refusal to support Christianity is also a wrong. A wrong of selfishness.
Those who believe in Christ, but refuse to obey the mandates of God, refuse to support doctrine, refuse to pursue their spiritual life in a legitimate fashion, and so forth, likewise cheat and wrong God. They lose eternal reward.
The capital (your spiritual life) not invested, never earns profits (eternal reward). The person who pursues the rewards of this world, is rejecting God and Gods plan, and pursues their own reward and ego and respect.
But remember, God respects only truth. And if truth resides inside of your soul, then God respects you only to the extent of the truth located in your soul.
God has no respect for people per se. People are dust (biological), fashioned by God. People possess human life (human life imputed into the soul), created out of nothing by God. People who believe in Christ, receive yet a third life form, eternal life (imputed in the human spirit), originated by God in eternity past and created (out of nothing) at the moment of the individuals belief in Christ.
Note that the dust is discarded and will one day be replaced by a resurrection body after the same pattern of creation as human life and eternal life. Resurrection bodies do not come from the womb. All three of which are eternal and incorruptible.
In all of these, man possesses no respect. Man has no source for righteousness or respect. Those who like to complain of being disrespected, ‘Don’t dis. me,’ are arrogant to the core.
No person can earn nor ever deserve respect, and God certainly offers none for humanity.
God looks to truth, and to the extent that you have truth in you, then you have Gods attention. Otherwise you are nothing more than corruption, and whoever loved rotten putrid maggot infested meat (you without God)?
