Yesterday i had a little bug this he verse;
Exodus 4:22-23
Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Israel is My son, My firstborn.
So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me.
Pharaoh had a will to actually release the people and severally tried to deny the people freedom and the people had will to respond to that freedom by serving /worshiping God .
The Freedom from Egypt wasn't the end goal ,it was the doorway to worship .
God didn't just say "let my people go" — he said "let my people go so they can serve me." The exodus was instrumental to something else.
Different versions use the worse serve or worship interchangeably meaning they carry a similarity Paul talks severally of being a servant of Christ , not in the capacity of one who don't belong but from the place of being a son that now it gives him pleasure to serve or submit to the king willfully.
Service must be from the place of liberty and Galatians 5;1 reminds us to stand therefore on that freedom wherewith We've been made free.
Service under Pharaoh was extraction without consent — labor /service demanded from those who had no say.
Service to God post-exodus is something else entirely: invited not coerced; chosen not extracted; relationship not just relief
Same word, "serve" has different standings ,One is bondage. The other is worship.
Paul's writing in the Phillipians says "let this mind be in you that was in Christ " to let us to permit , to allowed , to grant access.
The expression of the mind of Christ in man works when you let it .
Christ doesn't force his mind on you, he makes it available, accessible, and you permit it entry. The Greek behind "let" there carries that same sense of allowing access rather than commanding compliance.
God doesn't just liberate people from something — he liberates them into the capacity to choose him. And that choosing, repeated, is worship. The freedom isn't the destination; it's what makes the destination beautiful and worthwhile.
Slavery in Egypt couldn't produce worshippers, no matter how loud the cries. Only free sons can offer something that costs them — willing service.
Abraham left behind servants and went with the son to worship because with Isaac being free to access anything the father had made it beautiful
interesting to note how Paul teaches on Sonship and then calls himself a bondservant, because sonship and service are not opposites. In the kingdom, sons serve because they love the Father.
Service has the privilege of belonging rather than the burden of being tasked to .
Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours (Luke 15:31).
The father to his elder son here was implying his presence and possession were at the sons disposal ,but the son was serving to attack. what was already his.
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