Grace to you, and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord JC.
Objective is be above a servant, more than a slave:
Philemon 1:16,
"not now a servant, but above a servant"
since both kinds of servants in the Bible:
"servants of sin" & "servants of righteous"
are servants, slaves, neither are yet free.
In Matthew 18:23-35 a servant gets
forgiven + un-forgiven + tormented.
So John 15:15 basically says:
servants = kNOW not; friends = kNOW;
for servants know not what their lord doeth.
It's like allegory saying:
law = now not; grace = now.
bondage = not now; freedom = now.
Prophets are servants: Revelation 10:7.
So Luke 16:16 notes
law & prophets expired at beheading of John,
then the kingdom of God began being preached:
"The law and the prophets [were] until John:
since that time the kingdom of God is preached,
and every man presseth into it".
It allegory compares law & grace as child & man,
law being "childish", to be put away: 1Cor 13:11,
grace being blessedness of man: Ps 32:2 (Rom 4:8).
So law = prophets = servant mode = child mode,
all having an expiry date, as Galatians 4 notes,
first noting child differs nothing from servant,
then such had a "fullness of time" which expired.
In Acts 6:5 there are seven chosen to "serve",
but things only noted about the first and last:
first: Stephen: full of Holy Ghost (full of death)
last = Nicolas: proselyte (hellish child: Mt 23:15)
The con-cept of choosing whom you will serve,
is as foolish as if choosing death1 or death2.
