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Within Christ, All are Equal, Part 3 (TMF:2794)

Thursday, January 22, 2026
Peace to Live By: Within Christ, All are Equal, Part 3 (TMF:2794) - Daniel Litton
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       Christ died for everyone, and everyone who believes in his death on the cross and rising from the dead can have salvation. No one, or group of people, is seen as special as far as salvation goes, as far as the ability to enter the kingdom of Heaven. Within spiritual status, then, there is no separation. God deals with all the same. Paul brings up the “barbarian” in the verse, which seems to denote a group of individuals of which the Greeks saw as uneducated. It would be similar in the United States today to calling someone a hick, or a hillbilly. The “Scythian” was a person who was part of a tribe of people who often engaged in warfare, those of which resided in the wilderness. What would likely come to our minds, in thinking of American history, would be the Native Americans of old. They were a group of individuals who did things their own way. The Colossian mind wouldn’t even think of those in these other groups as being included with them, but Paul says all are included.