More and more people are beginning to serve more than in other places. All of a sudden, during this pandemic, people are more focused on communities around them instead of themselves as they have had time to think about the community time that they are not receiving. It's been difficult to be removed from people within the places that we frequent. As places open up again, it seems that the daily grind will continue again. However, it will not be the same. The question is: what will have been replaced?
Sometimes, it seems as though the need for one person or companies to replace individual rights with whatever they want is paramount to the actual contracts that they hold. The Torah is God's contract with the people. A marital certificate is a contract between the two people. Renters have a contract with a company or landlord to agree upon the ways that the two parties will interact with one another. Everything from entry into the apartment, use of utilities, maintenance, conditions upon leaving, and pest control are all a part of the contract as are break lease fees. The terms and length of the contract are a part of the agreement. If it is not in the contract, then it cannot be done by either party without liability. If a tenant damages the apartment, then the tenant is liable. If the landlords or companies don't provide the services, including notice before entry or adding people to the entry is a cloak and dagger fashion, then the landlord is also liable for that.
Services have to be provided according to the contract. If the rent is not collected, most landlords are not slow to begin an eviction process. Stipulations for late rent are often included in the terms of the lease. Even if a tenant is late with rent and pays the fees, then the rent is still paid and services still have to be rendered, regardless of the emotional involvement of the staff or leadership in the company. Rental agreements are not one-sided; the tenant is not automatically at fault. Attempting to remove a tenant by creating a hostile environment by not rendering services creates a liability for the company as the contract is for a specific length of time. The company can sue for the breach of contract and the tenant can file a countersuit, even if the employees don't like it.
Likewise, sin does not cancel out God's covenants with the people. The Torah is an agreement. Once it is received, then it is binding. For Christians, once the person accepts Jesus as Lord, then that relationship is also binding. God doesn't get to ditch the people. God is always there, even if the person are wrong. Conversation can take place. Things can be reconciled. However, the covenants are not removed from the relationship. God has not been replaced by the pandemic. Work positions may have been replaced, but human freedoms have not been replaced. The pandemic does not replace the country's responsibility to care for the people.
It is one thing to chose to serve other people at this point in time, to include donating blood or plasma, making masks, continuing to deliver food and goods, continuing to work in medical environments, or having switched over to online teaching environments, has taken on a different civic service awareness to the global populace. Those whom have price gouged, to include refusing to fixed apartments and refuse to wear masks (others' lives have a price), are refusing civic responsibility and the ability to save lives. Even though God freed the slaves, Christ freed people's sin debts, and allowed for captivity to happen, the attempt to enslave is unethical and immoral.
I don't adhere to a theology of predestination. While others think that I am Israeli because I accept my Hebrew lineage, I am an American. I have not received dual citizenship and haven't removed my rights as an American. Those, recently, whom have decided that I have to adhere to Israeli law in the United States, are greatly mistaken. I don't even know Israeli law. I have no idea. I had no idea that they spend their time dickering for everything until it was just mentioned by someone (several someones) else. The second someone serving of his or her own accord is required to do that for free by anyone, enslavement is at hand. Choosing to pick another's life is not a call to service; it is an attempt at enslavement. Contrary to popular belief, God does not force anyone to do anything. The situation may be unbearable to a person; however, it is still a choice to adhere to God's exit from it.
We have a duty and a right to stand against slavery. It is quite simple if someone is required to give or be punished in any way, then it isn't service that is being asked for. It is enslavement that is required. There are covenants between companies and individuals for a lot of things. Companies, like religious institutions and non-profit organizations, and individuals like to get what they want without cost. We like freebies, including people lives. So, remember that sound bites can be played in full in court. Splicing sound can be found out. Demanding the services from another without pay with not free offerings or service. When people cannot give or not give freely without a form of sanction or punishment, slavery is at hand. Those whom work to stand against it are the believing patriots that the country and the world need to have. Slavery is not an appropriate replacement for service. Standing against slavery is heroism.
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