1 Corinthians 7:22

‘For he who was called by the Lord, being a bondservant, is the Lord's freedman. Similarly, he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.'

God sees all men as the same, with the same dignity and the same significance. He sees the bondservant as a freedman. He sees the freeman as a bondservant to Christ. Thus the one is not better off from the point of view of spiritual blessing and usefulness as the other. Nor can the freeman see himself as superior to the bondservant, for he himself is a bondservant to Christ.

‘Is the Lord's freedman.' He has been made free from servitude to sin, and grovelling under it as though it were his master (John 8:34; Romans 6:20), he has been freed from the curse of the Law (Galatians 3:13) and is no longer bound by all its restrictions, he has been freed from the power of Satan working in the sons of disobedience (Ephesians 2:3). He is free to meet with God's people on equal terms as ‘a brother'. He is free to serve God faithfully.

‘Christ's bondservant.' He is duty bound to obey God in whatever He requires and to do His will without questioning it (although he may question whether something really is God's will unless it is clearly taught in the Scriptures). He is a slave to righteousness (Romans 6:18). He is bound to do all, whether in word or deed, to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31). He is in bondage to men to do all that is necessary in order to reach out to save them (1 Corinthians 9:19).