
#173 We Were in Bondage and Didn’t Know
Posted: Friday, January 15th, 2021
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LET. Wielded by the Holy Spirit, this tiny word had a huge impact on Martha’s life, and the adventure can be yours, too, if you just LET God be GOD.
Devotional
Hebrews 2:14-15 NIV
Since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity so that by His death He might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
We can understand that by the Blood of Christ we are forgiven our sins and washed clean. But there is another problem of which we are not so aware.
We Were in Bondage
We are like the elephant baby in the famous story. As a baby, it was tied to a spike by a rope. The elephant grew and had the strength to break free of the spike but never did. Why? Because the owner had always kept the rope on its leg so even though now gigantic, the elephant still lived within the rope’s limits as when it was a baby.
We are so used to bondage and fear of death that we don’t know there is a problem. This is what Jesus’ Blood did. His Blood bought our total freedom from the devil’s hold of death. That is what redemption is. He bought our freedom with His precious Blood…