Captive To Sin

Because that’s not how the slavery operates, Sin is a prison, and you know what happens when someone is caught trying to break out of prison, they are punished with even harder time .

Exodus 5:6So the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters over the people and their foremen, saying, 7“You are no longer to give the people straw to make brick as previously; let them go and gather straw for themselves.8“But the quota of bricks which they were making previously, you shall impose on them; you are not to reduce any of it. Because they are lazy, therefore they cry out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’ 9“Let the labor be heavier on the men, and let them work at it so that they will pay no attention to false words.”

At this point you can take the idea of free will and through it out the window.

What the people of Israel didn’t realize was, like many of us, they had surrender their free will, and now had become slaves .

Look at how telling verse 9 is those false words. This is what the world says to Christians battling sin. “And you call yourself a Christian, Christians should know better, Where is your Jesus now, that Bible is just false words.

When Christians see other brothers and sisters stuck in this world, getting beat down , we need to run to them not away from them.

I know God has had patience with me, I know I have sinned against Him. He has waited on me. Can’t I at least need do the same?

We need to arrive at a place where we see some of ourselves in other people and they see some of Jesus in us.

The number one question is How can I break out of this prison, how can we break the chains of sin?

You are not going to break out of the prison of sin by yourself; We need to call on God to rescue us.

Exodus 6:5“Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. 6“Say, therefore, to the sons of Israel, ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage. I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. 7‘Then I will take you for My people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

There is only one way out and only one way to get out of the bondage of sin , we need to be rescued , we call on the Lord for help.

Everyone knows what Apostle Paul wrote in Romans

Romans 10:13 for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED."

But not many know where he got that verse from, it comes from ,from the book of Joel.

Joel 2:32 "And it will come about that whoever calls on the name of the LORD Will be delivered; For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem There will be those who escape, As the LORD has said, Even among the survivors whom the LORD calls.

The only reason for an escape is because someone is held captive beyond their will, and survivors only come from the attacks and battles of this world . Tell your neighbor I’m a survivor, tell them God has rescued me .