BIBLE READING : Isaiah 1; 2; Galatians 5
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage” Galatians 5:1 (KJV)
Redemption is a liberating mission. Every sinner is in bondage and so in need of liberation. Everyone born into the world is born with a sinful nature and so subject to sin and it’s consequences. This sinful nature which is Satan’s identity seal to put man in perpetual bondage makes it impossible for the fallen man to live right. It makes it difficult to do the good one desires to do and to avoid the evil one want to avoid. “For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me” Romans 7:19-20 (KJV).
In addition, to this bondage of sin comes the negative consequences of sin. Man became subject to servitude and afflictions from demons and satanic agents. Today, we see so many people being afflicted by familiar spirits, mermaid, ancestral, witchcraft and all kinds of demonic spirits. Death, sicknesses and infirmities, curses and poverty are all kinds of entanglements that the fallen man was made subject to. When Jesus came on his redemptive mission, he announced: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised” Luke 4:18 (KJV). He came to liberate man from the bondage of sin and it’s consequences. The believer so liberated has to stand firm and be rooted in this liberty so he can be free indeed.
Prayer: LORD, I acknowledge my liberty in Christ and I take a firm stand today in Jesus name.
Rev. Vincent Diolu