Friday August 9, 2024
John 8:34, 36
“Whoever commits sin is a slave of sin . . . therefore if the Son makes you free,
you shall be free indeed.”
Jesus speaks here of bondservants and of those who are free.
A bondservant is a person who is owned and used by another and therefore has no rights or prerogatives of his own.
True, slavery has been abolished.
To buy and sell human beings is now punishable by very severe penalties.
Still slavery flourishes throughout the world. Most human beings spend their lives in slavery. There are people who sell themselves every day. Worst of all, they sell themselves as slaves, not to other human beings, but to humanity’s most bitter enemy, Satan. To him who exploits and oppresses his slaves, not only during their brief earthly span of years, but in an everlasting hell.
Young boys and girls sell themselves with a smile on their faces.
To them sin is fascinating amusement. “It is not as dangerous to sin as the old folk think,” they blaspheme.
But they have found that sin is something else besides fun. Lust soon becomes the lord of their lives. They resist, it is true, but the desire becomes too strong. It whips them into sinning more and more against the clear convictions of their consciences.
As a result they go through life bound by the chains of sin. Some by the heavy manacles of vice. Most of them by the glittering but strong fetters of worldly-mindedness.
What makes this slavery so terrible is the quiet voice within the bosom of the slave which says that she was never ordained to be a slave.
She was created to have dominion over herself and over her enemies. She was created to be free.
My friend, chained to sin, would you be free?
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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