What the Bible says about Sin, Slavery to
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Ezekiel 18:24 God's experience with Israel (recorded from Exodus through Deuteronomy) is helpful in understanding this. Slavery in Egypt, where they faced certain, ignominious death, represents the world, and Pharaoh represents Satan. Leaving Egypt symbolizes what justification accomplishes in God's spiritual plan: It frees from bondage. But God did not stop working with them at that point. He revealed His law to them, and then commanded them to choose to live by it. They had to endure a forty-year pilgrimage, enduring many trials along the way, before they finally were delivered into their inheritance, the Promised Land, which represented salvation. However, many perished along the way because they did not live by faith, as shown by their disobedience to His revealed law. John W. Ritenbaugh The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part Twenty-Nine) Related Topics: Bondage | Bondage to Satan | Bondage to Sin | Bondage, Release from | Bondage, Spiritual | Egypt | Egypt as Sin | Exodus | Promised Land | Promised Land, Journey to | Sin Produces Slavery | Sin, Bondage to | Sin, Slavery to | Slavery | Slavery to Satan | Slavery to Sin

Luke 14:27 There is something sobering in the instruction Jesus gives here. What was the cross or stake in reality? Was it not the instrument of Christ's death? It is what He was killed on. Certainly, He was killed by sin. We could carry that further, but the actual instrument of His death was the cross. He had to carry His own instrument of death with Him. He stumbled under it, and another had to help Him. That equates symbolically with something that we carry with us everywhere. What is the instrument of our death? Sin. Sin lodges in the mind. The apostle Paul says in Romans 7 that he found sin still within him. Here is a converted man, an apostle of God, long after he was called, yet sin still lived in him. Every once in awhile, it would get control over him, and he would find himself under its domination once again. That cross that we have to bear and carry with us right to the grave is our own mind laden with sin! Sin lies at the door, as God said to Cain (Genesis 4:7). It is at the door of our minds all the time. God has given us an interesting challenge: Everywhere we go our cross is with us. It is sobering. John W. Ritenbaugh Freedom and Unleavened Bread Related Topics: Bearing Our Cross | Carnal Mind | Carnal Nature | Carnal Priorities | Carnal Reasoning | Carnality | Carnally Minded | Human Nature | Human Nature, Controlling | Human Nature, Perversity of | Instrument of Death | Sin, Bondage to | Sin, Consciousness of | Sin, Slavery to

Romans 6:15-16 Obedience is submission. In the context of this verse, if one serves sin, then he is sin's slave. Sin is the master. This does not mean making an occasional mistake, falling short of the mark, or wandering from the way. Paul is referring to sin that is dominating the life, that is lived in as a way of life. If a person is in that position, the master—sin—has jurisdiction over his skill, energy, and time. John W. Ritenbaugh Passover and I Corinthians 10 Related Topics: Bondage | Bondage to Sin | Bondage, Release from | Bondage, Spiritual | Obedience | Sin, Bondage to | Sin, Slavery to | Slave of Sin | Slavery | Slavery to Sin

Romans 7:15 Paul was not living a life of sin as he had before conversion. His words reflect the keen perception into the deceitfulness of human nature of a man so close to God he could see virtually every self-centered, evil, twisted, and perverted nuance of carnality that still lurked in him. He abhorred it, groaning and yearning for complete deliverance from it! John W. Ritenbaugh The Beatitudes, Part Three: Mourning Related Topics: Carnal Mind | Carnal Nature | Carnal Priorities | Carnal Reasoning | Carnality | Carnally Minded | Human Nature | Human Nature, Controlling | Human Nature, Perversity of | Sin, Bondage to | Sin, Slavery to

Ephesians 1:6-7 "Redemption" implies the payment of a ransom. We have been redeemed or bought back. "Through His blood" reminds us that making the New Covenant cost Him His life (I Corinthians 11:25). Forgiveness here suggests "to be loosened from bondage." The Greek word-picture is of somebody who is tied up by cords or ropes. Have we, as Christians, been loosened from a political entity, as the Israelites were redeemed from Egypt? No. Were we in bondage to another human being? No. Have we been freed from sin? Yes, that is what held us in bondage. The word translated "sins" is paráptoma, which indicates deviations from the right path. We have been held in bondage by our deviations from the right path, but now we have been loosed or freed from that bondage according to His grace. John W. Ritenbaugh The Awesome Cost of Salvation Related Topics: Bondage | Bondage to Sin | Bondage, Release from | Bondage, Spiritual | Forgiveness | Grace, Costliness of | Jesus Christ as Ransom | Jesus Christ as Redeemer | Paraptoma | Ransom | Redemption | Redemption Price | Salvation | Salvation, Awesome Cost of | Sin, Slavery to | Slave of Sin

2 Peter 2:19 They promise liberty—freedom, perhaps, from keeping God's law or from persecution or tribulation—but they are themselves enslaved to sin. David C. Grabbe What Is a False Prophet? Related Topics: Enslavement to Sin | False Freedom | False Liberty | False Prophet | Freedom | Freedom from the Law | Freedom from"Keeping God's Law" | God's Law Done Away | Identifying False Prophets | Liberty | Liberty | Sin as Bondage | Sin, Slavery to

 

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