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Everyone who is old enough to sin, has sinned; and, has become a captive of his own sin.
In his book titled The New Nation John Morris states on page 10 “… sin is the absence of perfection.” Since none of us are perfect, sin owns us. We are sin’s chattel or property. Everyone is a slave to sin.
Jesus asks us to let Him purchase our freedom – to redeem us and thus to free us from our slavery to sin.
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23
Picture a line of slaves in a slave market. Let’s stipulate or assume for argument’s sake that each of them is there because of the sin in their lives, no matter how rich they are they owe so much that it would be impossible for any of them to purchase or redeem their own or anyone else’s freedom.
Also in this illustration, it has been stipulated that every sinner has been given a life sentence without parole.
Then picture a man of inestimable wealth coming along and asking them if they would like to have their sin-debt purchased in full for them, so that they could become free again. He says that He will have an audience with each of them on an individual basis and tell them what they have to do to be freed.
Then He takes each one of them off to the side to a place of privacy and explains the parameters of what they must do in order for Him to set them free for all eternity. Without getting into any specific theology, all they have to do to be freed is to accept their benefactor as their Lord and Savior.
If they accept His payment and state that He is their Lord and Savior, then they are let out of the prison immediately. After that they are unequivocally free to enjoy the blessings of the freed-life that has been purchased for them. They are no longer in bondage. No man or government; not even Satan can take their freedom away from them.
The ones who don’t accept the offer have to get back in line with the other slaves. They are returned to their lives of slavery to finish out their sentence on this earth and then to die the second death after the Great White Throne Judgment. The final part of the sentence will be to be cast into the lake of fire because they have been tried and found to be guilty as charged.
“This is the second death, the lake of fire; and if any one's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire." (Revelation 20:14b-15)
It’s that simple. A man or a woman may accept Jesus or not. It’s their own personal choice as to whether they want to be a slave or a freed-man or woman.
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