Bible Questions Answered:
“...what causes bondage...”
Kelly/ Los Angeles, California U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Bondage:
Slavery or involuntary servitude;
serfdom.
The state of being bound by or
subjected to some external power or control.
(Dictionary.Com)
Following
The Sinful Nature Of Man.
Proverbs 14:12 KJV
There is a way which seemeth right
unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Jeremiah 17:9 KJV
The heart is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
John 8:44 KJV
Ye are of your father the devil, and
the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the
beginning, and abode not in The Truth, because there is no Truth in
him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a
liar, and the father of it.
Ephesians 4:18,19 KJV
18 Having the understanding
darkened, being alienated from the Life of God through the ignorance
that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19 Who being past feeling have given
themselves over unto lasciviousness (lustful
pleasure), to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Revelation 3:17 KJV
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and
increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that
thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Life has only two options. Living in
The Light, or living in darkness. Living in righteousness before
The Lord, or living in sin and serving
the devil.
The carnal way of “liberty,” doing
as one wants (in mankind's natural-fallen nature), freedom from any
Godliness, is the way of BONDAGE to the evil one.
Look into the faces, and lives of those
who have clung to sinful “liberty,” drugs, free-sex, alcohol,
greed, hate, lust, broken marriages, unfaithful parents, etc. etc.
etc. Hollow faces, looking years older than they are, burnt out in
sinful freedom.
II Corinthians 4:4 KJV
In whom the god of this world (the
devil) hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,
lest the Light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is The Image Of
God, should shine unto them.
Bondage:
Proverbs 5:22 NLT
An evil man is held captive by his
own sins; they are ropes that catch and hold him.
Proverbs 15:9 KJV
The way of the wicked is an
abomination unto The Lord: but He loveth him that followeth after
righteousness.
Isaiah 59:8 KJV
The way of peace they know not; and
there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked
paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
Matthew 7:13 KJV
"...wide is the gate, and broad
is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go
in thereat:
John 8:34,35 MSG
Jesus said, “I tell you most
solemnly that anyone who chooses a life of sin is trapped in a
dead-end life and is, in fact, a slave. A slave is a transient, who
can’t come and go at will..."
Romans 6:16 KJV
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield
yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey;
whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
II Timothy 2:25 NLT
25 "...Perhaps God will change
those people’s hearts, and they will learn The Truth.
26 Then they will come to their
senses and escape from the devil’s trap. For they have been held
captive by him to do whatever he wants.
II Peter 2:17-19 NLT
17 These people are as useless as
dried-up springs or as mist blown away by the wind. They are doomed
to blackest darkness.
18 They brag about themselves with
empty, foolish boasting. With an appeal to twisted sexual desires,
they lure back into sin those who have barely escaped from a
lifestyle of deception.
19 They promise freedom, but they
themselves are slaves of sin and corruption. For you are a slave to
whatever controls you.
I John 3:8 KJV
He that committeth sin is of the
devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose The
Son Of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the
devil.
The
Answer:
II Chronicles
7:14 KJV
If My people, which are called by My
name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn
from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will
forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Psalm 146:8 KJV
The Lord openeth the eyes of the
blind: The Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: The Lord loveth the
righteous:
Isaiah 30:15 KJV
For thus saith The Lord God, The
Holy One Of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in
quietness and in confidence shall be your strength...”
Isaiah 42:7 KJV
To open the blind eyes, to bring out
the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of
the prison house.
Isaiah
55:6,7 KJV
6 Seek ye The Lord while He may be
found, call ye upon Him while He is near:
7 Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto
The Lord, and He will have mercy
upon him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Ezekiel 18:21,22
NLT
21 But if
wicked people turn away from all their sins and begin to obey My
decrees and do what is just and right, they will surely live and not
die.
22 All their
past sins will be forgotten, and they will live..."
Hosea 6:1 KJV
Come, and let
us return unto The Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He
hath smitten, and He will bind us up.
Luke 4:18 KJV (Isaiah 61:1 Jesus)
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 brokenhearted, to preach
deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to
set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luke 12:8 KJV
Also I say unto
you, Whosoever shall confess Me before men, him shall The Son Of Man
also confess before the angels of God:
Acts 2:21 KJV
And it shall
come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of The Lord shall
be saved.
Romans 7:23-25
NLT
23 But there is
another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes
me a slave to the sin that is still within me.
24 Oh, what a
miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is
dominated by sin and death?
25 Thank God!
The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 10:13 KJV
For whosoever
shall call upon the name of The Lord shall be saved.
I John 5:1 KJV
Everyone who
believes that Jesus is The Christ has become a child of God..."
Dear friend carnal liberty is only another name for Bondage.
The nature of the devil, and that of fallen man without God, ARE THE
SAME, sinful, bringing judgment and death.
Only through the power of The Lord Jesus Christ, may the bondage of
the devil be broken.
John 8:32,36 KJV
32 And ye shall
know The Truth, and The Truth shall make you free.
36 If The Son
therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
John 14:6 KJV
Jesus saith...,
I am The Way, The Truth, and The Life: no man cometh unto The Father,
but by Me.
II Corinthians
3:17 KJV
“...where The
Spirit Of The Lord is, there is liberty."
Friend, choose true liberty, choose true freedom, choose The Lord Jesus
Christ.
II Corinthians
5:21 NLT
For God made
Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we
could be made right with God through Christ.
