We don't need to be captives
Charles Spurgeon
SUMMARY: God's people can be sold into captivity for sin, but through confessing sin and obeying God, they can find forgiveness and deliverance. Depression and despondency can be removed by abandoning idols and returning to God. We don't need to be captives, we can return to the citizenship of Zion quickly.
God's own people can be sold into captivity for sin. This is a very bitter fruit from an extremely bitter root. How terrible is bondage when the child of God is sold to sin, is chained by Satan, is deprived of his freedom, dispossessed of his power in prayer and your delight in the Lord! We must be vigilant so as not to fall into such captivity; But if this has already happened to us, we are by no means to despair.
But we cannot be held in bondage forever. The Lord Jesus Christ has paid too high a price for our redemption to leave us in the hands of the enemy. The way to freedom is "Return to Jehovah your God." Where we found salvation at the beginning, we will find it again. By confessing sin at the foot of the cross of Christ, we will find forgiveness and deliverance. Furthermore, the Lord wants us to obey His voice according to all that He has commanded us, and we must do this with all our heart, and with all our soul, and then our captivity will end.
Often times, depression of spirit and great despondency of soul are removed as soon as we abandon our idols and bow down in obedience to the living God. We don't need to be captives. We can return to the citizenship of Zion, and we can do it quickly. Lord, bring back Your captives!
Source: The Bank of Faith Checkbook. Translation by Allan Roman.
http://www.spurgeon.com.mx/chequera/meditames/mayo.pdf
But we cannot be held in bondage forever. The Lord Jesus Christ has paid too high a price for our redemption to leave us in the hands of the enemy. The way to freedom is "Return to Jehovah your God." Where we found salvation at the beginning, we will find it again. By confessing sin at the foot of the cross of Christ, we will find forgiveness and deliverance. Furthermore, the Lord wants us to obey His voice according to all that He has commanded us, and we must do this with all our heart, and with all our soul, and then our captivity will end.
Often times, depression of spirit and great despondency of soul are removed as soon as we abandon our idols and bow down in obedience to the living God. We don't need to be captives. We can return to the citizenship of Zion, and we can do it quickly. Lord, bring back Your captives!
Source: The Bank of Faith Checkbook. Translation by Allan Roman.
http://www.spurgeon.com.mx/chequera/meditames/mayo.pdf
