Freed from Deception

Yesterday's sermon was part II for the previous week, telling us that satan uses deception to deceive us, then dominate us before destroying us. Part II showed me clearly on how satan deceive us: that is through psychological effect like that of a chained elephant.

FYI: When a young elephant is chained with metal chain by their tamers, and being unable to break the chain, she felt weak against it and eventually giving up breaking the chain. The chain is then replaced by a rope when the elephants grow up. However, with the mighty strength they now possess, they will never break the rope, thinking that they are still as well as the past. Now that they have been "set free" from the metal chain, they remain "chained" until they realize they are freed.

Satan uses this method to chain us up, causing us to be his slave of sin and death. When Jesus died on the cross for us, we have been set free from then on. Likewise to the elephants' case, we thought that we are still chained and not freed, we failed to walk out of it and continue becoming slaves to sin and death.

As I was searching for the verseThen you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." on www.bible.com, God showed me 2more verses.

First verse was Romans 6:22
"But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. "

and second verse was Romans 8:2
"because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death."

Now I have the confidence, the truth and authority(Luke 10:19), I will be able to detect the deception of the evil and walk in light with God. Hallelujah!