Bible Readings:
John 8:13 – 59
Sermon Outline:
John 8:34–36 (NKJV)
34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. 36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
I Enslaved by sin
II Spiritual liberation
III The Spiritual liberator
…bound as I was, not with another’s irons, but by my own iron will. My will the enemy held, and thence had made a chain for me, and bound me. For of a forward will, was a lust made; and a lust served, became custom; and custom not resisted, became necessity. By which links, as it were, joined together (whence I called it a chain) a hard bondage held me enthralled.
Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine (E. B. Pusey, Trans.)
The power of sin
Sin is not a tory, it is a tyrant.
John Blanchard
Sin has two great powers; it reigns and it runins
John Blanchard
What a thing is sin, what a devil and master of devils is it, that it should, where it takes hold, so hang that nothing can unclench its hold but the mercy of God and the hear-blood of his dear Son!
John Bunyan
When the will is enchained as the slave of sin, it cannot make a movement towards goodness, far less steadily pursue it.
John Calvin
Our sin is a step to another more heinous.
David Dickson
Sins begin like cobwebs, but become iron clamps
J. C. Ryle
Men hate their sins but cannot leave them.
Seneca