“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23, ESV)

05/02/2023 – Evening Service: The bondage of sin

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