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Are You Subject to Perpetual Bondage?

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

The Days of Unleavened Bread represent our efforts to rid our lives of sin, a process of becoming de-sinned through hard work. God expects us to continue striving to overcome sin, expending effort to put it out of our lives as it arises. Christ's sacrifice, upon our repentance, blots out our sins, and He died so we would not face eternal death, placing upon us the responsibility to avoid remaining slaves to satan, the world, and sin. From a biblical perspective, every person is subject to slavery, either to sin or to God, reflecting a slave/master relationship where we are accountable to Him, and He assumes responsibility for us. Those who are slaves to God are under His care, while slavery to sin entails complete subjection to a master's will, akin to idolatry and bondage. At the end time, satan will use the Beast power to control a tyrannical Babylonian system, enslaving everyone physically. No one on earth is truly free from this satanic bondage in a physical sense. The significant shift is not from slavery to freedom, but from slavery to sin to slavery to God, moving from darkness to light and falsehood to truth. Though our Lord and Master's yoke is easy and His burden light, a yoke still exists, and universal service on earth is assumed, with the critical choice being whether one's master is God or sin. Creation itself suffers from the bondage of corruption, and unredeemed sinners remain in bondage to sin and evil powers, including religious deities and lusts. Jesus' teachings and parables affirm a slave's subservient allegiance to a single master as a model of service under God, exemplifying voluntary slavery by humbling Himself as a human and embracing death. His perfect life shows that freedom is not autonomous perfection but a chosen relationship with God, requiring obedient rejection of sin's bondage. Christ's death serves as the redemptive payment for deliverance from the slave market of sin. Paul, echoing this, illustrates the choice between masters, confessing his own past slavery to sin and choosing instead to be a slave to God's law, engaging in a constant battle to resist the world, satan, and sin's influence. Salvation is presented as spiritual freedom from slavery, a change of masters expressed as freedom to serve Christ in the spirit with a view to total redemption in the new creation. Paul's principle concerning slavery was for believers to remain in the state in which they were called, emphasizing that the primary goal is not social freedom but spiritual freedom to serve the supreme God.

Sin and Overcoming, (Part 2): What Is Sin Like?

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

When a righteous man feels an inclination to sin, God will place stumblingblocks in his way to force moral choices, as well as a watchman to give understanding.

Freedom Isn't Free

Commentary by Ryan McClure

Abraham Lincoln, in his 1838 Lyceum Address, warned that America's destruction could occur only from moral rot within, as exampled by the Roman Empire.

Entanglement with the Yoke of Bondage

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

No civilization has escaped the scourge of slavery, although Gentile administration has always been more cruel and severe than Israelite administration.

How God Deals With Conscience (Part Three)

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

We have to learn to rely on God to get us out of strait and difficult situations, realizing that God may want to help us to develop a backbone and mature.

Holy Days: Unleavened Bread

Bible Study by Staff

The Feast of Unleavened Bread immediately follows the Passover. In it we see how hard it is to overcome and rid our lives of sin.

Wilderness Wandering (Part One)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

We are in various stages of our wilderness journey, not knowing where our journey will take us. The turns give us opportunities to strengthen our faith.

Freedom and Unleavened Bread

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

Christian freedom has nothing to do with location or circumstance but how we think. By imbibing on God's Word, we will incrementally displace our carnality.

The Elements of Motivation (Part Seven): Fear of Judgment

'Personal' from John W. Ritenbaugh

Our fear of being judged negatively by God should spur us to greater obedience and growth toward godliness. The fear of God is a fundamental mindset.

Do You Recognize This Man? (Part Three)

Sermon by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Though we were freed by God, we will fall into slavery again if we do not maintain our vigilance. Our forbears never learned to live as free men and women.

Boundaries, Incursions, Migrations, and God (Part One)

Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

The globalist enemies of language, borders, and culture have made themselves enemies of the will of God, who set up boundaries for all the children of Adam.

The Works of the Devil Destroyed

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

Satan and his demons know that their time is short and are determined to destroy as many people as possible, especially the Israel of God.

Elements of Motivation (Part Four)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

Because we have been bought with an awesome price, we have no right to pervert our lives, but are obligated to look upon our bodies as vessels in His service.