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Freedom
On March 16th, 1985, Terry Anderson, who was the Middle East bureau chief for the Associated Press, was taken hostage by Shiite Hezbollah militants while playing tennis in Beirut, Lebanon. He was eventually released on December 4th, 1991, after 2,455 days of confinement. That month the December 16th issue of Time Magazine carried his picture on the cover with a smile of relief and freedom on his face. He was indeed free at last!
However, there is a far more serious imprisonment that shackles the human race and those who are not saved. Satan holds them in the bondage of sin. The Bible declares, “His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins” (Proverbs 5:22).
The good news is that there is freedom and pardon offered by God through His Son. “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). Unless we avail ourselves of this offer of freedom, we will be held in the chains of sin and the confines of hell for eternity. Today life and liberty are available through the Great Emancipator, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the work He accomplished at Calvary.
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