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“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again in the yoke of bondage” (Galatians 5:1).
In giving us a new life in Christ, God has brought us into liberty. No longer are we the slaves of Satan, for now we are under a new Master—the Lord Jesus. Satan has no authority over us anymore, and we do not need to serve him. We are now like slaves who have been given their freedom, and who do not need to serve a cruel master anymore.
However (and it is very sad!), some believers in the Lord Jesus look back at the days before they were saved, and look out at Satan’s world, with longing eyes. Somehow they persuade themselves that there is more pleasure in that lifestyle than in following the Lord. Then once again they turn back to those things that bring them into bondage. In our verse for today, God is warning us not to do that, for it is a “yoke of bondage.”
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