Read Romans 8:15 from your Bible
There is a spirit of bondage.
It gets people tied down, locked up, and chained down!
This spirit is responsible for all manner of afflictions that people suffer. Talking about the woman that was under affliction for eighteen years in Luke 13:16, Jesus asked:
“And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound…be loosed from this bond…?”
That’s the spirit of bondage. It is a spirit of captivity. You just get captured by it!
For instance, somebody is coughing and is still smoking! Yet he has been told at the hospital that he has tuberculosis! He doesn’t want to die, yet he keeps smoking and is coughing! He is under the arrest of the spirit of bondage, the spirit that causes addiction to evil!
When Jesus was here on earth ministering, He was healing many who were oppressed of the devil. (Acts 10:38).
Everything binding you to what you don’t want is a spirit of bondage.
Romans 8:20 says:
“For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope.”
“Not willingly”! It’s a force, a control, by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope.
Verse 21 says:
“Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”
There is a bondage of corruption. It is worked out by the spirit of bondage. It gets people addicted to evil without any feelings!
Every bondage is by the operation of the spirit of bondage. So it is not what you want, it is what it wants. It’s a control, but it can be destroyed!
Shalom!
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