And it is these ten laws that the evil one entices lost man to break. So just who is this slavemaster that Christ called Sin? Sin is a spiritual state of a human being that breaks the ten commandment law of God. Without Christ’s Spirit coming into our hearts, mankind is prey to every whim of sin that the devil, the prince of the air, wants us to do. Sin is a harsh slavemaster to the natural unregenerated man, which is old man Adam, the nature we inherited when we were born into our earthly existence. If a man is committing sin, he is sin’s slave. “Whover commits sin is a slave of sin” (v. Then Christ spelled it out which bondage the truth would free a man from. The Pharisees retorted, We have never been in bondage to any man. Christ did not stop expounding after that thought in John 8: 32. You hear Christ’s words quoted all the time: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” But free from what exactly? People rarely go on and finish the quote.
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