Prison Break

A sermon on redemption themes.

Many are unaware of the prison bars that hold them. They are captive to the controlling power of the world’s worst dictator.

Our Lord came, Luke 4:18 …to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.

That same deliverer who set His people free from Egypt’s hard bondage still brings DELIVERANCE. His mission includes Acts 10:38 ...healing all that are oppressed of the devil...

He has come to set the captives FREE – to know true liberty... John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

He is our great deliverer. Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Our Lord can set people free from the snare of the devil.

Our enemy is a cunning trickster... a con artist... 2 Corinthians 11:14 …transformed into an angel of light.

The sinner is helpless, in the grip of darkness, and under the just wrath of God... Yet a sure escape and pardon is freely offered, if he will but take it... John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

We can know a glad freedom in Christ. Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

The Lord redeemed Israel from Egypt through the blood of the lambs… He delivered them from the bitterness and hard bondage of their task masters.

We were held as captives, enslaved to sin and death... Yet He sets us truly Free. John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Sin has powerful mastery over multitudes. There is a mind control of the masses. Many follow a worldview that is destructive. Many souls are enslaved and face destruction.

Our great deliverer has shed His blood for our saving. Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

God calls the saved “the Redeemed” - we are truly a set-free people. The Lord rescues sinners from the domain of satan, and offers the glorious liberty of the sons of God.

God calls us overcomers. His will is that we overcome, not be overcome. Romans 6:16 …to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

When we receive Christ He transforms our hearts and rewires our mind, our thought patterns. He gives us a new way of talking.

He sets us free, in our souls, our hearts, our minds. He breaks through the darkness of our dingy dungeon, looses us from oppression, frees us from captivity, and throws open the prison doors.

He breaks the control over all our controlling emotions and lusts that are contrary to His will. He strikes the fetters from our hands and feet. He removes the scales from our eyes. He looses our bonds.

We have found joy... and everlasting freedom... We have been gloriously purchased with a price — the precious, priceless blood of Christ. 1 Corinthians 7:23 Ye are bought with a price…

We can know a full deliverance from doubt and fear and the flesh. From pride, and self-deception.

There are over 100 Scriptures which speak to the freedom and victory that we can know.

That we can have a personal victory in our lives, over sin, through Christ Jesus... God provides us with a way of escape, 1 Corinthians 10:13.

If you are a Christian you have been redeemed — you have been purchased, delivered, and rescued. The Bible says sin no longer has mastery over you.

He tells us that we can be made free from sin. Romans 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Our old, dread slave master has ownership over us no longer...

Just as Pharaoh ceased to hold power over the children of Israel, after their deliverance, so sin no longer has power over you. The blood of Christ has delivered you from your captivity to sin and death.

Our Lord has delivered and redeemed us from sin.

We have a new, gracious, loving master, who we freely and willingly want to serve. We are glad servants of our Lord and we have a new obedience to His will.

We can know His redeeming power is also His great keeping power... Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

His delivering power is ongoing. The Lord will finish what He has started.

There is a full and free deliverance available for the vilest of the vile.

Our precious Lord has delivered us from the domain of darkness. We have been set free from that control...

Colossians 1:13-14 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

(14) In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: