Lesson 5 Reasons for Sin’s Slavery: That We Might Learn to War Against our Flesh
Question 2
We might ask the question: but how does this dramatic change come about? How do we go from loving something to hating it? From finding it a rush and a thrill to finding it repulsive?
Here is where God can use our time in sin-slavery to work toward our freedom.
To illustrate what I mean, consider the following story: a man and his wife are walking out of a restaurant when suddenly, they are jumped by a villain and shoved down a side alley. The villain brandishes a large knife and demands all their valuables—all their money, jewelry, wallet, and purse. They willingly give all to this thief in hopes that he will spare their lives. After the horrifying event is over, they file a police report, but the robber is not captured.
Several weeks go by and then in the middle of the night, as they are sleeping in their bed, they are awakened to discover a man in their home. They can hardly breathe as they see the invader is holding a large knife to the throat of their teenaged son and demanding they give him all the valuables in their home or their son will die. The man and wife gather up all their money, jewelry, and other possessions, but to their horror, they watch as their teenaged son attempts to be the hero and throws a punch at the villain, followed immediately by the criminal stabbing their son multiple times, and then making his getaway with all their belongings.
The ambulance is called quickly, but unfortunately, the son does not survive. Oh, the heartbreak! Oh, the devastation!
They tell the police that in the struggle, they noticed that the attacker is the same one who held them at knifepoint as they were leaving the restaurant several weeks earlier. Then the police tell them that the murdering thief entered through an unlocked door. Can you imagine how this couple now felt? They felt as if they had invited the man into their home by leaving their home unsecured.
Several months later, after this same couple has just finished breakfast, they hear noises coming from their garage and hear their car starting. They rush out to the garage just in time to see their car slamming through the closed garage door and out of the driveway at a high rate of speed. As it begins to drive away, they notice that the man driving it is the same one who killed their son and who had done so much damage to them in the past.
Question 2. About this time, how do you think this family is feeling about their attacker?
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