"You were bought with a price!" 1 Cor. 6:20
How deep,
how dreadful,
of what alarming magnitude,
of how black a dye,
of how ingrained a stamp—
must sin be, to need such an atonement,
no less than the blood of the Son of God,
to put it away!
What a slave to sin and Satan,
what a captive to the power of lust,
how deeply sunk,
how awfully degraded,
how utterly lost and undone, must guilty
man be—to need a sacrifice like this!
Have you ever felt your bondage to sin, Satan,
and the world? Have you ever—groaned, cried,
grieved, sorrowed, and lamented under your
miserable captivity to the power of sin?
Has the iron ever entered into your soul? Have
you ever clanked your fetters, and as you did so,
and tried to burst them—they seemed to bind
round about you with a weight scarcely endurable?
You were slaves of sin and Satan. You were
shut up in the dark cell, where all was gloom
and despondency. There was little hope in your
soul of ever being saved.
But there was an entrance of gospel light into your
dungeon—there was a coming out of the house of
bondage! "You were bought with a price!"
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