Hello brother, thanks for sharing your testimony and the power of Jesus who can save from the collars of Satan!
The first part of the story reminds of one parable that I read from Spurgeon, here it is:
---------------------- [b]A Modern Parable by C.H. Spurgeon[/b]
A certain tyrant sent for one of his subjects, and said to himWhat is your employment?
He saidI am a blacksmith.
Go home, said he, and make me a chain of such a length.
He went home; it occupied him several months, and he had no wages all the while he was making the chain, only the trouble and pain of making it. Then he brought it to the monarch, and he said
Go and make it twice as long.
He gave him nothing to do it with, but sent him away. Again he worked on, and made it twice as long. He brought it up again, and the monarch said
Go and make it longer still.
Each time he brought it, there was nothing but the command to make it longer still. And when he brought it up at last, the monarch said
Take it and bind him hand and foot with it, and cast him into a furnace of fire.
These were his wages for making his chain. Here is a meditation for you to-night, ye servants of the devil! Your master, the devil, is telling you to make a chain. Some of you have been fifty years welding the links of the chain; and he says, Go and make it longer still.
Next Sabbath morning you will open that shop of yours, and put another link on; next Sabbath you will be drunk, and put another link on; next Monday you will do a dishonest action, and so will keep on making fresh links to this chain; and so when you have lived twenty more years, the devil will say, More links on still! And then, at last, it will be, Take him and bind him hand and foot, and cast him into a furnace of fire; For the wages of sin is death. There is a subject for your meditation. I do not think it will be sweet; but if God makes it profitable, it will do you good.
[i]-Taken from The Christian Treasury, 1868.1[/i] ---------------------
[b]Hebrews 7:25[/b] Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. |