Darryl was just a boy when he committed his crime. He was imprisoned for nearly two decades. Then he went up for parole and it was granted. Freedom was only a few months away. “Free, at last!” he rejoiced. What would you be thinking? How would you be feeling?
During those many years in prison, Darryl realized he had some serious considerations. He was watching his life slip away. The world was moving along and he was stuck in a cage. What was he going to do -- continue wasting his life or begin making something of it?
Darryl had made a good impression on some successful business people. They visited the prison with a religious organization called Kairos. They told Darryl to contact them when released.
When Darryl was set free, he cherished his newly received freedom. He wasn’t going back! Darryl was going forward. He knew there’d be challenges, but was determined to overcome them. He was successful, and still is. But Darryl was first set free from sin in Jesus!
The apostle Paul gives us a word picture of just what Jesus has done for us: “For He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins (Colossians 1:13-14).
Everyone reading this article has the chance of escaping, of becoming free from the authority of the devil. His power no longer has to keep holding you captive, because Jesus has a kingdom of freedom – from Satan and from sin! Why remain captive when you can be free?
Jesus once healed a woman, and He describes her as being “set free.” “Then should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound these eighteen long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what bound her?” (Luke 13:16).
We can also see this idea in 2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.”
Since Christ Jesus makes us new by removing our sins, then we can become free only in Him. That’s a new condition for us. The old condition has passed away. It becomes dead! You gain a new life!
So, like Darryl, you can be set free from bondage. Like that woman in the synagogue, you too can be set free from Satan. If you are being held captive by the devil, why not be “transferred to the kingdom of ” Jesus?
Are you willing to be made completely new? Become free in Jesus!