Zig Ziglar wrote about the famous escape artist, Harry Houdini. Houdini boasted that he could escape from any jail cell in the country. Frequently, he demonstrated his ability to just that, but once something went wrong. When the heavy door clanged shut, Houdini pulled out a piece of thin metal that had been concealed in his belt and started to pick the lock. For thirty minutes, he worked on the lock, but couldn’t get it open. An hour passed, he was bathed in sweat, but he still couldn’t pick the lock. Two hours went by, and he finally collapsed in frustration against the door he could not open. But, when he fell against the door, it swung open. It had never been locked! In his mind it was locked, and that’s all it took to keep him “locked” in and frustrated. The bondage and imprisonment resulting from sin, isn’t quite like Houdini’s jail cell, but it is very much like the imprisonment of the mind. Jesus knew that there is something about the truth that is freeing. His concern was specifically freedom from sin, and truth about himself. Jesus frees people from sin.

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