Bound in the World Longing to Be Free

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Tonight I am going to speak on how we live in bondage and using crickets in a cricket basket to illustration. The cricket basket signifies self-bondage; the crickets represent the people holding on to the world. The opening at the top of the basket represents freedom at no cost. 1. Point # In the Bible, we see how the children of Israel ended up in slavery, like the basket of crickets the world entraps us into bondage: A. Exodus 1:8-14 (NKJV). Before the new king came into power the people of Israel were comfortable and complacent with the way they were living. Joseph and the old king took care of the children of Israel. However, when the new king came into power, he feared the children of Israel because they outnumber his people. So he arranged ways to try and keep the Israelite from departing the land of Egypt; therefore he sets taskmaster over them to control them. He placed hard burden upon them, thinking that it will keep them in the land for his personal use. He used them as slavers for his own lavish luxury. The Israel raised his food, clean his house, and make him wealth, in all that they did, he made their life hard and their work loan harder. Like the crickets, that was placed inside the basket of bondage. They ended up trapped in bondage for the fisherman’s use to serve his proper. They too have grown use to someone else taken care of their needs, like food and water. Not realizing that they are in bondage. 2. Point # Crickets: The cricket represents the people that are held in bondage. A. 1 John 2:1-2 (NLT) B. Luke 13:16 Just like the crickets who continue living in bondage holding on to the sides of the basket with their gazes fixated out of the little tiny holes in the screen. For, they think the little tiny hole is their only way out of the basket. They never consider looking up at the top of the basket toward the big hole, which
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