Ephesians 1:7 “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.”

DAILY READING; Romans 13; 1 Samuel 25; Psalm 68

The Sinjar massacre, which took place in August 2014 in Iraq, marked the beginning of the genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [ISIL, also known as ISIS].
The Yazidis are a Kurdish religious minority in Northern Iraq, who were regarded by ISIS as sub-humans who must be cleansed to turn Iraq into a pure Islamic state.

In this massacre in Sinjar city, thousands of Yazidi men were killed, while their women were taken hostage in the largest single kidnapping of women in this Century. The homes of these captured women were turned into prisons, where they were held hostage.
Some of these Yazidi women and their children were later sold as slaves by the ISIS fighters. The horrors they passed through made them to prefer death, as some ended up killing themselves.
However in the midst of this darkness and despair, one Yazidi man decided to risk his life to begin a rescue operation for these captured women.
Khalil al-Dakhi was a lawyer who initiated an underground rescue network that worked to help the Yazidi women escape. Through Khalil’s work, hundreds of Yazidi women were eventually rescued from captivity. However in the process of rescuing them some members of Khalil’s team were killed by ISIS.
‘Escaping ISIS’ is a documentary film that provides first-hand accounts of Isis’ brutal reign and the efforts to rescue the captives. Though the joy expressed by these escaped women were indescribable, however it had come at the great cost paid by Khalil’s rescue team, some of whom had lost their lives in the process.

Spiritually also, many of us were in a state of bondage and slavery, but Christ paid the ultimate price of His precious blood to set us free.

Ephesians 1:7 says, “In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.”

The word “redemption” means “the act or process of buying back.” The blood of Jesus is the cost of our redemption. Jesus paid the price for us to be free from the shackles of spiritual enslavement. Through the blood of Jesus we are truly set free from every form of suffering, shame and reproach.

Zechariah 9:11 says, ‘As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.’

By the Blood of Jesus we have been brought out of every imprisonment. Spiritually, every affliction is a type of imprisonment. Disease, infirmity, poverty, sin, etc., are all demonic bondages that hold people in spiritual slavery.
This was reflected in Luke 13:16 when Jesus said: ‘And ought not this woman…whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond?’

It is Jesus’ desire to deliver us from every bondage of the enemy. By His blood, ‘Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, that the blessing of Abraham might come upon us’ (Galatians 3:14).
While Jesus was being beaten and later hung on the cross, our freedom was being paid for and the curses on our lives were being averted. Therefore today we have a comprehensive redemption in Christ and as long as we serve The Lord, we are entitled to total liberty. However it takes knowledge of the truth to walk in freedom.

Lack of spiritual knowledge is what keeps men in captivity. If you remain a babe in knowledge, you run the risk of spiritual enslavement. Galatians 4:1-2 says that a child is no better than a slave because he remains under governors and tutors until he is able to grow up and take charge. There is, therefore, a need for us to grow in knowledge of God’s Word to establish our freedom.

God’s Word is able to cut away all shackles of slavery in our lives. Indeed it is only when we know the truth, that we are truly set free. [John 8:32].

PRAYER
Lord, I thank You for purchasing my freedom through Your precious Blood. Thank You Lord for the grace to diligently study Your Word so that I can walk every day in the full consciousness of the victory You won for me at Calvary in Jesus’ Name.

QUOTE
The study of the Word will keep shame and disgrace far from you. – WORDBITE 222