Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone
Greek word for “free” here is eleutheroo , which means “to liberate” and figuratively means to “exempt a person from any type of liability.” Prior to making this statement, Christ said, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (v. 32). This word know has a variety of meanings, but it can also refer to knowing a person in an intimate manner. Since Christ Himself is “truth” (John 14:6), then to “know the truth” is more than having a head knowledge of Christ; it is to have a relationship with Christ. Through your relationship with Christ, you are released and made free from sin. Through the discipline of the Word you are free indeed . Deliverance gets the bondage out of you, and discipline keeps it out of you. Discipline means to guard your eyes, ears, mind, spirit, and any entry point from an invasion of unwanted people, pictures, and information. The ability to sin has always been in the earth since Adam’s fall, but the availability to sin has become more accessible. With cable, satellite, the Internet, iPads, iPhones, and instant pictures and technology, the ease in which one can step from imagination to image is with the touch of a screen. When Delilah tricked Samson, we read where she fastened his hair “with the pin.” When he awoke and fled, he “went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web” (Judg. 16:14, KJV ). In our technology-driven world today, with a pin number and access to the World Wide Web, our minds have become the battleground. It was David who said, “The Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle” (Ps. 144:1), referring to the sword and the bow. In our generation we
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