D. L. Moody gives us understanding of this by telling a story of a former slave woman in the South following the Civil War. She was confused about her status and asked: "Now is I free, or been I not? When I go to my old master he says I ain't free, and when I go to my own people they say I is, and I don't know whether I'm free or not. Some people told me that Abraham Lincoln signed a proclamation, but master says he didn't; he didn't have any right to." As we seek to follow Christ, we find that we can be confused on the same point. Jesus Christ has given us an "Emancipation Proclamation," but our "old master" tells us we are still slaves to a legal relationship with God. We can live in bondage because our "old master" has deceived us.
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