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WHEN
RELIGION BECOMES OPPRESSIVE
Luke 13:10-17
The Freedom
of Christ.
And He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And
there was a woman who for eighteen years had had a sickness
caused by a spirit; and she was bent double, and could not
straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, He called her over and
said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your sickness." And He
laid His hands on her; and immediately she was made erect again
and began glorifying God.
The Bondage of Religion.
But the synagogue official, indignant because Jesus had healed
on the Sabbath, began saying to the crowd in response, "There
are six days in which work should be done; so come during them
and get healed, and not on the Sabbath day."
Recovering our Freedom.
But the Lord answered him and said, "You hypocrites, does not
each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the
stall and lead him away to water him? And this woman, a daughter
of Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long
years, should she not have been released from this bond on the
Sabbath day?" As He said this, all His opponents were being
humiliated; and the entire crowd was rejoicing over all the
glorious things being done by Him.
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