From Slavery to Freedom

What is the worst kind of slavery?

While some like the Jews of the first century, might answer political or economic slavery, Jesus tells us that it is slavery to sin. For while the bondage of one man to another ends at his death, if someone is not freed by faith in Christ from the shackles of sin, those chains will drag them down to an eternity in hell. Ironically, while the majority of early Christians were slaves, they were often 'free indeed' while their pagan masters remained forever in bondage.

What does slavery to sin look like? Perhaps one of the best analogies for the way the unbeliever is devoted to the sin that is warping and destroying them is given to us in the character of Gollum from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series...