Daily Delight Devotional – Thursday, June 15 2023

Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

– Matthew 5:25, KJV

In the sermon on the Mount, Jesus related truths from the unseen, spiritual world to the natural, visible world. Jesus was telling the people about things as they are in the spiritual realm by paralleling them to how we see them in the natural realm. He was saying that when you violate spiritual laws, you go to a spiritual prison unless you take appropriate action and confess your guilt.

Revelation 12:10 tells us that Satan is the accuser of the brethren. Our adversary is Satan. The Judge is God the Father. The officers are satanic authorities – demons – and the prison inferred is spiritual bondage i.e. being bound by demonic powers.

When a Christian is drawn gradually deeper and deeper into sin, Satan, his adversary and accuser takes him before the judge – God – and accuses him or her of their gross sin. God then has no recourse but to act in accordance with His righteousness against sin. He hands the guilty offender over to satan’s officers who promptly imprison him or her because that Christian refused to acknowledge his or her sin by agreeing with his accuser. The agreement is confession and repentance of his sin to prevent God from handing him over to the officers.

Spiritual imprisonment is being placed under demonic control in the area of that sin; be it sexual sin, the sin of the heart, the sin of indulgence or any other sin. If you indulge in sin, repent and turn away from your sin to secure your freedom from spiritual imprisonment.

Insight: A Christian should not be accustomed to sin until it becomes a lifestyle.

Prayer: Father, sin will no longer have dominion over my life in the name of Jesus.

Further Bible Reading: Matthew 25:25-27
Daily Bible Reading: Leviticus 16:21-26