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<li><b>Definition</b>: <i>The state of one who is bound as a slave or serf.  A state of subjection to a force, power, or influence</i>
<li><b>First reference</b>: Exodus 1:14<br><i>
And they made their lives bitter with hard Bondage , in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.</i>
<li><b>Choices lead to Bondage </b>
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<li>Experimentation
<li>Pleasure
<li>Habit
<li>Addiction
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<li><b>We have always been and ever will be in Bondage </b>
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<li><b>Unwillingly</b>
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<li>Exodus 2:23<br><i>
And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the Bondage , and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.</i>
<li>Exodus 6:5<br><i>
And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in Bondage ; and I have remembered my covenant.</i>
<li>Exodus 6:9<br><i>
And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel Bondage .</i>
<li>Deuteronomy 26:6<br><i>
And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard Bondage :</i>
<li>Galatians 4:3<br><i>
Even so we, when we were children, were in Bondage under the elements of the world:</i>
<li>Hebrews 2:15<br><i>
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to Bondage .</i>
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<li><b>Willingly</b>
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<li>Galatians 4:9<br><i>
But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in Bondage ?</i>
<li>Galatians 5:1<br><i>
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of Bondage .</i>
<li>Matthew 10:24<br><i>
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.</i>
<li>Matthew 20:27<br><i>
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:</i>
<li>Matthew 23:11<br><i>
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.</i>
<li>John 12:26<br><i>
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.</i>
<li>Romans 1:1<br><i>
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,</i>
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<li><b>Deliverence</b>
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<li>Exodus 6:9<br><i>
And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel Bondage .</i>
<li># Exodus 13<br><i>
3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of Bondage ; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.<br>
14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of Bondage :</i>
<li>Isaiah 14:3<br><i>
And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard Bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,</i>
<li>Romans 8:15<br><i>
For ye have not received the spirit of Bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.</i>
<li>Romans 8:21<br><i>
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the Bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.</i>
<li>Hebrews 2:15<br><i>
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.</i>
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<li><b>Deception</b>
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<li>John 8:33<br><i>
They answered him, We be Abraham`s seed, and were never in Bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?</i>
<li>Galatians 2:4<br><i>
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into Bondage :</i>
<li>2 Peter 2:19<br><i>
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in Bondage .</i>
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