Christ's Victory - I love they way you correlate our current day use of bondage. The specific addictions (sins) that we talk about holding us captive. As I read what you wrote, Exodus 14:14 came to my mind along with so many other times that the Lord went before His people in battle. This theory gives a specific visual of battle (divine conflict and victory". I love that you point out that it takes death seriously as well as the resurrection. The most beautiful is the ability to be freed from bondage, right now today, and not having to wait for some type of "finalization" of salvation. As pointed out by Wesley in "The Scripture Way of Salvation", "We are enabled by the Spirit to mortify the deeds of the body, of our evil nature; and as we are more and more dead to sin, we are more and more alive to God. This being made possible for us because of Christ's Victory.
