So true!
Also...
"And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go" (John 11:43,44)
When whosoever hears His voice,they are a new creation,they are raised from death unto life but we are still bound....then Jesus says to those round about "loose him and let him go"
Unwrap the graveclothes from him,help him to see,unbind him...let him go!
No doubt satan cannot thwart The voice of Jesus Christ but it's no stretch to think he would do ANYTHING to keep that believer bound! To convince that believer that he can stand on the sun and cast a shadow.
/rant
“Ranting” on redemption more... And in a real sense believers come to Christ like the other Lazarus, (Lk. 16:19-33), abased, being are poor in spirit, hungering and thirsting after righteousness, counting their own righteousness as dung, but made accepted in the Beloved by faith-dependence on the Son sent by the Father to be the Savior of the world, who is “the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. “ (1 John 2:2)
“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. “ (1 John 4:10-11)
“And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice,
Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying,
Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever. “ (Revelation 5:9-14)