Restraints, Ties, and Ligatures IV

Luke 13:10–13 ESV

Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your disability.” And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God.

Luke 13:15–16 ESV

Then the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?”

Pray for mercy and compassion deliverance over each person

Progression

restraints do not need your permission

they harass but are not embedded

ties need your cooperation

bind you to another

ligatures do not just need your cooperation they need you to refuse to let go

disables you even as you are found in the house of the Lord

it seeking to turn you over to the Jailor

Woman living with a soul tie that progressed to a ligature

Daughter of Abraham

Serving in the house

disabled and could not serve to the fullest

she could not get herself straight

Religiosity seeks to keep you bound in the shackles or stocks that will

keep your head looking down

hands bound

feet bound

angry because the deliverance was not how they wanted or how they thought

Work of the minister is to untie the one who is found bound

You are freed from your disability…

Glorify God

Ligatures are the stocks of captivity that seek to end your ministry and turn you over to the jailor.

Reasons for the Ligatures

Acts 16

Hope of gain is gone

Disturbing the City

Violating customs and laws

Violating acceptable cultural practices

Ligatures Applied

Invite others to join in the assault

Garments stripped

Orders to physically assault

Throw them into prison

Orders to keep you from escaping

Acts 16:24 ESV

Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

Placed into the inner prison

Fastened feet into stocks

Ligatures a Weapon of Annihilation

Psalm 18:4 ESV

The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of destruction assailed me;

Ligatures of death and bring rivers of destruction

Psalm 18:5 ESV

the cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

Bound by the place where the dead reside; soul is tied to the snares of death

Escape from Ligatures

Psalm 2:3 ESV

“Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”

There is an escape from even the ligature

He Who Sits in the Heavens laughs

The Lord disparages them

Speaks to them in His wrath

Terrifies them with His fury

My King is on His Holy Hill

Our Cry for Help

Psalm 18:6 ESV

In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.

Call for help and He will answer; surety your voice will hear you

Then the suddenly

Earth is shaken

foundations and mountains tremble

His anger is awakened

Confession of our Deliverance

Psalm 18:1–3 ESV

I love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.

Confession in His strength

Confession of my Rock, my Fortress, my Deliverer

Confession in my God

Confession my Rock

Confession in my Refuge

Confession in my Shield

Confession in the Horn of my Salvation

Confession in my Stronghold

He alone is worthy of all praise, for He alone heard my cry when the fetters the shackles the stocks had me so bound that there was no way out… when guards were appointed to keep me from escape the Escape showed up… I will say to the Lord you are my Salvation my Jesus.

I am not captive I am free