They sigh and cry, but they feel themselves to be bound. 4. There is a saving clause here. Satan had done a good deal to the poor woman, but he had done all he could do. He can smite, but he cannot slay. The devil may bind you fast, but Christ has bound you faster still with cords of everlasting love, which must and shall hold you to the end. That poor woman was being prepared, even by the agency of the devil, to glorify God. III. I want you to notice in the third place THE LIBERATOR AT HIS WORK.