them; Christ set them free. Christ announced that liberating people from various enslavements was His mission (Luke 4:18–21), as predicted in Isaiah (Isa. 61:1–2), and explained in the Psalms (Ps. 146:6–9). He told believers that His teaching would set them free (John 8:32). Christ warned them about Satan for “there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44). Satan’s cosmic controversy is a distortion of the truth about God,
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