The practical key to the whole subject of deliverance is 2 Kings 6:77Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it. (2 Kings 6:7)-"Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it." It is a direct word of God to the conscience. Are you going to take it up? This is the man who is struggling for deliverance and for rest of heart. "Oh wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin." Here we have deliverance through the work of another-Christ.
Scripture says in John 14, "Because I live, ye shall live also." That is deliverance, and if we keep our eyes on Christ by reading His Word and by prayer, because it is in this way that we keep our eyes on Christ, we will enjoy this deliverance practically, every day. When we make worldly things our object-making money, pleasure or whatever-we lose a sense of deliverance.
"The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." It is a new law-"the iron did swim." All the iron could do was sink to the bottom of the Jordan river, but as a result of casting the stick in where the iron sank, a new spirit of life took over and delivered the iron with a life within. What a glorious deliverance-a new principle of life in Christ Jesus. It now is ours. May we live it!