We are the slaves, all people that have ever lived on this planet...except for Jesus the Christ.
We are enslaved by sin. By the knowledge of good and evil, which placed pride in our hearts. Pride is the root sin of all sins. From pride comes greed, **** of power and **** of flesh. It also tells us that we do not need God that we can control our own destiny. It enables us to walk away from God.
God loves us so much that He put up the ransom...it didn't matter the cost... He wants us all back.
Satan is involved in the process as the supreme servant of sin. He is not sin. He doesn't hold us in slavery, but he works diligently to get us and keep us ensnared in sin. He himself fell from God's grace into sin and became corrrupted absolutely by it. He is, in fact, a slave (THE slave) to sin also. Would it not be glorious if satan could turn back to God??? Think of the ramifications of that in this world...satan working to get us to move towards God!!!
The slave/ransom analogy wasn't completed in the Bible because it isn't a perfect analogy (very few are...)
Sin is not a being that can except a payoff. Sin is a state of mind, a power that is not feeling or thinking... it just is.
It would be like trying to pay the sun to stop shining on the earth. The sun doesn't care. It will keep shining no matter how much money we throw at it. We can spend money to protect ourselves from it. But as soon as we step outside of our protection, we get blasted again. The same happens with sin, we are freed by God who paid for this freedom, be we can still step outside of this protection and sin is still right there ready to enslave us again.
God, thank you for our protection from sin and for paying the price to free us from it!!!!!
I love You!