People who have been raised in bondage all their lives don’t know how to be free, so even when they are released they still remain in captivity because that’s all they know. It’s like a bird that has been raised in a cage all its life, even when the door to the cage is open & it is free it won’t hop out and fly away because the cage is all it knows. It is gripped by fear of the unknown. A similar situation is found in the prison system. When you see kids that get caught up in the juvenile detention system, if they are there for a long period of time they become accustomed to that life style and their mindset changes about themselves & life. The enemy then brings in the spirit of fear & defeat. They become depressed & get caught in a cycle. They are in bondage in their minds thinking they have ruined their lives & they give up. Eventually they end up making more mistakes if they don’t have someone there for them to help them turn things around. Then these mistakes land them in prison. If they are in the prison system for any length of time they become accustomed to that life style. They have all freedoms taken from them. They are told when to eat, where to go, when to take a bath, when to sleep. They are restricted from moving around freely. After a while they learn to adapt to being told what to do every day, all day & the prison mentality of doing what it takes to survive takes over. They go about their day & find a survival existence in the system. Their bodies and minds are in bondage. If they are there long enough this type of bondage life becomes the only way to live that they know. They don’t even realize when it happens but it changes who they are & it becomes part of them. They get stuck in the mode of thinking like a prisoner & even when they are released most are never able to go back into normal society because the bondage of prison has attacked & affected them to the core of their being. It changes their outlook on everything. They lose the sense of freedom of even the most basic foundational things of life like boundaries within a normal relationship. This type of deception where the foundation of man and woman relationships that God has ordained from the foundation of the earth is attacked daily by the enemy, because if he can break the very foundation of marriage between a man and woman, then the marriage of the Bridegroom (Jesus) to his Bride (the church) is seen by this world as wrong. So the enemy will use this type of bondage to pervert the very foundation of how we think about personal relationships. The bible references this as when men turn from the natural use of women and women turn from the natural use of men. Marriage between a man and woman is the perfect order of things as set by God. He is our Husband and we are the Bride of Christ. People who live in prison loose trust in others & even themselves. When they come home, depending on how long they were there they have little to no job or social skills other than what they learned in prison so holding a job or having normal family life is hard for them. That brings frustration due to no job and no money. They feel defeated & sometimes offend again & end up back in prison. Some even offend again on purpose because they can’t handle life on the outside and want to get back to the only normal they have ever known… living in bondage. Most times they can’t adjust because even though their bodies are free their minds and emotions are still in bondage because that life is all they have ever known. Even though they are physically free, they are still mentally bound & don’t know how to walk in the freedom they have been given. Just like the children of Israel lived in Goshen & were in bondage, they learned to adapt to their environment. They lived daily life, they worked, they got married, had relationships, had children, had families, they worshipped God, yet they were slaves to Egypt. They were told where to go, when to go, what to do every day & were beaten and killed if they didn’t. They became accustomed to that lifestyle to the point that when they were finally free they didn’t know what to do & so they told Moses that it was better in Egypt because they had food & shelter. They had a life there. They forgot about the bondage being bad because it had become a part of who they were, not just a way of life. They prayed to be free yet when they became free they could not handle it & even turned back in their hearts & made the golden calf. Even though they were physically free, they were still held captive in their minds. They had a prisoner mentality & fear of the unknown gripped their hearts. They disobeyed God & this caused them to be lost wondering in the dessert for 40 years. The generation that was mentally in bondage wandered in the wilderness until they died off. They were never able to get past the mental bondage and prison mentality. They were out of Egypt (prison) but Egypt was not out of them. That generation died in the wilderness. It was the next generation that entered into the promise land. The next generation was not a generation that was born into bondage, nor had they become accustomed to living in bondage and didn’t have the prison mentality. They physical bondage that the children of Israel and the prisoners of today that populate our prison system have suffered is the most obvious type of bondage; however, there are many types of bondage.