By disobeying God and obeying Satan man became the servant of sin and Satan. Paul says, "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey?" Romans 6:16. [Illustration: Driven from Eden.] By obeying Satan man lost his dominion of the earth, and it passed into the hands of Satan. Thus he became "the god of this world." [Illustration: "To them, bowed low with grief for sin, the shining ones made known the way to heaven."] [Illustration] The Promised Redeemer. WHEN one person is owned by another person, and has to work for him, he is called a slave, or a bond-servant, because he is in bondage, and not free to do what would be best for himself. So it is with one who lets himself be controlled by the evil instead of by the good. The word devil is like the word evil, and means the same. To do evil is to do as the devil wishes us to do. Put _d_ before _evil_, and you will see where evil comes from. A slave can not get free from a cruel master. He has no money to buy his own freedom, and no power to get away. If he tries to escape, he is followed and caught, and brought back again to work for his hateful owner. Adam and Eve really sold themselves to Satan--the evil, the devil--by doing as he wanted them to do. They traded their happiness for the knowledge of wrong which he promised them, and which he gave them. Thus he became their owner, or master, instead of God who had made them, and to whom they really belonged. Now they could not get free, and as the wages, or end of sin, is death, they must serve Satan all their lives and then die, without any hope of another life beyond this one. God and Christ and the angels all pitied man in this sad condition, and Christ offered to leave Heaven and come to this earth and give His life for man's life. Only in this way could He buy back, or redeem man (meaning everybody), so that all who want to be free from the service of Satan and sin can escape death, which is "the wages of sin." Sometimes a rich man buys a slave from his cruel master, so that the poor man can be free and happy. So Jesus did for us. We get free from Satan by thanking God for this plan to save us, and asking Him, for Christ's sake, to forgive our sins and help us to live a good life, away from our old master, the evil. This is what the word Redemption means. It is buying back something that has been sold into bondage. Jesus bought us back after we had sold ourselves to Satan. "Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price," "the precious blood [the life] of Christ." 1 Corinthians 6:19, 20; 1 Peter 1:18, 19. This "good news," or Gospel of Salvation, was told to Adam and Eve as well as to the shepherds on the plains of Bethlehem hundreds of years afterward, so that all could have a chance to obey God by being made free from the power of Satan. [Illustration: "They traded their happiness for the knowledge of wrong."] [Illustration] The First Brothers.