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This guide to John Bunyan's classic Christian allegory, "The Pilgrim's Progress," was first published anonymously in The author, referring to himself simply as "Andronicus," takes the reader through Bunyan's tale, explaining the symbols Bunyan used to convey his message and expanding upon his lessons for anyone striving to reach the "Celestial City. Read more Read less.

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To remain imprisoned is to place the soul in eternal peril. Christian had learned earlier in the allegory at the House of the Interpreter about the strong bonds of despair. The Man in the Iron Cage was hopelessly imprisoned by his own doubts and fears. He had once professed faith and claimed the promises of God, yet sin had so ruined him that he could no longer believe that God could save him.

In our lowest moments it is easier to believe that God will extend grace to others than to us. Though sin has ravaged the world, we feel the sin that has ravaged our own hearts the deepest. When we examine our hearts under the piercing light of God's Law, we know ourselves to be "the chief of sinners. When doubt lays hold, and when Christ is not in view, we can have the hardest time believing that someone like us can be saved.

Even when we take hold of the Key, the Lock can be stubborn.

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Yet the promise of the gospel will indeed open it. We need to heed the words of hope, keep turning the key in the lock, and press forward until the gate is thrust open. This scene in The Pilgrim's Progress comes from Bunyan's own experience.

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In Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners , he describes his own "three or four days" in Doubting Castle and how he was able to escape:. At another time, though just before I was pretty well and savory in my spirit, yet suddenly there fell upon me a great cloud of darkness, which did so hide from me the things of God and Christ, that I was as if I had never seen or known them in my life; I was also so overrun in my soul, with a senseless, heartless frame of spirit, that I could not feel my soul to move or stir after grace and life by Christ; I was as if my loins were broken, or as if my hands and feet had been tied or bound with chains.

At this time also I felt some weakness to seize 'upon' my outward man, which made still the other affliction the more heavy and uncomfortable 'to me.

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After I had been in this condition some three or four days, as I was sitting by the fire, I suddenly felt this word to sound in my heart, I must go to Jesus; at this my former darkness and atheism fled away, and the blessed things of heaven were set within my view. While I was on this sudden thus overtaken with surprise, Wife, said I, is there ever such a scripture, I must go to Jesus?

Then with joy I told my wife, O now I know, I know! But that night was a good night to me, I never had but few better; I longed for the company of some of God's people that I might have imparted unto them what God had showed me. Christ was a precious Christ to my soul that night; I could scarce lie in my bed for joy, and peace, and triumph, through Christ; this great glory did not continue upon me until morning, yet that twelfth of the author to the Hebrews Heb.

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But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel Hebrews We must look to Christ if we are to escape from Doubting Castle.

If we lose sight of Christ or depend upon anything but Him for help, Despair will find us again.

Oh, if Christ be not always with the soul, or if at any time it go astray from him, or if its reliance be on anything whatever but his mercy, his blood, his grace, then is it near the gloom of this dungeon; then may Giant Despair be heard walking in his grounds, and verily the echo of his footsteps oftentimes falls upon the soul before the grim form rises on the vision.

And some who have once entered the castle have stayed there a great while, because they have tried many other means of escape, than by the blood of Christ; because they have used picklocks, and penances, and stratagems, and the help of friends outside the castle, but not the key of Promise, or that not aright, not throwing themselves on the Savior alone for pardon, peace, and justification. A man who gets into difficulty through sin, will never get out by self-righteousness; nor are past sins, nor the burden of them, to be ever removed by present morality; nothing but faith, nothing but the precious blood of Christ, can take away sin, can remove the stain of it, can deliver the soul from its condemnation.

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Christ alone can save us! Only He provides the promise of escape from the iron bars of doubt and the fierce blows of despair. Every method of our own devising is insufficient:. Though strategies may have their place and the help of friends is welcome, they can never give us what we truly need. Powerless before a sadistic Giant. They were without hope. So what did Christian and Hopeful do? They prayed They prayed from midnight almost until daybreak.

They prayed — and God answered. Christian suddenly remembered — What a fool am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! The Key of Promise So they tried the key in the dungeon door — it opened! They went out and tried the key in the castle door — it opened, too!

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Illustrative Notes on the Pilgrim's Progress. In PP, many characters are on the journey to Glory, but most fail since they are not "worthy enough" to enter. How The Pilgrim's Progress ties into West World When we first meet the hosts, they are stuck in loops, experiencing the same miserable events over and over. While both Maeve and Christiana feel a close connection to motherhood, they are also fully developed individuals that rely on their intelligence and quick wit. Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. Then they went on, and came to the King's High-way again, and so were safe, because they were out of his jurisdiction.

Pray over that promise — preach to yourself that promise — trust that promise — ask God to fulfill that promise. This might take some effort. After all, faith is called a fight 1Tim 6: The moment you find yourself in Doubt and Despair — Remember the key — use the key — and escape. Which promises did you use — and what did God do? May 29, at 8: May 29, at 9: