Human Trafficking Facts and Stats document summarizes that approximately 3,287 people are trafficked into slavery every day, with most being children sold repeatedly for sex. This hidden problem occurs worldwide, including within the United States. The document notes that due to sin, humanity is subject to hardship, corruption, and ultimate death, but promises future redemption and restoration.

3. Human Trafficking Facts and Stats
Are you aware that 3,287 people are sold or
kidnapped and forced into slavery every day? Not
many people are. That's 136 an hour and that's just
the reported cases. Are you aware that most of these
are children and most of them are sold repeatedly for
sex? Again, it's a little known fact but it's real and it's
happening all around us -- even here in the US.

4. Because of sin, we are in

5. Genesis 3:16-19
16 To the woman He said: “I will greatly
multiply your sorrow and your
conception; in pain you shall bring forth
children; your desire shall be for your
husband, and he shall rule over you.”

6. Genesis 3:16-19
17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you
have heeded the voice of your wife, and
have eaten from the tree of which I
commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not
eat of it’: “Cursed is the ground for your
sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days
of your life.

7. Genesis 3:16-19
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring
forth for you, and you shall eat the herb
of the field. 19 In the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread till you return to the
ground, for out of it you were taken; for
dust you are, and to dust you shall
return.”

8. Romans 8:19-23
19 For the earnest expectation of the
creation eagerly waits for the revealing
of the sons of God. 20 For the creation
was subjected to futility, not willingly,
but because of Him who subjected it in
hope;

9. Romans 8:19-23
21 because the creation itself also will be
delivered from the bondage of
corruption into the glorious liberty of the
children of God. 22 For we know that the
whole creation groans and labors with
birth pangs together until now.

10. Romans 8:19-23
23 Not only that, but we also who have
the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we
ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly
waiting for the adoption, the redemption
of our body.

11. Grown-up faith required in

12. Hebrews 11:32-38
32 And what more shall I say? For the
time would fail me to tell of Gideon and
Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of
David and Samuel and the prophets:

13. Hebrews 11:32-38
33 who through faith subdued kingdoms,
worked righteousness, obtained
promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

14. Hebrews 11:32-38
34 quenched the violence of fire, escaped
the edge of the sword, out of weakness
were made strong, became valiant in
battle, turned to flight the armies of the
aliens.

15. Hebrews 11:32-38
35 Women received their dead raised to
life again. Others were tortured, not
accepting deliverance, that they might
obtain a better resurrection. 36 Still
others had trial of mockings and
scourgings, yes, and of chains and
imprisonment.

16. Hebrews 11:32-38
37 They were stoned, they were sawn in
two, were tempted, were slain with the
sword. They wandered about in
sheepskins and goatskins, being
destitute, afflicted, tormented—

17. Hebrews 11:32-38
38 of whom the world was not worthy.
They wandered in deserts and
mountains, in dens and caves of the
earth.

18. God will bring us home from

19. Job 42:10,12,13
10 And the LORD restored Job’s losses
when he prayed for his friends. Indeed
the LORD gave Job twice as much as he
had before.

20. Job 42:10,12,13
12 Now the LORD blessed the latter days of
Job more than his beginning; for he had
fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand
camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and
one thousand female donkeys. 13 He also
had seven sons and three daughters.

21. 1Peter 1:3,4
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant
mercy has begotten us again to a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
from the dead, 4 to an inheritance
incorruptible and undefiled and that does
not fade away, reserved in heaven for you.

22. Romans 8:18
For I consider that the sufferings of this
present time are not worthy to be
compared with the glory which shall be
revealed in us.