Our Greatest Freedom
Our Greatest Freedom
This is Independence Day weekend. We love to celebrate our freedom as Americans. We love to cook out, go to the beach, enjoy time with family and friends, all the while celebrating our nation as the “land of the free and the home of the brave.”
Freedom is good, but freedom is always bought. It always costs something. For Americans, it cost lives.
As believers, it also cost lives, specifically one life…Jesus. But Jesus’ death did not free people from an oppressive government. Jesus’ death bought our freedom from sin.
The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 changed the status of 3.5 million people from slaves to free. Christ gave his life to set us free from the bonds of slavery to sin. Ironically, the way we are able to be set from sin is to make ourselves slaves, slaves to Christ.
Romans 6:17-18 says, “But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over, and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.”
Celebrate Independence Day and be thankful for our nation. Be even more thankful that Christ has set us free. Remember John 8:31b-32: “If you continue in my word, you really are my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
In FREEDOM,
Jonathan
This is Independence Day weekend. We love to celebrate our freedom as Americans. We love to cook out, go to the beach, enjoy time with family and friends, all the while celebrating our nation as the “land of the free and the home of the brave.”
Freedom is good, but freedom is always bought. It always costs something. For Americans, it cost lives.
As believers, it also cost lives, specifically one life…Jesus. But Jesus’ death did not free people from an oppressive government. Jesus’ death bought our freedom from sin.
The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 changed the status of 3.5 million people from slaves to free. Christ gave his life to set us free from the bonds of slavery to sin. Ironically, the way we are able to be set from sin is to make ourselves slaves, slaves to Christ.
Romans 6:17-18 says, “But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over, and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.”
Celebrate Independence Day and be thankful for our nation. Be even more thankful that Christ has set us free. Remember John 8:31b-32: “If you continue in my word, you really are my disciples. You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
In FREEDOM,
Jonathan
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