Freedom Verses Captivity
"So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed". John 8:36
I have read this passage in John 8: 1-36, and each time, remembered wondering to myself, what does it mean exactly. The Son makes us free. Free! Free from what? How does He makes me free? Today I think I finally have an understanding.
JESUS! Jesus who is the Son ..of God.. is why we are free from captivity and bondage, if we are believers in Christ. It is His life, death, and resurrection, which He offers freely that sets us free from the captivity of things of this world that imprison us. Darkness,depression, hopelessness, emptiness, to name a few I have experienced. Yes these are prisons that the enemy locks us up in, and wants to keep us there. Jesus wants to make us free, in Him.
I heard it said recently by someone, that the Bible is a love story. The greatest love story ever told. For me it is so true. Jesus Christ wants to set each of us free, free us to have a personal, intimate, loving relationship with Him. It is with in the pages of this book, The Bible, where The God of heaven, reveals how much He loves us. Enough to come from heavens glory and live among us and ultimately give up His own life in order to make us free from the bondage of sin which is what imprisons whether we see or don't see it as such. How much greater love can there be? A sacrificial love. I'll die for you so you do not have to suffer eternal death. That's being set free.
Today's world, I think, rely's to much on what others say is right or true, especially about God, His Son Jesus Christ and His Word the Bible, rather than really to ask or search out what they, personally believe. Hearsay! The Bible is Gods revelation to His creation, of who He is, what He thinks, what He wants us to know..about Him..and just how much He loves, loves, loves, us. He desires to set us free to love Him in return. How can that happen if we never spend time within the pages of His revealed story to us.
Loves sets the captive free. Faith in Jesus Christ and His atonement for us sets us free. Jesus is love, and wants to set each of us free...
Spend some time in His word find out for yourself what the Bible has to say about how to be "made free. Read it! Explore it! I know you will never regret doing so. The loving God who created you is waiting for you to come to Him.
"So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed". John 8:36
I have read this passage in John 8: 1-36, and each time, remembered wondering to myself, what does it mean exactly. The Son makes us free. Free! Free from what? How does He makes me free? Today I think I finally have an understanding.
JESUS! Jesus who is the Son ..of God.. is why we are free from captivity and bondage, if we are believers in Christ. It is His life, death, and resurrection, which He offers freely that sets us free from the captivity of things of this world that imprison us. Darkness,depression, hopelessness, emptiness, to name a few I have experienced. Yes these are prisons that the enemy locks us up in, and wants to keep us there. Jesus wants to make us free, in Him.
I heard it said recently by someone, that the Bible is a love story. The greatest love story ever told. For me it is so true. Jesus Christ wants to set each of us free, free us to have a personal, intimate, loving relationship with Him. It is with in the pages of this book, The Bible, where The God of heaven, reveals how much He loves us. Enough to come from heavens glory and live among us and ultimately give up His own life in order to make us free from the bondage of sin which is what imprisons whether we see or don't see it as such. How much greater love can there be? A sacrificial love. I'll die for you so you do not have to suffer eternal death. That's being set free.
Today's world, I think, rely's to much on what others say is right or true, especially about God, His Son Jesus Christ and His Word the Bible, rather than really to ask or search out what they, personally believe. Hearsay! The Bible is Gods revelation to His creation, of who He is, what He thinks, what He wants us to know..about Him..and just how much He loves, loves, loves, us. He desires to set us free to love Him in return. How can that happen if we never spend time within the pages of His revealed story to us.
Loves sets the captive free. Faith in Jesus Christ and His atonement for us sets us free. Jesus is love, and wants to set each of us free...
Spend some time in His word find out for yourself what the Bible has to say about how to be "made free. Read it! Explore it! I know you will never regret doing so. The loving God who created you is waiting for you to come to Him.
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