ListenDaily - 12 May 2009: Need to be freed?
Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (NIV)
John 8:31-32 (find any passage at www.Biblegateway.org)
"Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." Now check out the response from verse 33: "They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?" Were they kidding? The history of the Jewish people up until this time was a history of their slavery, the exiles, the captivities. Their greatest story was of their Exodus from slavery in Egypt; and here are the descendants of the Exodus people denying that they were ever enslaved. And they were having this conversation they while living under Roman occupation!
Can one be set free if denying captivity?
Of course, Jesus was talking about spiritual freedom; freedom from the bondage of sin.
We are born in bondage. We are born in sin. Sin is bondage. Can one be set free if denying captivity?
Where does that leave me? Where does that leave you?
"Jesus said, "If you abide in my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
We must accept that we have been living in bondage. No matter how nice we are, no matter how good we think we are. No matter. We are all born into the bondage of sin. To say or think otherwise is to believe a lie. Let us not respond to Christ's call tofreedom with the same foolishness as those in this passage, refusing to believe our legacy of slavery.
Let us abide, be disciples, and know Truth. Let us be free!
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Questions:
1. How would you define your own bondage? 2. Is it difficult to recognize? 3. Do you know about the Truth or know the Truth?
INTERESTING THOUGHT:
"The Jews looked upon a serpent to be freed from serpents;
and we look upon the death of Christ to be delivered from death."
Augustine
"The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God."
C.S. Lewis
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