ListenDaily - 14 May 2009: EQUATIONS
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)
This is like a series of algebraic equations:
ABIDING = DISCIPLESHIP
DISCIPLESHIP = KNOWING TRUTH
KNOWING TRUTH = BEING SET FREE
If you remember algebra (sorry if that's a bad memory!), whatever you do to one side of an equation, you must do to the other:
if x = y, and you make one side negative, you must make the other side negative to remain equal, -x = -y. So then;
IF YOU DO NOT ABIDE = YOU CANNOT BE A DISCIPLE
IF YOU ARE NOT A DISCIPLE = YOU CANNOT KNOW THE TRUTH
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THE TRUTH = YOU ARE NOT FREE
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Questions:
1. What does this say about freedom? 2. What is your take on this? 3. Do you feel like 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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