So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
(John 8:36 ESV)
We are indebted to our servicemen and servicewomen who have made sacrifices great and small to secure the freedoms we enjoy in this great country in which we live. And we do want to show them this weekend (and always) our appreciation and honor.
However, there is a freedom which knows no boundaries of any social or political structure on Earth. A position of freedom that Jesus Christ states to be “free indeed.”
This freedom is the greatest freedom of all, given by God, purchased by the shed blood of Christ, and always safe and secure in the promises of God. This is the freedom I would like to examine today. This freedom has its roots and foundation in the only true gospel. The gospel that comes to us by grace through faith and not of works.
Free indeed …
- Freedom forever: For eternity; for all future time; for always; an endless time; without ever ending; eternally; for everlasting time.
- Freedom to infinity and beyond: Limitless, boundless, never-ending, impossible to measure or calculate; having no boundaries or limits; immeasurably great or large.
- Freedom from everything that constrains us on this Earth: In Christ we are free from our sin and everything that sin would touch and stain in our lives, including our emotions, our intellect, our spirituality, our relationships. We also will one day be free from the physical restraints of this life: our bodily limitations, sickness, general frailties that go along with being a human who was born to die while living on a planet that is under the judgment of God because of our rebellion.
