In your freedom6/2/2023 ![]() When you get into a situation like that, the pressure to use lies and deception to save your own skin can seem almost overwhelming.īut when Jesus stood before Caiaphas, the high priest, and he was told, “Tell us if you are the Christ the Son of God” (Matthew 26:63). There are times where telling the truth can get you into serious trouble. He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth. Jesus did not use his freedom to deceive. But Jesus used his freedom to make a different choice. People who have great power normally use that power to make their lives incredibly comfortable. Our God is in heaven, and he does whatever he pleases. All things were made by him and through him and for him. ![]() Jesus is the Son of God and he is seated at the right hand of the Father. ![]() If you want to see what this freedom looks like, then you need look no further than the example of Jesus himself. And according to Jesus, this is precisely what he can give to us: “When the Son sets you free you are free indeed” (John 8:36). We may think that we are swimming freely, but as long as we are going in the direction of the current we are not free.įreedom exists only when we have the ability to swim against the tide or make a different choice. It is like a strong current that carries us along. Jesus said “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin” (John 8:34). And the list goes on.īut the truth is, without Jesus, we do not have nearly as much freedom as we think. We have the freedom to select, it seems, from an unending variety of products that we would like to buy. We have the freedom to elect a new president every four years. We have the freedom to gather for worship at the church or synagogue or temple of our choice. In America, we have freedoms that people in many other parts of the world do not enjoy. I have a friend who says that he was brought up in a family where “everything was forbidden, except for what was compulsory.” That doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for choice, does it? When Henry Ford rolled his cars off the production lines in 1909, he declared, “You can have any color you want, as long as it’s black.” That was not freedom. “Freedom” means that you have the ability to do something different.
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