FREEDOM IN SALVATION

Those are no friends of Christ and his disciples, who make that to be unlawful which God has not made to be so. -Henry

John 8:36, If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

           When talking about freedom, it has been said many more times than I have probably ever said, “Freedom isn’t free!” It not only cost us financially, it costs us the blood of friends and family. To maintain freedom, it continues to cost us the same today and it will cost the same in the future.  

           When we received our freedom from sin, shame, and the guilt of sin, it costed Jesus His blood! Our freedom was bought with the price of God’s own darling Son. God gave His best for our worst. What a blessed thought, Jesus’ blood was given to set us free! Don’t take the freedom you have in salvation for granted friend! Nurture it! Rejoice in it! Share it!

UNSHACKLED

Unnecessary burdens leads to unwanted blow ups!

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1-2

            Carrying around unnecessary burdens causes us to have extra stress that our Saviour never intended us to have. When we keep these burdens bottled up, sooner or later we will be like a dead carcass on the side of the road baking in the summer heat; swollen, sour, stinking, and about to be splattered!

            The Lord has made it clear in His Word He wants us to cast our burdens upon Him and let Him deal with them. When we do, we come unshackled to them! We are relieved of those burdens! We become set free! Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 1 Peter 5:7