This week, our nation celebrates Freedom – Independence – the ability to live and worship freely. We cherish the word “Freedom,” yet we recognize that securing that Freedom and maintaining that Freedom has come at a great Price!
Those patriots who fought to secure these Freedoms knew the great cost involved. And so, as they closed the Declaration of Independence, they included these words:
“And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
Today, as we assemble as the Body of Christ to worship Him, we celebrate the Freedom that we have in Jesus Christ! We cherish this freedom and fully recognize the Great Sacrifice and Price at which our Freedom was secured!
For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. -Romans 5:6-8
Our freedom was secured by the demonstration of God’s love for us displayed by the very death of Christ for us.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. -Romans 8:1-5
In Christ Jesus we are free from sin and death! We are no longer held captive by our sinful flesh but have now been made free to walk according to God’s Spirit! Together we celebrate no condemnation in Christ! To God be the glory!
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