Title: Have You Been Made Free?
Text:
John 8:36 (KJV)
36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Observation:
Did you have a good and godly day yesterday? Our pastor spoke about "The Open Grave". He said the open grave is a symbol of freedom. Notice what the Apostle Paul wrote to the church at Rome.
Romans 6:17-18 (NLT)
17 Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you.
18 Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.
Have you been set free from the penalty of sin? Have you been set free from the power of sin?
Romans 6:23 (NLT)
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
Yesterday was about what Jesus did for you and for me when He died on the cross that Friday afternoon. Notice what Paul writes here.
Romans 3:22-23 (NLT)
22 We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.
23 For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard.
Here is how to be made free; how to accept the gift of love that God provides for those who believe in Jesus. Here is how to make Resurrection Sunday real and personal in your life.
Romans 10:9-10 (NLT)
9 If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.
Romans 10:13 (NLT)
13 For "Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved."
Prayer:
Father, hallowed be Your name. Father, thank You for sending Jesus to be our sin bearer, and to do for us what we could not do for ourselves.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (NLT)
21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
Father, I thank You that when Jesus died on the cross that He was not alone. When He died on that old rugged cross at Calvary I died. And, because He was not alone then, I have the blessed assurance that I am never alone because Christ lives in me.
I pray that Christ is alive in the readers, and the hearers of this Word. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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