Yeah! It is Saturday! That means tomorrow is church!! Woo Hoo!!! Arent you excited about it? I hope so! Today is a great passage, I think it will teach you something you never thought about so go ahead and get started!
A Few Thhoughts from yesterday:
Tank: Glad you could join us!
Brooke: I think the words are great! I need to figure out how to fit them into the song… maybe sometime next week I will do that.
PLMA: Love you! Thanks for yesterday! (if you are who I think you are)
Jessica: So did you get it? or not yet?
Slacker: I wouldnt have called you that, but you told me to. Thanks for getting back on! When are ya’ll leaving for Tampa?
Josh L: obviously you had Clinophobia last night! What in the world were you up all night on the computer for?? You are crazy! Glad you did your devotions though!
John 8:31-36
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
33 They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will be made free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.
35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever.
36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
This is a smaller passage but it packs a powerful punch! Jesus says: If you abide, stay, live in my word, then you are my disciples! Wow! That is such a complement to so many of you. There are definitely many of you who “abide” in the word every day.
We cannot be disciples, or followers of Christ unless we are abiding in His word! When we do, we learn the truth and the truth of His word sets us free.
Free from what you may ask? Well, the believers that Jesus spoke to asked the same thing: They said, we are not in bondage and never have been. But Jesus said, oh yes you are, you are in the bondage and chains of your sin…
I know exactly what He means there, do you ever feel like you just keep sinning and you cannot stop it. Well, the truth is, before you were saved, you honestly could not stop it. However, when you accepted Christ, you became free from the bondage of sin, and now you dont have to sin…
So why do you? Well, sometimes, we sin because we forget that we have been freed from the bondage of sin and even though we have no chains around us, we still just sit there in prison and pretend like we are back in the bondage of sin.
Jesus Christ alone has the power and ability to set each of us free from our sin. We must stay in His word, and trust that we have been freed from our sin: by doing those things, we can live a much more sinless life…
So many pastors will tell you that you will always sin again, they tell you that there is no way to stop that: but it is not true. We are free from the bondage of sin… Can you go one second without sinning?… … … … Can you go two seconds without sinning?… …. …. …. …. … …. … what about three? Four? Five? Sixty? One full minute? 2 minutes? 3, 4, 5, ? 10 minutes? We have been freed from the bondage of sin! How long can you go without sinning?
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