John 8:36 says if the
Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
The first thing to learn from this verse is there
is no
freedom anywhere else except in Jesus . One of the names of Jesus is the
Truth ,John 14:6 . John 8:32 says And ye shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you free .There is no freedom in joining the
occult because it is selling ones life to the devil. At times there is
no freedom
in divorce because in a bid to become free through divorce, one rather
ends us
up in a bigger bondage. Malachi 2:16 says For the LORD, the God of
Israel, says
that he hates putting away: For one covers violence with his garment,
says the
LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit that you deal not
treacherously.
There are many teenagers who see moving out of their parent’s house as
means of
getting freedom. Most of them later find out twenty, thirty years later
that
the decision to leave home at a early age restricted them and set them
in bondage
one way or the other. Freedom only comes from Jesus. Romans 8:2 say
because
through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the
law of
sin and death.
Another thing to learn is there are two types of freedom.
According to John 8:36, there is one
called ordinary freedom and there is freedom indeed. In Luke 5:1-7, Peter received freedom from
fruitless efforts. In Luke 13:10-17, the woman with the bent back received freedom
from her sickness of eighteen years. In Luke 17:11-19, out of the ten lepers
Jesus healed, nine of them received freedom but the one that came back to
praise God received freedom indeed. The bible says he was made whole. One way
to receive freedom indeed is to be thankful for the freedom we have received in
Christ.
Do you know that it is possible for Jesus to set a man free
and the man still remains in bondage? Proverbs 23:7 says as a man thinks, in
his heart so is he. Gideon was born a warrior –mighty man of valor but his self
limiting belief put him in bondage. Imagine the one whom the angel of God
addressed as a mighty man of valor calling himself a weakling (Judges
6:11-15) , so also Moses and Saul. They were all born to achieve mighty things
but their self limiting believes worked against them.
