Daily Devotions
Freedom
Title: Freedom
Reading for December 1: 1 Corinthians 5-9
Weekly reading for November 25-December 1: John 6-10
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
John 8:36
Earlier this week we celebrated Veterans Day, a day to remind us of the sacrifices service men and women have made to preserve our freedoms.
Tomorrow on the first day of the week we will remember the sacrifice our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ made to give us freedom. Among other things, we have freedom in Christ Jesus from:
Sin. "For one who has died has been set free from sin." (Romans 6:7) "But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life." (Romans 6:22)
The law of sin and death. "For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death." (Romans 8:2)
Our yoke of slavery. "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery." (Galatians 5:1)
Spiritual blindness. "But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." (2 Corinthians 3:16-17)
The curse on this earth. "that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God." (Romans 8:21)
An imperfect law to a perfect law. "But now we are released from the law; having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code." (Romans 7:6) "But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing." (James 1:25)
To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
