Is the SON making you FREE?
Some of the most beautiful truths in scripture are the treasures hidden just below the surface of the words that we read…waiting for the searcher and seeker to catch a glimpse of its glory and uncover its eternal depths…It does not matter how many times you have read through the bible, if you will Ask, it will be given unto you, if you Seek, you shall find, and if you Knock, the door will be opened unto you!!!
Many times I have heard this scripture misquoted and it is such a beautiful truth on the surface…but deeper still is yet another beautiful revelation of GODS work in us….
[32] And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
How many times have you heard this verse as “set you free” and not “make you free”? The true meanings here get lost in the many translations of the bible that are inundating Christianity today. Set you free indicates that you are instantly and forever loosed from the chains that held you! JESUS’ work on the cross did indeed set us free from the bonds of sin that we should no longer serve sin…but the scripture is indicating an effort on our part…
Making free indicates a process….HIS work, HIS blood, HIS grace, broke the chains, but we HAVE TO WALK OUT OF THE PRISON….it paid for us to ENTER into the race…BUT WE HAVE TO RUN TO OBTAIN THE PRIZE…Love does conquer all, BUT WE HAVE TO LET it have its redeeming WORK in our lives….
As we yield our selves to the SPIRIT more and more, we will less and less yield to the flesh, and the work of JESUS blood that purifies, protects, and provides will perform its work in the YIELDED believer.
JESUS did not break the bonds of sin, death, and destruction so we could have freedom to stay in them…but that we would now have the freedom to walk in HIS way, HIS truth, HIS light and life!!!
Did JESUS set you free? You had better believe HE did!!!!! But are you allowing HIM to MAKE you free? Is your clay molded in the potters hand each day?
[8] But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
[2] Arise, and go down to the potter‘s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.
[3] Then I went down to the potter‘s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
[4] And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
We must be yielded and allow the MASTER to mold us into HIS image…as HE wants to make it…whatever seems GOOD to HIM.
We must discover where we are putting our faith and trust, where we are building our spiritual house…is it on the sands of tradition and the rudiments of the world? Or is it upon the ROCK, the one that was rejected…but is now the CHIEF CORNERSTONE…JESUS. I want HIS truth, HIS ways, HIS acceptance. That will be what makes the cut…one day to hear HIS voice say..
“Well done, my good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joys of thy LORD”.
Allow the MASTER potter, the lover of our souls…to do HIS work in us EACH day!!
Look to HIM, for HE is the author and the finisher of our faith!!!
[36] If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Read GOD’s Word and grow in HIM!
Pastor Stephen