Scripture Reading: John 8:31-40
The title of this day’s passage is suggestive. People who live in sin do not confess that they are slaves — they often think they are the only free men, and that Christians are the slaves. But in all this world there is no bondage so terrible as the bondage of sin. The salvation of Christ is not merely the taking away of sin’s penalty — if this were all, it would be very incomplete. This would leave us unchanged in heart and life, loving still the old things and the old ways, not disposed to live the beautiful life of holiness, not having the love of Christ in our hearts. The salvation of Christ not only changes our relation to sin’s penalty, setting us free, but brings us into God’s family, making us God’s children. It includes also the breaking of the power of sin over the life and the exaltation of the believer into the full liberty of Christ.
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