What If You’re Not as Free as You Think? | Easter at Islands

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Thanks for joining us. He is risen.

Let's do it again. I'm going to say he is risen and

you say he is risen indeed. You ready?

He is risen one more time. He is risen.

Amen. There are a lot of things in

life that we assume are true until something exposes that

they are not indeed true. One of the things I like to say

is it's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble, but

what you know that just isn't so.

Sometimes we think we know something and we're wrong about

it. We found out later.

For example, think about your finances.

You can think your finances are fine and everything is going

well until something breaks. Something falls apart and you

realize you weren't quite as good financially as you first

thought. You can think all of your

relationships are strong until something goes wrong, and then

you realize that's not as strong as I thought.

You can think your life is on track, it's going right where

you want it. Everything is going smoothly

until something falls apart. And in those moments what you

realize is you can feel one way kind of inside and be completely

wrong about reality. You can feel one way inside and

be completely wrong about reality.

And that's not just true about life like finances and

relationships. Jesus says that's true about

something even deeper, Freedom, the idea of freedom.

Now, most of us sitting here today and watching online, you

would say, hey, we're free, man. We, you know, we make our own

decisions. We live where we want.

We pretty much do whatever we want.

But what if you are not as free as you think you are?

What if we were wrong? And this is the tension that

Jesus steps into in John chapter 8.

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He's talking to a group of people in John chapter 8.

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If you have your Bibles, you can go there.

Around verse 31 is where we're going to be.

He's talking to a group of people in John chapter 8.

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And Jesus is having this conversation.

And these people, they are good people.

They believe in him. They're good moral people.

Actually, the Bible says in John that they were Jewish believers.

In other words, they were, they were people who were Jewish, but

they believed in Jesus. They're good people, they're

moral people, they're religious people.

And he tells them something they did not expect to hear.

He tells them you need to be set free.

And they respond the same way all of us probably would in the

moment. What do you mean I need to be

set free? What are you talking about?

I am free. And this is where the

conversation gets really interesting because what Jesus

says next challenges how we define freedom.

And it ultimately points us to why Easter matters at all.

What this is all about. And this morning what I want you

to hear is this. If you're a note taker, here's

the big idea. True freedom can only be

received, not achieved. True freedom can only be

received, not achieved. And today we'll unpack that

truth in the text of John chapter 8 with these three

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ideas. Number one, we think we're free.

We all think we're free. Number 2, Jesus says we're not.

Number one, we think we're free and #2 Jesus says we're not.

And #3 Jesus sets us free. If you have your Bibles, John

John 8:31–33

chapter 8, verses 31 through 33. So we're going to read 1st and

let's take a look at this tension between Jesus and really

good people. These are not bad people.

These are good people we're reading about here.

Starting with verse 31. To the Jews who had believed in

him, well, that's the category. That's the group of people.

To the Jews who had believed in in him, Jesus said, if you hold

to my teaching, you are really my disciples, then you will know

the truth comma and the truth will set you.

What's that say? Everybody say free, free and the

truth will set you free. Well, they answered him, we are

Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves of anyone.

How can you say that we shall be set free?

So number one, we think we're free.

We think we're free. Jesus offers these guys freedom,

but they don't think they need it.

They scoff at his offer. They're looking around and

they're saying, hey, we feel free, bro, dude, we, we don't

need your freedom. They're considering how they

feel. They're considering what what,

how they see their reality. And you all do the same thing.

We all do the same thing. We, we look internally determine

how we feel and we based on what we feel, we we decide that

that's what reality is outside of us.

So we use our feelings to determine what is reality.

That's exactly what they're doing.

They're saying, hey, check this out, Jesus, we're good moral

people. We make good decisions.

We're Jews, we follow the law. We're descendants of Abraham.

That means we are the right heritage.

We are the right heritage. Jesus, like we are free.

And this is the problem with freedom.

Write this down. Freedom isn't always obvious.

Freedom isn't always obvious. It just isn't.

Think about this, when you were 16 or 17 years old at home and

you could drive, do you remember getting your license?

Who got their license right when they turned 16?

Anybody. Yeah, me too.

I turned 16. I got my license like the next

day, man, It was an amazing moment, right?

Just like do you guys remember that feeling of all of a sudden

that I grew up, I was in high school in the 90s and so there

was before cell phones, I didn't even have a beeper or anything

like that. So like when I left home in my

car, my parents didn't know where I was or when I was coming

back or if I was coming back, right?

You guys remember that Those are glorious days, right?

I would never want to been a parent during those days, but

they didn't know any different. Right now.

My my kids are anywhere. I know where they are at all

moments life 360 right? I just everywhere they go, I

know. And if their life 360 isn't

updating, I'm texting them, Hey, Jack, your life 360.

Why is it not updating? Where are you?

But do you remember that feeling, man?

You, you, you could drive, you could go places.

You could, you just, you would leave the house in the

summertime and you might go to a friend's house and you might go

somewhere else. You might go out, you know, go

out to the beach. You know, you just, you didn't

know where your day was going to take you.

You know why? Because you were free.

And one of the best things about that time when you were 1617

years old, driving is most, most of us, I'm not going to say all

of us, but most of us, our parents covered most of the

bills, right? They paid the insurance.

They put, you know, my dad gave me a little gas money.

And there, now this was back in the day when you could roll

quarters for gas, guys, remember that.

And I would go and like, you know, I won't say steal, but go

in the laundry room and find every quarter I could find and

try to gather up $3 of gas because $3 of gas will get you

through, you know, a couple days, you know, and I want you

were so free back then. Do you know what I wanted more

than anything else when I was 16 or 17, in the midst of all that

freedom, do you know what I wanted more than anything else?

I wanted to be free. Do you remember that?

I want to get out of here. I'm ready to move on.

Did anybody else have that feeling?

You were 1617 and you were you were living like the most free

you would ever live in your entire life.

And all you can think about was I want to be free.

I want to get out and be free. And then you, that happens,

right? It wasn't long before you're

out. At least this was true for me.

I wanted to be free. I wanted to be out of my parents

house. I wanted to be gone.

I wanted to live my life and what is It wasn't long before I

was gone, living my life and paying my bills.

I wanted what to go back home. I wanted to go back home because

like, it wasn't fun. It was freedom wasn't free.

I wanted to be the I wanted to have the freedom of being a

teenager again in a good home. And this is the thing.

Freedom isn't always obvious. It just isn't.

Think about partiers, people who drink heavily on the weekend.

What do they tell you, man? I'm free.

We're free, man. We just free living on the

weekend, but later they acknowledge that they're

Alcoholics, they're stuck. They thought they were free,

they thought they were living free and they were actually in

bondage. Freedom isn't always obvious.

The same thing for like a driven, career minded person who

sacrifices the time, the time with their children so they

could create financial freedom. I'm trying to give them a good

life and a good future, and the whole time they think they're

free and they're providing financial freedom.

And later they have to admit they're actually workaholics,

and now they're in bondage to loneliness because they don't

have a relationship with any of their family.

Freedom isn't always obvious. Think about it this way.

Here's here's an analogy I like about this.

What if you jump out of an airplane with a parachute?

That's defective. OK, And you don't know it's

defective. In other words, when the guy

handed you the parachute on the ground and you strapped it on

and you clicked it on, you were thinking, what?

This has been checked and rechecked and it's perfect.

But what you don't know is that the parachute is actually

actually defective. And you're in the plane the

whole time you're in the plane going up and you're getting

ready to skydive and you have this defective parachute on.

What are you feeling? You don't know it's defective.

So what are you feeling? You're feeling freedom when you

jump from the plane. The moment of ecstasy when

you're flying through the air, what are you feeling?

You're feeling free. You are flying through the air,

but in just a few short moments you're going to realize you are

always in bondage to a defective parachute and you just didn't

know it. And this is the thing about

freedom. It isn't always obvious.

We may feel free, but what's ahead oftentimes is destruction,

regret, and death, and we just don't know it.

Freedom isn't always obvious. You know, we're not the best

judges of our freedom. And This is why Christians

believe that Jesus is the one that defines our freedom.

And that's what he's attempting to do with these guys.

He defines their freedom and they don't like it because

they're already convinced they're free and they don't need

the freedom Jesus offers. And this is how many people are

when it comes to Jesus still to this day.

Jesus defines what freedom is for them.

They don't like it, and they don't think they need the

freedom Jesus offers. We should relate well with these

men. So number one, we think we're

free, but #2 Jesus says we're not.

So number one, we think we're free, but #2 Jesus says we're

not. Listen, let's keep reading verse

34 and 35. Jesus replies to them.

So they say, hey, we don't need to be set free.

We don't need their. We don't need your freedom.

Jesus. We're Jews.

We're descendants of Abraham. We got the right heritage, we

got the right lifestyle. What are you talking about?

Listen to what Jesus said. Jesus replied, very truly.

I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son

belongs to it forever. And these guys are saying, hey,

we're fine, we don't need your freedom.

But Jesus says, no, you're wrong, you do need my freedom.

He says here is your actual reality.

Your actual reality is that you're not free, you're actually

in bondage. You've jumped out of an airplane

with a defective parachute and you don't know it.

You're actually in bondage. And why does he say they're in

bondage? Verse 34, Jesus replied, very

truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

Why are you in bondage? Because he says to them, you

commit sin. And what Jesus is actually

saying is everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

Everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

Now, let's hit the pause button here for a second because I

know, especially if you don't go to church very often, it's kind

of those things where you're like, this is one of the reasons

I don't go to church is the preachers always talking about

sin, right? And the word wigs us out and

makes us feel funny. And some of that's for good

reason. Like, you maybe have some

stories to tell. And I would be like, yeah, I can

understand why that word would wig you out, but the word's a

biblical word. It's a word that Jesus uses.

So we, we, we can't just throw the word out.

It's a word that Jesus talks about.

And you know, the word sin, it just simply means missing the

mark. That's what the Greek word

means. How about toya?

It just means missing the mark. It carries the idea of like

being an Archer, you know, where you pull the bow and you pull

the arrow and there's a target and you aim and you aim and you

aim and then you release and you miss widely.

You know, you're, you barely hit the barn, the targets this big

and you ain't where you, you hit way over here, even though you

were aiming for the target. Sin just means missing the mark.

To bring that into simple kind of terms for us, sin means not

being morally perfect. That's all it means.

It's not a big scary word. It just it means we are not

perfect. We are imperfect.

Now, most of us sitting here right now would probably argue

that we're good people, right? I've never met a person who said

I'm not a good person. I tend to say that regularly

just to get shock effect. I'll say I'm not and I will say

it publicly here from the from the platform.

I'm not a good person. If there's anything good in me,

it's because Christ is my king. If there's anything superlative

about me, it's because I am surrendered to Christ.

That's it, That's all. I'm not a good person.

But most of us when asked man on the street, hey, do you think

you're a good person? What do you think most people

would respond with? Yes.

Everybody responds with yes, I'm a good person.

No one would say they're not a good person.

But there's not a person in this room who would say they're

perfect, right? Is there anybody that would say

they're perfect? Now?

Almost, almost all of us would be like, I'm a good person.

Because when we say we're a good person, what are we comparing

ourselves to? Other people we feel better than

you never compare yourself to someone that you feel like it's

better than you, right? It's like, I, I mean, I'm a good

person. I don't do anything bad.

Well, let's set you. Let's set you beside Mother

Teresa. How you feeling now?

You feeling like a good person? I don't know.

I don't know if you feel like a good person now.

I I mean, I know some people personally that when I'm near,

I'm kind of like, I'm not even sure if I'm saved.

Do you know what I'm talking about?

So this feeling of I'm a good person is a kind of all about

like who you compare yourself to, who you're standing about.

But nobody would say, nobody sitting here would say I'm a

perfect person. Nobody would say, hey, I've

morally got it all together. We all willingly admit we're not

perfect. And so Jesus is simply saying

that sin is just not as being morally imperfect in which we

all admit. And so we can all say

collectively, yeah, you know, I've, I'm a Sinner.

Like I, I commit sin to use Jesus's words, because I'm not

morally perfect. Here's the problem.

Because we're all quick to say I'm a pretty good person.

I mean, I'm not perfect. We're all quick to say that.

But here's the problem. We think our imperfection is

just, our moral imperfection is just not a big deal.

We kind of look around and go, well, everybody's imperfect.

So it's just, it's not a big deal.

It doesn't really matter. Jesus says it is a big deal.

He says the opposite. Jesus actually argues here, to

be morally imperfect is a big deal.

Jesus says when we miss the mark of moral perfection, also known

as sin, it isn't just like, oh, I'm a bad, I'm not always good,

I'm a good person, but I do some bad things.

That's no big deal. Jesus says no, no, no.

Here's the problem. When you are morally imperfect

and when I'm morally imperfect, we are in bondage.

That's what he links it to. We're in bondage.

We may not recognize it, but all of us when we commit sin are in

bondage. Because remember, freedom isn't

always obvious. It isn't always obvious.

What Jesus is trying to make clear to these guys and to us

today is that bondage to sin is a big deal because our

committing of sin puts us in bondage and that impacts our

relationship with our heavenly Father.

That impacts our relationship with our heavenly Father.

Let's look at verse 35 again. Jesus said these words in verse

35. Now a slave has no permanent

place in the family. Do you see that?

And what I just said to you was that Jesus is trying to say that

when we commit sin, we're in bondage and that bondage is

impacting our position with our heavenly Father.

And here He is saying it in verse 35.

Now a slave has no permanent. The keyword in that verse is

permanent, permanent place in the family.

Jesus is saying that if you and I and I do and you do, and we

all do, if we commit sin, we are in an unstable position with our

heavenly Father. Jesus is saying that our moral

imperfection is actually a big problem.

And anyone who commits sin is a slave.

And a slave is not a resident in the house.

A slave is a slave is there temporarily a slave can be

discarded. The slave has no security in the

future. And what Jesus is saying is that

my moral imperfection has kept me from being a son or a

daughter and it's made me a slave and I'm in bondage and I

do not have a secure future in the Father's house because of my

moral imperfection. We like to think our moral

imperfection is not a big deal. Jesus is saying no, it is a very

big deal. It is a serious problem.

It changes your status in the family.

Jesus in this text is explaining that our moral moral failure has

eternal consequences. Eternal consequences.

Our sins have the potential to jeopardize our future.

And that's what he's talking about there in verse 35.

Now a slave has no permanent place in a family.

If a slave has no permanent place in the family, who does

have a permanent place in the family?

Not a slave, but a child, a son, a daughter.

Let me say this super simply so you can hear me say it.

Jesus is saying because we have missed the mark, because we have

missed the mark, because we have sinned, because we are not

morally perfect, we do not have a secure future with God.

I cannot say that more clearly than that.

But Stephen, I'm not that bad. I just, I have a few bad things

in my life. Bondage, freedom's not always

obvious. This is what Jesus is saying.

I like to say all the time, I don't write the mail.

I just read the mail. Friends, today I'm just reading

the mail to you. This is true for every single

person in this room and everyone who's attending online, whether

we acknowledge it or not. Even if you think, here's the

thing, Steven, what you don't know about this, I hear people

tell me it's kind of crazy stuff all the time, man.

What you don't know about me, Steven, is me and God, we good,

we good. We I'm like, what is what is

this? Does he know that you and God,

Does he know who made the decision that you and God were

good? Like how did he send you a

e-mail? Like how did you get word?

People say this to me, man, me and God are good.

Now listen to what I say. I know some of you, you think

this way. I don't need this Jesus.

I don't need this religion stuff.

I don't need Jesus. I don't need faith.

And you're just like these guys going, hey, we don't need to be

set free. We are free.

Me and God are good. Here's the thing, listen to me

carefully. It doesn't matter.

If you and I doesn't matter if we make up a God and then think

as our own judges that we're doing pretty good, that God

doesn't exist, the God that exists is the one Jesus is

talking about. This is the real God, and to

this God our moral imperfection is a big deal.

It guarantees that our parachute is defective.

Our situation as imperfect humans, though, would be

hopeless except while as slaves we are temporary residents in

the family. Our situation would be hopeless

except the Father has a son, He has a son.

And that's our third idea. Jesus the Son sets us free.

So number one, we think we're free.

Number 2, Jesus says we're not free.

Moral imperfection. And then #3 Jesus sets us free.

The son. Listen to verse 30.

All of verse 35 and 36, listen to this.

Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son.

Listen, belongs to it. Everybody say it forever,

belongs to it forever. The sun belongs to it forever.

And then verse 36. So if the sun sets you free, you

will be free indeed. Now you see this, stay.

Look at this think Jesus is making this argument.

I'm not making this argument. Jesus is saying that if we have

moral imperfection, if we have sin, if we commit sin, then we

are, we're in bondage. We don't have a permanent place

in the family, but the Son who belongs to the family, who has a

permanent place in the family, he's there forever.

That son is in his home and Jesus is the Son and Jesus,

Jesus has the insight to define what freedom is.

He's the one that comes alongside us and says you're not

as free as you think you are. Freedom is hard to see.

It's it's not obvious. Listen to me.

I'm telling you what freedom actually is.

Jesus has the the insight to define freedom and he has the

authority to offer you freedom. He has the authority to offer

you freedom. The Son has the unique authority

to declare people free from the bondage of sin even though they

remain imperfect. Now that is the best news you

will hear your entire lives. The Sun has the unique authority

to set people free from the bondage of sin even though they

remain imperfect. That is our hope.

If that statement is not true, we're all done.

He has the authority to declare people permanent members of

God's family, even though they are imperfect, even though they

still morally fail. He has the authority to secure

your future in a home you did nothing to earn or deserve.

He has the this is what This is why he says the son belongs to

it forever. This this idea of sonship.

This is authority. Jesus is saying I have authority

to set you free. I have authority to make you

into a son. And I know we have the whole

gender thing is a confusion here, but you got to you got to

remember that in in Jewish culture and Roman culture,

sonship came authority, It came privileges, it came rights.

And so, yeah, to transfer that into the modern culture for

sure, right, Sons and daughters. But the point that Jesus, Jesus

is trying to make is not just you're a member of the family.

It's not that you now have a permanent place in the family.

No, you have rights and privileges as a member of this

family. You belong in this family.

You can't be kicked out of this family.

This is what he's saying. He's saying, hey, the son has

the authority to make you now a permanent member of the family,

even though we still have moral imperfection.

I don't think you get how big of a deal this is.

He has the authority to the secure our future in a home that

we did nothing to deserve. That's the freeing authority of

the sun. And He has that authority

because of what we celebrate on Easter.

Jesus didn't just talk about freedom.

He accomplished it on the cross. He paid the price for your sin

and my sin. Not just the obvious things, but

all of it. The failure, the guilt, the

brokenness. He carried all of our sin with

him on the cross. And when he died, it looked like

sin and death had won. But three days later, Jesus

resurrected from the dead. And when Jesus walked out of

that grave, he didn't just defeat death for himself.

He proved that sin, my sin, my moral imperfection, my moral

failure, my bondage. He proved that my bondage had

been fully dealt with. It had been accomplished.

He proved that payment was accepted.

So when Jesus resurrected, the proof was, hey, payment has been

accepted on behalf of these people, that their sin is now

paid for. Because when he resurrected, it

was the proof that death no longer has the final say on

God's people. People.

He proved that the thing that enslaves you and the thing that

enslaves me has been broken off of us.

It no longer defines us. My moral imperfection no longer

defines me. My the fact that I commit sin no

longer defines me. What defines me now is that I

and A son or a daughter with full rights and privileges in

the House of the Father, and I'm no longer a slave.

And that's what the resurrection acquired for me as a gift.

And now, my friends, by faith in Jesus Christ, that victory can

become yours. It's just that simple.

We need Him to do for us because we had no way of doing it for

ourselves. We could not undo our sins.

We could not overcome death. Jesus is our only hope.

We could not become permanent residents in the home because we

tried really hard, or because we weren't that bad, or because

we're pretty good people. That was never going to make us

permanent residents in the home. We had to be set free.

So now this is what this means. This means that you are not

perfect. But the sin that you.

Battle against no longer has the ultimate authority over you.

It means that your past, which we cannot undo, no longer

defines your future. It means that death which.

Comes for. All of us, death which comes for

all of us, no longer has to be feared because death is not the

end of the story. This is why Jesus.

Can say, This is why Jesus can say if the sun sets you free,

you are free. Indeed.

He says it because he secured the freedom through his death

and through his resurrection. And I think this is where it

becomes personal. Some of you don't feel free.

You feel stuck. You feel like no matter how hard

you try, you end up in the same cycle again and again.

Or maybe some of you are here and you're like, I don't even

know what real freedom would look like.

But this is where the. Resurrection speaks directly

into that. It tells us that freedom is not

something that you achieve, it's something that you receive.

You receive freedom, but. Here's the problem.

You guys know? What the problem is right?

The problem is Jesus made the same offer to the people in John

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chapter 8. And how did they receive it?

They didn't. Receive it very well.

Who are you to say we need freedom?

You see the freedom. And the security Jesus offers

you. It can only be received.

By those who recognize they commit sin, are in and are in

bondage, and they actually realize they need it.

If we don't see that. We need the freedom Jesus

offers. We'll dismiss it.

That's silly stuff Christians believe.

But more than dismiss it, we'll get like these guys in John 8.

We'll get offended and get angry.

Who are? You to tell me that?

Because I sin, God will not let me be a permanent resident in

His house and that I have to put my faith in Jesus in order to

have that permanent residency in God's.

Who are you to say that to me? You see how we tend to.

Respond to the offer of freedom. I recently watched a documentary

about people living in North Korea and as you know, it's one

of the most restricted places in the world.

But what? What struck me was this.

Most people who live in North. Korea actually believe what

they've been told. They believe their country is

great. They believe the rest of the

world is jealous and envious of the life they get to live there.

They believe the rest of the world is worse off.

One young woman who. Defected shared that when she

was a child, her father secretly modified a radio to pick up

South Korean broadcast and at first she was scared and did not

want him to listen because she did not want him to get caught.

But eventually she began to listen to the broadcast and

later began to read some literature from South Korea.

And what she realized and listening and learning was that

everything she had been told was a lie.

And this is what she said. The more I listened, the more I

realized what we had learned wasn't true.

I had been fooled. And that made me want to become

free. She just needed.

Not new information. New information doesn't cause

you to receive. She needed to believe the

information. She needed to believe that she

was indeed in bondage and needed freedom.

And maybe that's where some. Of you are today.

Maybe you've started to question.

Things Maybe you've began to wonder if the life you're living

is really all that free. Maybe there's a moment.

In you, a quiet sense that something isn't right, that the

parachute might not work. Maybe you're beginning to

question reality. And you have questions you?

Have questions about faith, about what all of this means

about this Jesus stuff and you just don't understand it you

just it's weird to you and you don't know where to start.

Maybe that's where you are. That's great.

I'm so glad that's where you are, because that's why we're

here. This.

Is why islands exist. Our mission is simple.

We want to help people connect to Jesus and to each other.

We want to help people just take a step towards the freedom that

Jesus is offering them. So if.

You're not sure where to. Start this whole church thing,

Jesus thing. You're just confused and you

kind of want this freedom Jesus offers and you're not sure where

to start. Let me tell you where to start.

You ready? Start here.

Just come back. It's just that simple.

Just come back next week and then keep showing up and this is

a cool church. This is a cool place.

You can. I know you're like, well, of

course you would say that. You come for a few weeks and.

You will agree. Isn't it a cool church, those of

you who come, right? It's cool, right?

It's a cool place. Reeling them in, baby.

It's, you know what's a cool church?

Because we're not afraid of questions and we're not afraid

of people who are doubting. We're not afraid of people who

are confused. We're not afraid of people who

think. We're not even afraid of people

who think it's all a bunch of hogwash.

We actually love it when they show up because we get to see

the biggest transition. The people who think this is all

a bunch of junk, this is stupid. I don't know why we can go to

church like 6 months later they're up here singing on

stage. Like so if you're not.

Sure, where to start? Here's the thing, this is a

great place. Just start here.

Just come back and take a step towards the freedom that Jesus

offers you and see where it leads, friend.

We are not. As free as we think we are.

But through his death and. Resurrection.

When Jesus got out of. The grave He secured, freedom, a

permanent residence in the Father's house that cannot be

taken from us. Oh, what a gift is the

resurrection of our Lord, that though I remain imperfect and I

remain morally missing, the mark He.

Has paid for my sin. And he treats me as a son and a

daughter because of his resurrection.

Will you stand with me? I want to say a blessing over

us, and then we. Will go and eat the.

Deviled eggs. As you head out.

Today, Fran, my brother and sister and my friend who isn't

quite sure what they believe about Jesus yet, my prayer for

you is this that you. Would see your life.

Clearly that you would recognize that you need freedom.

And that you would trust. Jesus enough to take a step

toward him and. That you would know this.

Because Jesus resurrected from the grave, you do not have to

figure this out on your own. Freedom has already been secured

for you. So take a step toward Him this

week. And see what he does.

Amen friends, we love you. Happy Easter, have a great day.