John 8:32  You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.

The Jews responded to Christ's promise by saying, "We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone" (John 8:33). Not when they were in Egypt before Moses led them out? Not when the Philistines invaded their land and regulated even the way axes and sickles were sharpened? Not when the Babylonians did the same to those in Judah? Not when Antiochus Epiphanes desecrated the temple with an image of Zeus? Not when Pompey and his legion marched into Jerusalem to claim it for Rome?

These descendants of Abraham are living in denial. You've seen the same prisoners. You've even seen yourself - caught in this same denial, this same dream, this same delusion.

None of us can say we "have never been enslaved to anyone." Jesus hammers home this hard reality when He says, "Everyone who practices sin is a salve to sin" (John 8:34). That's us. Locked in habits we can't beat and bound in a bondage we can't break.

Christ's truth, however, sets us free. Our Savior was stretched out on two pieces of wood, and three iron spikes were hammered into His flesh. His shed blood sets us free from the condemnation of our sin, from the pain of our past, and from worry about our future. No one can take this freedom from us. No law can stop it, and no power on earth can destroy it!

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