When you need to be set free

“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” (John 8:36 ESV)

People are trapped and held captive by many things they need to be set free from. It can be physical bondages of many kinds. Or addictions to drugs, alcohol or tobacco. It can be a physical condition or a crippling disease. It can be mental illness, great fears and crippling anxiety attacks. It can be destructive social entrapments. Or it can be demonic attacks from the enemy. But, no matter what, God gives total freedom from it! The passage above says emphatically, “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!” And, that is precisely why Jesus came! By faith you must claim it personally, and hold to it completely!

Jesus proclaimed liberty to captives of all kinds

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.” (Luke 4:18-19 ESV)

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” (2 Cor. 3:17 ESV)

For the answer to your distress, call upon the Lord! 

“Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free.” (Psalm 118:5 ESV)

Once free, stay free!

“Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery.” (Gal. 2:4 ESV)

“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” Gal 5:1 ESV)

Therefore…

“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.” (Rom. 8:1-4 ESV)

“For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” (Gal. 5:13 ESV)

“Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.” (1 Peter 2:16 ESV)

“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.” (Rom. 6:22 ESV)

Quote:

“I am free. I am ransomed. I've never felt this way before, like a slave set free who was born a slave and never knew what freedom was like.” - Frank E. Peretti