Jesus Sets You Free
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. Romans 8.2-4
The differing ideologies of the people who founded America can be summed up in one word: FREEDOM. For some this meant political freedom, for others religious freedom, and for some a chance to start new, unhindered from their past. And yet for all of the freedom, most people still feel trapped, unable to achieve a greater sense of liberty. You seek freedom, but you feel burdened.
Every person is under the weight of bondage. This bondage comes from the weight of sin which presses down and traps us. While doing whatever you want seemed like it would bring a sense of freedom, it is instead accompanied by an overwhelming sense of darkness. This ‘freedom’ to sin has brought with it the penalty of death.
Sin is bondage. But Jesus Christ frees you from that bondage. Not by just pretending that sin does not exist, but by paying the penalty that you had earned. Your freedom has been purchased with the blood of Jesus Christ.
You now are free from the burden of shame, but much more than that, you are free to live as God created you to be. You are now able to freely live for Jesus, a life of worship and praise. Freedom does not mean that you live unhindered, but that you live as a slave of righteousness, able to finally find the freedom that exists only in relationship with God.
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness. Romans 6.17-18