Mike is on vacation this week, so Callahan Maynard steps in to preach the lesson.
The human spirit yearns for freedom…but freedom is often fleeting.
In 2 Samuel 9, the story of Mephibosheth is particularly poignant. He is a cripple, but worse, in his mind he is likely to be killed after David assumes the throne since he was a descendent of the previous king, King Saul.
Yet, David provides him with freedom.
We are, in many ways, like Mephibosheth – broken and subject to death. However, we have gained our freedom, because “anyone who has died has been freed from sin” (Romans 6:7).
But Christian freedom is based on the decision to first…die.
“For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.“
Romans 6:5-7 (NIV)