THE GREAT LIBERATOR

THE GREAT LIBERATOR

"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
John 8:36

"To those who are imprisoned in their sin, the world IF rings a sweet
silver bell of hope. No matter WHO you are or WHAT you are or how many
years you may have remained a slave of Satan, "IF THE SON THEREFORE
SHALL MAKE YOU FREE,' the glorious Liberator CAN make you free.
'Wherefore he is able to also save them to the uttermost that come unto
God by him.' (Hebrews 7:25)

Perhaps that which weighs upon you most heavily is a sense of your PAST
GUILT - you have offended God often, willfully, atrociously, with many
aggravations. You feel that God's Word says against you is deserved and
every threatening that His book utters is your just due. Can so foul a
sinner be made clean?

I know that the leopard cannot lose its spots nor the Ethiopian change
his skin by HIS OWN EFFORTS. Is there a power divine that can take away
the spots and change your nature? Surely, it already has happened. No
sin that you have committed need shut you out of heaven. However
damnable your iniquities may have been, there is forgiveness with God
that He may be feared.

You may have gone to the very edge of hell, but the arms of God's grace
is long enough to reach you. You may feel that your tongue is padlocked
with blasphemy, your hands bound by acts of atrocious violence, your
heart fettered with corruption, your feet chained fasts to the satanic
blocks of unbelief, your whole self locked up in the bondage of
corruption, but there is ONE so mighty to save that He can set even YOU
free. 'The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from ALL sin.' (1
John 1:7) from the pen of Dr. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (The Power of
Christ the Warrior)

Listen to the words of this powerful hymn ...

And can it be that I should gain
An interest in the Savior's blood?
Died He for ME, who caused HIS pain?
For ME, who Him to death pursued.

He left HIS Father's throne above!
So free, so infinite His grace!
Emptied Himself of all but love,
And bled for Adam's helpless race!
'Tis mercy all, immense and free,
For, O my God, it found out me.

'Tis mystery all! The Immortal dies!
Who can explore His strange design?
In vain the firstborn seraph tries
To sound the depths of love divine.
'Tis mercy all! Let earth adore;
Let angel minds inquire no more.

Long my imprisoned spirit lay
Fast bound in sin and nature's night.
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray;
I woke - the dungeon flamed with light!
MY CHAINS FELL OFF, MY HEART WAS FREE!
I rose, went forth, and followed THEE.

NO CONDEMNATION now I dread;
Jesus, and all in HIM is mine!
Alive in Him, my living Head,
And clothed in righteousness divine.
Bold I approach the eternal throne,
And CLAIM THE CROWN, THROUGH CHRIST MY OWN.

Amazing love! How can it be
That Thou, my God shouldst die for ME!

Powerful words this morning. I have one Freedom Fighter friend that this
is for. You know who you are today. May this truth burn into your heart.