“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free…If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:32,36).
TEXT — John 8:32-44
Message
We often find people advocating the sanctity of their fundamental human rights or those of their nations. They spare neither effort nor expense to pursue their campaign to be free to exercise their rights to be independent. They would not countenance any abridgement of those rights. They insist that they would cease to be free to live as they choose if their rights were not exercised to the fullest.
Jesus conveyed to the Jews the eternal truth of the Scriptures that only the Son of God can make any person truly free from bondage. Unconvinced, the Jews argued that as the offspring of Abraham, they had never been enslaved to anybody. Then, Jesus told them that those who commit sin of any kind, are no longer free citizens, but slaves to sin. The Jews were blinded by their sinful ways and had no place for Christ’s words. They were obviously inspired not by Abraham’s righteous examples, but by the sinful and wicked ways of the devil, the father of all sinners. He dismissed their argument that God was their father and stressed that they did not know God because they refused to accept the words of Him, who was sent to the world by God almighty.
It is a delusion to proudly declare how much you love God, how faithfully you serve Him and how closely you are walking with Him when you have not accepted all the truth of His word. You may accept some but reject other sections of the Scriptures because they are inconvenient for you to practise. This inevitably leads away from God.
Thought for the day
True freedom comes through wholehearted acceptance of all truths of Scripture.
Listed among “500 most powerful people on the planet” by the Foreign Policy magazine in 2013, Pastor (Dr.) William F. Kumuyi is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. DCLM started in 1973 as a 15-member Bible study group right in Kumuyi’s apartment at University of Lagos where he was a lecturer. His revolutionary Bible teaching on personal holiness and commitment to evangelism soon gained so much traction and resulted in a widespread revival.
