Free Indeed
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
John 8:36 NIV
We often sell the gospel short. We don’t believe that God can really change a life: freedom from sin, healing from brokenness, and transformation of character. God loves us as we are, yet God loves enough not to leave us as we are. He can free us and others from the sin that so easily binds us.
For sin’s human captives, God never intends anything less than full deliverance. The Christian message rightly understood means this: The God who by the word of the gospel proclaims men free, by the power of the gospel actually makes them free. To accept less than this is to know the gospel in word only, without its power.
A. W. Tozer, God’s Pursuit of Man (Camp Hill, PA: Wingspread, 1950), 27.