30
Apr '24
Jeremiah 34
30
Apr '24
Day 1505
Stand Firm in your Freedom!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, April 30.
Jesus came to set the captives free (Luke 4:18). Paul proclaimed in Galatians 5:1, “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.” In other words, you have been set free from sin to live with and for God, so keep walking by the power of the Holy Spirit to stay in the easy yoke of Jesus and exalt Him with your life.
At the time of Jeremiah, when Nebuchadnezzar put the full weight of the Babylonian Empire against Jerusalem, Zedekiah made a good decision – he decreed that all the slaves of Jerusalem shall be set free. And they were, for a short amount of time until there was a break in the siege, upon which the slave owners reneged on the promise (Jeremiah 34:7-11). At first, it seemed that the decision to set the slaves free was an act of contrition, the means by which they could make a costly repentance for generations of rebellion against the Mosaic Law, which states, “If you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve for six years; but on the seventh he shall go out as a free man without payment” (Exodus 21:2). But it turned out to be only a military necessity to provide more defenders for the city. God would not be mocked by their false repentance, and, in Jeremiah 34:17-22, God promised to pour our His wrath upon the people for their duplicity. Should we expect anything different? As James 1:7-8 promises, “For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
Seize the moment and stand firm in your release from captivity, walking with a single-minded purpose on the One who set you free from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2; Hebrews 12:2-3). As Jesus proclaimed in John 8:36, “So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.”
God bless you!
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