Jesus is here for you and me. His obedience to God, resulting in His sacrifice to overcome death, enables us to be completely set free.
Just as the Son of Man came not to be waited on but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many [the price paid to set them free]. Matthew 20:28 AMP
Jesus' act of setting us free from sin allows us to come into right-standing with our Heavenly Father. Jesus provides a way for us to becomes slaves of God, rather than slaves of sin.
But now since you have been set free from sin and have become the slaves of God, you have your present reward in holiness and its end is eternal life. For the wages which sin pays in death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through (in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:22-23 AMP
The Message Bible says it this way,
But now that you've found you don't have to listen to sin tell you what to do, and have discovered the delight of listening to God telling you, what a surprise! A whole, healed, put-together life right now, with more and more of life on the way! Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God's gift is real life, eternal life, delivered by Jesus, our Master. Romans 6:22-23 The Message
Question for today, have you accepted Jesus came to set you free in every area of your life? Jesus is offering you a helping and delivering hand for your entire life, not just the parts you want to give Him. Jesus wants you to have a whole, healed and put-together life right now! Why not take time now to surrender your whole life to Him and accept God's gift of real life, eternal life.
Blessed (praised and extolled and thanked) be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has come and brought deliverance and redemption to His people! Luke 1:68 AMP
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