So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36
Our Lord Jesus Christ is our redeemer. Sins done by a person will follow him in his life. No matter wherever he goes or whatever he does his sins always follows him.
I met a friend recently who is well blessed by The Lord but during his young days there was a mistake he did and because of that he was in guilt of ruining another persons life. Even though he was not the person who did it but he would have prevented the thing from happening. His sin was following him from that day and he didn’t have inner peace. When he shared it with me The Holy Spirit reminded me of an incident which I heard from a sermon.
It was a true story behind a tamil song which has the words “Is Christ still loving me for all I did”. The author of the song was a murderer and was in Sri Lanka’s prison. Before his final verdict a child of God doing prison ministry met the murderer. The murderer with no hope in his life and with the burdens of his sin was not interested in The Gospel. But after persuading he listened to The Gospel and was touched by the Love of Jesus. The Lord redeemed from all his sins and all his burden in his heart was removed.
During the verdict when the murderer was standing before the Judge for killing 3 people the judge asked finally do you accept that you have did these 3 murders. The convict said no, I did not murder 3 but I have murdered 5 people. The judge and the whole court where shocked for a moment and the convict confessed all the murders. The judge later personally called the convict and enquired him. The murderer told what happened and said The Lord has set me free from my sins and I am not going to lie about what I did. My consciousness says I am a murderer but yet God forgave me and accepted me as His child. That is enough for me and dosen’t matter if the worldly court punishes me for my sins. The judge was amazed and said if there would have been a way I would have set you free since you have repented but since you did a open confession in The court I cannot help you.
We see the convict did not want a worldly freedom because he knew in his heart he cannot runaway from what he did ruining the life of 5 people and their families but when he got delivered from God the worldly freedom didn’t matter to him any more.
We see the same in the life of Apostle Paul. Paul beat Christians, arrested them, had a hand in the murder of Stephen but when he met Lord Jesus and when Jesus delivered him, his past never stopped him and made him guilty in doing The Lords work. He says
Phil 3:13 But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.
Paul couldn’t have done God’s work if he had his past in front of him. When my friend heard this truth he was relieved because the bible says in John 8:32 truth will set you free. When we both knelt down and prayed as per the verses John 8:36 and 2 Cor 3:17 “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” he was delivered instantly after the prayer.
Prayer:
Heavenly father we thank you for the grace and freedom from sin that you have given us from through your cross. We always fall short but Lord lift us up and make us righteous with your blood. In Jesus name we pray. Amen
Sol.Leo