Lord's Day Devotion - Set Free

The condemned criminal was taking his last steps, that fatal walk from the death row cell to the gallows.  There was no phone call from a higher authority to stay the execution.  He would have to pay the price of his lawless iniquity, in full.

Wait, look!  There was yet another Man taking a similar trudge; this time, up the skull-shaped hill known as Calvary.  He too was condemned by man.  He had been falsely accused.  He was to take the punishment for my sins.  For the sins of the guy on death row.  For your sins.  For the whole of mankinds' sins.  That Man's name was Jesus.  

Jesus went through with it obeying His Father's will.  Condemned, He stood in my place instead because He loved me I was condemned to death and to perish forever.  

Praise the Lord, He is risen, and  I am no longer condemned!  Jesus has set me free because I am in Christ Jesus.

"There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.  For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.  For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do.  By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin He condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit" (Romans 8:1-4 ESV).

Oh praise Him; worship Him; thank Him as you take the bread and wine and pass them one to another on Lord's Day in remembrance of this fatal walk's conclusion.  Remember what Jesus has done for you.  Visualize it.  Humbly bow in adoration.  You are no longer condemned!!  Walk with confidence in Jesus Christ.  It is a walk of abundant life and "according to the Holy Spirit of God".  

You have been set free.  You are set free! 

The case is closed.*  

                                                          ~ERC  August 2018~

* The Passion Translation  Romans 8:1