July 4, 2025 … My Freedom - His Gift …

July 4, 2025 … My Freedom - His Gift      …  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...  Please take the time to hear music and lyrics with the group, Vineyard Worship and soloist Bernie Ditmer singing… God of Freedom,  declaring that we Christians find our eternal freedom by surrendering out lives to Christ Jesus. 

M. Sparks gets valuable souvenir .... 

 

Highlight Passage: … 1John 5:11-12  … [NLT] … 

11 And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life.

…  All Who surrender life to God’s Son, Jesus, The Christ, has been given eternal freedom … FOREVER.        

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … 1John 5:6-13  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… John Mark writes that God has declared, in the life of His Son, Jesus, that whoever has surrendered life to Him has eternal life with our Lord.     

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  God’s gift of direction and purpose in life, given to us by trusting and following our Lord, Jesus, … God’s Son. 

Reference Passage: … Romans 5:8   (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK … 

… the Apostle Paul testifies how God gave His ultimate gift of love and grace by giving us salvation from our sin.

Reference Passage: … 1Corinthians 15:10  (NLT) …  USE THIS LINK …

… Paul gives witness and testifies to the gift of eternal life He was chosen to receive from Christ.  

Reference Passage: … Ephesians 2:8-9  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul also teaches truth to fellow Christians that salvation is a free gift from God and available to any who believe in Jesus as Messiah and LORD.   

Reference Passage: …  2Timothy 1:9  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches to Timothy and fellow Christians that they (we) have been given the priceless and eternal gift of life by Christ’s death on the cross and His resurrection. 

Reference Passage: … 1Peter 5:10 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Peter assures fellow Christians of our gift from God of eternal kindness and restoration thru His grace.  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Dave Brandon  … AT THIS LINK        … tells of how in 2007 one Michael Sparks purchased a souvenir copy of The Declaration Of Independence at a thrift store for $2.48 (see photo) …  Later, thinking that the parchment souvenir looked too old to be a cheap souvenir, had the document examined by experts who determined that he had secured one of the 20 Presidential copies of the Declaration commissioned by President John Quincy Adams in 1820.  Sparks later sold his “souvenir” at auction for $477,650.00.   

That’s a great story of receiving a valuable treasure like that of Michael Sparks.   However,  if you’re a born-again Christian, like me, you know that we have a gift of freedom worth far more than what Sparks found in that gift shop.  And our gift is the priceless freedom we have in our salvation from sin, purchased for us, and given to us, by Jesus on the Cross.  So, join us Americans - on this Date that we celebrate our freedom -  to receive the gift of eternal freedom, given to us on the day Jesus died on a cross that we could be free from our prison of sin  … FOREVER !!! 

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for the gift of freedom You gave me with Your death and resurrection.  .

 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I praise You, … again today, Lord. … for giving us Your priceless gift of eternal, and glorious,  freedom.      … Amen

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