So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free. John 8:36 NASB Free – Jonathan Sacks offers some insight into the Hebraic understanding of freedom; insight that we must embrace if we’re going to avoid reading the words of Yeshua as if they belonged in the Greco-Roman culture of the West. Sacks writes:…
So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free. John 8:36 NASB Free – Have you considered the other side of freedom? To be free is to be at risk. There is no such thing as a guarantee when freedom is involved. Free choice always means alternative results. The only thing that prevents…
So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free. John 8:36 NASB Free – Why does the biblical worldview seem so impossible to put into practical application? How can Yeshua say that we should not worry about tomorrow, that we should constantly forgive, that we are not to calculate the requests and demands…
So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36 NASB Free – Consider the strangeness of this statement. Oh, you might have heard it so often that it doesn’t seem strange to you anymore, but pause just long enough to notice the verb eleutheróō. It means “to set free.” The apostle…
So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free. John 8:36 NASB Free – eleutheróō. “To set free.” The Greek verb is contrasted to being a slave. To be set free is to be redeemed from slavery. This is not merely a political act. To be really free is to experience independent self-determination. …
So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free. John 8:36 NASB Free – Did you read the statements of Jonathan Sacks from yesterday’s edition? Oh, if you didn’t, then go back before you read this. Do you remember what he wrote? “Atonement and forgiveness are the supreme expressions of human freedom –…
So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36 NASB Free – Janis Joplin sang the theme song of an entire generation: “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” Some days I think she was right. John uses a Greek verb with particularly dense meanings. Eleutheróō in the Greek world had…
So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36 NASB Free – The world is preoccupied with freedom these days. It is current political coinage. In the West, our conception of freedom has been extended to include a doctrine of entitlements and rights no prior civilization could have imagined. Freedom is…
So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36 NASB Free – Why does the biblical worldview seem so impossible to put into practical application? How can Yeshua say that we should not worry about tomorrow, that we should constantly forgive, that we are not to calculate the requests and demands…
So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36 NASB Free – A favorite verse of those who desire unfettered living, pastors are quick to point out that “free” doesn’t mean “no obligations.” In the Roman world, free would indeed entail the right to do as I please, but that…
