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[Steve Myers] Engraved in one wall of the Korean War Memorial are these words: "Freedom
is not free." It recognizes the fact that service people, people in the military, gave
their lives for America, for freedom, for the opportunity to live in a free country,
and it's only possible through the risks that they took and the sacrifices made by those
in the military -- in this instance, in the Korean War.
Now for Christians, we don't give our lives in military service in that same way, but
should these words mean something maybe even more significant to us? There's a passage
over in the book of Galatians, I think, that reflects this. It's right at the very beginning
of chapter five. And it says, "Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has
made us free" (Galatians 5:1).
You see, the significance of this passage is the fact that we do have liberty, we have
freedom from sin. We have freedom from the penalty of sin. Freedom actually can mean
more to you and I as God's people, because through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, we
can be free from the penalty of sin. As we accept that sacrifice in our lives, we can
have true liberty.
And so, when we think of these words, "freedom is not free", it should remind us to thank
God. Thank God for the sacrifice of our Savior, Jesus Christ. We can thank God for the freedom
from the death penalty of sin. We can thank God for the freedom that He's given us through
His Holy Spirit -- that we have power over sin in our lives.
And, you know, that gives us at least one more freedom -- we have the freedom to obey
God. So let's take that freedom that God's given us seriously.
That's BT Daily. See you next time.