We're continuing down the path begun last week in which he looked at our ministry through the lens of Jesus' final words to His followers in Matthew 28. Before He charges His followers with any task, though, Jesus establishes His authority to do so. As in, He's got all of it. All authority. We've seen in John that Jesus is in the first place from the very beginning (as echoed in the Colossian and Philippian hymns), and in a few weeks He will tell us in John 8 that "if the Son sets you free, you are free indeed."
One of our biggest problems lies in our not living out the freedom the Son has placed us in. We'll look at Paul's meditation on this in Romans 7 as well as his triumphant conclusion at the climactic start of Romans 8. Then we'll look at how we hold the news of freedom - the authoritative declaration of humanity's emancipation - how we hold. that back from others who could also be freed if only they could hear the news of what has already been done and won on their behalf.
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