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Jeremiah chapter 30 verses 8 and 9

and it shall come to pass in that day declares the Lord of hosts that I will break his yoke from

off your neck and I will burst your bonds and foreigners shall no more make a

servant of him but they shall serve the Lord their God and David their King, whom

I will raise up for them.

What a great promise.

So picture you are in the yoke of slavery to a foreign nation.

You've been exiled from your land and your people. You're in this foreign land where you are serving as a slave and

God says it's going to come to pass that I'm going to break that yoke from off your neck. I'm going to burst your bonds.

You're no longer going to be a slave. Instead you will serve God and David the

King who God will raise up to lead his people as he restores them to his land.

And obviously we know there was application of that

the old testament when God restored his people back in Jerusalem,

but we also know that there's a greater application of this.

So think about it, you and I are slaves to sin.

Born with a sinful nature and a yoke of slavery to sin,

slavery to the devil, to the ways of this world to ourselves and our sinfulness, dead in our

sin.

Slaves is the word the Bible uses to describe our relationship to sin controlled by sin and Jesus comes and what does he do?

He breaks the yoke from off our neck and he bursts its bonds.

And he says, you shall no longer serve sin.

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