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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 it you are in the yoke

of slavery to a foreign nation you have 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

in 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 you will be free to serve, to know me as king and my good plans for your life, my good

purposes in your life. You will be free to experience. You will be free from sin, free from guilt,

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