Christmas Is for Freedom

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Daily Devotional, John Piper, 163859, Desiring God, Joy, Devotional, Christianity, Jesus, Solid Joys, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Forgiven, we are indestructible. Satan’s plan was to condemn God’s followers in God’s own courtroom. But now, in Christ, there is no condemnation.

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0:00.0	December 19th, Christmas is for freedom.
0:07.8	Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood,
0:11.2	he himself likewise,
0:12.4	partook of the same things that through death,
0:16.4	he might destroy the one who has the power of death
0:19.3	that is the devil and deliver all those
0:22.4	who, through fear of death,
0:24.0	were subject to lifelong slavery.
0:27.2	He was 2, 14 and 15.
0:29.6	Jesus became man because what was needed
0:34.0	was the death of a man who was more than a man.
0:38.4	The incarnation was God's lucking himself into death row.
0:45.4	Christ did not risk death.
0:48.2	He chose death.
0:49.8	He embraced it.
0:52.0	This is precisely why he came,
0:56.2	not to be served, but to serve
0:58.6	and to give his life as a ransom for many.
1:02.2	Mark 10, 45.
1:04.2	No wonder Satan tried to turn Jesus from the cross.
1:08.2	In the wilderness, Matthew 4, 1 to 11,
1:11.4	and in the mouth of Peter, Matthew 16, 21 to 23,
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