It is clear that with the liberation of 1945 (the end of World War II), no matter how amazing, complete freedom has not yet been achieved. People can still be completely spiritually imprisoned! Lives cannot flourish, held captive by greed, addiction to drugs, alcohol, or social media, or anything else that can hold you enslaved. Those who keep their eyes peeled can see a lot of people who are not free, even in a free country.
The message of the Bible is clear: that as long as God though his Son the Lord Jesus Christ does not intervene in your life, you are not really free! Even though we feel free as the breeze, we must face the fact that the door of the prison cell of our lives is firmly locked! For some, this cell is large, and there seems ample space for a free
J. Nutmagame of life.For others the cell is cramped. Eventually everyone’s cell walls will close in, even if only through the last lock of death! Through the entire Bible, God makes crystal clear that this is the consequence of sin. We no longer have the full space of life, because we did not find God’s space sufficient and felt we had to choose our own freedom, freedom that was not freedom at all, but imprisonment. To celebrate real liberation, something has to be done about the core problem: that our relationship with God needs to be restored. If we can return to him, we will also find space to live in freedom. Jesus says that the truth will set us free.
32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”