Sermons on “Freedom”
Guarding our Freedom
In the process of arguing for guarding the Freedom in Christ for the Gentile converts in Galatia, Paul uses an allegory about Hagar. Here we explore the reasons Paul might have used this particular allegory as well as the limits of this allegory.
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Father, Forgive Them – Josias Hansen
Josias expounds on Jesus’ powerful prayer from the cross for God to forgive those who abandoned, shamed, and tortured him. Within this short prayer, we can see the heart of God as being other-oriented, self-sacrificial, and enemy-loving. Furthermore, we discover that one of the most important dimensions of the atonement is that Jesus took on our sin and freed us from the kingdom of darkness which enslaves us to sin.
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Freedom – Josias Hansen
For our third Sunday of Advent, Josias digs into the freedom the Israelites were craving from their national oppressors. They waited for the Messiah to come and triumph over all their nationalistic oppressors, but instead, Jesus provided the true freedom from their ultimate oppressor and broke their chains of sin and death through his life, death and resurrection. As we hunger for this true freedom, we can now experience Christ’s freedom in becoming the people God created us to be.
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