In today's Gospel reading from John 8, Jesus said to those Jews who believed in him, "If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. If the Son frees you, then you will truly be free." We think we are free when we have the freedom of speech, when we are not ruled by another country, or even when we can freely abort the unborn (God forbid)—yet the true, fundamental, most critical freedom we need is freedom from sin! When you don't have that, all the other freedoms don't matter much anymore. This is really saying that if you don't have eternal life, gaining everything else would be pointless. Hence, we need Christ, first and foremost.
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