- Introduction
- Context
- Commentary
- Previous Bible Study
- Crossword Puzzle (✞-word)
- Crossword Puzzle Answers
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
Introduction
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Context
(forthcoming)
Commentary
(forthcoming)
Previous Bible Study
Crossword Puzzle (✞-word)
Crossword Puzzle Answers
- Remain To be Jesus’ true disciples, we must ____ faithful to Him and His word to the end (Jn 8:31; cf. Jn 6:66; Mt 13:20-23; Col 1:23; 1 Cor 15:1-2; Mk 13:13).
- Obedient True disciples of Jesus continue to be lovingly loyal and ____ (Jn 14:15, 21, 23-24, 15:14; Mt 7:21; Rom 1:5).
- Truth Jesus is the Way, the ____, and the Life (Jn 14:6). If we remain faithful to the One who is the ____, and His word, the ____ will set us free (Jn 8:31-32).
- Abraham The Jews Jesus is speaking to don’t think that they are slaves because they are descendants of ____ (Jn 8:33; cf. Gen 12:2-3; 22:17-18; Ex 19:5-6).
- Faith Having spiritual freedom is not about your family, but about your ____ in Christ (Gal 3:7-8; Jn 1:10-13; 1 Pet 2:9-10; Rev 1:4-6).
- Slave Jesus says that anyone who continually lives in unrepentant sin is a ___ to sin (Jn 8:34; cf. 1 Jn 3:9; Rom 6:16-23).
- Sin Though we were once slaves of ___, we have been set free from ___, thanks be to God, and have become slaves of God (Rom 6:20-23; cf. Jn 8:36).
- House Unlike a slave, Jesus, as the one-of-a-kind Son of God, remains in the Father’s ___ forever (Jn 8:35; cf. Jn 2:16, 19, 21, 14:2; Gen 21:9-10).
- Free In their context, sons of a household had the power to ___ slaves. So, if the Son who remains in the Father’s house sets you ____ (Jn 8:35), you will be ___, indeed (Jn 8:36).
- Right Christ not only liberates us from the power of sin, He frees us to have the ___ to become children of God (Jn 1:12-13), being reconciled back to the Father (Col 1:21-23). True freedom, indeed (Jn 8:36)!
Conclusion
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Bibliography
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