The Price of Freedom

The Price of Freedom
Joshua 4:1-8
We enjoy our freedom ...
Attend church I want … (WORSHIP)
Listen to what I want … (MUSIC)
Choose candidate I prefer … (VOTE)
Say what is on my heart .. (SPEECH)
Express conflict with rulers (DEBATE)
Start business, live a dream .. (HOPE)
“Greater love has no man than this, than to lay down his life for a friend”
We must remember ...
Freedom isn’t free ...
The Price of Freedom is blood ...
Exodus 12:5-13 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year… And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
The Price of Freedom is blood ...
Exodus 12:13 Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you...”
The Price of Freedom is blood ...
Hebrews 9:22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.
Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.'
Blood of Christ ...
Matthew 26:28 For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Colossians 1:13-14 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

Freedom in Christ ...
Romans 6:18-23 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.... 22 But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Freedom in Christ ...
Galatians 5:1-13 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Freedom in Christ ...
Romans 14:3-5 Let not him who eats despise him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats; for God has received him.
4 Who are you to judge another's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. Indeed, he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand. 5 One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind.
2 Peter 2:1-19 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter 2:9-10 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment, 10 and especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries,
17 These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever. 18 For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
Private Ryan ..
“Do something with your life to make this sacrifice worthwhile …”

The Price of Freedom
Joshua 4:1-8