{"id":954,"date":"2014-01-26T11:22:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T11:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=954"},"modified":"2014-01-26T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T11:24:05","slug":"his-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"His Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/free.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/free.jpeg\" alt=\"Freedom\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-955\" \/><\/a>In Psalm 51, David cries out to our Lord in a beautiful, awesome tone of repentance.  He says this in verse 3 &#8220;For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.,&#8221; in acknowledgement of his nature and total dependence upon the Lord&#8217;s salvation and mercy.<\/p>\n<p>We do not forget the sin we bring into God&#8217;s world.  We may try, but just as David said it is &#8220;always before&#8221; us. Knowing our failures, our weaknesses, our unrighteousness, only serves the saint in magnifying Christ&#8217;s worth in our lives.  In a sense, we get smaller in our thoughts and actions and God gets a bigger slice of our lives. As your walk grows closer with Christ, His worth becomes more than your own, until everything is surrendered and your life is sacrificed for God&#8217;s glory.<\/p>\n<p>The journey begins with repentance, acknowledging that we are truly worthless without Jesus. Jesus said that &#8220;the truth will set you free.&#8221; One day, in His presence, we will see Him fully glorified and forget our &#8220;old self&#8221; and all the sin that chained us and we will truly understand the freedom He promised. &#8220;Free, indeed!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Psalm 51, David cries out to our Lord in a beautiful, awesome tone of repentance. He says this in verse 3 &#8220;For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.,&#8221; in acknowledgement of his nature and total dependence upon the Lord&#8217;s salvation and mercy. We do not forget the sin we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfZYJd-fo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":958,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}