The Freedom Truth Brings
Brad Whitt
John 8:32
INTRO: I want you to take your Bibles now this morning and be finding your place at John chapter 8 if you would. John chapter 8 and this evening, as we come together to hear what God would say to us on this weekend before the Fourth of July, I want to read one verse as a way of introduction. Now, we'll be looking at and referring to most of the verses that surround this one verse, but just to get our minds and hearts going in the same direction, let me read verse 32 for us tonight. Listen to what Jesus said.
John 8:32, ''And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.'' In other words, there is no true freedom apart from Jesus Christ.
ILLUS: I love to read biographies. A couple of years ago I read a biography on the life of Benjamin Franklin that was written by Walter Isaacson. It was entitled, ''An American Life.'' It is a really well written and enjoyable to read book, and in that book, Isaacson introduces you to the man who is perhaps more responsible for shaping our republic more than any other individual. As I was preparing this week, I remembered a scene in that book where Benjamin Franklin and his grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache, go to meet the famous French philosopher Voltaire. Now, I'm sure that you remember Voltaire from your high school English classes. And if you remember him, you'll remember that Voltaire was very anti-religion. Now, he really wasn't an atheist like some have said, for he even had a chapel built on the grounds of his estate. To be sure, he wouldn't believe a lot of things that you and I believe as Christians, but to wave him off with one motion as being an atheist is really too simple for such a complex man as he was. But whatever you believe about Voltaire, the one thing that's never in doubt was that he was opposed to the religious institutions of his day. He was a man who spent much of his life-fighting tyranny and injustice, and unfortunately, there was ...
Brad Whitt
John 8:32
INTRO: I want you to take your Bibles now this morning and be finding your place at John chapter 8 if you would. John chapter 8 and this evening, as we come together to hear what God would say to us on this weekend before the Fourth of July, I want to read one verse as a way of introduction. Now, we'll be looking at and referring to most of the verses that surround this one verse, but just to get our minds and hearts going in the same direction, let me read verse 32 for us tonight. Listen to what Jesus said.
John 8:32, ''And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.'' In other words, there is no true freedom apart from Jesus Christ.
ILLUS: I love to read biographies. A couple of years ago I read a biography on the life of Benjamin Franklin that was written by Walter Isaacson. It was entitled, ''An American Life.'' It is a really well written and enjoyable to read book, and in that book, Isaacson introduces you to the man who is perhaps more responsible for shaping our republic more than any other individual. As I was preparing this week, I remembered a scene in that book where Benjamin Franklin and his grandson, Benjamin Franklin Bache, go to meet the famous French philosopher Voltaire. Now, I'm sure that you remember Voltaire from your high school English classes. And if you remember him, you'll remember that Voltaire was very anti-religion. Now, he really wasn't an atheist like some have said, for he even had a chapel built on the grounds of his estate. To be sure, he wouldn't believe a lot of things that you and I believe as Christians, but to wave him off with one motion as being an atheist is really too simple for such a complex man as he was. But whatever you believe about Voltaire, the one thing that's never in doubt was that he was opposed to the religious institutions of his day. He was a man who spent much of his life-fighting tyranny and injustice, and unfortunately, there was ...
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