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Only way out is obedience
Sometimes people study the Exodus and when they apply the principles to modern lives, the idea of freedom is misunderstood. It is indeed for freedom that Christ sets Christians free, just as God rescued the Hebrews from slavery. Yet that freedom is only operative when understood as an opportunity to enjoy and obey the Lord.
Please don’t misunderstand. The Jews did not earn their deliverance by obeying, any more than Christians can earn justification. All is by grace. And that grace is to be exercised in obedience to God’s word. Otherwise, the inevitable result will be recapitulation to some form of slavery.
Here lies the true way out – doing what God has commanded by His grace and for His glory. Anything less is a step back into shackles.
God bless,
Wayne