When Jesus Christ comes into your life, he liberates you and frees you to be everything God wants you to be. You see what he's saying in this passage is simply this. He says to these Christians there, he says, why under God's heaven would you want to go back over there where you've been delivered from? Let me tell you something, spiritually, that's where a lot of God's people are. Still living in a spiritual shack, he says, that was the past, you have become, listen, you have become a child of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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