Biblical Zionism | ICEJ USA

Biblical Zionism | ICEJ USA

...ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Isaiah 62

 ¹For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
 ²And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
 ³Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
 ⁴Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
 ⁵For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
 ⁶I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
 ⁷And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
 ⁸The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
 ⁹But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
 ¹⁰Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
 ¹¹Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
 ¹²And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.

You Have No Idea?

Seen on a t-shirt at Towson Univ. Cook Library: "You think you know but you have no idea."


That sort of sums up my thoughts for us as a race, that is: the human race. We think we know…



I have noticed more and more the changing face of the U.S.: so many Latinos, and not a few Asians, South Asians and Africans. I heard a member of a surveyor's crew calling out measurements in an eastern European accent! I would be moved as many are in paranoia, except to remember that they are all human and for the most part all have human aspirations much the same as I do, and you.



From 1986 to 2005 the number of new legal immigrants admitted remained relatively stable at about 400,000 annually (http://www.migrationpolicy.org/) that is: eight million over that 20 years. It is said that there are 12-20 million illegal aliens in the U.S. of A. Why has this happened? Why have 20-30 million foreign born people come to this country to live? Some come for freedom. Some come for educational opportunities. Others are recruited by industry. Each is a story in itself to be sure.



Many U.S. citizens, almost all the sons of immigrants, cry aloud, bemoaning this wave of immigration. The minor holocaust of 9/11 certainly amplified the chorus of nay and doomsayers. But if you ask this writer, we are in part, in large part responsible for this situation. The following has not been received well by those I have spoken it to; nonetheless I think we must consider our complicity in immorally and illegally making room for 20-30 million foreigners in this country.



We will fast approach the infamous distinction of having aborted 50 million. Call them fetuses, babies, unborn, preborn, infants—it hardly matters; what cannot be disputed is that almost half of those aborted would now be 18 years old, and would be English speaking persons at some adult stage of life. Many would be employed. Some would be in college. Some would be in the military and others in Green Peace. Some would be disabled or chronically ill, or in prison. But most would be pulling their weight, and adding to the strength of the nation. In short, they would be human, and as a whole they would be just like the rest of us, but for the fact of their termination, their abortion.



Had they lived, they would be competing in the market place just like we are. And they would be spending their wages and salaries just like we do. In fact there would be far fewer aliens sending U.S. dollars out of country! Our economy, stupid, would enjoy the fruits of the labors of millions (billions?) of dollars that now find there way into other nations economies.



I expect that half of all reading this will blow off my theory as ridiculous. But these are those who find the idea of a fetus being a human being ridiculous. I would not mind being deceived of all I have said. But of this I cannot be deceived: pre born infants are human at conception; their abortion is murder in the sight of God and of some men and women. If the fetus is not a human being, what are those who say it is not a human? And if and since fetuses are human, it is clear that those who have supported abortion have been deceived. And what are the deceived? They are DECEIVED. The deceived know not that they are deceived. Their deception calls all their knowledge and speech into question. If you say it is no crime to abort a human fetus, I cannot even trust you to tell me water is wet.

Cultural Jihad vs Saavy Americans

How far down this road have we gone.....

We live in a free society where the cultural jihad of the Islamic terrorists may be protected by the first amendment. Fed and local authorities might actually be enlisted to advance the speech and freedoms cultural jihadists by protecting their rights under the USA constitution! If Muslims do not repudiate Jihad, Sharia and Islam itself, they may find themselves in a United States which is majority Islam and Sharia governed, even from the houses of Fed., State and local Governments!

Are Americans saavy enough today to understand this? Or are they deceivable enough to become dhimmis or converts? If you don't understand these questions you are not saavy enough.

The Christian faith is very much misunderstood by lukewarm unstudied christians. As G.K. Chesterton said: “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.” How much more is it misunderstood by Muslims and other religionists?

Muslims and all men ought to "try it."

http://www.anabaptists.org/bh/t2.html

If one allows for human error and Divine Perfection, one ought to see Islam offers no assurance of the forgiveness of sins and requires a completely unknown quantity of good deeds for entrance into paradise forever. To offer a pass to paradise to those who will murder an "infidel" is so clearly a controlling motivator offered by those who would advance world conquest and the Caliphate. Islamic "shahids" ("martyrs") are so evilly taken advantage of and evilly used in this "shahada." This is heartbreaking as well as somewhat maddening to most "infidels.”

If you can't control your loins...

Big flap, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, BIRTH CONTROL...

I don't think there is much doubt that most people use birth control to avoid pregnancy. Why would anyone do that? Because they wish to have fewer children. Why would anyone want fewer children? Because they want more freedom from the responsibilities and the expenses of raising them. Why would anyone want that freedom? To have more time, more money and more sex. In or out of wedlock, or adulterous, people love pleasure. They love pleasure more than they love God.

That is what God calls spiritual idolatry and adultery. There is no question that this is the nature of sin. Placing oneself, ones judgments and ones will (for pleasure) above God's will and judgments. When we do this we transgress the moral boundaries that even God obeys and we make ourselves little gods. Having done this we also make gods of wood, stone, metal AND MYTH to serve our need of having gods we can control.

So while Miss Fluke may not charge for sex, and though she may not give it away so freely as to be a slut, the question may be asked, why does she want birth control to be free? Or not free? Why does she or anyone want birth control? What are the motives for blocking conception of human seed? God loves life, Jesus is the Life. Man is life in God's image and likeness. What is wrong with life?

Read your Bible.

...and the beat down goes on...

Constitution's biblical background challenged

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1546880


This article reads in part:


“Commissioners of Carroll County, Maryland, are waiting to see if they will be sued for encouraging a Christian (David Whitney, pastor of Cornerstone Evangelical Fellowship in Pasadena, Maryland, and senior instructor at the Institute on the Constitution) to talk to county employees.”

“…critics [are] accusing the local officials of overstepping the boundary between church and state.”

He (Whitney) explains that the Institute on the Constitution teaches "the founders' view of law and government, the American view of law and government, which is, simply put, there is a Creator God, the God of the Bible. Secondly, our rights come from Him. Thirdly, the sole purpose of human civil government is to protect and secure those God-given rights."

"It raised an enormous storm, with the Americans United for Separation of Church and State writing a threatening letter from their attorney to the county commissioners that they have to shut this course down, demanding a response from them of the actions they take," the pastor (Whitney) reports.

MY TAKE:

There not being enough truly useful things for our governments to spend our taxes on, they continue to indulge these frivolous and even specious accusations of peaceful peoples exercise of their (God given?) liberties.

The US Constitution does not apply to state governments in areas it does not address. It grants states their own rights to law on matters it does not control. The US Constitution's first amendment "establishment clause” applies to Congress, that is, to the U.S. Congress. THEY and they alone are forbidden from making any laws with respect to the establishment of religion or the prohibition of religious exercise. The liberal, atheist and communist hordes have turned this on its head with their false "separation of Church and state" doctrine. It is amazing how clear the language of the 1st amendment is, and how few Americans actually have read it and understand it.

Here it is; you can memorize it in an hour.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”

What does the Maryland state Constitution say? It says:

DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
"We, the People of the State of Maryland, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty, and taking into our serious consideration the best means of establishing a good Constitution in this State for the sure foundation and more permanent security thereof, declare:"
AND then follows the Constitutions 47 articles. How interesting they are! Notably Articles 36-39! As a Maryland resident I am vey happy to read them!

"The Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland 'began accusing the local officials of overstepping the boundary between church and state.'"

These groups have to make a living somehow, and find it convenient to represent atheists who don't understand these constitutions and who DENY God Almighty and His followers their rights to become the children of God as they choose. No one is coercing Atheists to convert. No one is denying them their rights as citizens their "freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

What these folks seem to want is for christians to be quiet about their faith when they enter public buildings. Why should we be quiet? Why should we not celebrate our faith heritage and i's history?

But if they have their way, and we cannot speak in the public square freely, let us speak in our own homes and churches. This is where the church flags, falters and fails, in our homes and churches. If we knew our Bibles as well as we knew the football scores, or who is winning on Idol, or who is up for an Oscar, then we would begin to know the Lord. That is what Jesus called ETERNAL LIFE!

John 17:3
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2017.3&version=KJV

We also read in the letter to the Hebrew Christians:

Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=heb%2011.6&version=KJV

Folks, LIFE IS about God in Christ. It flows from Him to us and our governments in the USA because men of faith wrote such as they wrote in the Maryland Constitution:
"We, the People of the State of Maryland, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty, and taking into our serious consideration the best means of establishing a good Constitution in this State for the sure foundation and more permanent security thereof, declare:"
"...the sure foundation and more permanent security thereof..." Of what? Of "our civil and religious liberty."

Atheists have their civil liberties. Christians, Jews, Muslims, and other religionists are guaranteed their civil and religious liberties. Is it so much to ask atheists to endure our "foolishness?" If our faith(s) are so untrue, how can they be so offensive? I am not offended by the exercise of Buddhists, even those who chant at the airports.

May these atheistic causes awaken the lukewarm christians from their slumbering.

Psalm 121:4
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+121:4&version=KJV

The Related Insanities of Abortion and Illegal Immigration


Again and again I am reminded and unable to forget or ignore the insanity and inanity of the current thinking of many Americans on illegal aliens and immigration and abortion: “the strange practice”. This sounds like condemnation, but it is not, for I too suffer from unclean and stupid thinking, even if God has delivered me from much of it. It may sound like judgment, and this it is. We all make judgments every day. They may be wise or foolish. Jesus did say: “Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” John 7:24 The thinking I am writing about is that American sovereignty must exclude foreign workers, especially illegal aliens from doing American jobs on American soil. It might be a reasonable legal view for illegal immigrants, but let’s ask some reasonable questions:


Why do aliens come in to the US illegally?


The answer is first and foremost that they come for work and for the U.S. dollar. Secondly they come in for criminal activity (and the U.S. dollar). Thirdly they come as enemies of the U.S. to overthrow the U.S. government(s). Let’s not be overly concerned with the second and third answers here, though they too are very important problems to solve.


Why aren’t American workers doing the work illegals come for?


Illegals have worked for very low wages in industries accustomed to very low profit margins. Illegals routinely worked harvesting crops for wages below the minimum wage, wages Americans would and could not legally accept in jobs Americans supposedly did not want to perform. I’m not sure how long the farmers of the south, and south west have been employing alien workers. My memory of controversy goes back to the sixties to the grape and lettuce crops in California and Caesar Chavez. (Chavez worked for the Community Service Organization, a Latino civil rights group from 1952 until 1962.


The idea that Americans were unwilling to do this hard work picking crops may have been the result of the below minimum wages offered to attract illegals. Regardless, illegals have been picking our crops for a long time. But for several decades illegals have been taking jobs in other industries, most typically food service and restaurant work, and landscaping and gardening. But why are more and more jobs in the USA held by illegals? Where are we? Where are the Americans? Where did we all go? While the economy has lost several million jobs since 2008 and some illegals have gone home having lost theirs, there are still 12 million or more illegals in the U.S. Why is there still so much room in the job market for illegals?


There are so many factors that a book would be necessary to expose the matter fully. But I think of several factors as very relevant to this dilemma.


Capitalism and capitalists, in specific American capitalists have become more devoted to profits than to the nation. Because of this illegals at low wages are in demand over Americans. Additionally illegals coming from poverty prove to be eager and productive workers, while Americans have succumbed to their sense of “entitlement” to high wages, union and government benefits, and legal resources. The federal government exacerbates the matter by placing regulations on businesses raising their costs. Business owners not finding illegals to work for them will and do move their business to other nations. Finally illegals are starting and running their own businesses and likely avoiding payroll income and social security taxes.


American patriots are conflicted, confused and/or ignorant if they condemn illegals as wholly responsible as lawbreakers and even as economic enemies. How can our farms and businesses run smoothly and profitably with American workers while “made in America” policies and practices encourage the hiring of illegals or foreigners?


But one more time I ask, “Why do aliens come in to the US illegally? Why aren’t American workers doing the work illegals come for? Where are we? Where are the Americans? Where did we all go? Why is there still so much room in the job market for illegals?”


These questions have one more answer. It is the most telling answer, in my opinion. Where are they (we)? Shockingly twenty five percent, one of four of American workers have died every year for 35 years. These have not been ill, and have not retired. They have died? What was their cause of death? It was and continues to be abortion. Leaving aside the moral objections so many have against abortion, we need to understand the economic consequences of abortion. Abortion is a “strange practice.”


The closest Bible reference I have found to modern abortion is found in Jeremiah:
“[… thus saith the LORD] And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.” (Jeremiah 32:35)


This describes the sacrifice of children by their parents to the heathen god Molech. In Jeremiah’s time the children of Israel and the children of Judah had gone so far astray that they were making these sacrifices. Note the Lord says of this: “…I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination…” I think this shows just how alien, how strange the practice of child sacrifice is to God. Are today’s abortions child sacrifices to Molech or to any god? We know that children already born and living are still sacrificed in very dark corners of the world. But Abortion, is it a sacrifice? It is certain that the aborted child is unwanted. Why? Because something else is preferred. And what is that? What is preferred is relief from the responsibilities and the labors of raising the child conceived. In effect we worship our own selves. We give the child to whom? To God by the act of murdering him/her in the womb. But is it a sacrifice we are giving to God? No, although the child IS received by God.


“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.”
(Psalm 27:10) Amen


By preferring our money, and our leisure time to the needs of the baby in the womb we are elevating ourselves to be as Gods by taking the life, the LIFE of the baby to be.


By abortion, by the practice our labor pool, the number of available U.S. citizens for hire is reduced every year by 25%. Our tax base and tax revenues are cut by 25%. It could be that one of every four American jobs is held by an illegal alien, a legal foreign worker or has been given to a foreigner in another nation. The consequences of abortion simply reduce American prosperity.


A related matter is the prevalence of foreign goods in the American market place. These products are not the result of American labor. Their sale in the U.S. generates no wages, and no tax revenues on wages. We often hear the very reasonable advice: “Buy American.” But to “Buy American,” we must have American made goods to buy. Sadly 25% of future American craftsmen, manufacturers, business owners and job creators are eliminated every year as unwanted aborted babies.


Abortion became legal in 1973. That year more than 700,000 “conceptions were terminated,” a polite way of saying that babies or persons were murdered in the wombs of their mothers. In 1991 those 700,000+ aborted persons would have had the been born and lived turned 18 years of age. In 1974 more than 1,000,000 babies/persons were aborted (That number has been typical in almost every year since. As I recall, one year nearly 1,500,000 abortions were done). Eighteen years after 1974 those 1,000,000+ persons would also have turned 18 years of age. Today in 2011 babies/persons aborted in the year 1993, had they been born would be 18 years old.


At eighteen most people look for work, enter the military or enter trade schools colleges or universities. From 1973 to 1993 approximately 20,000,000 babies/persons were aborted. Is it a coincidence that there are (some estimate) 20,000,000 or more illegal aliens in the United States of American today? Note that every one of those 20,000,000 aborted would be 18 years old by January 1st, 2012. All of them would be eligible to vote in the 2012 election.


What has possessed us to be so blind to the economic consequences of this practice called abortion or termination of pregnancy?


I must add this to the list of consequences. Though liberal doctors and their powerful medical establishment deny it, and the liberal press/media will not report it, the risk of breast cancer in women is higher in women having abortions. It is higher by 33-100% in women having one abortion and higher than that in those having more than one aborton. Why? When a woman becomes pregnant estrogen begins to build up in her breasts. It is the body’s necessary way of preparing to deliver milk to the newborn. When the baby is aborted, the estrogen remains in the breast without being used and released in breast feeding. This trapped estrogen simply causes breast cancer in many women. If you want information on this Google search ABC Link, Abortion Breast Cancer, or Joel Brind, Ph.D.


Illegals here are frequently Hispanics and Roman Catholics; they do not have many abortions. They value children. In their culture they have not yet drunk the pro-choice Kool-Aid. I pray they never will. But it seems to me, and seems very clear that illegal aliens are a consequence of U.S. federal law and domestic policy gone astray and amuck in the worst way with abortion topping the list. Men are not only endowed by their creator with inalienable rights, they are endowed with creative ability. How sad that in ignorance of and rebellion against God, rights (powers) and ability produce oppression, and destruction resulting in debt, default and eventually poverty and death.


Illegals often pay no taxes by receiving under the table cash wages, or through their own businesses. Illegals send U.S. dollars out of the country to their families. Illegals receive government services, from medical health benefits to education courtesy of a government which has lost 25% (over a million every year) of its taxpayers. Illegals require state and federal law enforcement agencies to guard borders, arrest, care for and return illegals to their homelands. There are bureaucracies overseeing these. Illegals drain tax revenues by committing crimes here. We have many illegals imprisoned, also a cost to our taxpayers.


Notwithstanding this: God loves illegal aliens wherever they are found. Jesus was sent to whosoever will. Jesus has saved many already and desires many more be saved. He has saved many who have had abortions, approved abortion, and even some who have facilitated and performed abortions. He has also saved many who have gone bankrupt, who have lost their jobs, which have been corrupt in business, government and law enforcement. He and desires all not saved repent and receive His priceless gift of eternal life. In this time marked out (however inaccurately) for the celebration of Jesus’ birth (a real event), we need to remember and memorialize that Jesus was born so that he could die and take away the sins of the world, that world of bankrupt, jobless, corrupt, illegal men and women near and far (to you and me) living here on earth. Here Christmas and all “holidays” have the possibility of being HOLYdays, as does every day of the calendar.


Illegal immigrants are people. Their existence in America is a symptomatic condition resulting from other issues, some of which I believe I have touched on in this letter. It seems unlikely I will forget these troubles in the very near future, excepting when Jesus comes back to us. But with my will and heart, both which are weaker than any lamb, I set my self to forgiving the troublers in this earth which so surely belongs to the Lord Jesus our Messiah and Savior. God save such, for I was one such as they are.


Thanks and praise to God, our Father, Savior, Lord, brother, and Guide! He is Almighty forever and ever, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Baruch HaShem Yeshua, Baruch HaShem Adonai !!!


His and yours, Dave Severy ~ Govans, Md.

“…occupy till I come.”

The song below has caused quite a stir. It’s a movement song. You can find an article on it here: http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/01/03/va-school-board-defends-8-year-olds-singing-occupy-lyrics/

And another here:
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=1511456

It is a song about covetousness. I’m sure it isn’t intended to be that by whoever wrote/inspired it. But that is what it is about. In the comments page from the second link above one man commented: “This is definitely a Christian song, an update of Matthew 19:24.” Here is my response, but first here are the words to the song named Part of the 99.

Part of the 99

Some people have it all
But they still don’t think they have enough
They want more money
A faster ride
They’re not content
Never satisfied
Yes—they’re the 1 percent

I used to be one of the 1 percent
I worked all the time
Never saw my family
Couldn’t make life rhyme
Then the bubble burst
It really, really hurt
I lost my money
Lost my pride
Lost my home
Now I’m part of the 99

Some people have it all
But they still don’t think they have enough
They want more money
A faster ride
They’re not content
Never satisfied
Yes—they’re the 1 percent

I used to be sad, now I’m satisfied
’Cause I really have enough
Though I lost my yacht and plane
Didn’t need that extra stuff
Could have been much worse
You don’t need to be first
’Cause I’ve got my friends
Here by my side
Don’t need it all
I’m so happy to be part of the 99

Notice the last line: "I’m so happy to be part of the 99.” If you are happy with being one of the 99, why is there an Occupy Wall Street protest at all? If someone on Wall Street has stolen from you they should repay you all they took and perhaps a fine too. But those who have occupied Wall Street and all the other streets: Were they really one percenters? Has Wall Street stolen from them? Frankly I have my doubts. I think many are just poor and poorly educated young people led about by people with hidden agendas. They are “movement” dupes being led by “movement” makers. And Jesus loves them, He will forgive them their sins, and save them if they are lost. But we must be the preachers willing to be sent of God to them. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=rom%2010:13-17&version=KJV

Many social movements on the left, and undoubtedly some on the right, today lack an understanding of the God of the Bible. One person thinks the song is a Christian song and an update of Matthew 19:24. He should read the whole story from Matthew 19 verse 12 to verse 28. He would see that what he might call the redistribution of wealth took place after the the nobleman returned and received the report from those servants to whom he had given the talents.

Of those who have occupied Wall Street which servant are you? One who invested your talent (or pound) as did the first two servants did? Has your talent brought you a ten fold or a five fold return like theirs did? Or did you bury your talent like the third servant did. Or perhaps you invested your money with the bank (see verse 23). The nobleman says plainly this is an option!

The redistribution of wealth here flowed from the one who buried his talent to those who used their talents successfully and gained wealth! This is the exact opposite of the communist/socialist concept of re-distributing the wealth. In God’s Kingdom the rich do get richer, although not always in this life. But the person who is cowardly, who runs away from the presence of God cannot prosper. He or she will never learn from God what prosperity is, how to gain it and how to keep it.

We really need to read our Bibles prayerfully for with out God's help and answers we will learn nothing aright. Without God one will have to make up some fantasy about what they read for the truth has not freed them from the deception of the great deceiver satan.

If you really think that someone owes you something, take them to law, to court. If you are just angry because someone has more than you do, go get your own. If you really want to be like Jesus, give everything you have for the benefit of sinners. Jesus did that. Or do as many Christians who are rich, poor and in between do: give charitably as little or much as you will.


The deceived cannot know the truth because they ARE DECEIVED.

The deceived DO NOT KNOW they are deceived, why? - because they ARE deceived.

Are you deceived? Experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you.


John 8:32-36
The Message (MSG)
If the Son Sets You Free
31-32 Then Jesus turned to the Jews who had claimed to believe in him. "If you stick with this, living out what I tell you, you are my disciples for sure. Then you will experience for yourselves the truth, and the truth will free you."
33 Surprised, they said, "But we're descendants of Abraham. We've never been slaves to anyone. How can you say, 'The truth will free you'?"
34-37 Jesus said, "I tell you most solemnly that anyone who chooses a life of sin is trapped in a dead-end life and is, in fact, a slave. A slave is a transient, who can't come and go at will. The Son, though, has an established position, the run of the house. So if the Son sets you free, you are free through and through. I know you are Abraham's descendants. But I also know that you are trying to kill me because my message hasn't yet penetrated your thick skulls. I'm talking about things I have seen while keeping company with the Father…