THE COST OF OUR LIBERTY!

THE COST OF OUR LIBERTY!

Mark 10:32-34

32 And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,

33 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles:

34 And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.

June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.

         General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.”

         More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies had gained a foot- hold in Normandy.

         The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded – But as a result of that day... more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler.

Nothing in this life comes without cost...

2 Cor 8:9

9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

          Jesus emptied His vast stores of righteousness so that he might empty me of my vast stores of sin. I had no righteousness – He had no sin.

Isa 55:1

1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Dear Lord, on this special day, let me remember the sacrifices that made my liberty possible. AMEN