FREEDOM’S SAFEST PLACE!

FREEDOM’S SAFEST PLACE!

Acts 22:27-28

27 Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.

28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.

           Paul was about to be whipped by a Roman guard when he casually mentioned that he, himself, was also a Roman. It meant something! It meant that he had rights and immunities that did not belong to a Roman citizen. He had freedom! It kept him safe!

           The word “freedom” in verse 28 is the Greek politeia preceded by the definite article ho. You will probably notice that it forms the basis of our word “politics.”

           The captain said that his freedom was purchased at a great cost but Paul said that he was “free born.” The original literally means “countryman.”

           Being born again places us in the family of God. We are adopted and given rights and privileges the unsaved do not have. It was purchased for us by a great price.

Eph 2:18-19

18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the [very] household of God.

Dear Father, my safest place is in YOU. Thank you for the great sum spent at Calvary so that I might be free born. AMEN