The Offense Of The Cross
The Offense Of The Cross Jeremiah 34 Galatians 4:22 – 5:11 Luke 15:11 – 32 Free! Free! How can it be free? Giving God’s revealed nature, this should come as no shock. This world, on the other hand, demands payment to secure freedom. It is in Her great whoredom that she reduces the cost of a man’s soul to pilfering gold. Our God values differently. His beef with Israel in Jeremiah’s time was that even in distress, they could not get it right. Was not God the giver of life, freedom, and enablement? Did He purposely organize the Israeli machine under a covenant to grind upon the wheels of slavery? Hadn’t they witnessed His great deliverance from Pharoah’s hand? Yet they remained the captors even of themselves. To free, then enslave again, made no sense and God let them know through the mouth of Jeremiah. Galatian...