Second Stage Ministries Podcast

This time every year we celebrate the Fourth of July. On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was agreed upon and the thirteen colonies were declared free, independent states, and no longer under the rule of King George III. But there is also another kind of freedom I think about as well. I am reminded of the great freedom there is in Jesus. Let’s see what Romans 8 has to say about this….  [1] Isaiah 53:3-8 (NIV) “He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He w