John 11:44<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, \u201cLoose him, and let him go.\u201d This isn\u2019t just a story about another miracle Jesus did, it\u2019s instruction on helping ourselves and others step away from sin. It seems the problem is not totally believing we were saved and set free. The dead come to Christ in graveclothes and their faces seem to be the only thing uncovered, but they\u2019re still in their sin and can\u2019t be free. Notice it says \u201cLoose him, and let him go\u201d. Loose in this passage means to put off. We can lead people to Christ and take off the cloth wrapped around their face by showing them their sinful life, but if we don\u2019t help them put off their graveclothes, they will continue to trip and fall in their sin. We need to understand, and help others understand, when Jesus rose from the grave, sin lost its grip on us, Satan lost his authority and death lost its power over us, we have been set free. Chances are, we loosened the graveclothes but haven\u2019t put them off and stepped out of them. We are told in John 8:36 \u201cTherefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed\u201d. When you, and those you know accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior. The graveclothes are our past lives and \u201cTherefore, if anyone is<\/em> in Christ, he is<\/em> a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new\u201d (2 Corinthians 5:17), so \u201cput on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its<\/em> lusts\u201d (Romans 13:14) \u201cFor as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ (Galatians 3:27). The Son made you free, you have put on Christ, so live free from sin and enjoy an abundant life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John 11:44 \u201cAnd he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, \u201cLoose him, and let him go.\u201d This isn\u2019t just a story about another miracle Jesus did, it\u2019s instruction on helping ourselves and others step away from sin. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingcloserwithgod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}