Review: Life Explored-The Liberating God (Ep4)

If you are reading this review on the Sabbath, then I would like to wish you a Sabbath full of the knowledge of freedom in Jesus.

This week’s review is for the series, Life Explored, which is a seven part series. This episode is called, The Liberating God.

Description

An exposé of the little gods that promise us so much happiness, yet deliver so little. As it explores the Bible story (creation, fall, redemption, new creation), Life Explored shows how our deepest desires for happiness can only be satisfied in one person, Jesus Christ. The best gift God can give us is himself.

This is the fourth episode in this series and like the others, the short film before the main presentation was powerful.

The presenter, Rico Tice, takes us on a journey through the account of the exodus from Egypt, why Pharaoh made the decisions he did and how it all pointed to the sacrifice our Saviour, Jesus Christ, would make, to set mankind free from sin.

Rico had powerful statements to make about the entrapment of sin, quoting from Romans 7:14-25. My Bible, the King James version, has the title of The Christian Struggle for this part of the chapter. Another version, the New Living Translation has the title, Struggling with Sin.

So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good. The trouble is with me, for I am all too human, a slave to sin. 15 I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate. 16 But if I know that what I am doing is wrong, this shows that I agree that the law is good. 17 So I am not the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

18 And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t. 19 I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway. 20 But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.

21 I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. 22 I love God’s law with all my heart. 23 But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. 24 Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? 25 Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

Rico lists some qualities of Jesus that made me smile: merciful, kind, gentle, understanding, sacrificial, never uses the immense power He has the use or exploit others. The list goes on and let’s not forget one of the major ones, the power and authority to forgive and get rid of sin.

This episode provides good information about how sin works and how we can look to Jesus Christ to free us from it.

If you have found yourself saying, “If only I (fill in the blank) then I would be happy, then this episode is a must see for you.

I’ll leave you with a verse from John 8:36 that Rico Tice quoted, that Jesus said about himself: So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free. Amen.

I watched, Life Explored: Episode - The Liberating God on redeemtv.com.

Thank you for reading this review. Until next time - peace be with you.

--Deborah

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