JULY 2, 2020
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Article by Greg Morse
Staff writer, desiringGod.org

Tim Keller says that you can take people out of slavery more easily than you can take slavery out of people. As the Israelites walked out of Egypt, they carried a more severe bondage with them in their mindsets, in their hearts, in their patterns of behavior. Though free, they did not yet have a freeman’s frame of mind. Soon they were begging to go back (Exodus 16:3).

The same can be said about children of God as it pertains to our new identity in Christ. More easily are we taken out of orphanhood than the feeling of orphanhood comes out of us.

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