You Are unquestionably free

So if the Son liberates you [makes you free men], then you are really and unquestionably free. –John 8:36 [AMP]

Finding something we can all agree upon becomes increasingly tricky in a diverse world. Those of us who are interested in sports have our favorites and those that we love to cheer against. You will likely get ten different responses if you ask ten people their favorite movie. We all have our favorite nationalities of food; if you are like me, you have more than one. But if there is anything that we all could agree upon, it could quite possibly be the annoyance of telemarketing phone calls.

Several years ago, this was much worse than today, at least in some ways, because you could not see the number of people calling you, and it was difficult to filter your calls to accept and reject the ones you wanted. Even after the advent of CallerID, the multiple rings on your phone each night was frustrating. Today, with the internet, email, social media, and text messaging, companies have endless ways to force their advertising upon you. But the worst offender is still your phone, and the FTC, a few years ago, introduced some measures to help reduce these unwanted calls in the form of the “Do Not Call” (DNC) registry. Once your phone number is registered, those unwanted telemarketing calls should, in theory, reduce significantly within 31 days.

The Do-Not-Call registry does not prevent all unwanted calls. It does not cover the following:

• calls from organizations with which you have established a business relationship;
• calls for which you have given prior written permission;
• calls that are not commercial or do not include unsolicited advertisements;
• calls by or on behalf of tax-exempt non-profit organizations

Let us focus on the first of these, which states that if a company has had business dealings with you, they are exempted from the DNC rule and may continue contacting you. Let us use this concept as we step into our spiritual lives once we have been saved through faith in Jesus Christ. Our past sins will sometimes try to reconnect with us because we have had dealings with them in the past, and our memories will ring them into consciousness, much like the telemarketer’s call on our phone. One of Satan’s favorite activities is to take our past failures and throw them in our faces. He desires to keep us in bondage and will use every advantage.

A tormented mind is a mind that does not have rest, which is the exact opposite of what Jesus purchased for us. “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.]” (Matthew 11:28 AMP). You see, Jesus desires that we have rest, especially from our past. A repentant person feels remorse and the intense desire to avoid sin at all costs, but satan perverts this and attempts to inject us with guilt. So instead of focusing on preventing future sins, Satan causes us to feel condemnation about past sins. But the Bible reminds us, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Romans 8:1).

The Word of God tells us that once Christ sets us free, we are unquestionably, undeniably, and irrevocably free! Jesus then acts as our spiritual DNC registry, and whenever Satan desires to access our minds and inject his poison, the Word stands in the gap and destroys the attempt. Satan no longer has free and unlimited access to your mind because the blood of Jesus has washed away your sins and destroyed your connection to your old sinful nature. “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). You are not merely a cleaned-up version of your former self, but an entirely new person! So the next time satan throws your past up in your face, throw his future up in his and remind him that you are unquestionably free!