"These things were done, that the Scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of Him shall not be broken."—JOHN xix. 36.
In two weeks, we'll celebrate Independence Day here in the United States. We'll shoot fireworks and have gatherings in honor of our freedom from Britain. Israel celebrated its own independence each year in the Passover festival. In the original Passover, Israel was delivered from circumstances more hopeless than the American colonies', and God did all the work to deliver them.
Christians see an independence yet more amazing than either of these, as Alexander Maclaren observes in "Christ Our Passover", an excerpt from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St John Chs. XV to XXI.

Are You Born Again? by J.C. Ryle.

The text used here was put online by Bible Bulletin Board.  While some of the sermons they offer - including Are You Born Again - are in the public domain, many are modern revisions under copyright.

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