John 8:31-53 | 6/23/2024 | Pastor Matt Jones. Our nation celebrates Juneteenth, commemorating the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas after the Civil War. In this sermon, we explore a different kind of slavery - a slavery that all humankind has been subject to for its entire history. And we explore a different kind of emancipation - a kind proclaimed and effected by only one Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ.