Sermon | "The Weight of Captivity" | March 15

Exile confronts God’s people with a devastating truth: everything they trusted—land, temple, king, identity—can be stripped away. Captivity exposes the fragility of human security and the depth of spiritual dislocation. Yet God promises deliverance from an unexpected source: a Persian king named Cyrus, called His “anointed.” Through this unlikely rescuer, God restores His people and foreshadows Christ, who liberates us from the deeper captivity of sin, death, and the devil.