Tag: #FreedominChrist

How Are You Using Your Freedom?

Text:

Galatians 5:13 (NLT)

13  For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.

Observation:

Are you using your God given freedom in Christ to serve one another in love?

Yesterday I heard a very soul penetrating sermon by my pastor that had these three points.

  1. Look
  2. Lift
  3. Love

How can you love like this? God would not ask you to do it if He did not provide the means.

Galatians 5:17-18 (NLT)

17  The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions.

18  But when you are directed by the Spirit, you are not under obligation to the law of Moses.

Are you living daily by the power of the Holy Spirit of God who lives in you? Does the Holy Spirit of God, who is love, live in you?

Romans 5:5 (NLT)

5  And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

Prayer:

Father God, we have so much to be grateful and thankful for as we celebrate the freedom we have in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:9 (NLT)

9  But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them do not belong to him at all.)

Father, You have provided the means for us to love others. Father, help us to appropriate the power of the Holy Spirit of God in our lives to love others. In the might name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

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Ephesians 6:10-11 (ESV)
10  Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
11  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

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Have You Been Made Free?

 

Text:

John 8:36 (KJV)

36  If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Observation:

Did you have a good and godly day yesterday? Our pastor spoke about “The Open Grave”. He said the open grave is a symbol of freedom. Notice what the Apostle Paul wrote to the church at Rome.

Romans 6:17-18 (NLT)

17  Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you.

18  Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.

Have you been set free from the penalty of sin? Have you been set free from the power of sin?

Romans 6:23 (NLT)

23  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.

Yesterday was about what Jesus did for you and for me when He died on the cross that Friday afternoon. Notice what Paul writes here.

Romans 3:22-23 (NLT)

22  We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.

23  For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

Here is how to be made free; how to accept the gift of love that God provides for those who believe in Jesus. Here is how to make Resurrection Sunday real and personal in your life.

Romans 10:9-10 (NLT)

9  If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

10  For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.

Romans 10:13 (NLT)

13  For “Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved.”

Prayer:

Father, hallowed be Your name. Father, thank You for sending Jesus to be our sin bearer, and to do for us what we could not do for ourselves.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NLT)

21  For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

Father, I thank You that when Jesus died on the cross that He was not alone. When He died on that old rugged cross at Calvary I died. And, because He was not alone then, I have the blessed assurance that I am never alone because Christ lives in me.

I pray that Christ is alive in the readers, and the hearers of this Word. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.

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Isaiah 55:11 (KJV) 
11  So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

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