COMPLETELY WONDER FREE Dico tibi verum libertas optima
COMPLETELY & WONDER FREE
"Dico tibi verum libertas optima rerum nunqual servili sub nexu vivito fili" (I tell you the truth. Freedom is what is best. Sons, never live life like slaves”)
Galatians 5: 1 -14 ”Let me be clear, the Anointed One has set us free—not partially, but COMPLETELY and WONDERFULLY free! We must always cherish this truth and stubbornly refuse to go back into the bondage of our past. ”
2 I, Paul, tell you: If you think there is benefit in circumcision and Jewish regulations, then you’re acting as though Jesus the Anointed One is not enough. 3 I say it again emphatically: If you let yourselves be circumcised you are obliged to fulfill every single one of the commandments and regulations of the law!
4 If you want to be made holy by fulfilling the obligations of the law, you have cut off more than your flesh—you have cut yourselves off from the Anointed One and have fallen away from the revelation of grace!
Romans 7: 5 “When we were merely living natural lives, [c] the law, through defining sin, actually awakened sinful desires within us, which resulted in bearing the fruit of death. 6 But now that we have been fully released from the power of the law, we are dead to what once controlled us. And our lives are no longer motivated by the obsolete way of following the written code, [d] so that now we may serve God by living in the freshness of a new life in the power of the Holy Spirit. ”
5 But the Holy Spirit convinces us that we have received by faith the glorious righteousness of the Anointed One. 6 When you’re placed into the Anointed One and joined to him, circumcision and religious obligations can benefit you nothing. All that matters now is living in the faith that is activated and brought to perfection by love. 7 Before you were led astray, you were so faithful to Messiah. Why have you now turned away from what is right and true? Who has deceived you?
8 The One who enfolded you into his grace is not behind this false teaching that you’ve embraced. Not at all! 9 Don’t you know that when you allow even a little lie into your heart, it can permeate your entire belief system?
10 Deep in my heart I have faith that the Lord Jesus the Anointed One, who lives in you, will bring you back around to the truth.
“And I’m convinced that those who agitate you, whoever they think they are, will be brought under God’s judgment!” 11 Dear friends, why do you think the religious system persecutes me? Is it because I preach the message of being circumcised and keeping all the laws of Judaism? Not at all! Is there no longer any offense over the cross? 12 To tell you the truth, I am so disgusted with all your agitators—I wish they would go even further and cut off their legalistic influence from your lives!
13 Beloved ones, God has called us to live a life of freedom in the Holy Spirit. But don’t view this wonderful freedom as an opportunity to set up a base of operations in the natural realm. Freedom means that we become so completely free of selfindulgence that we become servants of one another, expressing love in all we do. 14 For love completes the laws of God. All of the law can be summarized in one grand statement: “Demonstrate love to your neighbor, even as you care for and love yourself. ”
“IT IS FOR FREEDOM THAT CHRIST HAS SET US FREE!”
1. God is more interested in freeing you spiritually than changing your circumstances.
“The circumstances we ask God to change are often the circumstances God is using to change us. ” – Max Lucado
2. Loving others sets us free!
Romans 6: 17– 18, ESV – “But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness”
3. Abiding in Christ’s WORD sets us free.
John 8: 31 -32 “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. ”
John 8: 31 -32 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim FREEDOM for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind (Spiritual blindness), to set the oppressed FREE.
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