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2 CORINTHIANS 3:16-18
Whenever, though, they turn to face God as Moses did, God removes the veil and there they are—face-to-face! They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it! All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.
GALATIANS 5:1 NIV
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
WORLDLY FREEDOM TELLS YOU TO DO WHAT YOU WANT
BIBLICAL FREEDOM IS TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT HE HAS FOR YOU
BURDENED – GREED WORD - ENECHO – ENTANGLED OR TO BE ENSNARED
WHAT PUTS US ENTANGLED
1. OLD MINDSETS
- PERFORMANCE MINDSET
- MY PERSPECTIVE OF GOD
o MARTIN LUTHER – “ My temptations is this: that I think I don’t have a gracious God. This is because I am still caught up in the law. It is the greatest grief, and It produces death.”
ROMANS 8:6 CSB
6 Now the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace.
ROMANS 12:2 NIV
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
2. WORLDLY EXPECTATIONS
GALATIANS 5:7
7 You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?
3. MY SIN
HEBREWS 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
HOW DO WE GET OUT OF BEING ENTANGLED AND FIND FREEDOM?
GALATIANS 5:13
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
CALLED – GREEK WORD – KALEO – INVITED OR TO BE CALLED BY NAME
1. ACCEPT GODS’ INVITATION
MATTHEW 11:28
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
2. TRUST GODS’ AUTHORITY
MATTHEW 11:29
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
GALATIANS 5:17-18
17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
PSALMS 9:10
Those who know your name trust in you,
for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.
(ISAIAH 26:3 NKJV)
You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind
is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.
3. KNOW WHAT JESUS DID ON THE CROSS WAS ENOUGH!
ROMANS 8:1-3
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, 2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering.
THE WHIP: FREEDOM IN MY BODY.
1 PETER 2:24 “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so
that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds
you have been healed.”
THE THORNS: FREEDOM IN MY MIND.
JOHN 14:27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not
give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled
and do not be afraid.
THE NAILS: FREEDOM IN MY HANDS.
HEBREWS 8:12 “For I will forgive their wickedness and will
remember their sins no more.”
HEBREWS 9:14 NLT Just think how much more the blood of Christ
will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so that we can
worship the living God.
THE SPEAR: FREEDOM IN MY HEART.
(PSALM 147:3) He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their
wounds.
1 CORINTHIANS 11:23-26 The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, “This
cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.
JAMES 5:16
16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
YOU WILL ALWAYS STAY AS SICK AS YOUR SECRETS