SERIES: GETTING TO THE NEXT LEVEL! EPISODE 10: NO MORE CHAINS HOLDING ME, IT’S MY TIME TO BE FREE!

DISCLAIMER: YOU MUST BE IN A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST
JESUS TO FULLY GRASP THESE TEACHING AND TO LIVE THIS KIND OF
ABUNDANT LIFE!
Galatians 5:13-18
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. 14 For the entire law is
fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as
yourself.” 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out
or you will be destroyed by each other.16 So I say, walk
by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
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.


In this chapter, Paul starts out challenging the Galatian people
to walk in the truths he had been preaching and teaching them.
Jesus Christ died to set us free from the bondage of sin. Jesus
did not die for us to just be able to ask God for forgiveness and
keep on doing what we want to do or keep living as a slave to our
sinful nature. No! Our freedom is a gift from God, which we
receive through our faith in Jesus. We have been made free to
serve God in the way we were created to serve Him. Some
Christians think that they can still do, say, or live the way
they used to. But here Paul encourages us to stand fast in the
liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled
again in the yoke of sin. We are to walk in God’s strength, to
help us live a life pleasing to God. Amen!!!


I ( Dwayne) preached a sermon one time titled “I’m Free”, and in
my study for that sermon, I run across a story that spoke of a
man, who was born in slavery. He is raised as a slave, trained up
as a slave. All he knows is slavery, and one day this slave is
sold at the auction. He is bought by a kind man, who immediately
gives him papers declaring him to be a free man. Can’t you see
this slave, rejoicing because he is free? He runs through the
crowd waving his papers in the air, shouting, “free at last, free
at free last, thank God almighty I’m free at last.” The man who
sold him at the auction sees all this and starts to leave, and
immediately the former slave falls in behind him. The former
owner looks around and says to the man, “man you are free! Go and
enjoy your freedom. You do not have to work for me anymore. The
slave answered and said, “I know these papers say I’m free, but
all I know is how to be a slave. Amen!!! 


We must live by the Spirit. To walk in the Spirit means that we
are open and sensitive to the influence of the Holy Spirit. We
have to pattern our life after this influence. In other words,
when the Holy Spirit indwells us, He wants full control of our
lives. If we are walking in the Spirit, there is no way we can
fulfill the lust of the flesh. The Holy Spirit does not indwell
us to gratify our sinful nature, NO, He teaches us all things and
reminds us of everything Jesus has said. (John 14:26) He guides
us into all truths. (John 16:13) He helps us to love, he helps us
to be kind, & gentle to our brothers and sisters, He helps us
to be patient with people, He helps us to be faithful, and He
helps us to have self-control, when we want to curse folks out.
Amen!!! 


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