BE FREE
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. –Jefferson
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Galatians 5:1
One of the founding factors in our country are these three Inalienable Rights every person has; Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. These Inalienable Rights are the very thing in which many other Nations hate America for. Why, because they want control, corruption, and calamity. They want control of their people to do their bidding. They want corruption in order to fill their bank accounts. They want calamity because they know there is strength in a group of people set out for one goal. (Just ask Great Britain.)
The Inalienable Rights, like much in our government, were found in the Word of God. How did the Founding Fathers come up with such a brilliant contract of sorts? I believe many of them had tasted the freedom found in Christ and they knew the Scriptures. They knew what it meant to be free from sin and shame. They knew what it meant to chose. They knew what true liberty meant and wasn’t afraid to stand up for it.
How is your Spiritual stand? Are you standing in the freedom Jesus brought when you got saved? If not, maybe it’s time to open the Word of God and get busy reading to find out how to be FREE!
THERE’S LIBERTY TO SERVE IN JESUS!
Those are no friends of Christ and his disciples, who make that to be unlawful which God has not made to be so. –Henry
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. Romans 7:6
I am thankful for grace this morning! I am thankful my salvation is founded in the depths of God’s amazing grace. I am thankful I am not bound to the law in such a way I have to do this or that in order to obtain my salvation. No, my salvation is complete in Jesus’ finished work on the cross and resurrection! This does not give us liberty to sin, it gives us a liberty to serve!
CHILD OF GOD BEWARE!
When a man who professes to be converted says that he goes into the world and into sin for pleasure, it is as if an angel went to hell for enjoyment. –Spurgeon
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Romans 8:5-7
You know when you go on visitation, everyone you talk to is okay with the Lord. It doesn’t matter that there is a pile of beer cans overflowing the trash can or head banging music is filling the air, everyone is saved and on their way to Heaven. While I realize that they could be saved, I also know God is not pleased in the way they are living!
Do you really think you can live like the devil’s crowd? According to scripture, you’re wrong. According to scripture, you’re living in the flesh. According to scripture, you’re living like a child of the devil. According to scripture, you’re living a life in opposition of God.
So which is it? Are you a Child of God or an offspring of the devil? I think you already know, you’re just too proud to admit it…
Caught or Cheering?
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 1 Peter 2:9-10