What is the first thing you think about when you hear the word, Freedom? Satan wants you to be held captive and suffer from God’s Freedom. Adam Barnett shares with us how Jesus trumps all of Satan’s efforts to hold us captive by standing firm in His righteousness.
Gospel Freedom
Galatians | Week 6 | July 10, 2016 | Adam Barnett
Freedom:
I. Liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another
II. The state of being released from something burdensome
III. Absence of subjection to foreign domination
Galatians 5:1 (NIV)
1 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.
Romans 5:18 (NIV)
18 Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
Galatians 5:1 (NIV)
1 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.
Galatians 5:2-6 (NIV)
2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
“Even if you insist you’ve been converted or you say you feel Christ has changed your life… if you decide your salvation rests in any way on your performance, you deny salvation by faith alone in Christ alone.” — Tim Keller
