S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries

Everyone seeks freedom. Especially in the West, freedom is the highest virtue, and it is sought after by all who are, or consider themselves to be, oppressed. But freedom in Christ is not the same ...

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Carson Lee Cole Supporter

For me, I have found that the secret to a victorious Christian life is embodied in these words, "I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless, I live. Yet, not I, but Christ lives in me. This life I live in the body I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Gal. 2:20 (KJV). 

When we make a decision to accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, a mighty miracle takes place. Our spirits - that part of us that can have a relationship with God, our Creator - Once dead in trespasses and sin.... wakes up! 

Jesus - in that moment - comes to live in our hearts. And when we get up off our knees we are a new creation in Christ for we have truly been "born again!" This is what gives us the freedom to experience true freedom in Christ.

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Kevin Honeycutt Supporter Servant of Jesus Christ

What must we do to be free?
Let us look at what the Apostles told everyone they must do, to be free,

Hear- Romans 10:17, Matthew 11:15, Acts 18:8, Acts 28:28
Believe- John 5:24, Mark 16:16, Acts 16:31-33, Acts 18:8.
Confess- 1 John 4:15, Romans 10:9-10, Acts 8:35-38.
Repent- Luke 13:3, Acts 2:38, Acts 3:19, Matthew 9:13 Acts 17:30-31, Luke 24:47.
Baptized For Remission of Sins- Luke 24:47, John 3:5, Titus3:5, Mark 16:16, Acts 2:38, Acts 8:5-13, Acts 8:35-38, Acts 9:17-19, Acts 10:47-48, Acts 16:13-15, Acts 16:29-33, Acts 18:8, Acts 19:1-6, Acts 22:16, Matthew 28:19-20.

Then God adds you into the Church- Acts 2:41, Acts 2:47, Colossians 2:12, Galatians 3:27, Romans 6:3-11.

Study the Scriptures daily- 2 Timothy 2:15.

Endure to the end- Matthew 24:13.

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Bruce Lyon Supporter Elder: Restoration Fellowship Assembly

2 Corinthians 3:17 says: “Where the Spirit of the Lord- Yehovah is, there is freedom.”

The freedom we have through the indwelling Spirit of God- Yehovah is not political or external freedom; rather, it is the reality of freedom in your inner being that remains unaffected by anything.

A well-known saying in English is, “Four walls don’t make a prison.” You can put a person in prison, but you cannot break him if he has freedom through the indwelling of the Spirit of God within his inner being.

The reality of God- Yehovah and the experience of freedom in your inner being ensure joy and peace.

God set his people free from slavery by the enabling power of His Spirit working in their inner being. The Old Testament and the New Testament are all about freedom. The Bible is a handbook on freedom.

Many Christians have the reputation of being so legalistic, so bound by regulations that they give people the impression that the Christian life is all about laws and prohibitions. The Bible is not about that at all; the whole Bible is about freedom!

What is the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament, about? It’s about God setting free a people who were slaves, taking them out of Egypt. After 400 years of slavery, God took these Israelite slaves out of Egypt. How dramatic it was when they passed through the sea, with the waters standing up like walls on both sides! God- Yehovah took the Israelites out of Egypt and set them free. Moses said to Pharaoh on behalf of God- Yehovah, “Let my people go. Set my people free that they may serve me.” The Bible is about freedom!

Notice: The entire New Testament is about freedom. In John 8:32, 36, the lord Messiah Jesus said: “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. So, if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.”

If the truth doesn’t set you free, it isn’t the truth. How do I know something is true? See if it sets you free; then you will know. If you experience it, you will know that the truth found in the Bible is a reality that you can experience.

FREEDOM FROM DESIRES AND ANXIETIES

Are you free? Or are you governed by problems within that you hardly even know how to describe? Are you constantly pulled in different directions by various desires that enslave you?

Do you experience freedom? And to what extent? The lord Messiah Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth and the life” (John 14:6). What is truth? Remember, the lord Messiah Jesus said truth is what sets you free (cf. John 8:32).

Anything that brings you into bondage is not the truth, as far as Scripture is concerned. The lord Messiah Jesus is the truth because he taught and lived out the truth of God’s righteousness when he was on the earth, so that we must measure our spiritual condition against him. If we are willing to confess the truth of our sins and submit to God’s Kingdom in our lives, God- Yehovah will set us free from the guilt and the power of sin. Have you experienced God’s liberating power through the lord Messiah Jesus?

A PERSON WHO IS NO LONGER AFRAID OF DEATH BEGINS TO EXPERIENCE TRUE FREEDOM

Do you know what one of the gifts of the Spirit is? The last element mentioned in the nine-fold fruit of the Spirit is self-control. Self-control sums up the whole fruit- the gifts of the Spirit. It’s the dynamic reality of a follower of the lord Messiah Jesus that implements the freedom that the lord Messiah Jesus has won for us, when he gave himself up to his God and his Father, Yehovah, as a sin-offering sacrifice on the cross, enabling God to reconcile [bring us back] to Himself!

In 2 Corinthians 10:4-5, Paul says: for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

Even though it is God who gives us the victory, we must learn to engage in combat, fighting, enabled by the Spirit of God to fight for liberation - freedom.

Advance in this combat from day to day, and you will experience the reality of freedom within your inner being.

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