Freedom to obey God

2 Corinthians 5:17 NASB95

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

A. There’s no condemnation in Christ (1)

2. This pronouncement means:

3. The pronouncement does not mean Christians have a license to sin.

Matthew 7:21 NASB95

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

Luke 6:46 NASB95

“Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?

John 14:15 NASB95

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

B. There’s freedom in Christ. (2-3)

John 8:34 NASB95

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.

2. Jesus did what we couldn’t

C. In Christ, Christians have freedom to obey God. (4)

1. The requirement of the Law is love.

1 John 4:19 NASB95

We love, because He first loved us.

Acts 2:46–47 NASB95

Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved.

Psalm 119:97 NASB95

O how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.

1 John 5:3 NASB95

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome.

2 Corinthians 9:7 NASB95

Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

1 Corinthians 13:4–7 NASB95

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 John 4:11 NASB95

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Ephesians 4:2 NASB95

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing tolerance for one another in love,

Galatians 5:22 NASB95

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,