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Intro
Growing up, one of the chores we always had to do around the house was washing the dishes.
Now I don’t know about you, but I have never in my life woken up and thought - “Yeah, I want to wash some dishes today!”.
Growing up I used to wake up with excitement, but it was about all the things I got to do that day.
I got to run, eat, play with friends, eat, run some more, eat some more and sleep.
It was awesome.
But I never really wanted to do the dishes.
I remember one time we had stuffed up badly around the house and mum was doing the dishes.
I quickly jumped in there, hoping it wasn’t too late to redeem ourselves and she took the tea towel away from me.
She looked at me and said ‘I’ll do it myself (cutting)!
I don’t want you to do the dishes because you have to, I want you to do the dishes because you want to’.
Now, my mum is a very smart lady, so I walked away from that thinking - that is impossible.
So, I left.
As a disclaimer, it turns out that, for that evening, I was meant to do them if I wanted to or not!
Now I don’t know about you, but I have never in my life woken up and thought - “Yeah, I want to wash some dishes today!”.
What mum was hinting at there is that, in our home, we had freedom in helping around the house.
It was something we got to do.
Sure, we could have been rat bags and mucked about all the time, we had freedom to do that as well.
We could have also just done the dishes and got on with whatever else we had to do.
But that is not what Mum wanted.
What mum wanted from us was not the dishes done, she wanted us living out a relationship that told her that we loved her.
She just wanted us to fall in step with the rhythms of the house.
Freedom in our house is loving others straight from our hearts.
And that is what God wants of us when we think about the topic of freedom.
To be truly free isn’t to do whatever you want, or to work our way into the good books, like I was doing the dishes, to count yourselves as truly free we are to have a relationship with God that is lived out in the world.
And living this out has a radical effect on those around you.
Growing up I used to wake up with excitement, but it was about all the things I got to do that day.
I got to run, eat, play with friends, eat, run some more, eat some more and sleep.
It was awesome.
But I never really wanted to do the dishes.
The big idea is that Godly freedom is loving others with a Christ centred heart.
How we will explore this idea today is by thinking through what real freedom is from and then we will think about what real freedom looks like in .
I remember on time we had stuffed up pretty badly around the house and mum was doing the dishes.
I quickly jumped in there, hoping it wasn’t too late to redeem ourselves and she took the tea towel away from me.
Let’s pray.
She looked at me and said ‘I’ll do it myself (cutting)!
I don’t want you to do the dishes because you have to, I want you to do the dishes because you want to’.
Now, my mum is a very smart lady, so I walked away from that thinking - that is impossible.
So I left.
As a disclaimer, it turns out that, for that evening, I was meant to do them if I wanted to or not!
What mum was hinting at there is that, in our home, there was we had freedom in helping out around the house.
It was something we got to do.
Sure we could of been rat bags and mucked about all the time, we had freedom to do that as well.
We could of also just done the dishes and got on with whatever else we had to do.
But that is not what Mum wanted.
In fact, misusing that freedom wouldn’t of got us very far in life at all.
What mum wanted from us was not the dishes done, she wanted us living out a relationship that told her that we loved her.
Freedom in our house is loving others straight from our hearts.
What mum wanted from us was not the dishes done, she wanted us living out a relationship that told her that we loved her.
She just wanted us to fall in step with the rhythms of the house.
Freedom in our house is loving others straight from our hearts.
And that is what God wants of us when we think about the topic of freedom.
To be truly free isn’t to do whatever you want, or to work our way into the good books, like I was doing the dishes, to count yourselves as truly free we are to have a relationship with God that is lived out in the world.
And living this out has a radical effect on those around you.
The big idea is that Godly freedom is loving others with a Christ centred heart.
How we will explore this idea today is by thinking through what real freedom is from and then we will think about what real freedom looks like in
Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father,
Help us now
to read, mark, and inwardly digest your word,
that we may taste the sweetness of freedom
found only through faith in your Son, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
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What real freedom is (Gal 5.1-12)
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
It isn’t for any other reason - Christ came, lived, died and rose again so that you and I might be have real freedom.
And what are we freed from
We are called to stand firm because there is a chance that we, however crazy as it may sound, be tempted to be burdened by the yoke of slavery.
A worldly perspective of freedom is:
Now if you have been reading your Bibles for a while you will recall that we are not making omelettes here, but in , Jesus uses a similar language when he says
Jesus calls us to come to him and instead of a yoke that burdens us, his yoke, is easy.
Now, lets break it down here.
We are not making omelettes so what is a yoke?
A yoke is a wooden piece that is placed over the top of horses to drag, often farm type products around.
The picture here is of us having to do something - some task, having some purpose, like a horse with a yoke has a purpose to pull something along.
And the yoke that we put on ourselves can either be a burden of slavery, or it can be the freedom that is only found in Christ.
Christ has broken us away from our old yoke - let’s not go back there.
What Paul does here in is that he helps point out how good it is to put on the yoke of Christ – the yoke of freedom.
A worldly perspective of freedom is:
The way he shows us this is by talking about the law.
Now way way back in the first books of the Bible God promises that He will bless his people.
So, when they are enslaved in Egypt, God moves to save them, and this is where we get the famous parting of the sea story.
He saves them and then gave them a law to follow.
So, all the followers of God, who confessed that he was their God, would be circumcised and would submit to this law.
If they could follow every part of the law, they would be deemed right with God.
Paul says that it works part in parcel here in verse 3. Circumcision was only one part of it.
Now could anyone follow the law perfectly?
You see God’s people had been saved from Egypt, and promised amazing things, like that they would be a blessing and have a great nation and have a promised land.
He pulled them out of Egypt and gave them the law to follow.
If they could follow every single aspect of the law, they would be deemed right with God.
He says that even if you get circumcision, which is the chief sign that you would submit to the law, even then you would still have to do the whole law .
The way he shows us this is by talking about the law.
Now way way back in the first books of the Bible God promises that He will bless his people.
So, when they are enslaved in Egypt, God moves to save them, and this is where we get the famous parting of the sea story.
He saves them and then gave them a law to follow.
So, all the followers of God, who confessed that he was their God, would be circumcised and would submit to this law.
If they could follow every part of the law, they would be deemed right with God.
Paul says that it works part in parcel here in verse 3. Circumcision was only one part of it.
Now could anyone follow the law perfectly?
You see God’s people had been saved from Egypt, and promise amazing things, like that they would be a blessing and have a great nation and have a promised land.
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