Choose Freedom
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Free Indeed
Free Indeed
Freedom is Great!
Anyone wanna argue that?
A number of our Holidays are celebratory of freedom is one form or another.
Whom the Son sets free is free Indeed.
Where does Freedom come from?
John 8:
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.
NET Bible
So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.
GOD'S WORD® Translation
So if the Son sets you free, you will be absolutely free.
Young's Literal Translation
if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.
Young's Literal Translation
if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“If The Son therefore will set you free, you will truly be the children of liberty.”
The Message
“So if the Son sets you free, you are free through and through”
Begs the question
Free from what? For what?
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So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
John 8:31-
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Free from sin
Freed by Jesus
Freed for a Higher Calling.
Transition from slaves to sons!
Its more than being set free from sin, its about being set free for a better life and higher calling.
1. The Breaking Point.
1. The Breaking Point.
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
There is a breaking point, for all revolutions.
Matt
1763 end of the Seven Year War, or French and Indian War.
End of this war set England as the dominent force in the Frontier and the largest most powerful Empire.
Colonist after this war felt they were proud Englishman.
- within just two years, angry mobs of Americans would attack the private residences of colonial officials?
- within five years, colonial leaders would call for a boycott of British goods?
- Or that within seven years, five colonists would lie dead on Boston Common, shot down by British troops?
England issued the Proclamation of 1763, prohibiting colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains,
1764 Sugar Act - high taxes on sugar
1765 Stamp Act - Tax on all print.
1767 Townshend Act - further taxes on goods and enforcement of new taxes.
Take over of courts and judges.
Illegal Seizure of ships.
1773 Tea Act - Was to keep the East India Company as a monopoly on tea. Then had the Boston Tea Party
1774 - The Boston Port Act and others.
In July 1775, the Continental Congress sent King George III the last-ditch "Olive Branch Petition," as it came to be called.
A complete Rejection and no desire to compromise form King Gorge 3
This was the breaking point for revolution in America.
Everything up to this point was only to get England to listen not actually about revolution, after this they realized that England only had their will in mind and did not want what was best for the Colonists then it became about revolution.
Sin does not have your best interest in mind.
Genesis lies.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
2. Check for Chains
2. Check for Chains
Five ways we chain ourselves up.
Desires of the Flesh
Legalism
Shame
Fear
False Liberty
1. Desire of the Flesh
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal 5:2
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,
1 Peter
2. Legalism
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
Col 2:20-
3. Shame
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
2 Cor 7:
yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.
4. Fear
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
5. False Liberty
1 Peter
Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
3. Kids Eat Free
3. Kids Eat Free
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Closing
Out of my distress I called on the Lord;
the Lord answered me and set me free.
Psalm
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
1 Cor
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Rom 8: