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*Dangers of Freedom*
*Introduction*:
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Freedom! It’s what we celebrate this week, Wednesday specifically.
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The 4th of July is when the 13 colonies declared their independence and became free from England.
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It was a new union dedicated to the idea that each human being had a right to be free.
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One of its earliest acts was to institute a Bill of Rights, which forbids the government from infringing on the freedom of people to practice religion, speak, to assemble, and so on.
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Throughout the history of the United States most of our conflicts have been about freedom.
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The Revolutionary War – Freedom from England
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The Civil War was in part about freedom for slaves
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Worker’s rights
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Women’s rights
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Each of the major conflicts (including wars) have always been, at least in the popular mind, about setting people free.
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But what is freedom?
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According to Webster
i. “the condition of being free of restraints”
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“the power to act, speak, or think without externally imposed restraints”
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“the capacity to exercise choice; free will”
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“exemption from the power and control of another”
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For the founders of the United States
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It was freedom from the tyranny of government.
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It was about people telling the government what to do instead of the government telling the people what to do.
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It was about being free to worship or not worship God as desired.
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It was about being free from excessive taxation
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It was about being able to say what you think without fear of being thrown in jail.
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And for the most part we experience those freedoms in the United States today.
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But are we truly free? i.
Are people stuck in the cycle of poverty really free?
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Are people ensnared by materialism really free?
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Are fearful people who lock the world out either physically or mentally really free?
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Is the average American really free?
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No not really!
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We Americans may be freer from government intrusion than other nations (which is slowly slipping away).
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We are slaves to our prosperity.
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We are slaves to our desires.
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We are slaves to our fears.
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As a people we are slaves to SIN.
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Perhaps now would be a good time to look at what the Bible has to say about freedom… #.
Lets look at *Galatians 5:1-15* and ask ourselves, “What do I do with my freedom?”
The /Dangers/ of Freedom!
There are two of them…
*Outline*:
I *The Temptation to Abandon Freedom* (*vs.
1-12*)
A Paul just got done retelling and explaining the situation of the Jewish people (*ch4*)
1 Abraham had two sons but one was from a slave girl and the other was from the promise of God.
2 He was saying that the people who are looking back to Abraham aren’t the ones who are free
3 But the ones who are looking forward to the promise of God, the Messiah, are the ones who are free.
4 Holding onto God and His promises makes them free, not the holding onto the past and the traditions of old.
B Freedom is ours for the taking all because of Jesus Christ and His payment on the cross of Calvary.
1 The battle has been won, now it must be /claimed/ and /maintained/.
2 This is illustrated quite vividly in the Middle East…
a Sure the oppressing leader(s) may have been “dethroned”
b But it is another thing to make sure that Freedom takes root
c That is why for what 4, 5, 6 years so far we are still over there trying to make it happen and get the people on board a move forward.
d Enough of the political remarks but spiritually, that is what Paul is driving at here in this passage.
3 Christ has set people free from the demands and oppressiveness of the Law of Moses.
4 We are no longer slaves to the Law…
5 Christ didn’t /Abolish/ the Law he /Fulfilled/ the Law, which no man could do.
6 We are no longer slaves to the law but we are free in Christ so live like it!
C So for the next six verses Paul argues this point *Theologically*
1 *Vs.
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.”
2 Paul is telling them that they cannot enhance their Christian faith by adding the law to it.
3 You see when you add anything to what Christ did on the Cross you are essentially saying that what he did wasn’t good enough.
4 And to say that Christ wasn’t good enough makes His death meaningless.
5 When it comes to being justified there is only ONE way.
a *John 14:6* “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me’.”
b Jesus didn’t say, “except through me and by adding ______.”
No he simply said, “I Am”…
6 Paul spoke of this aspect of the Law – Circumcision.
a This was something that the people of God had to do for God to show them favor, and to work in their nation.
b You even remember that after the Exodus out of Egypt and how the people who were born in the wilderness wandering were not circumcised that once, under Joshua’s leadership they were to go in and conquer the land.
They had to first stop, worship God and be circumcised.
c It was a sign that they truly were seeking to obey God and follow His leading
d This was a BIG part of the Law.
7 But Paul is saying here that if you hold onto that part of the law then you are setting yourself back under the law and you must keep the whole law (*vs.
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a As *vs.
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b So according to this verse you can either:
i Trust in Christ, and you are saved by grace or
ii You can trust in some other system – the Law of Moses, or some system of your invention and be lost and out of the reach of Grace.
iii It is one way or the other, there is no sitting of the fence or taking what you like out of Christianity and adding anything else to it and having a Smorgasbord religion.
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