Title: Hard-earned freedom/Galatians 5:1-15
The freedom you worked hard on
Gal 5:1-15
Freedom, what is freedom? Literally speaking, freedom is the state of independence that is not subject to external coercion or bondage. Kant recognized the causality of freedom, and regarded it as freedom when reason obeys its laws. It's not easy to understand what it means to think and act according to the opposite sex, but for some ordinary people, it's a freedom to break free from the hustle and bustle of life's pain and hard reality. After a small quarrel between a married couple on a TV show, the husband left the house. And cry. ‘Now I have freedom.’ What is freedom?
Brothers and sisters, God said, “Christ set us free, so stand firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.” Looking at today's words, what kind of bondage did Jesus, who loved us very much, break the bondage that our Lord Jesus Christ gave us to set us free? And how should I live as a truly free man? can learn to do.
First, we had real freedom from the law. The law requires complete obedience. If you pass even one, you are immediately condemned. I declare that I am a sinner. The wages of sin is death, and it prevents us from breaking out of that death. only the death penalty. Under the law, they boast of being servants of the law and keeping the law, but who will be saved? So there is not one righteous person in the whole world. Even Paul, who was blameless in the law, said, “I delight in the law of God in my inner man, but I see another law in my flesh, waging war against the law of my heart, bringing me captive to the law of sin that is in my members. O wretched man I am, who can deliver me from this body of death?” (Romans 7:22). Even if there were slaughtered animals and sacrifices, “the servant could not be made perfect in his conscience” (Hebrews 9:9).
But the sinless Jesus, the Jesus sent by God, the Jesus who loved us “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, because under a curse is everyone that hangs on a tree.” so that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, and that we might receive the promise of the Holy Spirit through faith.” Our freedom is a sinner who, as a transgressor of the law, cannot break free from the bondage of the curse of the law, a sinner bound by the bondage of the bondage of an eternal curse, but our Jesus was cursed in our place, and the curse of snares entangled in us. You set us free. We have received the blessing of Abraham. It is the promise of the Holy Spirit. This is the freedom we have gained.
Dear saints, will you again become a slave to the law in a body freed from it? If we fall under the law and become slaves of the law, Christ does no good to us (verse 2). Rather, we are cut off from Christ and fall from grace (verse 4).
Dear saints, will you become a slave to Satan again with a body freed from Satan and his powers? Serving to Satan begins by giving the flesh an opportunity to do as it pleases. (Verse 13) If the mind of the flesh is enmity with God, and if you do not know it and live according to the will of the flesh against the Holy Spirit, it will be a slavery to Satan and it will inevitably lead to death. Let us not be subject to the yoke of Satan's servant.
Dear brothers and sisters, Jesus “Christ gave us freedom to set us free.” Therefore, stand firm and no longer be subject to a yoke of slavery, but as children of God and free people, first of all, if you want to keep the law, “the whole law is to love your neighbor. “Do it as your own body,” it was fulfilled” (verse 14). We will serve one another and keep the law of love. Second, we will be filled with the Holy Spirit and believe in the living God the Father, Jesus Christ, and God the Holy Spirit as our God. Let's live by faith (verse 5). If we have faith and love in the Holy Spirit, faith works because we believe in love. start working. Faith becomes reality. God's promised inheritance will become a blessing now and in the future, and it will become a reality among us. Because we are the descendants of Abraham, we are blessed together with Abraham. (Galatians 3:9) Hallelujah!