Liberty of Christians in Jesus Christ
Liberty of Christians in Jesus Christ
Start of a study of the liberty of Christians in Jesus Christ under GRACE.
God have freed us from slavery to sin but that does not mean we do what we want we are to conform our lives to Christ and forsake those things the world will offer that lead us astray.God did not give freedom to sin. The freedom is to do what is right without constraints of the law.
Galatians 5:13
New King James Version
13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Liberty to exercise self control.
1 Peter 2:16 — The New International Version (NIV) 16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as God’s slaves.
Romans 6:12-18 NKJV
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Liberty to serve god with consequences for your SIN. Possible consequences such as :
A. Chastisement
Hebrews 12:5-11
New King James Version
5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; 6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.”
7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11 Now no [c]chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
B. Believers will not loose your salvation but you have to live with the outcome of your actions. David lost his Child due to his sin with Bathsheba.
3. Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Hosea 8:6 For this thing is from Israel—a craftsman made it, and it is not God. It will be broken to pieces, that calf of Samaria. 7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.
Additional scriptures
John 8:36; Romans 14:22;
Titus 1:15;
Galatians 2:16;
Ephesians 2:8-9;
Romans 8:2; Galatians 3:24-25; Galatians 5:13;
John 15:1-8
2 Timothy 2:20-21;
Lesson taught by Keith K. Vann, Deacon Redeeming Grace Baptist Church.
Summary notes here by SSligh blog creator/moderator
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