My child, My bride. Do not take this burden on. Do not walk in guilt. Am I not the Rock? Did I not come to release you from all your burdens? Trust Me with this burden. Cast it on Me. Take not the yoke of the world. It’s too heavy for you. I did not design you to carry this load. I came, died and rose from the grave so that you would be free from any burden, any sin, any yoke. The burdens of this world are mine to carry. You, My child shall be free of them. Free to be My beautiful bride, My lover, My desire. I love you too much to allow you to carry more than you can handle. Your Savior and your Redeemer.
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The Way The Truth The Life
Beloved, I have come to set you free. Free from the lies of the evil one. Free from the deception of the world and the culture. To be free you must know truth. You must know Me. I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. John 14:6
Much More!
As wonderful as our salvation is, is there more to being redeemed than we are often told? I think most of us sense this very thing from time to time. Sometimes we hear about there being a lot more, and once in a while even sing about it.
But if so, just how much more is there to experience? Have you thought about what might be keeping us from finding out more about the truth of God and His ways—from emerging from that fog into deeper relationship with Him? Could it be that true intimacy with God is more than we think could ever be achieved?
Maybe we just don’t know what steps we need to take toward God. Or maybe we don’t realize who we really are in Christ—where we actually stand with Him. Maybe we don’t know what it means to be free from the power of sin!
Free from–not to sin
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I think we as believers can all agree that any thought of maintaining a lifestyle of sin is patently absurd (Romans 6:15). Paul prefaces his whole argument of dying to sin with this statement in Romans 6:2: “How shall we who died to sin still live in it?”
So it would be rather foolish to think that being freed from such a powerful enemy might somehow give us the right to continue playing around with it. Why bother being freed at all if we merely set ourselves up to be enslaved all over again?
The purpose of freedom from sin isn’t to let us lapse into sloppy behavior with the excuse that battling selfish desires is just too big a chore. God didn’t set us free to give us license to sin, but rather to lay the foundation for unfettered pursuit of Him in spite of our inherent weakness.
He lives; you died
Jesus joins us to Himself, blanketing us with His righteousness as He lives His life in us. He lives; you died; you share His life.(Colossians 3:3-4) In Christ Jesus we have died to sin and are now free from its power. Why? Because through Christ God has eliminated sin as the reason for separation from Him.
Sharing in Jesus’ life is the cornerstone of our relationship with God. While we must not minimize the importance of sharing in His death, it doesn’t end there. To be sure, in Romans 6:5 Paul emphasizes the fact that, “if we have become, united with Him in the likeness His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection.”
Remembering that in God there only exists life, the only possible outcome of being joined with Christ in His death is that we also share in His resurrection. Just as Christ was raised from the dead, so we too are raised up from our dead old self into glorious new life in God.
Holy Spirit Power
My child, the Holy Spirit is in you and upon you to enable you to walk in power. Walk in My Power today. The enemy has been defeated and you are no longer under his control. You know the truth and the truth has set you free.
Live Free
My child, I desire your complete healing. In the innermost parts of your being, I want you to be free. Free from shame, unforgiveness, bitterness and doubt. I want you to live in the freedom I have provided. I died so that you could live. Live free. Joyfully come in to the calling that I have for you. Today is the day. Rejoice in your freedom and healing today.
Law of the Spirit
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death” (Romans 8:2) is an unalterable spiritual law. In Christ we are no longer condemned for sin. Rather, sin itself has become the culprit worthy of condemnation
The bottom line is that we need to start behaving like dead men—dead to law, that is (and as a consequence, dead to sin). This extraordinary life as believers is all about faith in what Jesus has done, regardless of the weakness of our flesh. Paul’s admonition in Colossians 2:6 says it all: “As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.”
When we were steeped in sin, we freely received God’s gift of grace. Now that we are saved, our job is not to try to appease Him by attempting once again to keep the law, but to live out our lives daily walking in the grace He has so abundantly provided. Only then can we enjoy the confidence that we are truly living a life of godliness.
Excerpted from: Free from the Power of Sin: The Keys to Growing in God in Spite of Yourself
Take Care with Gifts
Freedom from the power of sin is a phenomenal gift of God. But we need to be careful as we revel in it. Our death to sin, brought about by our freedom from law, has one purpose and one purpose only: that we might be endowed with the ability to pursue unfettered relationship with God—in spite of the weakness of our sinful nature.
Never is this freedom to be thought of as a license to sin. Rather, we have been joined to Christ “in order that we might bear fruit for God.”(Romans 7:4) The byproduct of being given this amazing privilege is that we now have the capacity to make good choices, whereas formerly we did not. We have freely and gloriously been given everything we need for our pursuit of Him.(2 Peter 1:3)
Set Free from Law
In Romans 8:4 Paul talks about there being a “requirement of the Law,” meaning that the law obligates us to obey it in its entirety.(James 2:10) But God knows there is no possibility that we can ever obey His entire law. And since the punishment for failing to do so is spiritual death—separation from God—He had to provide a way to overcome this barrier. So, God’s solution was simply to take the law out of the way as it relates to our relationship with Him.
Paul further explains this truth in Romans 8:3-4: “For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.”
The effect of having been set free from law—since punishment for breaking it is no longer imputed—is that we are in fact now no longer subject to the realm of the flesh, even though our flesh may continue to brutally oppress us.
Paul puts it this way in Romans 8:9-10: “However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you…If Christ is in you, though your body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.” Consequently the outcome for us—unbelievable as it may seem—is that “there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.”(Romans 8:1-2)
Excerpted from: Free from the Power of Sin: The Keys to Growing in God in Spite of Yourself