Learning to Live Free
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Introduction
Bible Believers: The Bible is our final authority for all life and practice.
It is here in the pages of the bible that we find the good news of Jesus that it calls, “The Gospel.”
Many of us have come to realize through personal experience that the gospel has the power to change our lives and to set us free from sin and death.
It is this power of the gospel message of Jesus that we feel is so strong in the lives of people that we are willing to give ourselves, our time, our talent, and our treasure to spread this good news around the world and set people free.
I will bet you that there is someone in this room that needs the power of the gospel to brake some strong holds in your life.
Some type of bondage, or sin.
Maybe an addition or habit.
Possibly a past wound or hurt that drives you to find relief or escape.
The power of the gospel, the power of Jesus can set you free from all of these things.
If you understand the things that I will show you today you will never look at your bible the same. This morning I want to show you the power of the gospel and how you can live free and not as a slave anymore.
For the past several months we have been on a journey through the book of Genesis understand how God is in relationship with man.
God has been very active in his creation. He speaks to man directly.
God has made covenants with different people.
God has chosen a people for himself in their father Abraham.
He and Sarah his wife are Barron (They were unable to have children).
But God has singled them out to change and bless the world.
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Genesis 12:
God then promised this old man and his wife that they would have a son.
3 And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” 4 And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.” 5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Genesis 15:
Abraham and Sarah wait for this promise to be fulfilled for 15 years.
Sarah tries to rush the process and give Abraham her slave to wife and bare her children and she does. a son is born named Ishmael. But he is not the chosen seed.
God has promised the Sarah will have a son in her old age.
And now we catch up with the story and the chosen seed is finally born in .
1 The Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised. 2 And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him. 3 Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. 6 And Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me.” 7 And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
Genesis 21:1-
The Promised Seed Has Come.
The Promised Seed Has Come.
Now there are two sons
One is born a slave (Ishmael)
One is born free (Issac)
8 And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 9 But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing. 10 So she said to Abraham, “Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac.”
Genesis 21:8-10
And so it is with all of us. We were all born into slavery, but we are born again free.
Hold that thought for just a moment.
Notice God’s response to Sarah command:
12 But God said to Abraham, “Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named. 13 And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring.”
Genesis 21:12-
There will be two nations created, one from the slave and one from the free.
We can only understand what is really going on as we see the writings of Paul to the Galatians.
The Children of Law vs. The Children of Freedom
The Children of Law vs. The Children of Freedom
21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 23 But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise.
Gal 4:
24 Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
Gal 4:24-
In your Bible there are two testaments or covenants. The Old Testament and the New Testament.
The Old Testament is the law given at Mt. Sinai. That is the famous 10 commandments.
The New Testament is grace given by Christ at Calvary.
To fully understand this we must look back into Galatians a bit more.
The Galatians were confused about their salvation: does it come by keeping the law of God or does it come by grace through faith in Jesus alone.
Many People have the same question today.
16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.
Gal 3:16
Issac was the first in a long line of many to get us to Christ.
Christ is the seed that will bless all nations.
16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.
26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.
Gal 3:26
The law was to teach us about sin.
21 Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law. 22 But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Gal 3:21
You are set free from the law.
4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
Gal 4:4-
What does it mean to live free?
No condemnation
1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
The Spirit of God and the power of the resurrection living inside you.
11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Rom 8:
Acceptance into the family of God
14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 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!”
Rom 8:
Freedom from sin and death
1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Freedom to walk in the Spirit
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Freedom to walk in the Spirit
Gal 5:16