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REAL freedom!
In our study through 1 Peter, we are up to chapter 4. In this passage, Peter is going to be repeating some things he has already shared a few times, however repeating them in a slightly different way.
As I read and meditated on this passage, I believe Peter had a real heart for the people he was ministering to through this letter.
He was familiar with what they were going through, and wanted them to be free!
Freedom is the cry of the human heart.
We want to be free.
If you are following the news about Venezuela, the people there want to be free.
They are living in oppression, and a collapsing economy where it is hard to survive.
They want to be free to live.
Free to change their lives for the better.
That is just one example in our world.
Within our human hearts there is this longing for freedom.
Some want freedom from their governments.
Others want freedom from religion.
Teenagers long to be free from the boundaries set by their parents.
Teenagers long to be free from the boundaries set by their parents.
People long to be free.
Free to do the things they want to do, without someone, or something telling them what they can or cannot do.
Free from all suffering.
Free from whatever it is that burdens us down.
But when we follow that path, the path of doing what we want, when we want, how we want, without anyone or anything interfering, pursing freedom from all suffering, are we really free?
How can we be truly free, and what does that freedom look like?
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If we go back to the first man and woman, were they free when God created them and put them into the garden of Eden?
Yes, they were completely free to live in the garden and eat fruit from any tree, except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil… “Ah, that except meant they were not free,” some might say.
Did it limit their freedom, or preserve their freedom?
What happened when they disobeyed God’s command?
Were they free?
No, they were no longer free, but removed from the garden, suffering consequences for their disobedience to God—sin.
They were no longer free, but slaves.
Their minds were darkened, they were self-conscious, and self-centered (self-seeking—what will make me like God, and self-justifying—blaming others for their faults) They were slaves to a depraved mind.
They could no longer freely enjoy all that God had made for them to enjoy in the garden, and they were now slaves in a fallen world.
What happened with Adam and Eve, is exactly what everyone of us experiences in life.
The very thing that we pursue thinking that it is what gives us freedom, is the thing that enslaves us.
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It is easy to see in some.
The drug addict.
Are they free?
It may have started as an act to declare freedom, or independence.
But, instead of being free, they are slaves.
The alcoholic.
Are the free?
It may have started as an act to show freedom, but it ended up as slavery.
Sex addicts.
Our culture is fixated on sex, and that everyone should be free sexually in so many ways.
Free to experience sex, whenever, with whomever we want.
But is it freedom?
This act of freedom, leads to slavery.
Slavery to porn.
Slavery to lust.
Slavery to acting certain ways around certain people.
Slavery to create an image.
Those are things we always harp on.
But really, whatever brings me pleasure is what I want freedom to enjoy.
What about lying?
It may seem like it leads to freedom, but lying leads to slavery—slavery to the lie.
Stealing may seem like it gives freedom, freedom to enjoy the things I want, but stealing also leads to slavery.
What about fear of other people?
Wanting to fit in to the right crowd?
Wanting to impress others?
Buying into that can lead us in all kinds of directions.
From hurting others whether verbally, or physically just to impress others.
To changing our looks to impress others.
Some people are so addicted to impressing others that they become addicted to body shaping.
It is said to hear of those who are so addicted to this, that it ultimately results in their deaths.
They are not free when trying to impress others.
They are slaves to the opinions of others.
They are now diagnosing digital addiction.
We want to be free to enjoy our electronics from the youngest of ages.
People are so tied to their electronic devices that they are slaves to them.
They cannot put them down.
They cannot cope without posting, and checking on posts.
Though we seek for freedom in so many different, worldly ways, we find ourselves slaves.
Slaves to consequences
Slaves to desires
Slaves to the consequences of our actions or inactions.
Consequences of:
Guilt
Shame
Condemnation
Punishment
Slaves to the desire to do those very things again, even when we do not want to do them.
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In church we, realize that this is all sin.
Some of the things we do are blatantly contrary to what God says.
Other things, though potentially harmless in themselves, become idols, that are more important to us that God Himself, or doing the things that God tells us to do, be or pursue.
Thus, to do them is contrary to what God says, and is disobedience to him.
It is sin.
And as Jesus says in , whoever sins is a slave to sin.
Throughout the Bible, God shows us, and in , God clearly says the consequence of sin is ‘death’ - separation from Him, and REAL freedom that He alone can provide.
God says the consequence of sin is ‘death’ - separation from Him, and REAL freedom that He alone can provide.
God is also honest about the desires.
Those desires wage war against our souls.
It is a battle.
It is a war between the desires of the flesh, and God the Spirit within us.
Paul spoke of this battle within in .
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Romans 7:19-
I know I feel this tug within my heart in my life.
I cry right along with Paul,
Romans 7:24-
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