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.1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
This freedom came at a great cost…the laying down of the life of the Son of God.
He rose from the dead to defeat death and the fear of it.
Where O death is your sting?
Where O death is your victory?
Jesus ascended to God the Father where he is at the right hand side of God interceding there on our behalf saying to the Father: he/she is mine – my blood paid for them – my righteousness covers them.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
This freedom came at a great cost…the laying down of the life of the Son of God.
He rose from the dead to defeat death and the fear of it.
Where O death is your sting?
Where O death is your victory?
Jesus ascended to God the Father where he is at the right hand side of God interceding there on our behalf saying to the Father: he/she is mine – my blood paid for them – my righteousness covers them.
We only do ourselves harm when we try to seek God’s approval by working to please Him.
We have forgotten we already have His approval because Jesus paid the price in full.
He has accepted us.
It is finished.
There is no more to do.
Freedom has been given – now we can revel in it.
What is our response except to rejoice and to love Him in return – He deserves our allegiance.
Now we want to do His will – not because we are compelled to, not because we are trying somehow to get to God – but out of our response to His amazing love – because our desire is just to please Him with no thought of benefit to ourselves.
Our prayer should be that God reveals how wonderful His love is to us then we will be confident in our God who saves to the uttermost and makes us secure in Him.
The more we realise how much we need God the more we love Him and want to please Him.
.1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
This freedom came at a great cost…the laying down of the life of the Son of God.
He rose from the dead to defeat death and the fear of it.
Where O death is your sting?
Where O death is your victory?
Jesus ascended to God the Father where he is at the right hand side of God interceding there on our behalf saying to the Father: he/she is mine – my blood paid for them – my righteousness covers them.
I think that whilst I always like to start a new series it seems I have an old one to complete!
So, I will continue through Galatians that I started over a year ago to see what the Lord may have for us to understand and grasp so that we can be who God wants us to be.
We have inherited a new nature from God and we have been clothed in righteousness through the blood of Jesus.
Freedom is to know that our salvation is not based upon works but is instead a gift given to us on the basis of faith.
This, of course, is something we do need to keep reminding ourselves as Paul has done an admiral job of during this letter.
The key phrases in this passage are faith working through love, A little leaven leavens the whole lump, the offence of the cross, through love serve one another, “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”
And finally bite and devour one another.
Love connects 3 of these: Faith working through love, through love serve one another, and “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”
Faith working through love, through love serve one another, and “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.”
The point of this passage is one too easy to miss when discussing faith and works.
But the overarching theme here is love.
Once you know that it is faith and not works that gains favour with God:
(NKJV) — 6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him.
It seems that in the freedom that we have we have choices to make:
they can either be selfish or giving,
they can be evil or good,
they can be jealous and envious or humble and content,
the choices can be for ourselves or for others,
the choice to live anyway we like according to the flesh or live according to God by the Spirit,
and the choice can be to bite and devour which sounds devilish:
(NKJV) — 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
(NKJV) — 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
or the choice is to forgive, let go, and be peacemakers and encouragers instead.
Faith and love are the essential ingredients for the godly life.
We are those who have to put ourselves in other people’s shoes to know what we would like to be done to us.
If we have known those who have had miscarriages, family who are grieving, friends who have been injured, those in financial ruin and place ourselves, in our mind’s eye, where they are then we get the sort of idea of what is expected of us in response.
Compassion.
There is a Christian song that starts: Everyone needs compassion.
Are we those who are ready to give compassion to those who need it?
Or do we skip over without hearing what is really going on in them?
Of course it is easier to focus upon our own hurt, our own problems, our own feelings...but one of the ways we can overcome those things in our lives that cause us pain, is to give to others in time, in fellowship, in love, in compassion.
There are times when we want to rant and rave and be angry when people just seem oblivious to the destruction they leave behind.
Patience and kindness are hard qualities to find but we have a choice and we fail and lack because we really do not want to walk the path of the cross.
Remember this; that we are answerable to God for our response and reactions and not for the behaviour of others.
And we have to watch what we criticise in others as it is often a mask for faults in ourselves that cover our own ungodly ways.
(NKJV) — 18 You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself: I am the Lord.
I know that sometimes Christians can be a nightmare and do all sorts of things to us which are the opposite of Christ-likeness.
Some read verses such as the one following as an excuse to behave in such a bad way expecting their brothers and sisters-in-Christ to do the right thing:
Why do you not rather accept wrong?
Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?
(ESV) — 7 Why not rather suffer wrong?
Why not rather be defrauded?
Things are not always what they seem are they?
We might meet someone who is completely obnoxious but what we don’t know is what had happened to them that day or earlier on in their lives.
There are so many reasons why people behave the way that they do other than the obvious sin nature.
Compassion for even the worst people is Jesus’ response.
Yes they are sinners but so are we.
Jesus sought us out.
Let us not be too harsh on others for we, ourselves, have been forgiven.
And it seems that what these other people want is forgiveness and a new start too.
But, as a Christian let us be careful not to be defrauding.
(NKJV) — 19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”
To defraud: to illegally obtain money or deprive someone of something by deception or fraud.
The only way out of this is repentance:
(NKJV) — 2 Now behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. 3 And he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the crowd, for he was of short stature.
4 So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was going to pass that way. 5 And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”
6 So he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully.
7 But when they saw it, they all complained, saying, “He has gone to be a guest with a man who is a sinner.”
8 Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold.”
9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham; 10 for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Note that the crowd as well would not have wanted to go to dinner with this man because he probably would have already defrauded them but Jesus loved this man regardless.
This is also, then, the call of the Church.
We would not have given him the time of day but here was a man in need of acceptance despite what he had done...
Things are not always what they seem are they?
We might meet someone who is completely obnoxious but what we don’t know is what had happened to them that day or earlier on their lives.
There are so many reasons why people behave the way that they do other than the obvious sin nature.
Compassion for even the worst people is Jesus’ response.
Yes they are sinners but so are we.
Jesus sought us out.
Let us not be too harsh on others for we have been forgiven.
And it seems that what these other people want is forgiveness and a new start too.
In the original passage we read it says a little leaven leavens the whole lump.
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