“Firm in Freedom”
Blessings Folk!
Are you standing firm?
In what are you standing?
Many true believers need to hear and understand the following verse.
Many are walking in bondage.
Many are deceived.
Many know not the truth.
Many are confused and frustrated.
Hear the truth...gonna give several english translations…
Gal 5:1
1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
NASU
Gal 5:1
1 Christ has liberated us into freedom. Therefore stand firm and don't submit again to a yoke of slavery.
(from Holman Christian Standard Bible® Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005 by Holman Bible Publishers.)
Gal 5:1
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
KJV
Gal 5:1
5 Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.
(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)
Many, if not most, Christians today are continual oppressed with yokes of slavery.
The same thing had happened to the Galatians. Paul had already asked them some profound questions…
Gal 3:1-3
1 You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?
2 This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?
3 Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?
NASU
Someone had deceived the Galatians.
Paul was asking them how they were saved...by the works of the Law or by the Spirit?
They were saved by faith in the Lord Jesus...the drawing of the Spirit. They were not saved by the works of the Law.
But, now someone was seeking to superimpose works as a means of “maintaining” salvation.
They were saying, “you are saved by faith, but, now you have to do things a certain way”...my translation…
The same happens today.
We are told that we must
- worship a certain way
- support “our church”
- look a certain way
- believe certain interpretations
- meet/fellowship at certain places/times, etc.
- “go to church”...a physical complex, completely ignoring the design of the true church
- etc. etc. You get the idea.
The Lord is telling us that we are not “perfected” in the flesh.
We do not live out the life of the Spirit by works.
Yes, we have works.
But, the works are the fruit of the Spirit lived out in the true Believer.
Many do not understand this.
They continue to do works to attain salvation.
They continue to do works to maintain salvation.
All the while, they the miss the true Life available in the Lord.
Seek the Lord today.
Ask Him where you stand.
Listen.
Respond.
Refuse the bondages of religious slavery.
Stand firm in the freedom received from the Lord Most High, enslaved only to Christ.
Pray today for Charlie...needs healing from the Lord...heart dying.
Pray for Flipper...
Blessings!!