tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859047238380536862.post5283434325236484501..comments2023-11-05T05:59:05.446-06:00Comments on The Greatest Mission Trip You'll Ever Take: Step By Step To Family Devotions - Launch WeekUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859047238380536862.post-21491262708237339472008-07-12T10:15:00.000-05:002008-07-12T10:15:00.000-05:00Thank you Dear Most respected Deb for your comment...Thank you Dear Most respected Deb for your comments and for your labor of love which you have shown towards His Name.<BR/><BR/>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<BR/><BR/>FREEDOM IN--->CHRIST!!!<BR/><BR/>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<BR/> <BR/><BR/>`Being made free from sin, ye became bond-servants of righteousness.<BR/>Being made free from sin, ye have your fruit unto sanctification.' --<BR/>Rom. 6:18,22<BR/><BR/>`But now we have been discharged from the law.' -- Rom. 7:6<BR/><BR/>`The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the<BR/>law of sin and of death.' -- Rom. 8:2<BR/><BR/>Freedom is counted in Scripture as one of the greatest privileges of<BR/>the child of God. There is nothing in history for which nations have<BR/>made great sacrifices except freedom. Slavery is the lowest condition<BR/>into which man can sink, for in it he can no longer dispose of<BR/>himself. Freedom is the deepest need of his nature.<BR/><BR/>To be free, then, is the condition in which anything can develop<BR/>itself according to the law of its nature, that is, according to its<BR/>disposition. Without freedom nothing can attain its destiny or become<BR/>what it ought to be. This is true alike of the animal and man, of the<BR/>corporeal and the spiritual. It was for this cause that God in Israel<BR/>chose the redemption out of the slavery of Egypt into the glorious<BR/>liberty of God's people, as the everlasting type of redemption out of<BR/>the slavery of sin into the liberty of the children of God. (Ex.<BR/>1:14; 4:23; 6:5; 20:2; Deut. 24:8) On this account, Jesus said on<BR/>earth: `If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.' And<BR/>the Holy Scriptures teach us to stand fast in the freedom with which<BR/>Christ made us free. A right insight into this freedom opens up to us<BR/>one of the greatest glories of the life that the grace of God has<BR/>prepared for us. (John 8:32,36; Gal. 4:21,31; 5:1)<BR/><BR/>In the three passages, from the Epistle to the Romans, in which<BR/>sanctification is dealt with, a threefold freedom is spoken of. There<BR/>is freedom from sin in the sixth chapter, freedom from the law in the<BR/>seventh, freedom from the law of sin in the eighth.<BR/><BR/>There is freedom from sin (Rom. 6:7,18,22). Sin is represented as a<BR/>power that rules over man, under which he is brought and taken<BR/>captive, and that urges him as a slave to evil. (John 8:34; Rom.<BR/>7:14,23; 2 Pet. 2:19) By the death of Christ and in Christ of the<BR/>believer, who is one with Him, he is made entirely free from the<BR/>dominion of sin: it has no more power over him. If, then, he still<BR/>does sin, it is because he, not knowing his freedom by faith, permits<BR/>sin still to rule over him. But it by faith he fully accepts what the<BR/>word of God thus confirms, then sin has no power over him: he<BR/>overcomes it by the faith that he is made free from it. (Rom. 5:21;<BR/>6:12,14)<BR/><BR/>Then there is freedom from the law. This leads us deeper into the life<BR/>of grace than freedom from sin. According to Scripture, law and sin<BR/>always go together. `The strength of sin is the law:' The law does<BR/>nothing but make the offense greater. (Rom. 4:15; 5:13,20; 7:13; 1<BR/>Cor. 15:56) The law is the token of our sinfulness, cannot help us<BR/>against sin, but with its demand for perfect obedience gives us over<BR/>hopeless to the power of sin. The Christian who does not discern that<BR/>he is made free from the law will still always abide under sin. (Rom.<BR/>6:15; 7:5) Christ and the law cannot rule over us<BR/>together: in every endeavour to fulfill the law as believers, we are<BR/>taken captive by sin. (Rom. 7:5,23) The Christian must know that he is<BR/>entirely free from the law, from the you must that stands without us<BR/>and over us: then for the first time shall he know what it is to be<BR/>free from sin.<BR/><BR/>Then there is also freedom from the law of sin, actual liberation from<BR/>the power of sin in our members. What we have in Christ, freedom from<BR/>sin and from the law, is inwardly appropriated for us by the Spirit of<BR/>God. `The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from<BR/>the law of sin and of death.' The Holy Spirit in us takes the place of<BR/>the law over us.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>`If ye are led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.' Freeing from<BR/>the law is not anything external, but takes place according to the<BR/>measure the Spirit obtains dominion in us and leads us. `Where the<BR/>Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.' According as the law of the<BR/>Spirit rules in us, we are made free from the law, from the law of<BR/>sin. We are then free to do what we, as God's children, would fain do,<BR/>free to serve God. (2 Cor. 3:17;<BR/>Gal. 5:18)<BR/><BR/>Free expresses a condition in which nothing hinders me from being what<BR/>I would be and ought to be. In other words, free is to be able to do<BR/>what I would. The power of sin over us, the power of the law against<BR/>us, the power of the law of sin in us, hinder us. But he that stands<BR/>in the freedom of the Holy Spirit, he that is then truly free, nothing<BR/>can prevent or hinder him from being what he would be and ought to be.<BR/>As it is the nature of a tree to grow upwards, and it also grows as it<BR/>is free from all hindrances, so a child of God then grows to what he<BR/>ought to be and shall be. And according as the Holy Spirit leads him<BR/>into this freedom, there springs up the joyful consciousness of his<BR/>strength for the life of faith. He joyfully shouts: `I can do all<BR/>things in Him that strengtheneth me.' `Thanks be unto God which always<BR/>leadeth us in triumph in Christ.'<BR/><BR/>Son of God, anointed with the Spirit to announce freedom to the<BR/>captives, make me also truly free. Let the Spirit of life in Thee, my<BR/>Lord, make me free from the law of sin and of death. I am Thy ransomed<BR/>one. O let me live as Thy freed one, who is hindered by nothing from<BR/>serving Thee. Amen.<BR/><BR/>1. The freedom of the Christian extends over his whole life. He<BR/>is free in relation to the institutions and teachings of men. `Ye were<BR/>bought with a price: become not bond-servants of men.' ( 1 Cor. 7:23;<BR/>Col. 2:20) He is free in relation to the world, and in the use of what<BR/>God gives: he has power to possess it or to dispense with it, to enjoy<BR/>it or to sacrifice it. (1 Cor. 8:8; 9:4,5)<BR/><BR/>2. This freedom is no lawlessness. We are free from sin and the<BR/>law to serve God in the Spirit. We are not under the law, but give<BR/>ourselves, with free choice and in love, to Him who loved. us. (Rom.<BR/>6:18; Gal. 5:13; 1 Pet. 2:16) Not under the law, also not without law;<BR/>but in the law; a new, a higher law, `The law of the Spirit of life,'<BR/>`the law of liberty,' the law written in our hearts, is our rule and<BR/>measure. (1 Cor. 9:21; Jas. 1:15; 2:12) In this last passage the<BR/>translation ought to be: `bound by a law to Christ.' 3. This<BR/>freedom has its subsistence from the word and also in it: the more the<BR/>word abides in me, and the truth lives in me, the freer I become.<BR/>(John 8:31,32,36)<BR/><BR/>4. Freedom manifests itself in love. I am free from the law,<BR/>and from men, and from institutions, to be able now like Christ to<BR/>surrender myself for others. (Rom. 14:13,21; Ga. 5:13; 6:1).<BR/><BR/>---------<BR/><BR/>Your brother in Christ<BR/>Gani<BR/><BR/>Email:- mir.gani@gmail.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859047238380536862.post-72984039852827516432008-07-08T09:50:00.000-05:002008-07-08T09:50:00.000-05:00Thank you for visiting, my friend from Kashmir. I ...Thank you for visiting, my friend from Kashmir. I ask all my readers to pray for your safety and God's strength in carrying out His work among a place that is predominantly muslim and hindu. God's blessings upon you and your family.Deb Burtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08605384582913646368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4859047238380536862.post-80319016324073861002008-07-07T22:04:00.000-05:002008-07-07T22:04:00.000-05:00HELLO------------------>~~~",,,((( I ))) AM THE---...HELLO------------------><BR/><BR/>~~~",,,((( I ))) AM THE---> ALPHA AND THE---> OMEGA,THE---> BEGINNING AND THE---> END.((( I )))WILL GIVE OF THE {{{[[[ FOUNTAIN OF THE WATER OF LIFE ]]]}}}---->((( FREELY ))) TO HIM WHO THIRST,,,"(REVELATION;21:6)~~~<BR/><BR/>A<BR/>N<BR/>D<BR/><BR/>~~~",,,ALL AUTHORITY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO--->{{{[[[ ME ]]]}}} IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH,,,"(MATTHEW;28:18)~~~<BR/><BR/>May LORD Bless you.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Your brother in Christ Jesus<BR/><BR/>Gani<BR/><BR/>Email:- mir.gani@gmail.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com