FREEDOM
Friday, November 18th, 2011Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where
the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
(II. Corinthians 3.17).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
Posts Tagged ‘freedom’
CALLED TO BE FREE
Saturday, July 9th, 2011You, my brothers and sisters were called to be free.
But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature,
rather, serve one another in love.
(Galatians 5.13).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
PERFECT FREEDOM
Friday, July 8th, 2011It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
Stand firm, then, and do not let
yourselves be burdened again by a
yoke of slavery.
(Galatians 5.1).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE
FREEDOM
Thursday, December 9th, 2010Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is freedom.
And we , who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are
being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing flory,
which comes from the Lord, Who is the Spirit.
(II. Corinthians 3.15-18).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
VERY BOLD
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.
We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face
to keep the Israelites from gazing at it while the radiance
was fading away. But their minds were made dull, for to
this day tha same veil remains when the old covenant is read.
It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.
Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.
But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the
Lord’s glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever
increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, Who is the Spirit.
(II.Corinthians
BORN ANEW
Sunday, March 21st, 2010SPIRIT BORN
“What is born of the flesh is flesh ( of the physical is physical) and
what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not
(do not be surprised)
at My telling you, You must all be
born anew (from above).
The wind blows (breathes) where it wills;
and though you hear its sound, yet you
neither know where it comes from nor where
it is going. So it is with everyone
who is born of the Spirit.”
(John 3. 6-8).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOR OUR
NEW BIRTH!
Born into our life in You! A life that is truly life!
Abundant eternal life!
Thank You Holy Spirit! The Spirit of freedom and sonship!
The Comforter!
“For all who are led by the Spirit of God are
sons of God.
For you have now received not a spirit of slavery
to put you once more in
bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of
adoption (the Spirit producing sonship) in
(the bliss of ) which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!
The Spirit Himself testifies together with our own spirit
(assuring us) that we are children of God.
And if we are His children, then we are His heirs also:
heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ
(sharing His inheritance with Him); only we must
share His suffering if we are to share His glory.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present
time (this present life) are not worth being
compared with the glory that is about to be
revealed to us and in us and for us
and be conferred on us!
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!
TRUTH
Sunday, November 29th, 2009TRUTH
The knowledge of the One True God totally
depends on God’s self revelation.
In every other field of study we depend
on our effort, exploration and education.
Our only source of correct information
about God is His Word Who became flesh
as Jesus Christ full of grace and truth, the
Unique Son of the Father, the Eternal I AM,
the way, the truth and the life.
THE LIFE
” The life was manifested and we have seen
and bear witness and declare to you that
eternal life which was with the Father and
was manifested to us.” ( I. John 1.2).
THE WAY
He is the way and the truth. There is no
other way to access the Father and He
is the truth of God’s revelation full of glory.
THE TRUTH
Here is what Karl Barth says in Church Dogmatics:
” As a man among men He is a human Thou, and as
such distinct from all mere things. Now as a Thou,
man is not merely an existential determination of
the I, but the sum of all the objective reality of
the world”.
This is another way of saying that He is The Truth.
GOD BECAME A MAN IN JESUS CHRIST
Again continuing from where we left, Karl Barth says:
” And in Jesus Christ God becomes and is man, the
fellow- man of all men. As God He is not merely one
of many such fellow-men, nor is He merely the idea
of fellow-humanity. We are speaking of ” the Father’s Son,
by nature God.” He became and is man, the fellow-man of
all men; and therefore Thou, not merely in a simple, but in
a supremely objective reality, the human Thou, which as
such is also directly the Thou of the one eternal God.”
SINCE GOD IS WITH US (IMMANUEL)
THE WHOLE HUMAN SITUATION CHANGES
The fact that we just saw here changes the scope,
prospect and context of what it means to be human.
Again, Karl Barth continues:
” The fact is rather that God Himself, in His deep mercy
has taken upon Himself to exist also in human being
and essence in His Son, and therefore to become and be
a man, and therefore this incomparable Thou.
God Himself is in the world, earthly, conceivable and
visible, as He is this man. We have to do with God
Himself as we have to do with this man.
God Himself speaks when this man speaks in human
speech. God Himself acts and suffers when this man
speaks and suffers as a man. God Himself triumphs
when this One triumphs as a man. The human speaking
and acting and suffering and triumphing of this one man
directly concerns us all, and His history is our history
of salvation which changes the whole human situation,
just because God Himself is its human subject in His Son,
just because God Himself has assumed and made His own
our human nature and kind in His Son, just because God
Himself came into this world in His Son, and as one of us
” a guest this world of us He trod.” ”
THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES
As Karl Barth continues:
“And as and because the Holy Spirit is the coming of
Jesus Christ Himself, and His witness this disclosure
to men concerning themselves, He and His witness are
in fact the self revelation of Jesus Christ and as such
the basis of the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
We have to realize that God’s own revealedness for us
is God’s own person and God’s own work.
All the comfort, all the power, all the truth of this
revealedness depends upon the fact that it is with God
that we are dealing.
All our understanding of this revealedness depends upon
the fact that we identify it with God Himself, ruling out all
other possibilities but God’s possibility. We have therefore to
realize that as the recipient of revelation man is brought
under God’s judgement. It is only because of this that he is
brought under God’s promise. It is only because of this that
God meets him as the One who intercedes for him, who
undertakes and directs his cause, who does not quench his
own ability and will and accomplishment but subordinates
it to His own, since man must always be subordinated to God,
if God’s glory is to triumph and man is to be helped.”
HUMAN FREEDOM VS DIVINE FREEDOM
Again continuing from above:
” We are to understand, therefore, that for God to be
revealed involves the dislodging of man from the
estimation of his own freedom, and his enrichment with
the freedom of the children of God. This negation, the
negation of man through God’s eternal grace and mercy, is
only the obverse of his position as a child of God, as a member
of the covenant between God and man. But this obviously means
that the negation of man cannot be put into effect any more than
his position as a child of God except through God’s own action.
Thus God’s possibility triumphs over the very imprisonment
in which we are involved, where we only fulfill our own
possibilities and only believe in our own possibilities.
The self-enclosed uniqueness of man, who only has and
knows his own freedom, is overarched and enclosed and
finally relativized through the uniqueness of God and His
freedom in which He is resolved to have fellowship with this
man and once and for all to be his Lord.”
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS!
SUMMONS TO JOY AND FREEDOM
Friday, November 20th, 2009SUMMONS TO JOY AND FREEDOM
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord,
appeal to and beg you to walk worthy
of the divine calling to which you have
been called (with behavior that is a
credit to the summons to God’s service.
(Ephesians 4.1).
POINTS FOR PRAISE
AND MEDITATION
1) St. Paul considers himself the prisoner
of the Lord. This is not to indicate lack
of freedom. On the contrary our freedom
is God’s freedom. We enter into God’s
freedom. Where the Spirit of the Lord is
there is freedom.
2)This in essence is the summons to
joy and freedom.
3)St. Paul is set in His course for His life
thoroughly committed to God’s way.
4) God’s way of life is His lifestyle, to
live a life worthy of the divine calling to
which we have been called, to His glory,
not seeking our own, but seeking His way
of life.
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS!
WE DARE
Saturday, November 14th, 2009WE DARE
This is in accordance with
the terms of the eternal
and timeless purpose which
He has realized and carried
into effect in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
In whom, because of our
faith in Him we dare to have
the boldness (courage and
confidence) free access (an
unreserved approach to
God with freedom and
without fear.
(Ephesians 3.11 and 12)
POINTS FOR PRAISE
AND MEDITATION
1) God’s plan and purpose
for humanity was effected
through Jesus Christ who
is divine and human.
2) This is why in Him and by
thorough faith in Him we now
dare have free,
unhindered and confident
access to God.
HALLELUJAH!
THANK YOU LORD JESUS!
PURCHASED AND ADOPTED
Saturday, October 31st, 2009But when the proper time came,
God sent His Son, born of a woman,
born subject to the regulations of
the Law,
To purchase the freedom of ( to ransom,
redeem, atone for) those who were
subject to the Law, that we might be
adopted and have sonship conferred
upon us ( and be recognized as God’s
children).
And because you really are His sons,
God has sent the Holy Spirit of His Son
into our hearts, crying out, Abba (Father)!
Father!