Friday, October 07, 2005

Liberated sons in the house of God

We read that you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free (John 8:32). The truth sets you free. John 8:35-36 says that a servant or a slave does not abide in the house forever, but the son shall be in the house forever. People not in the house are the people that are not free, the truth has not yet touched them. The opposite of freedom is bondage or Law. Gal 5:1 (KJV) stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. You are either a servant of sin and unrighteousness, or you are a son of the Living God. To stay in the house you've got to get to the Son, The author and finisher of our faith will set us free.
Gal 5:1 (Amplified) In [this] freedom Christ has made us free [and completely liberated us]; stand fast then, and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery [which you have once put off].
Christ has set us free do not come under the law and bondage again. We must stand in the freedom, and persevere then you will be free indeed. There is victory in walking in total freedom and liberty. There is nothing like knowing that you are a son of God and that you are in the house of God. You are not a foreigner and a stranger, but you are part of the house of God, you are family.
Rom 8:19-21 (Amplified) For [even the whole] creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God's sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship]. For the creation (nature) was subjected to frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him, Who so subjected it-[yet] with the hope [Eccl 1:2]. That nature (creation) itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and corruption [and gain an entrance] into the glorious freedom of god's children.
Rom 8:21 (KJV) Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of god.

The whole creation is waiting to be liberated and to be set free. That will happen when God's children are free and walk in their freedom or liberty as sons. People must walk in liberty and in freedom, but are walking under judgments, weights, misunderstandings and sin. If we say that we are walking in liberty, where is our joy- complete joy, our peace- total peace and our life, life more abundantly? Christians come to church and walk out bound. They receive weights, rather than freedom in church. They look at one another and when the one does not greet the other, he nor she is offended and is weighed down. When you say that someone did not greet you, you are saying that you are not free. You are saying that you are not in the house and you are bound to your senses that are playing tricks on you.
Jesus was not at all distracted by the Pharisees and Sadducees and Scribes that were criticizing and judging Him. Jesus simply told the man with the withered hand to stretch it out and he was healed. They were mad and kept on finding fault, but He knew what He was going to do. Jesus asked them if they would not loose or rescue a bound animal on the Sabbath. He was actually asking them about getting God's people free who were bound. Jesus told them that He was free and that is why He is a Son. He was saying to them that they are bound and that is why they are servants.
In John 8:32 when Jesus told them that they shall know the truth and that it shall set them free, they said that they were not bound or a slave to anyone. They said that they were born free and children of Abraham. Jesus told them that if they were Abraham's children, they would do the works of Abraham. Jesus told them that they were slaves and they were bound and that the devil was their father. Jesus was talking to the religious crowds.
Get away from the sin and the weights. Get away from the bondage and the legalistic stuff of the flesh. Get into the freedom and the liberty of the Spirit. Walk in that freedom and liberty, because that is what creation is waiting for. If they see your freedom and liberty, they will be liberated. Sickness is bondage and when we touch the people, they are liberated and they get healed. When we speak to the storms they listen to those that are free.
Creation is liberated when we are liberated. Creation is free when we are free.

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