Freedom in Christ: Don't Return to Spiritual Slavery

But all these things that seek to enslave us, they're built upon these kind of undeliverable promises. Maybe, just maybe, if you do enough. you follow enough, if you give enough of yourself away. But they end up taking you deeper and deeper, promising and not delivering until you're spent. And it is only the gospel of Christ that can say, come to me all you who are weary and burdened. You've been chasing down everything else in life, but you can come to me and you can find rest. How can he say that? How can he offer you rest? He offers you rest because he in his own body has taken the penalty of your sins. He has finished it. That in him, something he is uniquely able to offer he delivers on perfectly. [01:06:58] (50 seconds)  #RestInChrist

And when we see the grace of this act that is not by our own doing, then we can begin to see that there's no room for us putting ourselves above others because we brought nothing more to the table than our sin that needed to be forgiven. running to the things that will suffocate you. Run instead to Christ that you might see the law rightly as a way to respond and to and to grow, but never as a way to be justified or prove your value. Run to Christ that instead of trying to find things to to maybe know you or validate you, you can revel in being known and loved. Run to Christ and see what it is to have your heart and your world expanded instead of imploding upon yourself. [01:07:47] (59 seconds)  #RunToChrist

And Paul reminds the Galatians and reminds us that in Jesus, we don't need to be bound to that in the same way. You have been freed, but not freed from seeing the value of it, just free to see it in the right way because you can also be bound by saying, listen, because Jesus freed me now, that's a free license for me to live life the way I want. And you miss the fact that God who created all things gave us the law that is perfect and his tends to be best practices Amen. For our lives. It's not that the law loses its value, but what the apostle Paul says here and has been making a point of throughout the entirety of the book of Galatians is for all the law was good at, what it was never meant to do was be a method by which you could save yourself. You can't do it. [00:50:30] (53 seconds)  #FreedomNotLicense

You need to remember that you were saved by God's grace. By the faith you have in Christ Jesus, his gracious working, that is the way that you've been saved, not by yourself. But the temptation that we all have is to put ourselves back under bondage of some kind. To return to some sort of slavery where we feel like we can control the levers of our standing before God in our salvation. And the apostle Paul in the first 20 verses of Galatians four is urging the Galatians, don't return to slavery. [00:41:20] (40 seconds)  #SavedByGrace