Transformative Freedom: Living as New Creations in Christ

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "What Christians believe is that the death of Jesus Christ, 2,024 years ago, has vast, vast implications. That's what we believe. We believe that this one man, beyond any other man or woman, right, this one man's life and death is of the greatest importance. Right? believe that the implications are far-reaching for every human being. They are cosmic. They are eternal in their ramifications. That's what we believe, that Jesus of Nazareth's death on a cross, on an ancient Roman cross, has affected everything, everything to cosmic and eternal proportions." [05:54] (47 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Christians believe that Jesus' death on a cross is a curse for us. The cross has the power to make them sons of God, and that's what we talked about in chapter four, verses four to five. It says, but when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. That because of what Jesus did in a moment in time, Christians believe that we can be adopted into the family of God, into God's cosmic, eternal family." [09:42] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "Christians believe that Jesus, and only Jesus, can provide true, unmitigated, freedom. Not to do whatever I want, but to serve God, to do what I ought, to fulfill his commands, and that's what we see in chapter five. Right off the bat, in chapter five, Paul says, it's for freedom Christ has set you free. Stand firm, therefore, do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. It's for freedom. Christians believe that when Jesus died on the cross, 2,024 years ago, he secured our freedom. And not to do whatever we want, but to serve the God of the universe, to be part of his family, to fulfill his requirements, to serve him." [11:19] (53 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. You'll be born again. You'll become a new creation. For with the heart, one believes and is justified, and is with the mouth, one confesses and is saved." [54:15] (16 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "How should we treat each other? Bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. Here's my first point. Here it is. The law of Christ, the law of love. How should we treat each other? Burden bearing. Paul says, Galatian, Galatian church, you want to bear burdens? You want to take the law and put it on your shoulders? You like this idea of bearing burdens? I've got a burden for you. Here's the burden that you can bear. Bear one another's burdens. Go up to your sister, your brother in Christ and take their burden. Take it over. Pray for them. Talk with them. Fellowship with them. Buy them a cup of coffee. Love them. Bear their burden. And he says, he says, for you will be fulfilling the law of Christ." [23:31] (46 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Paul says, there's a quote, a saying, it goes like this. It says, sow a thought, reap in action, sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character, sow a character, reap a destiny. Maybe you've heard that. It's quite famous. I don't know who said it, but it's true. In every facet of life, it's true. Verse nine, Paul says, remember goodness? Remember goodness? Goodness from through the spirit? This is what he says. Here Paul says, in addition to personal holiness, the law of sowing and reaping extends beyond your door. So he says, sow goodness. Don't lose heart. Don't tire of it. Engage others to bear their burdens along the way." [36:58] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "The finished work of Christ on the cross to redeem us and the inward work of the spirit in our hearts to regenerate us and sanctify us. That is all that matters. That is the measuring line, the measuring stick that we need to measure everything against. And that is what Paul, preached. And that is what we will preach here at Commonplace Church. Paul can't stop talking about the cross. He goes into Corinth and what does he say? He says, I went amongst them and I determined to know nothing other than Jesus and him crucified. That's the only thing that I want to talk about. That's all I want to talk about. And that's why we're here. Because that's the only thing that we want to talk about. It's the only thing that provides freedom. It's the only thing that makes us sons and daughters. It's the only thing that sets us free from sin and from death and from hell. It's the only thing that redeems us from the slavery of sin." [46:04] (63 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Paul says, offer yourself as a living sacrifice because we are not motivated by rules. I grew up elementary school. I was never motivated by rules. Never. I wanted to break them. We are motivated as Christians by sacrifice. Verse three, for if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Notice, you won't do any of the former things, the things that you're not supposed to do, provoking and envying, the things that you are supposed to do, bearing each other's burdens, fulfilling the law of Christ. If, if you won't do any of that, if you are completely self-righteous and self-absorbed, you just won't. You might pretend, but the second you begin to think that your time is more important than anyone else and anyone else's, the more, the second you begin to think that you are more important than anyone else, the second that you begin to think that your resources demand something more of your time, your effort, whatever it is, there's a problem." [25:00] (67 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Paul says, Galatian church, you have these Judaizers, these, these, these, uh, the circumcision party coming in and telling you that you need to fulfill the law that you need to, to, to, to every single like law you need to follow to the nth degree. How about you just cast those aside? And if you really, really want to follow a law, I've got a law for you to follow. Here it is. Do this as much and as often as you can love one another as Christ loved you. Go do that, right? How should we treat each other? We should treat each other based on the law of Christ because we're not motivated by rules. We are to be motivated by sacrifice, right? That's what happened. We're to be motivated by a sacrifice. Why? Because Romans 12 says that offer yourself as a living sacrifice because it is your reasonable service, your reasonable service for what? It's your reasonable response to, a God who sends his one and only son to sacrifice himself for you." [25:00] (67 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)