If you’re living without Jesus, whatever sin wants sins gets. That doesn’t mean your living a wild lifestyle. It simply means that the primary within your life is your sinful nature. It is what’s in control. In Romans 6:14 Paul refers to sin as your master. controller.
When you’re born again something beautiful happens. God gives you a new nature and more importantly, fills you with His Holy Spirit so you are no longer under the control of your sinful nature -you will be set free. Paul sums it up pretty much in 2 Corinthians 3:17, “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Because when the Holy Spirit lives in you, you are free. The penalty of sin is losing your eternal life. Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Outside of Christ, we all have an eternal death sentence. When we carry the penalty of sin – we are on death row, that’s the gravity of it.
Unfortunately, today many people still don’t understand that. Because sin puts us on a path to be eternally separated from God, This is the liability of our sin.
Thankfully though the story doesn’t end there. Paul tells us the gift of Gods eternal life in Christ Jesus. When Jesus sets you free. He takes away our death sentence. When you ask Jesus to come into your heart you no longer have to pay the penalty for your sin. Thank God because I’ve messed up most of my life with sin.
If you’ve ever experienced the guilt and shame of sin. And if you’ve ever repented but felt like you needed to repent again because you feel so bad that you want to make sure God “really forgave you?” Ya, I’ve been there.
We have all done things that we are ashamed of. Things that we wish we could take back and never do again. Things that can haunt us and cripple us, and take away our capacity to live and develop our vitality.
This is one of the biggest weapons of Satan: encouraging us to look back at the shameful moments of our past. When we become overwhelmed by guilt and shame, and condemnation it strips us of our joy, robs our peace, and destroy our vitality. Please if you’re suffering through this accept Jesus into your life. I can tell you I lived in hell for over 30 years because I was to stubborn to accept Jesus into my life.
The good news is when accept Jesus, and repent from your sins and let God take away that heavy baggage you’re carrying it’s an amazing feeling. God forgives that sin from you as far as the East from the west and He will remember it no more. He will never bring it up and neither should you. God doesn’t only forgive the sins of the past. He also liberates you from the shame and guilt of your past. He takes away the thing that limits your ability to live and develop which is your guilt and shame.
When you understand what Jesus has freed you from, it sets the stage for you to live in what Jesus has freed you from. Giving you the freedom to live to your full capacity. It increases your capacity to have a relationship with Almighty God. And begin to experience joy, and peace.
We can even think of having a relationship with God until we become free. You cannot have a vibrant, living, loving relationship with Gondor anyone else for that matter if you’re holding on to guilt and shame of your past.
If you remember in the Garden when Adam and Eve sinned, they hid from God and their capacity for a relationship with God was hindered. When God comes and sets you free you don’t have to hide anymore.
James 4:8 says, “Come near to God and he will come near to you.” This is the essence of what Jesus has freed you to.
Having all your hinderances removed is what truly living free is. You are saved by grace. You live by the grace. Jesus frees us so that your activity doesn’t flow out of some sense of trying to win God’s approval. Our approval doesn’t come from because of what we do, but because of what Jesus has already done.
Freedom is defined as the power or right to act, speak, or think without hindrance or restraint. That completely wraps up everything Jesus has done for us. There is only one thing left for you to do. Live Galatians 5:1,
lIt is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and donor let yourselves be burden again by a yoke of slavery.”
Enjoy your freedom and live the life Jesus had freed you to live.
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