“CHRIST HAS SET US FREE!”

 Galatians 5:1-6                           (ESV)

“1 FOR FREEDOM “CHRIST HAS SET US FREE”; STAND FIRM THEREFORE, and DO NOT SUBMIT AGAIN TO A YOKE OF SLAVERY.

2 Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, CHRIST WILL BE OF NO ADVANTAGE TO YOU.

3 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.

4 You are severed from CHRIST, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

5 For through the SPIRIT, BY FAITH, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.

6 For in CHRIST JESUS neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but ONLY FAITH working through love.”

A congresswoman from a western state was recently advertised as being a person who exercises her GOD-given, constitutionally protected right to bear firearms.  Although Washington D.C. has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, it also was known as “the murder capital” of the United States in 1991. Since then, D.C. has reduced gun control laws in several steps in 2009, 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2017.  When people have the right to protect themselves, the enemy has to flee (James 4:7)!  

Our Spiritual freedom is very similar in that when we are carrying THE WORD in our hearts, the enemy doesn’t have nearly the success against us.  Yet many Believers depend upon others strong FAITH to get them through the difficult times of life.  We are instructed to HIDE HIS WORD IN OUR HEARTS (Psalm 119:111) so that we will not sin!  One reason that some may be weak in their FAITH is that THE WORD has not been HIDDEN in their hearts and minds?  When we don’t have protection properly displayed, the enemy is emboldened and attacks with no restraint!

FOR FREEDOM “CHRIST HAS SET US FREE” to NOT live in the bondage of sin!  We don’t have to live in FEAR of sin and it’s affect on ourselves, but we MUST “hide HIS WORD in our hearts!  We can CHOOSE to depend on others FAITH, but what will we do when the enemy attacks us when we are alone?  The SPIRIT OF GOD wants each one of us to be a strong warrior for HIM, but we must sharpen our defenses by applying HIS WORD in our lives, FOR HIS GLORY!  

The District of Columbia has experienced physically having a weak defense system, and it changed its mechanisms!  We have to assure that our Spiritual defense mechanisms are adequate for the fight that are in our future.  FOR FREEDOM, “CHRIST HAS SET US FREE” but the enemy needs to SEE us in THE WORD OF GOD preparing for battle.  JESUS lives in us and we need to be certain that we have evidence that “CHRIST HAS SET US FREE”!!!