FREE INDEED

Pastor Rick Jackson

John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

 

I. “FREEDOM” – ISN’T FREE

1. Freedom is a Result of Truth [Jn. 8:32-36]

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou , Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you , Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

2. Freedom is a Result of Sacrifice [Rm. 5:15-19]

3. Freedom is a Result of Right Choices [Rm. 3:22-24, Jn. 1:11-12]

- He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

 

II. “INDEPENDENCE” – IS NOT INDEPENDENT

1. To be Independent of Man One Must Be Dependent on God [Rm. 3:3-4]

2. To be Independent of Sin One Must Be Dependent on Righteousness

[Rm. 6:13-23]

3. To be Independent of Works One Must Be Dependent on Grace [Rm. 11:6]

 

 III. “LIBERTY” –  IS NOT LICENSE

1. Liberty is Given so we can Stand [Gal. 5:1]

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

2. Liberty is Given so we can Serve [Gal. 5:13-14, 1 Pet. 2:16]

- For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

-As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

3. Liberty is Given so we can Submit [Gal. 5:16-25]

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.