Jesus Sets Us Free Indeed!

Jesus wants us to be free. He wants us to be completely free. Think about how much he loves us to want that. John 8:34-36. Read this amazing passage. Jesus sets us free from slavery. Before we are saved we are slaves of sin and slaves of the devil. Jesus rescues us from sin. How? Once in Jesus we do not have to sin anymore. We are free not to sin. Sure we will sin sometimes but by Jesus' power we do not have to habitually sin anymore. He can free us from lust, pornography, drinking, hate, lying etc.

He also sets us free from legalism. What is legalism? Trying to please God by keeping rules, traditions and commandments. The only thing that pleases God is living by faith in Jesus. Keeping rules and traditions becomes slavery that kills our joy and stops us from living by the Spirit. Anything we do as a ritual in order to please God becomes a snare but the just shall live by faith. He nailed the Old Covenant (the law, the 10 commandments) to the cross when he died on the cross, Col. 2:13-14. We are free from the law forever. We do not need to keep the law to please God, the law is done for believers.  We live by the Spirit not the law.  The law never saved anyone it only condemned men to death.

In Christ we are free from allthe things that ensare us and that the law could not free us from, Acts 13:38-39.  

We are free from fear and death through Jesus. He overcame death and the devil. Thanks be to Christ Jesus who saves us from death. Once saved by believing in Jesus we are alive forever even though our sinful body will die someday.

A big one that applies to me is freedom from the love of money. he showed me I was a slaeve to money and that I needed money to be happy. Spiritually, by His power He delivered me from this. It doesn't matter if I have money now or don't have money. I am completely free from that. Let His will be done. If I am broke I don't care. If I have money I don't care. Before if I was broke I had to get money anyway I could. I would beg, borrow and sometimes even steal. yes steal! Now the love of money has no power over me. I was snared even though I was a Christian and I knew better. Only He can deliver us from our sins.