Fit To Be Untied

Today we concluded the second message in our sermon series called Fit To Be Untied, exploring freedom in Christ. This week's message was called "Living Free." We discussed that there's more to freedom than being set free. Sustaining freedom requires a living, daily relationship with Jesus Christ. Our main passage was Galatians 5:1.

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let ourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

We talked about how God created us to be free, but we are all born slaves of sin. Since we are free in Christ we can and must choose to stand firm in that freedom. The world, the flesh, and the devil will all try to drag us back into slavery, but we can live free as we live by the Spirit through daily dependence on Christ.

God created us to be free and slaves to nothing. The free you is the true you.

Just as we were under the influence of sin, the good news is that we can live under the influence of the Holy Spirit every day.

We can walk with God every day. He calls us to keep in step with the Spirit (Gal. 5:25). Stepping implies walking, and walking implies motion. As we are moving through life, we can stay free by walking in step with the Spirit of God.

Just like when Peter was walking on the water with Jesus, he was all right as long as he kept his eyes on Christ. When he looked away from Jesus and focused on his impossible circumstances, he started sinking. There's nothing we can't overcome as long as we are walking in the Spirit with our eyes fixed on Jesus.

We also got to hear a testimony from Kim Berger, one of our young adults who was a former drug addict who found freedom in Christ and the power to stay free. I never get tired of hearing real stories of the life-changing power of God!