They promise them freedom, but the freedom that is preached in many churches leads to bondage. This freedom fuels rebellion towards God and disobedience to Jesus Christ (जीवित शब्द) और अधार्मिकता. वे सोचते हैं कि वे स्वतंत्र हैं, while in reality they are bound and are not led to heaven and eternal life, but to hell and the second death in the eternal lake of fire. Let’s look at what the Bible says and doesn’t say about the meaning of the freedom in Christ.
Why does the freedom in Christ lead many Christians in bondage?
The freedom in Christ that is preached in many churches is not the freedom as God meant the freedom in Christ to be.
The true freedom in Christ leads to a holy life after the Spirit in obedience to God and to righteousness, कृतज्ञता, संतुष्टि, शांति, आनंद, और अनन्त जीवन, instead of a sensual life after the flesh in obedience to the devil and bondage of sin and death, उपालंभ देना, असंतोष,, चिंता, डर, चिंता, restlessness, गुस्सा, और अवसाद.
और अभी तक, there are many Christians that walk in the latter
This is mainly because of false preachers and teachers that are sensual and pretend to be ministers of righteousness, while in reality they are servants of corruption.
These ministers love the works of the flesh and live like the world in sin. With their compelling and flattering words, they win people over and cause them to go astray.
They proclaim a doctrine that is not founded on the Word and not according to the words in the Bible, but is founded on themselves and according to the opinion, दर्शन, and will of man.
Because of this false doctrine with the associated false promises, false hope, and false liberty, wherewith they delude the people, the people are not led by the truth of God in freedom and righteousness unto eternal life, but they are led through their lies into bondage and sin unto eternal death.
What doesn’t the freedom in Christ mean?
The freedom in Christ does not mean that you can do whatever you want to do without consequences. The freedom in Christ doesn’t mean that you can live in disobedience to God and His will and keep living after the flesh in lasciviousness and uncleanness and keep sinning without consequences.
In a marriage covenant, it is also not allowed for the man or the woman to live a lascivious life and keep following the lust and desire of the flesh that leads to fornication, बेवफ़ाई, और व्यभिचार.
Every deed that opposes the will of God and violates the heavenly laws in the universe has consequences. This applies to every covenant, including the New Covenant in Christ Jesus in His blood.
The blood of Jesus is not a permit to keep sinning
The blood of Jesus is not a permit to keep sinning. यीशु’ blood doesn’t give you the right to be prideful and keep walking in rebellion and disobedience to God and His Word without consequences.
क्रौस (and the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed) is a place where the perfect sacrifice of God for mankind and reconciliation with God took place, instead of a place where pride, विद्रोह, and hostility were fueled.
Jesus was nailed to the cross and carried the pride, विद्रोह, आज्ञा का उल्लंघन, and trespasses of fallen man in His flesh, whereby the pride, विद्रोह, ईश्वर की अवज्ञा, and trespasses were nailed to His cross.
क्रौस means the end of a carnal life in darkness under the rulership of the devil and the beginning of a spiritual life under the rulership of God and Jesus Christ, the High priest of the New Covenant and the King of God’s Kingdom (ओह. इफिसियों 2:4-10; कुलुस्सियों 1:13-14; 1 टिमोथी 6:14-16; इब्रा 3-10).
Forasmuch तो बच्चे मांस और रक्त के भागीदार होते हैं, उन्होंने खुद भी उसी का हिस्सा लिया; मृत्यु के माध्यम से वह उसे नष्ट कर सकता है जिसमें मृत्यु की शक्ति थी, वह है, शैतान; और उनका उद्धार करो जो मृत्यु के भय के कारण जीवन भर दासत्व में रहे (इब्रा 2:14-15)
लागत की गणना करें, before you decide to follow Jesus
Jesus knew what a life after the Spirit in obedience to God meant and what consequences this life has for people on earth. इसीलिए यीशु ने कहा, को लागत की गणना करें, before you decide to become His disciple and follow Him.
क्योंकि यीशु का अनुसरण करना means taking up your cross (दैनिक) and crucifying the will of the flesh and mortifying the deeds of the body. It means to walk after the Spirit in submission to God in obedience to His Word.
ईश ने कहा, “That whosoever doesn’t bear his cross and come after Him can’t be His disciple.” (ओह. मैथ्यू 10:38; 16:24-25; निशान 8:34-35; ल्यूक 14:27).
As long as people proclaim to be free in Christ, but use this freedom for an occasion to the flesh (पापी स्वभाव) and willfully keep sinning, they are not made free in Christ.
Their eyes are not opened. They are not turned from darkness to light and from the power of satan unto God (अधिनियमों 26:18).
Their sinful works testify that they are still a slave of sin and unrighteousness (ओह. रोमनों 1:17-32; 6; गलाटियन्स 5:13;1 जॉन 3:7-10.
ईश ने कहा, “That whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin.” (जॉन 8:34).
तथापि, due to false doctrines that are created by the opinions and philosophies of carnal people, who refuse to put away sin and crucify the flesh and take on the responsibility of a life by faith after the Spirit in submission to God and obedience to the Word, but enjoy their sins and love their lives in darkness and everything that the world has to offer, the image is created that man will always remain a slave of sin and will never be perfect.
This is a lie!
The flesh refuses to follow Jesus
People keep walking in disobedience to God, as long as their sinful flesh is alive and they lack the reality of God the Father, यीशु मसीह पुत्र, और पवित्र आत्मा, and the fear and love for the Lord in their lives.
जो अपने पिता वा माता को मुझ से अधिक प्रिय जानता है, वह मेरे योग्य नहीं: और जो अपने बेटे वा बेटी को मुझ से अधिक प्रिय जानता है, वह मेरे योग्य नहीं. And he that taketh not his cross and follows after Me, मेरे योग्य नहीं है. जो कोई अपना जीवन पाएगा वह उसे खो देगा: और जो कोई मेरे लिये अपना प्राण खोएगा वह उसे पाएगा (मैथ्यू 10:37-39)
What do carnal people believe what the freedom in Christ means?
Carnal people believe that if you believe in Jesus and that He is the Son of God and confess this and execute its rituals, you are saved forever.
It doesn’t matter how you live and what you do, because you are saved by faith and not by works. You can live your life the way you lived before your conversion, because the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross and His blood provide eternal forgiveness for your sinful life.
यह भगवान की कृपा है, because you don’t live under the law anymore and don’t have to keep all kinds of rules and commandments, but you live under the grace of God in the liberty of Christ.
But the people that believe and say this are not spiritual but carnal and have no knowledge of God’s truth, whereby their minds are darkened. From their carnal darkened mind, they preach lies that advocate for the preservation of the works of the sinful flesh.
Because of this faith statement, many Christians walk as enemies of the cross in uncleanness, व्यभिचार, and idolatry and do all those things, जो भगवान के लिए एक घृणा हैं.
When do you live under the law and when do you live under grace?
The Bible says that as long as sin reigns in your life, you live under the law and don’t live under grace. Because if you live under grace, then sin doesn’t have dominion over you (ओह. रोमनों 6:14; 1 टिमोथी 1:8-11).
The Bible doesn’t say that you remain a sinner after your conversion and regeneration in Christ. The Bible doesn’t say that you may walk after the flesh and keep sinning and inherit eternal life, लेकिन उस आप मरेंगे (ओह. रोमनों 6; 8:12-14, 2 कुरिन्थियों 5:21; गलाटियन्स 2:16-21; टाइटस 3:7)
The Bible also says, that you can’t use your liberty in Christ for an occasion of the sinful nature of the flesh and for a cloke of maliciousness. Just like you ought to obey the laws on earth (unless they oppose God’s Word and demand you to do something that opposes God’s will) you also have to obey the heavenly laws (गलाटियन्स 5:13; 1 पीटर 2:16; 2 पीटर 2:10).
What does the freedom in Christ mean according to the Bible?
The Bible says that you are born in the flesh as a slave (a servant) शैतान का, पाप, और मौत. Everyone is born in a fallen state under the rulership of the devil in darkness and is a slave of sin and death.
इसलिए, everyone is a sinner until the moment that people hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and believe the truth of God and are convicted of their sins and sinful state and पछताना and no longer believe and walk in the lies of the world but believe and walk in the truth of God’s Word (ओह. रोमनों 6, 8; 2 कुरिन्थियों 5:21; गलाटियन्स 2:16-21; कुलुस्सियों 1:5-29; टाइटस 3:7).
Through this faith, people repent from their heart (of their old life as slave of sin) and through the पानी में बपतिस्मा identify themselves with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
उसी क्षण से, people are delivered from the power of the devil, पाप, और मौत. They are healed from their fallen state and made perfect.
They’re translated from the power of darkness into the Kingdom of God’s beloved Son Jesus Christ (ओह. अधिनियमों 26:18; गलाटियन्स 3:13-14; कुलुस्सियों 1:13-18; 2:9-15; 4:12; 1 थिस्सलुनीकियों 1:10; इब्रा 2:22-29).
The new man doesn’t belong to the devil anymore and is no longer a son of the devil that lives from a fallen state doing to the will of the father and the works of the sinful flesh.
But by faith and the पुनर्जन्म, the new man belongs to Jesus Christ and God the Father and has received the down payment of the Holy Spirit in fulness, whereby the new man shall walk from his healed state (पद) in obedience to the Word according to the will of the Father, doing the works of the Spirit, and in the power of the Holy Spirit mortifying the works of the body and bearing the fruit of the Spirit (ओह. अधिनियमों 2:37-38; रोमनों 8:1-17; गलाटियन्स 5:22-26; इफिसियों 4).
The spiritual translation from darkness to light and from death unto life
A spiritual translation from darkness to light and from death unto life and a spiritual transformation from the old creation to the new creation have taken place, that become visible in the natural life and the new walk of life.
लेकिन भगवान का शुक्र है, कि तुम पाप के दास हो (दुष्ट स्वभाव), परन्तु जो उपदेश तुम्हें दिया गया था, उस को तुम ने हृदय से माना है. फिर पाप से मुक्त किया जा रहा है (पापी स्वभाव), ye became servants of righteousness
रोमनों 6:17-18
The new walk of life
The believers shall seek those things, जो ऊपर हैं, and renew their minds with the words of God, जो सत्य हैं. They shall spend time in the Bible and in prayer, because that’s what their new heart longs for.
They are cleansed and legally redeemed from sin by the blood of Jesus and have become servants of Christ. नतीजतन, they shall no longer serve sin through the sinful flesh, but serve righteousness through the quickened spirit (रोमनों 3-8; 1 कुरिन्थियों 10:16; इफिसियों 2:13-22; इब्रा 9:14-15; 1 पीटर 1:18-2:25).
वैसे, this is not only a matter of ‘having to’ but ‘wanting to’. The new man doesn’t want to live the way he (या वह) lived before, and doesn’t want to keep sinning.
If this happens, you can conclude that a person is not born again by faith. Because if you are born again and have received God’s nature through the abiding of the Holy Spirit and अपने सम्पूर्ण हृदय से परमेश्वर से प्रेम करो, then you don’t want to do this anymore.
यह मैं तब कहता हूं, आत्मा में चलो, और तुम शरीर की अभिलाषा पूरी न करोगे. क्योंकि शरीर आत्मा के विरूद्ध लालसा करता है, और आत्मा शरीर के विरूद्ध है: और ये एक दूसरे के विपरीत हैं: ताकि तुम वह काम न कर सको जो तुम करना चाहते हो. परन्तु यदि तुम आत्मा की अगुवाई में चलो, तुम कानून के अधीन नहीं हो
गलाटियन्स 5:16-18
God didn’t call you to uncleanness but unto holiness
नई रचना के रूप में, you hate sin and don’t want to yield your members as servants at the disposal of uncleanness and lawlessness, resulting in lawlessness (अधर्म). But you want to yield your members as servants at the disposal of righteousness, resulting in holiness (रोमनों 6:19).
Because God didn’t call you to uncleanness but unto holiness (1 थिस्सलुनीकियों 4:7).
You’ll listen to Jesus and do what He says and उसकी आज्ञाओं को बनाए रखें (भगवान की आज्ञाएँ), which always strive with the will and lusts and desires of the flesh. (जॉन 14:15-21; 15:5-12; गलाटियन्स 5; 1 जॉन 2:3-6).
But through the truth of God’s Word and the abiding of the Holy Spirit, you have received authority and power to resist all the temptations and attacks of the devil and his army that try to make you ineffective in the spiritual warfare (ओह. रोमनों 8:12-17; इफिसियों 6:10-20; जेम्स 4:7).
What does the freedom in Christ and walking in Him means?
The freedom in Christ means that you no longer live in the bondage of the devil, पाप, and death from a fallen state in darkness. You no longer walk after the (पापी) flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise the government of God. You are delivered thereof!
It’s just like the seed of Israel that lived in bondage (गुलामी) of Pharaoh in Egypt under the law of Egypt and were delivered from their slavery and the pagan culture, कानून, and idolatry of Egypt by God through the hand of Moses.
The Israelites were all delivered and made the transition through the water, from their old lives as slaves in Egypt to their new lives as free people with God.
God led His chosen people through the wilderness to the promised land.
But although God redeemed them all, not all of them arrived in the promised land.
The freedom they had received from God resulted for many in pride, विद्रोह, ईश्वर की अवज्ञा, असंतोष, नास्तिकता, बड़बड़ा, उपालंभ देना, मूर्ति पूजा, और व्यभिचार.
Instead of submitting unto God and obeying His Word and keeping His commandments, as they promised to do, and pleasing God, their freedom ensured that they rebelled and did everything they wanted to do.
The freedom that God had given them led for the redeemed generation to dissatisfaction and death in the wilderness, instead of gratefulness and life in the promised land. Joshua and Caleb were the only ones from the redeemed generation that were saved through their faith in God and entered the promised land.
The new creation is a servant of Christ and of righteousness
नई रचना एक पापी थी, but is bought with the blood of Jesus and justified and belongs to God and has become a servant of Christ and of righteousness (ओह. रोमनों 6:16-23; 1 कुरिन्थियों 7:22-23 इब्रा 2:11-15; 9:14-15).
The new creation is delivered from sin and death and shall no longer walk in rebellion in disobedience to God in sin. But through the abiding of the Holy Spirit, the new man shall walk by faith in the law of liberty in submission and obedience to God and bear the fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life.
लेकिन अब पाप से मुक्त किया जा रहा है, और परमेश्वर के सेवक बनो, तुम्हारा फल पवित्रता की ओर है, और अनन्त जीवन का अन्त. क्योंकि पाप की मजदूरी मृत्यु है; परन्तु परमेश्वर का वरदान हमारे प्रभु यीशु मसीह के द्वारा अनन्त जीवन है
रोमनों 6:22-23
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