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 (살아있는 단어) and ungodliness. 그들은 자신들이 자유롭다고 생각해요, 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, thankfulness, 만족, 평화, 기쁨, 그리고 영생, instead of a sensual life after the flesh in obedience to the devil and bondage of sin and death, 불평하다, 불만,, 걱정하다, 두려움, 불안, restlessness, 대조, 그리고 우울증.
그럼에도 불구하고, 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, 철학, 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, 부정, 그리고 간통.
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. 예수’ blood doesn’t give you the right to be prideful and keep walking in rebellion and disobedience to God and His Word without consequences.
십자가 (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, 반항, and hostility were fueled.
Jesus was nailed to the cross and carried the pride, 반항, 불순종, and trespasses of fallen man in His flesh, whereby the pride, 반항, 하나님에 대한 불순종, and trespasses were nailed to His cross.
십자가 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 (오. 에베소서 2:4-10; 골로새서 1:13-14; 1 디모데 6:14-16; 히브리서 3-10).
그러므로 자녀는 혈과 육에 참여하였음이라, 그 자신도 마찬가지로 같은 일에 참여했습니다.; 이는 죽음으로 말미암아 사망의 권세 잡은 자를 멸하려 하심이라, 그게, 악마; 죽음을 무서워하므로 평생에 종의 종노릇을 하던 자들을 구원하시리로다 (히브리서 2:14-15)
비용을 계산해 보세요, 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. 그렇기 때문에 예수님이 말씀하셨습니다, To 비용을 계산하다, before you decide to become His disciple and follow Him.
왜냐하면 예수님을 따르다 means taking up your cross (일일) 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.
예수님이 말씀하셨습니다, “That whosoever doesn’t bear his cross and come after Him can’t be His disciple.” (오. 매튜 10:38; 16:24-25; 표시 8:34-35; 루크 14:27).
As long as people proclaim to be free in Christ, but use this freedom for an occasion to the flesh (죄악된 본성) 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 (행위 26:18).
Their sinful works testify that they are still a slave of sin and unrighteousness (오. 로마서 1:17-32; 6; 갈라디아서 5:13;1 남자 3:7-10.
예수님이 말씀하셨습니다, “That whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin.” (남자 8:34).
그렇지만, 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, 예수 그리스도 아들, 그리고 성령, and the fear and love for the Lord in their lives.
아버지나 어머니를 나보다 더 사랑하는 자는 나에게 합당하지 아니하고: 아들이나 딸을 나보다 더 사랑하는 사람도 나에게 합당하지 않다. And he that taketh not his cross and follows after Me, 나에게 합당하지 않다. 자기 목숨을 얻는 자는 잃을 것이다: 누구든지 나를 위하여 자기 목숨을 잃으면 찾으리라 (매튜 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.
그것이 바로 하나님의 은혜입니다, 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, 간음, and idolatry and do all those things, 그것은 하나님을 미워하는 것입니다.
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 (오. 로마서 6:14; 1 디모데 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, 하지만 그건 너는 죽을 것이다 (오. 로마서 6; 8:12-14, 2 고린도전서 5:21; 갈라디아서 2:16-21; 티투스 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 (갈라디아서 5:13; 1 베드로 2:16; 2 베드로 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) 악마의, 죄, 그리고 죽음. Everyone is born in a fallen state under the rulership of the devil in darkness and is a slave of sin and death.
그러므로, 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 회개하다 and no longer believe and walk in the lies of the world but believe and walk in the truth of God’s Word (오. 로마서 6, 8; 2 고린도전서 5:21; 갈라디아서 2:16-21; 골로새서 1:5-29; 티투스 3:7).
Through this faith, people repent from their heart (of their old life as slave of sin) and through the 물 세례 identify themselves with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and receive the baptism with the Holy Spirit.
그 순간부터, people are delivered from the power of the devil, 죄, 그리고 죽음. 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 (오. 행위 26:18; 갈라디아서 3:13-14; 골로새서 1:13-18; 2:9-15; 4:12; 1 데살로니가 1:10; 히브리서 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 갱생, 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 (위치) 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 (오. 행위 2:37-38; 로마서 8:1-17; 갈라디아서 5:22-26; 에베소서 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.
그러나 하나님께 감사하라, 너희가 죄의 종이었음을 (사악한 본성), 오직 너희는 너희에게 전하여 준 교훈의 본을 마음으로 순종하여. 그러면 죄에서 해방되어 (죄악된 본성), ye became servants of righteousness
로마서 6:17-18
The new walk of life
The believers shall seek those things, 위에 있습니다, and renew their minds with the words of God, 그게 진실이야. 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. 결과적으로, they shall no longer serve sin through the sinful flesh, but serve righteousness through the quickened spirit (로마서 3-8; 1 고린도전서 10:16; 에베소서 2:13-22; 히브리서 9:14-15; 1 베드로 1:18-2:25).
그런데, this is not only a matter of ‘having to’ but ‘wanting to’. The new man doesn’t want to live the way he (아니면 그녀) 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 마음을 다하여 하나님을 사랑하라, then you don’t want to do this anymore.
그때 내가 말하는 건, 정신 안에서 걸어, 그리고 너희는 육신의 정욕을 성취하지 못할 것이다. 육체의 소욕은 성령을 거스려, 성령은 육체를 거스르시느니라: 그리고 이것들은 서로 반대이다: 이는 너희가 원하는 것을 하지 못하게 하려 함이라. 그러나 너희가 성령의 인도함을 받으면, 너희는 법 아래 있지 아니하니라
갈라디아서 5:16-18
God didn’t call you to uncleanness but unto holiness
새로운 창조로, you hate sin and don’t want to yield your members as servants at the disposal of uncleanness and lawlessness, resulting in lawlessness (부정). But you want to yield your members as servants at the disposal of righteousness, resulting in holiness (로마서 6:19).
Because God didn’t call you to uncleanness but unto holiness (1 데살로니가 4:7).
You’ll listen to Jesus and do what He says and 그의 계명을 지키십시오 (하나님의 계명), which always strive with the will and lusts and desires of the flesh. (남자 14:15-21; 15:5-12; 갈라디아서 5; 1 남자 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 (오. 로마서 8:12-17; 에베소서 6:10-20; 제임스 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, 죄, and death from a fallen state in darkness. You no longer walk after the (죄) 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 (slavery) of Pharaoh in Egypt under the law of Egypt and were delivered from their slavery and the pagan culture, 법률, 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, 반항, 하나님에 대한 불순종, 불만, unbelief, 불평, 불평하다, 사신 숭배, 그리고 간음.
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
새로운 창조물은 죄인이었습니다, but is bought with the blood of Jesus and justified and belongs to God and has become a servant of Christ and of righteousness (오. 로마서 6:16-23; 1 고린도전서 7:22-23 히브리서 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.
그러나 이제는 죄에서 해방되어, 그리고 하나님의 종이 되라, 너희가 거룩함에 이르는 열매를 얻었느니라, 그리고 마지막 영생. 죄의 삯은 사망이니라; 오직 하나님의 은사는 그리스도 예수 우리 주 안에 있는 영생이니라
로마서 6:22-23
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