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CELEBRATE LIBERTY! Galatians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. This weekend we’ll celebrate the 230th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence. Though we’ve been set free from King George long ago, many couples are still under oppression by the behavior patterns and interpersonal rituals they’ve developed over the years. Behaviors and rituals that have made healthy relationships impossible. It’s time to declare “liberty” from our past behaviors and rituals and learn to walk in newness of life. It means a new way of living. It means choosing relationship over ritual. It means putting the marriage in the #2 place in your life. (God, being #1). It’s been said before, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always be what you’ve always been.” If that’s good enough for you, then I guess you can continue to live a life of frustration and misery, until you leave this earth for Heaven or Hell. (You will spend eternity in one of those two places.) I can’t think of anything more tragic than living a life of misery here on earth, only to be followed by an eternity in hell. How sad the consequences of bondage! But you have been set free to enjoy liberty. But liberty isn’t the freedom to do what you want; it’s the freedom to do what you ought to do according to God’s Word. Please understand, no one is totally free. We can either choose to be a bond servant to Jesus, a slave by choice, or we can be a slave to Satan and our own sin by default. Which would you prefer? There’s no middle ground. Once we’re free in Christ we have the power resident in us, in the person of the Holy Spirit, to live a life free from the bondages and behaviors of our past. Yet it doesn’t come automatically. We must choose to walk in freedom, or by our indecision be burdened once again to the yoke of slavery. This Independence Day proclaim your liberty from your past destructive behaviors and choose newness of life. You have the choice; God has the power. Happy Independence Day! |
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