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book of Galatians. We are into chapter 5.
Before I go into the message, I want to give you a story of a
man who was sentenced to 20 years of prison.
So he finished his 20 years. The warden walks into the cell
one day and says you have finished your sentence.
Now you are free to go. Unlocks the thing, takes away
the chains from his feet and hands, and you're free.
But this man, what is he doing? He's still walking around with
handcuffs on his hands in his home.
He has handcuffs, goes to market, he goes with handcuffs.
He still shuffles as if his ankles are chained.
You know, he's feeling his legs all the time.
He still asks permission before moving.
Can I go to the bathroom? Can I go to do this?
He is asking for permission. Why?
That's what he did for 20 years in the prison.
So he is continuing to do the same way.
He still sleeps on the floor because he is used to it.
Hard floor? Why?
You got a nice bed? Why did you sleep on the bed?
I am used to it. I like it on the floor.
What's wrong with this man? Is he enjoying his freedom?
He is not enjoying his freedom. Some of us are like that, some
of us are like that. A friend finally says to him,
why are you living like a prisoner?
You are free. And he says to him, yes, I know
I am free. But the chains feel familiar.
Sometimes we want to have the familiar feeling.
We want to feel nothing with new.
We do not want to enjoy anything new.
We want things to remain the same Before you know Christ,
Whatever you do, you continue to do after you know Christ.
But Jesus did not die on the cross so that you can be a
prisoner to sin, Satan and the devil.
No, he has come and died upon the cross to set you free.
So this chapter 5 was 1 summarizes all that Paul has
been teaching in the last four chapters.
He is summarizing it with one single sentence and is giving a
preview into what is going to talk more later on in the in the
chapter and in chapter 6. So he says it is for freedom
that Christ has set us free. The Greek word is Ulotharia.
Ulotharia is basically freedom. You are set free.
He bought your freedom basically with a great price.
So what is this freedom in Christ?
Ulotharia is a freedom or liberty to do or not to do
something. You are free either to do or not
to do. But before you become a
Christian, you are doing or most of the time something wrong just
because it feels good. But now you are set free from
the dominion of Satan, dominion of sin.
Over your life. Jesus has come to give you
freedom to do the right thing, not the wrong thing.
So now we have to keep our freedom.
And one of the things about the freedom is we are set free.
We our freedom is to obey, not freedom from obedience.
We are we have a freedom to obey.
Before we did not have the freedom to obey.
Even though you know something is right, you do the wrong
because you are not free. There was a principle of sin
inside that will drag you down that Paul talks about in Romans
Chapter 7. Not freedom from obedience
because you became a Christian. You don't have to obey God
anymore. Doesn't mean that that doesn't
mean that. So the whole world is subjected
to slavery because of sin of Adam and Eve.
When Adam sinned, God walked into the God of Eden asked where
are you guys? They were hiding.
Why are you hiding? Because you are naked.
Who told you are naked? Did you eat the fruit I told you
not to eat? Yeah, we did eat.
So they are now covered with leaves and come before God.
Why did you do it? This woman, she deceived me.
So why did you eat this snake? He deceived me.
So he begins with the snake, and he curses the snake and puts a
curse upon the earth. Thoughts and things you will
bring forward. So that curse on the earth is
now being lifted. When Jesus died upon the cross,
when he shed that blood on the Golgotha, the hill of Golgotha,
He dropped the blood on that earth which was cursed.
In the book of Genesis. He has put his blood and says I
redeem you today by my blood I am buying you back.
And still people are not yet reached with the gospel.
Not everyone, everyone believes in Jesus.
When everyone believes in Jesus Christ, when he comes back, then
the whole creation which is under curse, is going to be set
free into the freedom. Your freedom is linked to the
freedom of the universe, the creation.
When you are free, the world goes free, the earth grows free,
the mountain goes free, the trees go free, the animals go
free because Jesus is setting you free.
So don't think what happens if I believe and don't believe if you
believe it's going to impact the creation.
Romans 821 says the creation itself also will be set free
from its slavery to corruption, into the freedom of the glory of
the children of God, into the glory of the children of God.
Those words are powerful words, glory of the children of God.
You do not have a glory when you are in sin, but when you believe
in Jesus, God puts His righteousness upon you.
And when the righteous robe comes upon you, you are covered
with the glory, the glory that Adam and you had before they sin
when they did not need the clothes.
That glory covers you now, it doesn't mean you walk without
clothes. Now I am not saying that the
point I am trying to make is that glory covers you.
That glory covers you. Is there anybody who wants to
shout Hallelujah for that? Freedom should edify others.
You are not free just to please yourself, to work for your
benefit, to live for your pleasure, to live for your own
comfort. No, this freedom that Jesus is
giving you is to edify other people, to help other people, to
lift them up. Those who are burdened, you go
and give them a shoulder and put a hand under their arm and pull
them up, those who are going down.
Because that is the heart of God.
That is the heart of God. The world is pursuing its own
pleasure, its own comfort, its own profit.
But Christians are called to live for others, and that is how
they know the love of God through your life.
But the world doesn't know the love of God.
But when they look at you and when they reach out and help,
they see God's love. Somebody is waiting to be helped
by you. Somebody is waiting to be
comforted by you. Somebody is waiting to hear the
words of the good news through your lips.
Somebody is waiting for the change to be shattered.
Somebody is waiting to be let out of their prison.
Why you who have believed in Jesus has the power to help, to
power to set people free to share the gospel.
So you see the same thing is repeated twice in verse 1.
He says it is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
Stand form then and do not let yourself be burdened.
Again the same thing he talks about in verse 13 and verse 13.
He says you, my brothers, were called to be free.
You are called to be free. Tell somebody you are free.
Give them a high five who is sitting next to you.
Say you are free, shout it. You have to be excited about the
word of God. I am telling you, you must get
excited about the word of God. So verse 13 says you are called
to be free. But again, that freedom is not
to use freedom to indulge in sinful nature, rather serve one
another in love, so one another in love.
That is the purpose of being set free.
Before you know Christ, you live for yourself.
After after you know Christ, you live for others.
It's very, very simple. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are
given to serve other people, not yourself.
If you have a gift of healing, you don't go every day put your
hand on your head and pray for healing for yourself.
You go lay hand that hand on somebody and say be healed.
You don't talk to yourself and say every demon come out, it's
good. You can self deliver yourself,
but how long you do it? That authority is to set other
people free. Say in the name of Jesus be
loose, be set free. So every gift of the Holy Spirit
is given so that we will be set free from our selfishness and so
other people. That is the heart of God.
Purpose of God in everything he does is outward from inside out,
not from outside in. Like we are not like sponge
receiving and receiving and receiving always In India, you
know we are very selfish people. So when somebody comes home, you
ask the question, what have you brought to give me?
What do you want to give me? Any gift you brought sweet
packet. You know, some people don't go
just like that, visit somebody and that's our culture.
You know, you take some fruits or sweets or something like
that. So it's just the way of doing
things, you know, culture sometimes, but we are not born
by any culture. So we don't we go without
anything in our hands now. Just joking.
So anyway, so that is what we have to, we shouldn't be always
receiving, but should be giving. Giving, What can I give you?
How can I help you? Word of comfort, word of
encouragement. Let's just do it liberally,
generously because we have been set free.
You are not under obligation, but you have that inward power
to love people as they they should be loved basically.
So this is all about the freedom.
There is so much we see. Let's not walk around with
handcuffs, let's not sleep on the hard ground.
Let's not ask for question. No.
Am I free? Can I go to market now?
Can I go to this mall now? Can I buy this?
Can I? No, no, no.
We, you have been set free. We have to know that we are free
and that is a very big issue because many Christians don't
think they are free. Ask yourself when did you feel
free in your mind? When did you feel free in your
spirit? Do you feel it always?
If you don't feel it always, it is time to say I want to remind
myself I am free. I don't want to forget it.
I want to remind myself every day I am set free, I am free.
I am free, I am free. This is very important.
Why it is important? When you know that you are free,
only then you can help somebody. If you are not free, you cannot
help anybody. We cannot help anybody.
That's the thing. So genuine freedom expresses
itself in spirit directed worship.
This is another benefit of we, we have been worshipping God,
praising God. You know one of the things is
when you are set free, the freedom will bubble from inside
and bring a spirit directed worship.
You will worship God in spirit and truth because you are set
free. Human nature is not to worship
God. Human nature now is not to bow
to God. Human nature is in rebellion
against God. But when you are set free, the
that miracle happens and you bow to the Lord.
You worship him. You ascribe dominion, authority,
power, glory to Him. He's worthy.
He's worthy, He's worthy. He's holy.
He's holy, He's holy. To say that you need to be set
free. If you are free, you will
worship Him. So what is Paul fighting in his
time is that there were a group of people who are Judaizers who
are trying to pull these Christians and tell them you had
to obey the Mosaic Law. You cannot forget the Torah.
You cannot forget the the seven festivals.
You have to do it. You have to do it.
You should go through circumcision.
This is again and again and again.
They were fishing for people in the Christian community.
The Gentiles are coming to know God.
They're trying to impose Torah, impose the festivals, impose
circumcision, and Paul was fighting it.
That's why he says you have been called for freedom and stand
firm. He says stand firm in your
freedom, stand firm, say stand firm.
You need to know you're free and you have to stand firm in it so
that nobody will come and push you to make do something other
than be free and submit yourself to don't let yourself be
burdened again by yoke of slavery is comparing life under
the Old Testament, the Mosaic law as slavery and the life in
Christ is freedom. Am I clear here?
So recently I came across somebody who is a Messianic Jew,
Messianic Jew. Previously I thought Messianic
Jews are nice bunch of people. I do not think differently now.
But I found that different kinds of Messianic Jews, not just one
kind, several kinds. The first kind they agree with
Paul. They say we are set free by the
death of Jesus, by his resurrection, by his burial and
resurrection. We are set free and we believe
in Jesus. We have no problem with the the
set of Messianic Jews. They continue to follow their
culture, like follow the festivals, do other kinds of
things together as a fellowship. We have no problem with this
Messianic Jews who believe the Bible, basically the New
Testament. They were living just with the
Old Testament. Now they accept both old and new
number problem. There is another bunch of
Messianic Jews who believe that Paul is mistaken, his gospel is
not correct, it is not true. They think that he has preached
the wrong gospel. I feel sorry for that bunch of
people. And there is 1/3 category which
is in between these two. And there are many other shades
of all these three you have. If you meet 10 different
Messianic Jews, they may have something common, something
different. But what I want to say is in
whatever way you want to go back to the law, you are going back
into slavery. Are we clear here?
Jesus has set us free and He has poured out Holy Spirit so that
we can obey the law joyfully from inside.
Because you are free, you are not forcing yourself to do it.
I have to tell the truth. I have to tell the truth.
Oh no, no, no. I have to do, it is so difficult
for me. It is not like that You have the
Holy Spirit who who is inside you, who helps you to tell the
truth, always joyfully, freely. But they, those people, they are
still under the law, they place themselves.
It is just like walking around with handcuffs.
Basically. The example I gave you is the
messianic juice. Most of them, except the first
group, they impose the law on themselves.
Even though Christ is the fulfillment of the law, Jesus
was not against the law. You read his words in the
Matthew, in the book of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
His words when you read he is not against.
He said I came to fulfill the law.
Every dot, every jot, whatever it is, I have come to fulfill it
because He fulfilled it on your behalf and my behalf on behalf
of the Jewish people. We no longer are bound by it.
We are no longer going to be justified because we obey the
law. We are justified because we
believe Him who fulfilled the law for you and me.
So these people, I mean, do not want to say too much about them,
referring to them, but we are set free from the law.
Basically, we are not going into slavery again.
That's why Paul says don't submit yourself, stand up, stand
firm, don't be burned again by yoke of slavery that is going
back to the Old Testament. Cool.
And now he is not done with just saying that.
He said it once. Now second time he's saying what
is he saying? Mark my words, I, Paul, tell you
that Christ will be of no value to you at all if you let
yourself be circumcised. Second time.
Third time, verse 3. Again.
I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he
is obligated to obey the whole law.
Same thing he is saying three times.
Why is he, Why is he doing it? There is a tendency in every man
to win the favour of God by doing something good, by doing
something good. It can be a simple thing like
coming to church for some people can be to win the favour of God,
or you want to pray, or you want to read Bible, or you want to
give or you want to do anything just to win the favour of God.
There are lots of people. If you say you pay $100 today,
tomorrow God will give you $1000, you will have 1000 people
come rushing to the front and give you $100.
Why? Because the human nature wants
to be dominated and He wants to win the favour.
Am I communicating here? That is the fallen nature.
It is not a redeemed nature, it is a fallen nature.
Because of that fallen nature, the prosperity gospel people
have a field day. They are becoming billionaires
because they know how to get the money.
They appeal to the fallen nature and say, hey guys, do you want
more money? Give some.
By the way, that is not what I prepare to speak.
It is just flowing with the teaching.
So cool. And again you see I declare to
every man, OK, so there is a slide there in the in the drive
for the 1st 6 verses. So when I read through the
passage, I said I need to make sense out of it, I need to
grapple with it. I have to make it simple.
I should have some way of understanding what all this is
all about. See, why do we need a story in
the beginning? That story is going to nail
everything so that you can hang a coat on it and you can hang
anything you want on it. So that is we that is why we
need a story. So here is again a picture of
trying to understand what Paul is saying.
Worst one, he says freedom. Christ has set us free for
freedom. Christ has set us free.
And then on the right side you see, do not be burned again by
yoke of slavery. So that is antithesis.
This is thesis. That is antithesis.
This is a statement. The opposite of it is if you
are, if you do not have this experience, you are going to
have that experience. You will be slave.
You will be in slavery because you are set free.
Do not go go back into slavery. Verse 2 If you let yourself be
circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all.
Jesus died in vain for you. So powerful.
So, as I mentioned, is another set of people who want to obey
the law in every form of it. Are those people who make the
death of Christ of no value to them.
If you value the death of Christ, if you value his life
for you on the cross, you will not go back to the law anymore
because he came and fulfilled it on your behalf and my behalf.
Are we together here Cool. Let's go forward in verse three.
If you let yourself be circumcised, you will be
obligated to obey the whole law. It's not just one thing is 100
things or they say if you take the whole book of all the five
books of Moses Genesis to Deuteronomy.
There are about 616 commandments, something like
that. Circumcision is only one.
And these people who want impose the Jewish system, they say you
must be circumcised. They are telling the Gentiles,
they are telling anybody for that matter, you must be
circumcised. But Paul is saying if you get
circumcised, you have to fulfill not just the 10 commandments,
all the 616 commandments. Am I here together?
So God has set us free. Why do you want to go back into
your slavery? That's his, that's his argument.
Basically, again, trying to be justified by law.
Verse 4, you are being alienated from Christ.
You are separated from Christ. Christ death has no meaning to
you. You will not be justified by
works. You will be justified by faith.
So he says, OK, you will be alienated from Christ.
Don't do it, my friends. But these people are saying
Paul's gospel is wrong and they want to keep doing the law.
Am I here together? So when you come across somebody
who says Messianic Jew, you have to make sure what kind of
Messianic Jew there? If they don't agree with Paul,
give them a salute, say goodbye. If they agree with Paul, good,
we have fellowship. Next I put the do there again.
He repeats himself, trying to be justified by law.
You are falling away from grace. These are incompatible things.
Justification by faith and practicing the law incompatible.
You do 1. The other one you cannot do at
the same time. I was looking at the word is
truth exclusive? It is exclusive.
Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life.
That is where he stop. He is the way, the truth and the
life. What he says that is final and
anything else, what he does not say is false.
What he says is truth. It is exclusive.
And when you say Jesus is the Saviour, you are saying all
other philosophies, all other religions are false.
That is why people, some people do not like Christianity,
because it claims to be an exclusive faith.
It excludes everybody, and that is what it is.
You cannot have in the Old Testament you have the
Philistines captured the ark and put it to the temple of Dagon.
And when they came in the morning, the Dagon's idol was
fallen down. They put it back again, put some
more nails and next day they come again.
Its fallen on this time, neck is broken off, it is rolled and is
come on the threshold. Hands were cut off.
These two are incompatible. Yahweh Ishwa cannot coexist with
any other God, any other philosophy, any other system.
He is an exclusive God. You have to worship Him as an
exclusive God. He is the truth, He is the
light, He is the way, He is the bread.
He is everything to us. You can't be a Christian and be
going to meditation. You can't be a Christian and go
into yoga. You can't be a Christian and go
into sacrifice of our offer to idols.
You cannot do these things because it is an exclusive claim
on your life. When you believe in Jesus, you
belong to Him. He belongs to you.
That's a bond. There's a covenant there.
There is a relationship there. There is a truth there.
There is freedom there and you move out of it.
You move into slavery was fine by faith.
We we eagerly await through the Spirit for the righteousness for
which we hope. There is a righteousness you
receive now, but there is a complete righteousness.
When he appears, we are going to be like Him, we are going to be
like Jesus when you see him face to face.
So we have already and not yet. I am telling my friends this
phrase. I learnt it long time ago, 30-40
years ago already and not yet and it is not going to change.
I have gone through so much of theology and discussion in my
mind with other people. These words are not going to
change. There is an aspect of Christian
life which is already done in Christ.
There is an aspect which is going to unfold in the future.
You have the Holy Spirit already now, but there will be a time
when you will be in the Spirit always.
You are. They should be a set free from
sin now, from dominina sin now, but not the presence of sin but
in the future. We are going to be set free from
the presence of sin. Sin will not be there where you
are going in the future, right now.
It can be in the community, it can be in the family, it can be
the society anywhere. Presence of sin may be there,
but you will be saved, delivered, set free, that
dominion broken over your life. But the future, even the
presence of sin will not be there where you are going.
So these are already and then not yet.
Are we here agreeing? Let us say already and not yet.
Powerful statement. You will remember after 30 more
years you will say this man preached 30 years ago.
It is true. I am telling you now in Christ,
neither circumcision or uncircumcision has any value.
It has no value at all, Paul says.
But why are you talking about if it has no value?
Why would you let people do whatever they like?
Because when they do whatever they like, they are going into
slavery again. But in itself it does not mean
anything. Circumcision has no value.
Uncircumcision has no value. What matters is that love
expressed through faith. If you have faith, you must
express it through love and that's what is all important.
Only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
One more slide please. I just put them in red to
distinguish, that's all. No other purpose.
I wanted one in my notes. I wanted to see differently, so
I put in a different color. So verse 7, you are running a
good race. Who cut in on you kept you from
obeying the truth. He is Paul is giving you an
athletic figure of speech here. Say you're running fast.
You you may be noticing that when you when you see them
running on the track, the everybody is going but it
somebody will try to overtake and come in front of them.
That's what is Paul is saying. Who is cutting in on you?
Sometimes it happens. You know, once I was going on my
cycle bicycle and somebody cut in before me and I was thrown.
Boom. I was flying like a bird in the
next moment and hit some rocks. So it is going to be an
accident. So what Paul is saying is you're
running a race quite well. Who cut in on you?
Who has stopped you? Who has obstructed you?
Who has tried to do harm to you? That's what he's asking.
Disobedience to the truth does not come from the one who calls
you. When you move away from this
freedom and go back to keeping the law until you do the law,
you are going, you are not going to be justified.
You are not going to be accepted by God, then you are you are,
you are going back into slavery and this is not what is
happening. This is this does not come from
the one who calls you the God who called.
He made a clear cut. Demos, I mean a distinction
between the Old Testament is the Old Covenant and a New
Testament, a new covenant. You cannot be belonging to the
new covenant and be doing things of the old covenant.
To make this truth very powerful, Jesus has talked about
two different analysis parables he gave.
Who will sow a old cloth on in? Who will sow a new cloth and a
old patch? If you have some tear in your
shirt those days you do not just throw away because it is a small
tear. You put some cloth on it, patch,
and then keep wearing it. One more tear, you put one more
patch. But what the whole problem is
when you put a new cloth on an old garment and stitch it up,
and you wash it, the new garment will shrink, new patch will
shrink, and the tear becomes worse.
So if you want to patch up a old shirt, if you tears up, you have
to find something that's already used, a piece of another shirt.
That's not no good anymore. Take a piece of it and stitch it
there. It will stay intact.
I do not know whether it makes sense to most of us because we
do not do these things these days, but do it.
We do not do it. We just throw the shirt, go back
and buy something. So that is that is those days.
It was not that easy. Clothes were not so coming so
easily. So people have to use it.
So Jesus is saying if you have a tear in your garment, you do not
put a new cloth as a patch because it is going to destroy
your clothes. Same way he says who will put a
new wine in a old wine skin when you have a wine skin made of a
leather and you put the new one into it.
If it is a old wine skin because the new one is bubbling,
effervescent fermentation, gas are built up, it is going to
burst open the skin. You will lose the skin and the
wine. So he says new wine has been put
into new wine skin. Why?
It is strong enough to hold it. So you have both preserved the
New Testament faith in Jesus Christ is the new wine.
Jesus is the new wine. He is the new wine and you
cannot put your body belongs to old old covenant.
You are trying to do things according to the old covenant.
You are hanging on for acceptance by God.
By doing something good, you are putting the new one into the old
wine skin. It will destroy you.
So this well meaning friends of ours Besanic Jews, we have to be
a little careful with them and we need to be gentle with them
because God loves them. They are under blindness.
We you can talk to them.
They won't listen to they will stop talking to you.
The moment you say, hey, that's not right.
They say you are wrong. Paul is wrong.
I don't believe in it and don't want to have any fellowship with
you. So goodbye, let's part in peace.
You have done your job. We cannot convert everybody.
Those, particularly those who are blinded required a light, a
revelation. And until the Holy Spirit gives
a revelation, we cannot bring them out.
So that is where we leave the matter there.
So let's go again back into He gives another example of a East
Again, this is not something we do these days.
Olden days. You want to make bread with
yeast. You will have some dough in the
house that ferments and you keep a little of the dough aside.
When you make a fresh batch, you add the dough to the fresh
batch. Why?
By next day it becomes completely sour sourdough.
So that is how they were, they were making bread.
So he says if you put hide a little yeast in the dough, it
makes a whole dough sour, it makes the yeast walks through
it. So sin is like that.
You allow little sin, little lie, little of this, little of
that, little of lust, it is going to make ferment and spoil
the whole dough, whole batch is going to.
So Paul is saying, hey guys, you know when you go we want to go
back to the old law again. You are basically hiding the
East in the whole new batch of dough, which is going to ruin
the whole dough, is going to spoil the whole dough.
Sin is like that. So he is giving one more example
of that and then he goes back again.
I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view.
He is encouraging the Galatians. Please agree with me.
Let us have the same kind of a view.
Don't have any other view. Let's agree together.
He is saying the one throwing into confusion will pay the
penalty. Whoever he may be, whoever is
teaching the wrong thing, whoever is trying to spoil your
mind, God will judge that person.
Is it a kind word, very nice word that Paul is saying?
No, because truth is exclusive. It cannot coexist with untruth,
with lie. So that is the reason why he
talks about it. And then I am still preaching.
If I am still preaching and some people said no, no Paul, you are
still preaching circumcision. He says if I am still preaching
circumcision, why am I being persecuted?
Why is the offence of the cross? If I am preaching persecution,
the offence of the cross is abolished.
No one will be offended by the cross.
So if we are going back to the law, we are making Christ's
death of no value to us. We are out of grace, we are not
in the covenant, we are playing with sin, and we are going into
slavery. So many images in one little
passage just to tell us that we ought to be very clear in our
mind that Jesus is our Savior and we have nothing to do with
the law. The old wine you can't put into
new wine skin. A Gentile who is becoming
believer is a new wine skin. You put the old wine, it is not
going to work. Same way you put new wine into
the old wine skin. It does not work.
You need new wine skin. New wine.
Jesus is the wine and we are the new wine skin.
He comes in, everything is beautiful.
The agitators who promote circumcision, Paul wishes that
they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves.
Why a little did of the whole thing that is, I added those
words circumcision is a little skin is cut off.
But he says why you want to cut a little portion, take the whole
out, emasculate yourself, become a eunuch, because they will
become unprofitable, will not be accepted in the in the community
and they will be of no value. Basically he says just do not be
satisfied with the little cut, get rid of the whole thing,
become a eunuch. It is just he is angry.
I see that that Paul is very angry towards these people who
are promoting the law, obedience to the law.
But we do we not obey the law? We do obey the law.
Why? Because we have a new nature,
the help of the Holy Spirit who dwells in US, who helps us to do
it right all the time, not because we ought to, but it is
His nature. Our nature is change.
We have a new power, we have a new energy, we have a new
strength, we have a new vision, we have new purpose.
And that energizes us, motivates us and pushes, propels us to do
what the Holy Spirit wants us to do.
That is why he says you have to show love, love, love.
And that is how you, you, you approve these things.
So let us conclude it. Verse 13.
What does he say in verse 13? But you and my brothers were
called to be free. But do not use your freedom to
indulge the sinful nature. Rather, serve one another in
love. Serve one another in love.
This is very, very important. When we don't serve people, we
become selfish. It's like a pond that doesn't
have a fresh water coming in. You'll become stale and useless.
God designed us to give out, share the gospel, do good
things, help somebody who is in need, visit somebody who is
grieving, send a meal to somebody who cannot make a meal.
Whatever way. Show that love, Demonstrate that
love. Why?
The moment you keep doing that, you are a fresh pawn and when
you don't serve others, you become a stale pawn.
Mass will grow. It will be of no use.
Shall we pray? Father, we thank you for this
morning. We thank you for the price you
paid to set us free. Infinite price.
Because our problem was too big. Man cannot fix it himself.
That's why you came into the world, died on the cross.
We worship, we honor you, we thank you, Jesus.
You are the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the whole
world. We praise you, we praise you, we
praise you for you. Cry out from the cross, it is
finished. Every drop you shed on the cross
is to set us free and help us to stand in freedom by faith in
you, doing good things to other people to the glory of your
name. In Jesus name we ask, Amen.
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