11-22-09 AM - A Question, A Cause, and a Lost Nail

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1) The Question: “What are you going to do with FREEDOM?”

Gal. 5:1, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free…”
Gal. 5:22-23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.”

In the Galatian church they had traded the bondage of SIN for the bondage of RELGION.
Are there traditions in churches today that are “good” things, but that have become idols?

Freedom is living in the Spirit apart from “obligation” to God.

2) The Cause: Finding a Cause Worth Fighting For

Why a cause? The alternative to finding a cause to fight for is to become a weekend warrior. A MERCENARY is a soldier with no cause to fight for!

Revolutionaries who found their cause!!!
-Gideon – Judges 6; Hebrews 11:34
-Paul – Acts 9:23-25
-Rosa
-“Ti”

3) A Lost Nail

God’s UNIVERSAL will is the will of God for every believer!

1 Thess. 4:3,4,7    1 Pet. 1:15
1 Thess. 5:18        1 Tim. 2:1-4
2 Pet. 3:11        Exodus 20:3-17
Matt. 22:37-40

The will of God for your life comes down to these two commands:
Love GOD; Love PEOPLE!!!

You weren’t just freed FROM something – you were freed FOR something!!!