Post by Les Brewer on Jul 8, 2013 15:00:52 GMT
How Can I be Truly Free?
Most of us here are born again bible-believing Christians, saved by the grace of GOD, but are we truly free, Think about it..
This whole century could be characterized as a great cry for freedom from oppression. Freedom from political oppression, freedom from economic oppression, freedom from oppressive discrimination, racism, sexism, nationalism and militarism; freedom from environmental pollution and destruction. But all these forms of oppression are but manifestations of a more fundamental and terrible root of oppression which resides within the human heart and which expresses itself time and time again in one terrible manifestation after another. Just when one form of oppression is seemingly overcome, another insinuates itself from an unexpected direction. Just when one problem is apparently solved, the cure turns out to be as bad as or worse than the problem.
The incredibly good news is that Jesus Christ came to deliver all of us from the root oppression that overshadows our life that is deeply ingrained in our heart, mind, body and spirit, and that, in turn, leads us to oppress others in so many different ways. Jesus Christ came to set us free in a fundamental and enduring manner and that is really good news. Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit. . . He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."
Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing" (Luke 4:14, 17-21). And every day since, Jesus has been offering freedom to those oppressed, So the question I would ask all of us is, are we truly set free, and allow JESUS total control over our lives, You see the freedom the world offers is short lived, But the freedom in CHRIST is forever…
Most of us here are born again bible-believing Christians, saved by the grace of GOD, but are we truly free, Think about it..
This whole century could be characterized as a great cry for freedom from oppression. Freedom from political oppression, freedom from economic oppression, freedom from oppressive discrimination, racism, sexism, nationalism and militarism; freedom from environmental pollution and destruction. But all these forms of oppression are but manifestations of a more fundamental and terrible root of oppression which resides within the human heart and which expresses itself time and time again in one terrible manifestation after another. Just when one form of oppression is seemingly overcome, another insinuates itself from an unexpected direction. Just when one problem is apparently solved, the cure turns out to be as bad as or worse than the problem.
The incredibly good news is that Jesus Christ came to deliver all of us from the root oppression that overshadows our life that is deeply ingrained in our heart, mind, body and spirit, and that, in turn, leads us to oppress others in so many different ways. Jesus Christ came to set us free in a fundamental and enduring manner and that is really good news. Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit. . . He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."
Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing" (Luke 4:14, 17-21). And every day since, Jesus has been offering freedom to those oppressed, So the question I would ask all of us is, are we truly set free, and allow JESUS total control over our lives, You see the freedom the world offers is short lived, But the freedom in CHRIST is forever…
