Much is said today about freedom: freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and of course so much more.  The truth is that Christ came to set man FREE, free from ...

•     prejudice and hate

•     division and isolation

•     hatred and bitterness

•     hostility and war

•     assault and killing

•     crime and injustice

•     enslavements and abuses

•     emptiness and loneliness

•     fear and death

•     selfishness and hoarding

•     hunger and sickness

Even in the midst of our FREEDOM as a child of God, these things still exist. There is still fear, want and so much more found in the world around us. But you and I can have TRUE FREEDOM and that TRUE FREEDOM can only be found in Jesus Christ.

So what has Jesus set us free from?

•     HE FREES US FROM THE LAW

•     Romans 7:6 ~ “But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.”

•     Galatians 5:18 ~ “But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.”

•     Acts 15:10 ~ “Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?”

•     Colossians 2:14 ~ “by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.”

•     HE FREES US FROM SIN

•     Romans 6:6–7 ~ “6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. 7 For one who has died has been set free from sin.”

•     Romans 6:22 ~ “But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.”

•     Isaiah 35:8 ~ “And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.”

•     HE FREES US FROM CONDEMNATION

•     Romans 8:1 ~ “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”

•     John 5:24 ~ “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.”

•     HE FREES US FROM SATAN’S POWER

•     1 John 5:18 ~ “We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.”

•     Some people are bound by the spirit of prejudice, envy, unforgiveness and hatred. This is because they are bound by Satan’s power.

•     1 Peter 5:8 ~ “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.”

•     1 John 4:4 ~ “Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”

•     HE FREES US FROM DEATH

•     John 3:16 ~ “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

•     John 11:26 ~ “and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?””

•     Romans 6:23 ~ “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

•     Christian death is not a state, but a change from death to life, from one world to another.

•     HE FREES US FROM HELL

•     Revelation 1:18 ~ “and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades.”

It is foolish to allow Satan and sin to reign and have dominion over us. This pathway leads to heartaches, hopelessness and hell. When Jesus sets us free, we are no longer bound by other powers here or hereafter. His pathway is one of hope, happiness and heaven.