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Experience True Freedom In Jesus.

“Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 
They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will be made free’?”Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” 
(John 8: 31-36).

Freedom is one of God’s attributes. It is the essence of God. 
He created man in His image and likeness, i.e., free as He is free. 
When Eve and Adam refused to focus on the eternal life, God’ life, and they were tempted to obey the evil’s thought and snare, they automatically got separated from His life. 
Sin and death entered their entity, and they felt naked, empty, and enslaved.
They became slaves to what they obeyed. 
Freedom is the opposite of slavery. 
Jesus said that if anything controls us, we will be enslaved to. 
We read this in the Gospel of John, chapter eight, 

“Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 
And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. 
Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed” 
(John 8:34-36). 

So freedom means nothing controls our will; we can choose whatever is good for us. 
We are free to contemplate in the Holy Spirit and receive the truth, which will free us.  
When we accept Jesus Christ and receive Him in the Holy Spirit, we can say like St. Paul in his epistle to the Romans, chapter six, 

“knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 
For he who has died has been freed from sin.”
(Romans6: 6-7). 

We are now people who sought to live a transformed life because of our new life in Christ.
St. Paul advised us in his epistle to the Romans, chapter twelve, saying, 

“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
(Romans 12:2). 

In the same epistle, chapter six, St. Paul explained the freedom in Christ seen in contrast to the bondage of sin, saying, 

"For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 
But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 
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. 
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."  

In other words, sin enslaves people for spiritual death and eternity apart from God.  
But Christ provides freedom from the control of sin and gives eternal life with Him. 
Also, freedom in Christ is the only proper form of freedom because it allows for lasting freedom beyond this life. 
When we receive Jesus, we become His children and find freedom in Him.
In St. Paul’s epistle to the Galatians, he notes that we are now children and heirs of the inheritance of eternal life with Christ for eternity. 
In short, Jesus gave us the power to resist the slavery of sin and overcome it. 
Having this control over sin and being set free, means we have Christ in us, abiding in Him in the Holy Spirit. 
We, as believers, now seek to live a transformed life because of the new free life we have in Christ. We must put off all the old sinful and worldly ways and habits and develop new patterns that honor God. 
This newness manifests itself in our spiritual condition, our relationships, and our hearts. 
Amen.

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