Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”
Freedom
Galatians 5:1 “Freedom is what we have - Christ has set us free! Stand, then, as free people, and do not allow yourselves to become slaves again.” (GNB)
Galatians 5:1 “Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again….” (NLT)
Galatians 5:1 “Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.” (Message)
Freedom from Satan
Romans 16:20 “The God of peace will soon crush satan under your feet.”
1 John 3:8b “For this purpose was the Son of God manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil.”
1 John 4:4 “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.”
Freedom From Sin
Luke 4:1-2a, 13 “Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, where He was tempted by the devil for forty days. When the devil had finished tempting Jesus, he left Him until the next opportunity came.”
Romans 8:2 “The Holy Spirit will give you life that comes from Christ Jesus and will set you free from sin and death.”
Galatians 5:16-17b “Let the Spirit direct your lives, and you will not satisfy the desires of the human nature. For what our human nature wants is opposed to what the Spirit wants, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to what our human nature wants. These two are enemies…”
Galatians 5:24 “Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to His cross and crucified them there.”
Freedom From Self
Romans 7:18-19 “I know that my selfish desires won’t let me do anything that is good. Even when I want to do right, I cannot. Instead of doing what I know is right, I do wrong.”
Galatians 5:19-21 “When you follow the desires of your sinful nature,the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”
James 1:14-15 “Temptation comes from the lure of our own evil desires. 15These evil desires lead to evil actions, and evil actions lead to death.”
The big idea: There is freedom!