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What it Means to Be Free in Christ

Luke 4:16-21 (KJV)

16And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 20And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

Jesus Came To Make Us Free

Jesus among other things came to set us free. Set us free from the authority of darkness and to set us free from oppression and free from anything the enemy meant to use to steal kill or destroy us. The above Scripture said that he came to set at liberty, or to free those who had been bruised. Well, all of us had been bruised by the entrance of sin into the world, and by being born into a fallen world ruled by the god of this world-Satan. So since we were the bruised then our freedom is found in Christ. We should know that our freedom has been bought and paid for through the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But what exactly does that mean. One day when I was praying and preparing to speak on a Wednesday night to our adult congregation, the Lord gave me this acronym, showing me and allowing me to show others exactly what Jesus meant when he said that He came to set at liberty or free those who were bruised.

Forgetting the Past

Philippians 3:12-16 (KJV)