ARE YOU FREE INDEED?

TOPIC: ARE YOU FREE INDEED?
TEXT: JOHN 8:31-47

One can have independence and still lost his freedom; a nation can have autonomy, independence to run its affairs and not free. Enemies ruled when Israelites had judges (Read the Book of Judges), they threshed wheat by winepress. If a nation, a people will not retain God in their hearts, they will labour in vain and suffer in plenty. Corruption has no colour anymore in our land; leaders at all levels are behaving like babies, forgetting that it is God that placed them in those positions. The point is if we are all behaving like babies we differs not from servants even though we be the Lord of all. There might be resources all over the land, but when we are not ready to turn to God and repent from our evil ways, there will be suffering in the land.

How is your way like as a child of God? Can heaven recognize you to be His even in the face of the evil, wickedness and atrocities that pervade the land? How are you living your life as a child of God? Have you not joined them when you cannot beat them? When God wanted to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, He saw Lot and his household. Lot had every reason to live like those people, but he did not allow the behaviours and characters of the Sodomites to take away what he had received and believed. He lived for God. Who are you living for? Will you confess and affirm that the God, the Only True One will be your God even in the face of intimidation and fear?

As a nation and as an individual, it is better and rewarding to turn and run to the only True God. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin, a reproach. In order to live in the freedom that Christ gives, do the following: 1) REALIZE THAT JESUS SUPPLIES ALL WE NEED TO BE FREE – Acts 10:38, 1 John 3:8, Luke 4:18, Galatians 5:1. 2) STUDY AND YIELD TO THE WORD OF GOD – 2 Timothy 3:16, John 8:30-35; 15:7. 3) GUARD YOUR MIND – Philippians 4:8, 2 Corinthians 10:3. 4) GUARD YOUR HEART - Proverbs 4:23-27, Matthew 15:18-19. 5) GUARD YOUR MOUTH - James 3:2-9. 6) SET YOUR WILL TO DO GOD’S WILL - 2 Timothy 2:6-7; James 4:7, John 8:29, Matthew 26:39-42, Colossians 3:1, 2. 7) KNOW YOUR POSITION OF VICTORY IN CHRIST - Colossians 3:3-11; Romans 8:31-39. 8) DECLARE VICTORY THROUGH YOUR TESTIMONY - Revelation 12:10-11. 9) DESTROY ALL OCCULTIC OBJECTS AND MATERIALS IN YOUR HOUSE AND HEART - Exodus 32:20; Leviticus 26:1; 1 Corinthians 10:19; Acts 19:17-20; 1 Thessalonians 5:22.

Other include 10) RELY ON THE ARMOR OF GOD - Ephesians 6:10-20. 11) PRAY AND FAST WITH UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION, THE WORD OF GOD AND YOUR LOCATION - Matthew 6:16-18; 17:20-21. 12) RELATIONSHIPS AND AGREEING WITH OTHERS OF FAITH - Acts 2:42-43; Matthew 18:19-20; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; Leviticus 26:3-13. 13) AVOIDING THE ENTANGLEMENTS OF THE PAST - Philippians 3:13-14; Proverbs 3:31; 12:26. 14) FORGIVE - Hebrews 12:14; Ephesians 4: 26-32; Matthew 18:29-35.

Word Affirmation: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free - John 8:32 (Don't just say it, mean it!)

“As a nation and as an individual, it is better and rewarding to turn and run to the only True God. "
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