The Law of Liberty (VCL)
December 22, 2024
1 Corinthians 9:27 I keep on disciplining my body, making it serve me so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not somehow be disqualified.
Learn from this humility and caution and watch against surrounding spiritual dangers.
Hebrews:12:14-15 Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up and causes you trouble, or many of you will become defiled.
Bear up under your trials with faith and patience. Faith and patience enable believers to follow peace and holiness, as a one follows his calling constantly, diligently, and with pleasure.
What is the means by which God's mercy and blessing are obtained?
How do I go all in for a holy, dynamic Christian life?
-beliefs must become action
-the bible must be practiced
-life must be holy - by the Holy Spirit in us.
Oh God, how miserably I have failed to yield myself to the Holy Spirit, through whose power alone I can obey!
Walk in the Light as He is in the Light
1 John 1:5-7 God is light, and in Him there is no darkness - none at all. If we claim that we have fellowship with Him but keep living in darkness, we are lying and not practice in the truth. But if we keep living in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
Let us plead guilty before God, be humble, and willing to know the worst of our case. Let us honestly confess all our sins in their full extent, relying wholly on His mercy and truth through the righteousness of Christ, for a free and full forgiveness, and our deliverance from the power and practice of sin.
The Law is no longer an obligation, it is a sheer delight to do the will of God and from within him the love of God is shed abroad by the Holy Spirit. (Romans 5:5)
Hate what God hates and love what God loves. Grieve and mourn over sin for Jesus' sake and pray "O God, make me holy."
I am constrained to practice devotion and inspiration in my life. I am moved and compelled along because within me there is the fire of the love of Jesus.
Oh, that in me the sacred fire
Might now begin to glow;
Burn up the dross of base desire,
And make the mountains flow,
And make the mountains flow.
(Jesus, Thine All-Victorious Love by Charles Wesley)
Psalm 40:8 I delight to do Your will, my god. Your Law is part of my inner being.
Repent and humble yourself before the Lord quickly because the days are short. Do not trifle with God and play with New Testament holiness. Go to the cross and get right with God! There is no alternative. You must choose between life and death, blessing or cursing. (Deuteronomy 30:19)
Strategy for recovering ground that has been lost.
The Law of Liberty is realizing:
- the place that God must have in my life
- the way by which I am blessed
- the way by which I would be cursed