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and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

All right, welcome back to the Daily Blade. This week, we are going to be in part of Galatians

five. We will not make it all the way through, but we're just marching verse by verse through

the book of Galatians. We're only going to do one verse today, Galatians chapter five, beginning

in verse one. God's word says, for freedom, Christ has set us free.

Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. For freedom, Christ has set us

free. That freedom is a result of the gospel, not control. Now, I know this sounds counterintuitive, but Jesus himself says, if you want to find your life,

if you try to spend your whole life finding your life, you're going to lose it.

But if you lose your life to him, in losing your life to him, that's where you're going to find it.

You see, in essence, if you're a believer in Christ, then Christ died on the cross, not only to forgive you of her sins, but to set you

free. And so if you are not experiencing an immense amount of freedom in your Christian walk, then you're not doing it right.

Now, I don't want to overstate it because it is a struggle.

There is a battle.

The Spirit of God is sanctifying us, and we still have the desires of the flesh,

but the ultimate result of Christ is freedom.

Dr. John Piper said this one time, some version of, in heaven, you're going to wake up

every day, not that you sleep in heaven, but in heaven, you wake up every day, do whatever you want,

and feel absolutely no regret. Why? Because you have been so conformed into the image and likeness of

Christ that you will walk in the freedom that he has

purchased for you. Now, the reality is, is that it is for freedom that Christ has said is free,

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