Freedom in Spiritual Poverty

First15 Devotional

First15

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Today we’ll finish up our week on living poor in spirit by exploring how spiritual freedom is tied to spiritual poverty. May you be stirred up today to live free as you hold tightly to the truths of God’s kingdom. Abundant life is available to us now as we seek to live low and abide in Jesus.

Our Scripture for today comes from 1 Peter 2:16. Today's worship is Freedom Song by Christy Nockels.

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0:00.0	Today we'll finish up our week on living poor in spirit by exploring how spiritual freedom is tied to spiritual poverty.
0:13.0	May you be stirred up today to live free as you hold tightly to the truths of God's kingdom.
0:19.0	Abundant life is available to us now as we seek to live low and abide in
0:24.0	Jesus. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. There is abundant freedom from sin available to those
0:32.7	who acknowledge their brokenness and look to God for help. God's heart is for freedom. He came,
0:39.8	died, and rose again that we might no longer be entangled to the burdens of this world,
0:45.2	but be set free to experience the fullness of heaven on earth. Isaiah 61-1 foretold of Jesus'
0:52.7	purposes on the earth and saying,
0:55.0	The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.
1:02.0	He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound. Through the powerful sacrifice of
1:13.2	Jesus in living and dying for us, we have been set free. But the Bible is clear that walking
1:18.9	in freedom made available by the blood of Jesus only happens as we continually yield our lives to
1:25.8	him on a daily basis.
1:30.0	Romans 6, 7, and 11 say,
1:33.4	For the one who has died has been set free from sin.
1:37.1	So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
1:39.8	1. Peter 2.16 says,
1:41.3	live as people who are free,
1:43.5	not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil,
1:46.7	but living as servants of God. And Galatians 1513 says, for you are called to freedom, brothers,
1:53.8	when we do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love, serve one another.
2:00.6	We experience continual freedom as we submit
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