We're in the final week of the message series called,

heal your hurting mind.

And I want to talk to you today about a category of mental health

that a lot of people don't always talk about.

We have a spiritual enemy, we know that,

and their spiritual enemy attacks those that are pursuing the heart of God.

And our spiritual enemy doesn't just attack you

when you're struggling, but he often attacks even harder when you're healing. Many of you've made

progress the last few weeks and you're starting to grow closer to God and feel a little bit of peace

and maybe a little bit of hope and maybe at some point when you start to sleep a little bit

better or the anxiety is not as constant that's when fear often whispers what if the progress

that you've been making doesn't last? What if the problem

that you once had comes back? What if you're not really better? What if you're not really healed?

And that fear is very, very real. And the Bible speaks directly to it in many different

places. And we're going to look at many of those verses today. In fact, Paul said this in Galatians

5.1. He said, so Christ has truly set us free by the power of Jesus. The truth is Jesus and the truth sets us free.

Christ sets us free. And then watch what Paul says. He says, now make sure that you stay free.

Make sure you've been set free. Make sure you stay free and don't get tied up again in slavery to the law.

Now, the context of this verse, Paul is talking about freedom from the law, but this principle applies to anywhere in any category of life when Christ sets us free. In fact, I want to show you a very direct and very literal translation of this verse.

The English standard version is probably the most literal,

and it says, for freedom, Christ has set us free.

For freedom, Christ has set us free. In the Greek, Paul uses the same root word

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