Today we'll explore the experience of God's freedom as it relates to our identity and what we believe about ourselves.

Many of us have yet to truly taste the freedom available to us through the finished work of Christ.

There is nothing else like it in the world.

It is my prayer you are liberated today,

and that your thinking towards yourself changes,

and in result changes your actions.

Christ said his work was finished on the cross, and it's about time we start

living in the new reality he instated for us. Welcome to the first 15 podcast. Our scripture for today comes from Romans 6 verses 1 through 4.

Scripture says,

What shall we say then?

Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

By no means. How can we who died to sin still live in it?

Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

We were buried, therefore, with him by baptism into death. In order that just as

Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

The Christian experience of freedom was not established by the power and endurance of mankind,

but by the sacrifice and love of our God.

The freedom we experience is not our own, but his.

Apart from the redemption bought for us, we have no strength to resist sin.

And apart from continually renewing our minds to the truth of this redemption,

we'll continue to act as if chains that were broken long ago still tie us down

to the world from which we've been successfully ransomed.

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