As we near the end of our week on simple Christianity, we look today the simple

truth of our freedom in Christ. Our sin and bondage often feels like a convoluted web that

entangles us. And Satan would like nothing more than to keep us foggy and

confused about the freedom and righteousness bought for us through the precious blood. and presence. When we gain clarity and deep understanding of the freedom afforded to us as

children of God, may we adopt the simple truth of our freedom and truly be set free.

Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our verse for today comes from 2 Corinthians 317.

Scripture says,

Now the Lord is the Spirit,

and where the Spirit of the Lord is,

there is freedom.

Freedom from sin is not something we pay for with our own blood, sweat, and tears.

It's not bought by any measure of human strength or will, but by the precious and powerful blood of Jesus Christ.

Scripture tells clearly of the pervasive and liberating effects of Jesus' death

for all those who come to believe in him and claim him as Lord.

May we be children freed from the bonds of slavery Christ died to set us free from.

Romans 8 1 through 4 says, there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

For the law of the spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

For God has done with the law weakened by the flesh could not do. By sending his

own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin he condemned sin in the flesh

in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us

who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

With the filling of the spirit came a new law, a new covenant by which the chains of sin are broken. We're no longer

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