As we near the end of our week on simple Christianity, we look today at the simple truth of our freedom in Christ. Our sin and bondage often feels like a convoluted web that entangles us. Satan would like nothing more than to keep us foggy and confused about the

freedom and righteousness bought for us through the precious blood of Jesus. Today I'm praying

that chains are broken in God's presence. May 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 15 podcast. Second

Corinthians 318 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 us 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

what the law weakened by the flesh could not do.

By sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemns sin in the

flesh in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walked

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 are no longer condemned

to live under the tyranny of sin, but rather freed to live under the new law of the spirit.

And where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

The simple truth of Scripture in regard to sin is that freedom is ours through Christ Jesus.

To experience true freedom of sin is to simply live in the light of the powerful infilling of the

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