Everyone who sins is a slave to sin

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Set Free

John 8:31a-32 tells you listening to the voice of Christ and acknowledging Him is the path to freedom. The truth will set you free.

Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.

You want to be free, but free from what?

Read on from the same place in the Bible to find the answer.

Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. ~ John 8:34-36

Everyone who sins is a slave to sin. However, Christ sets you free from sin, but you must continue to listen to Him and yield to Him. You must continuously live, move, and have your being in His leading, teaching, and correcting. If you hear without responding, you aren’t abiding in His leading, teaching, and correcting. However, if you respond to His voice in willing submission and obedience, you abide in His leading, teaching, and correcting. If you allow Him to say His words through you and do His works through you, He will set you free from your slavery to sin. If He sets you free, then you are free indeed.

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How can you know the truth and be set free?

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Truth is real. Truth exists. And you can know the truth. Truth is within your reach. Consider the following Scripture:

If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. ~ John 8:31a-32

Truth isn’t too high of a goal regardless of what the intellectuals tell you. There’s a way you can find the truth, and that way is Jesus Christ and the revelation that flows from Him to you.

Here’s a question you must answer before you can go forward. How can you take hold of what you just read in John 8:31a-32 and make it useful to you today? How can you know the truth and be set free?

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Focus on how you can know the truth and what that means for your life.

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What about the power of God and what He intends for the church? That’s something that I’m still not able to grasp. You may find God telling you His power and authority is already in your hand. If God’s people could just know and understand all the power and authority He’s put into their hands, then, every sickness would be healed. Then, no problem could stop them. Then, they would defeat every evil foe. Then, nothing good would be impossible for them. You’ll have to work that out with God directly. Focus on how you can know the truth and what that means for your life.

Nothing of the truth God is revealing is complicated. If anything, it’s too obvious and simple. However, some of it may be new and different. God brings up truths you had never considered. It’s normal for human beings to have trouble accepting extreme changes in their thinking. People who easily change from one view of the world to another are just as easily swayed toward lies as they are toward the truth. If some of this seems a bit much for you, that’s normal. God may tell you things that conflict with what you considered reality. Some truths may be too hard to accept right away. In those times, turn to God. Ask Him about those truths that seem hard to understand. Ask God to sort them out for you and help you understand any truth. Don’t rush. Give it time.

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Looking back to the French Revolution, we see the early seeds of the Progressives/Liberals and the Conservatives.

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I can only imagine what unbelievers would think if confronted with the truth. They already turned away from the Light of Christ because they knew what that Light would do. It would convict them.         It would expose their self-righteousness. It would expose their sins. That Light would ask them to turn from their sins. Those sins are their meaning and purpose. Those sins are the center of their lives. They look at the call of Christ to righteousness and holiness as a form of slavery. They hear about heaven, and it sounds like hell to them. They take pride in their intellect. They take pride in their self-generated goodness and self-styled morality. They love their independence from God, His righteousness, and His love. Then, God tells them everything they value is worthless. Picture the truth falling into the hands of people like that and what they would think. If they do hear the truth, I pray they have the patience to listen and take it to heart. I pray they ask Jesus Christ to reveal Himself to them and show them God’s ways are far above ways that exclude God.

Looking back to the French Revolution, we see the early seeds of the Progressives/Liberals and the Conservatives. The Liberals wanted to be free from dependence on God. The wanted to move quickly to kill all Christians, and they were quite effective at killing. The Conservatives also wanted to be free from any constraints God might put on them, but they wanted to move slowly, or, in extreme cases, wanted everything to remain as it was. In the government, the Liberals sat to the left and the Conservatives sat to the right. Both opposed God but in different ways. They were two sides of the same thing. And yet, there has always been a light. There has always been a remnant wholeheartedly seeking God and His will.

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ALL knowledge and wisdom are hidden in Christ. The human mind can’t reason to truth.

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Weakness

It took me decades to accept the weakness of my mind. I had thought my mind was reliable. I did wonder about some of my friends’ minds, but I didn’t question my own. So, learning that my thoughts had no foundation was a shock. I couldn’t believe I based so much of my thinking on vapor. I couldn’t believe I had made up so much of what I thought was real. Some of my thoughts were grounded in truth, but many of them were not. Some had no underlying truth at all

ALL knowledge and wisdom are hidden in Christ. The human mind can’t reason to truth. Without truth, rational thought is impossible. It’s divine revelation or made-up stuff. Made-up stuff is building on sand. Christ is the Rock. The revelation that comes from Christ cannot be separated from Christ, the Rock. However, we can’t store up revelation and keep it alive. Revelation is alive only as it flows from Christ in the moment. We need that kind of relationship, just letting ourselves flow in His wisdom, knowledge, understanding, authority, and power. The minute we disconnect from Christ, we disconnect from the Life. The minute we start to analyze, add our reasoning, or try to figure things out, we pollute the pure revelation.

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They’re under the influence of the false teachers, lying counselors, and secular false prophets you’ve been avoiding

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Peers

Some of your friends and acquaintances make it harder to hear God. Peers pressure you. They’re under the influence of the false teachers, lying counselors, and false prophets you’ve been avoiding. They work against you spiritually. Some of your most caustic contacts stir up fear within you, and you react to that fear instead of listening to God’s voice.

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.” ~ 1 Corinthians 15:33

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A word of warning: false prophets always call real prophets false.

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Enemies from the outside distort your judgment. These are false teachers, lying counselors, and false prophets. They hide their lies in news media and education. They plant their seeds through the themes of movies, cartoons, and novels. They influence you through entertainment and magazines. They can be very subtle or in your face, but they have their effect. If you’re spending time with any of these, you may wonder why you aren’t making spiritual progress and why God’s voice is hard to discern. Wonder no longer.

A word of warning: false prophets always call real prophets false. It’s part of the game of putting light for darkness and darkness for light. Only in Christ will you have discernment between the genuine and the fake.

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If you seek the Holy Spirit, He will begin to weaken your preconceptions and set you free.

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Negative emotions are inner enemies. The other inner enemies are preconceptions. You may have heard about worldviews or paradigms. Worldviews and paradigms are preconceptions that seem real but aren’t real. They can deceive you. However, if you seek the Holy Spirit, He will begin to weaken those preconceptions and set you free.

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What are Your Stumbling Blocks?

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I’ll confess that I’ve made many mistakes. I’ve been deceived by false teaching, and my deception hurt those around me. I was seeking the mind of God, but my own stubborn will and emotions made me susceptible to deception. Which emotions tripped me? Feeling sorry for myself. Anger. Fear. Bitterness. Worrying that I was missing out. Wanting to be important. Religious pride. Wanting to prove myself right, better, or more understanding than others. Covetousness. Envy. Wanting people to like me. Those aren’t the only possible emotions that could cause problems. Those were my stumbling blocks. Those were the ones that made it hard for me to know the difference between God’s voice and my own voice.

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Cognitive Dissonance versus Seeing Reality

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Cognitive Dissonance

I confess that I suffered from cognitive dissonance as God was speaking to me about many of the truths. I grew up in a world of religion without the kind of power God shows you in Scripture. I grew up in a world of Christian Rationalism, Naturalism, and Materialism. As God peeled back the layers, each layer was difficult for me to accept. I kept asking, “Could this be true?” I didn’t just balk at one thing. I balked at many things God showed me. I just had trouble believing any of it. Fortunately, God didn’t unload everything on me at once. He spoon-fed me a little at a time. He was patient with my unbelief.

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