1. Galatians 5:13–14
For you, brothers, were called to liberty. Only use your freedom to serve one another through love, not as an opportunity for the flesh. For one word sums up the entire law: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Read More!
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The Christian life is not enslaving; rather, it is the only way to resist the world's various slaveries. However, this does not imply that Christians are free to do whatever they want (which itself is just another form of slavery). Rather, serving and loving others is the key to breaking free from slavery and fulfilling the law's ultimate purpose.
Verse 13 refers to circumcision as a symbol of freedom from Mosaic laws. “Opportunity for the flesh” means “opportunity to act contrary to God's moral laws and follow your fallen, sinful desires.”
2. Romans 8:1–4
As a result, those who are in Christ Jesus are no longer condemned. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free from the law of sin and death in Christ Jesus. Because God has accomplished what the law, which was weakened by the flesh, could not. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not in the flesh but in the Spirit. Read More!
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Because God has condemned sin in the flesh by sending his own Son (Rom. 8:3) to pay the penalty for sin through his death on the cross, the Christian has "no condemnation." With ten references to the Spirit in Romans 8: 4–11, the following verses show that indwelling sin is overcome through the power of the indwelling Spirit.
The Holy Spirit's work in believers' lives has broken the power of sin in their lives, demonstrating that they are in Christ. In both cases, the term "law" refers to a set of principles. The law (in this case, the Mosaic law) could not solve humanity's problem because, as Romans 7 explains, sin uses the law for its own purposes. God sent his Son to be a sin offering (an idiomatic term for a sin sacrifice) and to pay the full penalty for sin in his sacrifice (condemned sin). “In the flesh” refers to Christ's physical body, and “in the likeness of sinful flesh” means that Jesus, despite being sinless, became fully human.
Verse 4 could refer to the full penalty of the law being met at the cross, or it could refer to the new life that Christians live as a result of Christ's work.
3.Acts 13:37–39
Let it be known to you, brothers, that forgiveness of sins is proclaimed through this man, and everyone who believes is set free from everything from which you could not be set free by Moses' law. Read More!
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The Greek word (dikaioo) means "to declare innocent, to justify," and it is frequently translated as "justified." Jews attempted to deal with their sin by following Moses' law. The law, on the other hand, cannot free a person from sin, not only because everyone breaks it, but also because it was never intended to provide effective atonement for sins (Gal. 3:10–14; Heb. 10:1–14); only those who believe in Christ and his atoning sacrifice are free from sin and acceptable to God.
4.Romans 6:16–18
Do you realize that if you present yourself to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of whoever you obey, whether you obey sin, which leads to death, or obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, you who were once slaves of sin have become slaves of righteousness by becoming obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed after being set free from sin. Continue reading
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For Christians, moral decisions are still important. Giving in to sin leads to people becoming more and more obedient slaves to sin. This type of behavior eventually leads to death, not that true believers can lose their salvation, but that sin leads them in that direction, away from fully enjoying life with Christ. Those who devote their entire lives to sin will perish (face eternal punishment).
True Christians, on the other hand, will never be slaves to sin because God has changed their hearts at conversion, causing them to grow in their love of righteousness and obedience to God's Word.
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
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The Messiah will preach into existence his new, liberated people, who will pray into existence his new, redeemed world. This looks back to Isaiah 48:16, and thus the speaker is the messianic servant, who creates a new people by his Spirit-empowered preaching (Isa. 11:2; Isa. 59:21). Isaiah explains the goal of Messiah’s anointing with seven purpose clauses. See Isaiah 11:4; Isaiah 29:19; Matthew 5:3.
The return from Babylonian exile is referred to as "the opening of the prison," but it also refers to spiritual freedom from the oppression of sin and Satan. “The year of the LORD's favor,” says the prophet. A new era of blessings has begun (cf. Isa. 34:8; 63:4; 2 Cor. 6:2). Because the display of our God's wrath awaits Christ's second coming (cf. Isa. 5:25–29; 63:1–6; Acts 17:31; Rev. 6:15–17), Jesus did not include it in this text in Nazareth (Luke 4:18–19).
6. 1 Peter 2:16–17
Live as free people who aren't using their freedom to cover up evil, but rather as servants of God. Everyone should be respected. Brotherhood is something I admire. God is to be feared. Honor the emperor. Continue reading
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In Scripture, freedom does not imply a license to sin, but rather a commitment to what is good (cf. Gal. 5:13–14). Everyone deserves to be treated with the same dignity and respect as the emperor. God is the only one to be feared. As members of the same family, believers should have a tender love for one another.
7. 2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is Spirit, and where the Lord's Spirit is, there is liberty.Continue reading
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For this difficult and condensed statement, various explanations have been proposed: Paul could be implying that Christ and the Spirit work in tandem in the Christian's life—that the Lord (Christ) comes to us through the Spirit's ministry (though they are still two distinct persons).
Another theory (based on the reference in 2 Cor.3:16 to Ex. 34:34, “Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him”) is that the “Lord” here refers to the Old Testament Yahweh (“the LORD”) (that is, God in his whole being without specifying Father, Son, or Spirit). In this case, Paul is implying that Yahweh is not only Father and Son in the Old Testament, but also Spirit.
In either case, Paul's main point appears to be that the Christian's experience of the Spirit's ministry under the new covenant (2 Cor. 3:3–8) is similar to Moses' experience of the Lord under the old covenant—that is, that the Spirit (under the new covenant) frees one from the veil of hardness (2 Cor. 3:12–15). Paul frequently distinguishes Christ from the Holy Spirit in his writings, and this is certainly the case here, since he speaks of the Spirit of the Lord later in this verse. Furthermore, it should not be assumed that Paul is teaching that any of the Trinity's members (Father, Son, or Spirit) are the same person, as this would be the heresy of modalism;
Instead, Paul emphasizes the three persons of the Trinity's gracious unity of purpose. Though the context is unclear, “there is freedom” most likely refers to the various types of freedom that come with salvation in Christ and the presence of the Holy Spirit, such as freedom from condemnation, guilt, sin, death, the old covenant, and gospel blindness, as well as freedom to enter God's loving presence.
8.Galatians 4:28–5:1
You, brothers, are now, like Isaac, children of promise. But, just as at that time, those who were born of the flesh persecuted those who were born of the Spirit, so it is now. But what does the Bible say about this? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of a slave woman shall not inherit with the son of a free woman.” So, brothers, we are not slaves, but free women's children. Because Christ has set us free, stand firm and do not submit to a yoke of slavery again. Continue reading
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The Galatians have become God's children by an act of God's gracious and miraculous power, not by human effort, in a way similar to Isaac's miraculous birth.
Just as Ishmael persecuted Isaac (though this is implied by Gen. 21:9), Jews who seek justification through human effort are now persecuting Christians who trust God's promise of justification through faith. When Hagar conceived, “she looked with contempt on her mistress,” according to Genesis 16:4. This is mirrored in the fact that non-Christian and pseudo-Christian Jews are now persecuting Christians like Paul (as seen in Gal. 6:17). The cycle of history is repeating itself.
“Cast out the slave woman and her son,” and, by extension, all those who are represented by them in this allegory, i.e. those who seek justification through their own efforts. This means that those who preach the false gospel of works-justification should not be allowed to teach in a Christ-following church.
Those who seek salvation through the law will be cut off from salvation. As a result, Paul cautions and encourages his readers not to depart from the faith. We have been set free from Jewish ceremonial laws and regulations (see note on 2:11–12), but not from God's moral standards (Gal. 5:14–6:1).
9. 1 Corinthians 6:12
“Everything is legal for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “I am free to do whatever I want,” I say, but I will not be ruled by anything. Continue reading
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The quotation marks around this phrase have been added both here and in 10:23 to indicate that it is most likely a popular slogan among the Corinthians. “Food,” she says. Another Corinthian slogan is probably "for the stomach." The Corinthians have adopted the idea that the body is allowed to have whatever it desires from the culture around them. Paul understands that human desires are tainted by sin, which uses them to master a person for its own evil ends (Rom. 6:6, 12, 16–22; 7:7–25).
10. John 8:31–36
“Everything is legal for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “I am free to do whatever I want,” I say, but I will not be ruled by anything. Continue reading “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free,” Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him. “We are Abraham's descendants and have never been enslaved to anyone,” they replied. “How do you say, ‘You will become free,'” I ask. “Truly, truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin,” Jesus replied. The slave does not stay in the house indefinitely, but the son does. As a result, if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free. Continue reading
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Throughout the story, their "belief" is shown to be false (see John 8:33–47). To continue believing what Jesus has said and walking in obedience to him is to abide in his word. This verse demonstrates that continuing to trust and obey Jesus is one of the ways to determine who are truly my disciples.
The connection between John 8:31 and John 8:32 shows that Jesus is only talking about one way to know the truth, which is to continue to believe and obey his word. liberate you From the guilt and enslavement that sinful patterns of behavior bring.
A person who is a slave to sin is unable to break free from sinful patterns of behavior without the assistance of Jesus (see John 8:36).
“Sets you free” refers to freedom from both sin's guilt and its life-controlling power (and probably also from the accompanying influence of demonic activity, as Jesus mentions in John 8:44).
The ESV Study Bible was used to adapt all of the commentary sections.
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