This powerful teaching challenges us to reconsider our relationship with God's law through the lens of freedom rather than bondage. We're invited into a fascinating exploration of what it truly means to be 'set free' in Christ—not freedom from all boundaries, but freedom to walk in righteousness. The central message revolves around James's concept of 'the perfect law that gives freedom' and Paul's declaration in Galatians 5:1 about standing firm in our liberty. What emerges is a stunning paradox: the law we sometimes view as restrictive is actually our companion, walking beside us like a lamp lighting a treacherous path filled with spiritual landmines. The sermon draws from Psalm 19, which declares the law of the Lord as perfect, refreshing the soul, and making the wise simple. We're reminded that the problem was never with God's law—which is holy, spiritual, and righteous—but with our flesh's inability to keep it. This is where Christ enters: He didn't abolish the law but fulfilled it, dealing with our sinful nature so we could finally walk in the law's true intention. The teaching beautifully unpacks how Jesus, when asked about eternal life in Luke 18, pointed to the commandments, revealing that keeping the law isn't about legalistic adherence but understanding its heart. The freedom Christ offers is the freedom to die to ourselves so we can truly live—forgiving without demanding apology, loving without keeping score, and walking deliberately as our Father walks. This is the law of liberty: love God completely and love our neighbor as ourselves.
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This powerful teaching challenges us to reconsider our relationship with God's law through the lens of freedom rather than bondage. We're invited into a fascinating exploration of what it truly means to be 'set free' in Christ—not freedom from all boundaries, but freedom to walk in righteousness. The central message revolves around James's concept of 'the perfect law that gives freedom' and Paul's declaration in Galatians 5:1 about standing firm in our liberty. What emerges is a stunning paradox: the law we sometimes view as restrictive is actually our companion, walking beside us like a lamp lighting a treacherous path filled with spiritual landmines. The sermon draws from Psalm 19, which declares the law of the Lord as perfect, refreshing the soul, and making the wise simple. We're reminded that the problem was never with God's law—which is holy, spiritual, and righteous—but with our flesh's inability to keep it. This is where Christ enters: He didn't abolish the law but fulfilled it, dealing with our sinful nature so we could finally walk in the law's true intention. The teaching beautifully unpacks how Jesus, when asked about eternal life in Luke 18, pointed to the commandments, revealing that keeping the law isn't about legalistic adherence but understanding its heart. The freedom Christ offers is the freedom to die to ourselves so we can truly live—forgiving without demanding apology, loving without keeping score, and walking deliberately as our Father walks. This is the law of liberty: love God completely and love our neighbor as ourselves.
Women are naturally wired to be good friends because they are more inclined towards relational depth and emotional connection. In our relationships we need to learn how to hold confidentiality, not be involved in character assassination, but rather be dignified, temperate and trustworthy. Women are naturally more sensitive and aware, and men need to learn how to tap into it. Women are naturally empathetic, compassionate, nurturing, have a capacity to carry emotional things, loyal, emotionally honest, intuitive, encouraging, have relational endurance, and naturally hospitable. To become a good confidant, it starts by being able to keep things received from the Lord a secret until He releases it to be shared. Then one should be able to keep your word to not share a confidentiality placed in your care. How one treats a confidentiality reveals your character, spiritual maturity, as well as your reverence for God. Confidentiality builds trust, strengthens love and promotes peace. Confidentiality protects peoples’ dignity, stops gossip in its tracts, covers in prayer and always speaks life with words that heal, restore and encourage. We should be like protective bank vaults where people can confidently leave their secrets. Being a woman of confidentiality means that you will not pass on what has been shared in confidence (except in cases where silence means being an accessory to something that needs to be dealt with), praying before speaking, honouring other peoples’ reputation as if it was your own, listening more than speaking, not participating in gossip even by silent agreement and before speaking questioning yourself with – what I am about to say, is it true? Necessary to say it? Is it kind, encouraging, or hurtful? Let us reflect the character of Christ in every conversation.
John Wasserman Podcast
This powerful teaching challenges us to reconsider our relationship with God's law through the lens of freedom rather than bondage. We're invited into a fascinating exploration of what it truly means to be 'set free' in Christ—not freedom from all boundaries, but freedom to walk in righteousness. The central message revolves around James's concept of 'the perfect law that gives freedom' and Paul's declaration in Galatians 5:1 about standing firm in our liberty. What emerges is a stunning paradox: the law we sometimes view as restrictive is actually our companion, walking beside us like a lamp lighting a treacherous path filled with spiritual landmines. The sermon draws from Psalm 19, which declares the law of the Lord as perfect, refreshing the soul, and making the wise simple. We're reminded that the problem was never with God's law—which is holy, spiritual, and righteous—but with our flesh's inability to keep it. This is where Christ enters: He didn't abolish the law but fulfilled it, dealing with our sinful nature so we could finally walk in the law's true intention. The teaching beautifully unpacks how Jesus, when asked about eternal life in Luke 18, pointed to the commandments, revealing that keeping the law isn't about legalistic adherence but understanding its heart. The freedom Christ offers is the freedom to die to ourselves so we can truly live—forgiving without demanding apology, loving without keeping score, and walking deliberately as our Father walks. This is the law of liberty: love God completely and love our neighbor as ourselves.
