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Lesson #2

The Life of Freedom

Read Galatians 5:1 msg.  Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.

Liberty: freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.

Yoke of bondage;   

Ga5:7? KJ Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

A.      A frame designed to be carried across a person's shoulders with equal loads suspended from each end.

B.      an agency of oppression, subjection, servitude,

C.     Boundage;  The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity

Who hindered you, What can hinder you? Devil, Church, people, yourself, Words?

Is 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn.  This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me.

Works of the Flesh: exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil. (See:Dictionary.com)

Read Ps. 91

 Faith Worketh by Love.Ga 5:6

MMoM message Lesson #3

The Message or the mystery that Paul talks about of the Spirit of Love……………………….

Ga5:6, faith which worketh by Love

Ga 5:13 For brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion the flesh but by love serve one another.

Ga 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self.

Our text in Romans 7:4Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of  Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

Look up Eph5:20-30

Care of that Fruit

Jesus Is the Vine—Followers Are Branches

1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. 3 “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. 6 “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. 7 “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 “My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples. 9 “Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 10 “If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. 11 “These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

3 ways to identify with the Fruits of the Spirit which are a portrait of Christ

Inward state:love, joy, peace

Expression towards man, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness

Character in expression towards God, faith, meekness, temperance/self control

Message #4 MMoM

Liberty, who hindered you

Fruit unto God-service, marriage with Christ, being married to the body of Christ. Without spot wrinkle or blemish.

Last week we talked about the 3 categories that the Fruits of the spirit are collected in.

Inward state-love, joy, peace

Expression towards man

Character in expression towards God

Joy-James 1:2-4 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance and let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

2 My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations 3 Knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience 4 But let patience have her perfect work that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing __

Faith

Endurance/patience

Perfect result

Perfect

Complete

Lacking nothing

10 Then he said unto them Go your way eat the fat and drink the sweet and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared for this day is holy unto our Lord neither be ye sorry for the joy of the LORD is your strength

Story about Ezra reading the revelations of Moses at the feast of tabernacles.

Sacrifices were to be offered only at the door of the temple; but praying and preaching were, and are, services of religion, as acceptably performed in one place as in another. Masters of families should bring their families with them to the public worship of God. Women and children have souls to save, and are therefore to acquaint themselves with the word of God, and to attend on the means of grace. Little ones, as they come to reason, must be trained up in religion. Ministers when

they go to the pulpit, should take their Bibles with them; Ezra did so. Thence they must fetch their knowledge; according to that rule they must speak, and must show that they do so. Reading the Scriptures in religious assemblies is an ordinance of God, whereby he is honoured, and his church edified. Those who hear the word, should understand it, else it is to them but an empty sound of words. It is therefore required of teachers that they explain the word, and give the sense of it. Reading is

good, and preaching is good, but expounding makes reading the better understood, and preaching the more convincing. It has pleased God in almost every age of the church to raise up, not only those who have preached the gospel, but also those who have given their views of Divine truth in writing; and though many who have attempted to explain Scripture, have darkened counsel by words without knowledge, yet the labours of others are of excellent use. All that we hear must, however, be brought to

the test of Scripture. They heard readily, and minded every word. The word of God demands attention. If through carelessness we let much slip in hearing, there is danger that through forgetfulness we shall let all slip after hearing. (Ne 8:9-12)