Galatians 5:1

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It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. NIV

IN [this] freedom Christ has made us free [and completely liberated us]; stand fast then, and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery [which you have once put off]. AMP

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. KJV


This Fourth of July
You Can Change Your Life

Relying on Divine Providence while drafting the Declaration of Independence

“With a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

Closing text, The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Experience true freedom

When the Founding Fathers of the United States threw off the shackles of tyranny by rejecting British rule, they put their reliance on Divine Providence -- God's provision. They exchanged dependence on the British for dependence on God.

At the time it must have been a terrifying decision, but they knew there was no way to enjoy their unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness while still serving British masters.

The authors of the declaration were outlawed and threatened with execution for treason should they be captured. Freedom for the nation meant giving up their own comforts and making great sacrifices.

The Bible describes a similar choice that only you can make for your own life:

"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."
Matthew 6:24

We can serve the master of selfish materialism, consumed by the stress and worry of never having enough, or we can serve the God of the Bible, which makes this promise:

For the pagans run after all these (necessary) things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Matthew 6:32-33

Be Set Free

Are you ready to start a new life living for God instead of yourself?

The Bible explains how this is possible in an extraordinarily consistent story, despite being authored by people living thousands of years apart from diverse cultures and even different languages.

It tells the story of God's plan to set you free from your old ways, born again into a new life made possible by a kind of spiritual prisoner exchange.

That story can be summarised in eight famous Bible quotes below.

  1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
    Genesis 1:1
  2. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
    Romans 3:23
  3. God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
    John 3:16
  4. Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
    John 14:6
  5. If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
    Romans 10:9
  6. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.
    Ephesians 2:8
  7. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
    Acts 1:8
  8. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
    Matthew 28:19

The truth in these verses is simple, yet to embrace it means letting go of all our personal hopes and dreams and embracing God's greater purpose for our lives instead, a purpose far above anything we could dream or imagine.

This is the most important decision you will ever make, because it affects not just the rest of your life here on earth, but what comes after as well.

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Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17
The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,
Isaiah 61:1
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
Galatians 5:13
But those who look intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continue in it – not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it – they will be blessed in what they do.
James 1:25
Nothing at all can ever separate us from God's love because of what Christ Jesus our Lord has done.
Romans 8:39
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you – you of little faith?
Matthew 6:27-30
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luke 4:18
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
James 1:12
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
James 5:13
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Proverbs 29:18
If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
John 13:17