A Compelling Testimony: Maintaining a Disciplined Walk, Christlike Character, and Godly Relationships as God's Servant

Ses s i on 3: The Ce l ebrat i ons of a Di sc i p l i ned L i fe 97

been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?” [34] Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. [35] The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. [36] So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” e. No restrictions are given to Gentile expression except those things which go against the command of God, Acts 15.28-29 – For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: [29] that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

f. We are under grace, not the system of the Law, Rom. 6.14 – For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

g. We are to become the slaves of righteousness, Rom. 6.18 – and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.

h. The endowment of the Holy Spirit sets us free from the law of sin and death, Rom. 8.2 – For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

i. Whatever our state when saved, we are free in Christ, 1 Cor. 7.22 – For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.