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www.thinking7.org

11/30/2011

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Christian Liberty verses American Liberty

Are They the Same?

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are in the founding documents of American history and is still a big part of our modern thinking. Freedom, choice and liberty make up the fabric of our society. Legalism is commonly viewed as a negative word.

To many, liberty means – the right to choose. Who will rule over you in government to what you do with your body (or a baby inside your body) is considered an inalienable right. Others may choose differently than you but that is their right and thus they must be respected. Diversity and not dogmatism is true democracy: the people’s choice. Happiness and its pursuit are to be defined by your choice rather than another legislating for you.

Indeed the Christian under the New Testament is told to. “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free” (Gal. 5:1). But what does the Bible mean by liberty? Is it our right to choose?

There are things in life that restrain a person from doing what they ought to. Such as a disease might restrain a person from exercising, but once healed they are now free (able) to exercise. Or a thief in jail will be restrained from working in society. But once freed from prison he is now free to work again – but not free to choose what to steal again.

The Old Testament gives a great picture of what the Lord means by liberty. The Israelites were slaves in Egypt and were under the control of a hard Pharaoh. Moses relayed God’s will to Pharaoh; “Let my people go, that they may serve me” in order to hold a feast unto God in the wilderness. Pharaoh refused to release Israel so now they could not obey God (Exo 5:1,2; 8;1). Israel was restrained from doing God’s will. After God liberated them from Egypt by passing through the Red Sea they were for the first time now free to do what God chose for them to do: serve Him according to His Word. This was not viewed as legalism but liberty.

Biblical freedom is being loosed from restraints that hold us back from doing God’s will. Once free, we are now able to do what He chooses for us – rather than what we choose. “Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness” (Rom. 6:18).

The gospel of the grace in Christ Jesus has made the believer free from:

“Wrath” - so we can be “reconciled to God” (Rom 5:9,10).

The “oldness of the letter” of the law that kills - so we can “serve in newness of spirit” (Rom. 7:1-6; 2Cor. 3:6).

“The law of sin and death” - so we can live by the Spirit and fulfill “the righteousness of the law” in us (Rom. 8:2,4).

Yes, “the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). There is a freedom (the world’s) that leads to slavery and death: the wages of sin - and there is a slavery (God’s) that results in freedom: eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Rom. 6:18-23). 


                http://www.thinking7.org/2009/05/christian-liberty-verses-american-liberty/
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Hope In God :)

11/29/2011

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Psalm 42:5
Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
HOPE IN GOD, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.


The LORD gives us so many reasons to rest and trust in Him:

   - He provided salvation for us through the substitutionary death of His precious Son on our specific behalf!
   - He lives within our hearts with a readiness to comfort upon any honest request!
   - He is performing the holy procedure of sanctification in the lives of other believers around us who are being compelled
     to build others (like you and me) up in our faith...just watch and wait for that helping hand!
   - He promises us a wonderful heavenly home of perfect peace, and when He makes a promise, He is faithful to keep it!
   - He is omniscient...just one of his many glorious attributes...and has seen the end of your life's plan (Romans 8:28),
     and as The Great Shepherd of the sheep, is working on a moment by moment basis to lead you to the green
     pastures of the knowledge of Jehovah Jireh (God our Provider).
   - He loves you unconditionally! Yes, without reservation!
   - He is the Mighty God, and at the same time, the Everlasting Father -- the matchless combination of Power and
     Compassion -- whatever your prayer, I'm sure, Abba ..."Daddy" (Romans 8:15) can handle it! (Matthew 7:11)



                                                             HOPE IN GOD TODAY!!!

                                                                                                                                       
- Andy Fritchey
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How to Finish Well

11/23/2011

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Model Prayer (Luke 11)

11/22/2011

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Spiritual SPECS

11/16/2011

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“Spiritual SPECS” too look for during your personal Bible study:

S - Sins to forsake
P - Promises to claim
E - Examples to follow
C - Commands to obey
S - Stumbling blocks to avoid

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BIBLE ARITHMETIC

11/9/2011

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ADDITION
Add to your faith courage, and to courage knowledge; and to knowledge
self-control, and to self-control patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness
brotherly-kindness; and to brotherly-kindness love.  --- 2 Peter 1:5-7

SUBTRACTION
Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies,
and envies, and all evil speakings, . . . long for the spiritual milk . . .
that you may grow thereby unto salvation.  --- 1 Peter 2:1,2

MULTIPLICATION
Grace and piece be multiplied unto you through the
knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord (2 Peter 1:2).
He that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food,
 shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase
the fruits of your righteousness.  ---2 Corinthians 9:10

DIVISION
For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged
sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow,
and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.  --- Hebrews 4:12
Come out from among them, and be ye seperate . . . and I will receive you,
and will be to you a Father, and ye shall be to me sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty.  --- 2 Corinthians 6:17,18

RULE OF THREE
But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three;
and the greatest of these is love.  --- 1 Corinthians 13:13




- AUTHOR UNKNOWN
(I found this in a little book called Bible Alphabets
and Memory Work by Alan S. Pearce)




                                                                                                                                            - Andy Fritchey
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Skits & Scripts

11/2/2011

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Four full length Christmas plays have been posted on the Skits & Scripts page! Check them out!
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