CALLED UNTO LIBERTY

DAILY GRACE WEDS. 24TH MAY, 2017 CALLED UNTO LIBERTY GALATIAN 5: 13 Top of a new day of liberty for you from all entanglement. God of all grace will grant you capacity to exercise liberty gloriously in Jesus name. " For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only [use] not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another". Beloved, kindly consider exhortation on serious practical godliness from the Apostle in the latter part of this chapter. I warmly regards this as the best antidote against the snares of the false teachers in these last days. Liberty is good, and very useful, and if you have not been in bondage before you may never appreciate the sweetness of freedom. Thanks to God of all grace for the liberty granted us through Jesus Christ. Recently, during our rugged Sunday program, l spotted some men who were smoken weeds while they claimed that they were also Christian, and just coming from church. It's really amazed me when one of them says they have liberty to smoke as a Christian. They did not understand the essence of liberty secured through Jesus Christ. Dearly beloved, you had been called unto liberty, and l want you to stand firm, fast in the liberty wherewith Christ had made for you; but yet be very careful that you did not use this liberty as an occasion to the flesh—that you did not thence take occasion to indulge yourself in any corrupt affections and sinful practices, and particularly such that might create distance and disaffection between you and God, and also be the ground of quarrels and contentions among you and other believers in Christ Jesus. Deploy your liberty in Christ to love and serve one another, to maintain mutual love and affection which, notwithstanding any minor differences that might be perceive in others. Maintain kindness to each other which the Christian vocation obliged all those who are called unto this liberty. Friend, note that the liberty you now enjoy as Christian is not a licentious liberty: though Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, yet He has not freed us from the obligation of it; the gospel is a doctrine according to godliness (1 Tim. 6:3), and is so far from giving the least countenance to sin that it lays us under the strongest obligations to avoid and subdue it. Although, you ought to stand fast in your Christian liberty, yet we should not insist upon it to the breach of Christian charity, code and ethics; you should not use it as an occasion of immortality, strife and contention with your fellow brethren, who may be differently minded from you, but should always maintain such a temper towards each other as may dispose you by love to serve one another. What exactly are you deploying your liberty in Christ to do? Enjoy your day.! Personal Confession: Father Lord, help me not misuse my liberty in You in Jesus' name. Enquiries@PGM lnt'l richgracemission@gmail.com www.pentecostalgrace.blogspot.com.ng +2348058561464 +2347083069998