CCUC family we are worshipping face-to-face at Mission Beach and Innisfail. During this holiday season our musicians are having a break or in hospital so we are using our audiovisual worship resources (karaoke) to aid our praise and worship. We do not have the tech to support streaming this so we will stream our message only on our facebook page (going live at about 11.00am). Click here for the link
Paul in the letter to the Galatians makes the statement that “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free” (Galatians 5:1), emphasising the point he has previously made about the nature of ‘Christian being’. His point is, we are free and not bound by law because of the freeing work of Jesus. Freedom is the nature of the Kingdom of God. We are free from the punishment we deserve because of the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus. That freedom however does not give us a right to live lawlessly.
Paul in Galatians tells the reader that by submitting to one law obligates you to all the law. If you break just one law you have broken every law. This why Paul says following the law is being a slave to the law. Continue reading “Free to live by the Spirit”
Through the life and ministry of Jesus, Jesus invested his life, Jesus invested his love! Rather than moving away from people who were broken and even angry he moved toward them – toward us. John 12:23-24 tells us he moved toward us willingly, and was completely and unequivocally prepared to die for those he loved. This act is an expression of the Father heart of God toward us. As I have said on this before, God’s actions in and through Jesus was a wilful act of God to deposit life, salvation, healing, strength into us.
God committed himself to us, with the hope that we might commit ourselves to him, that we might commit our lives toward one another.
The gospel tells us that Jesus was willing to take a bullet for us and now because of the covenant he established with us he asks us – are we willing to take a bullet for those we love for those with which we share this covenant? Continue reading “Jesus committed his life to us”
