Bonded To This World Or God’s Free Sons

Summary:

In this day we must have a deep relationship with the Lord and one another that is without the bonds of obligation and oppression. Giving the greatest gift God has given us, our free will, back to Him, and not to anything else is what He is after. It's all about the Lordship of Jesus Christ over our lives.

Show Notes:

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  God is raising up sons who know who they are.

  
  


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  We must walk with God without bonds and obligations to anything if we are to please Him.

  
  


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  You cannot have a walk with God if you got bonds. That's not just with people, it's religious concepts, ideas, and obligations.

  
  


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  The less we are bonded to anything the freer we are to express our hearts.

  
  


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  We must decide where we are going to give our free will. What are we going to be bonded too? Will we give it to other things or God?

  
  


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  Being bonded to one another in relationship through the Holy Spirit is a bond that creates life.

  
  


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  We are losing all our concepts, ways of thinking and things we have been bonded to other than Him, as we all come into His Lordship.

  
  

Quotes:

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  Knowing that you have this relationship with the Lord, you're not concerned about losing out with God, not doing enough, we have to come out of that whole arena of being obligated.

  
  


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  You cannot have a walk with God, the way He wants you to walk with Him, if you've got bonds.

  
  


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  It's really a foreign concept to Americans because we are free and we are independent. That's not God's sons. By His Spirit, He is setting us all free to be something that we could never be by our own will, our own attempts.

  
  


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  It's all about your heart, being free and expressing or being who you are, in the Lord.

  
  


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  What are you going to do with your freedom? Are you going to give it to the Father and become bonded to him? Or you're going to give it to a career? A man or a woman? Ideas? A government? Or are you going to take the greatest gift you have from God that free will, and you're gonna give it to Him?

  
  


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  We can either get poisoned through bonds, or we can get the flow of life through bonds.

  
  


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  I can't walk with you in the Spirit unless I'm bonded to you. And how am I bonded? Because we're listening to the same Holy Spirit.

  
  


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  We're bought with a price? And we're not our own? And from that point, if you're His and you're submissive to Him, then the relationships that you make from that place should be under His Lordship.

  
  


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  We're free to serve the Lord. We're free to submit to Him. And in our submission to Him, He orders our steps. I think it really is that simple.

  
  


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  That's the message we've heard, the Lordship of Jesus Christ. We grow up into the head, the Lord Jesus in us, His lordship. That's Christ speaking through us.

  
  

References:

Exodus 21:5-6

But if the slave plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not leave as a free man,’ then his master shall bring him to God, then he shall bring him to the door or the doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him permanently.

I Corinthians 6:20

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

Ephesians 4:11-13

And He gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, some as pastors and teachers,for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a full grown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

John 14, 15, 16, 17

Take Away:

Today we must be free from everything that would be a negative influence in our relationship to the Lord. As we mature in Him we are finding that our freedom is to serve Him and His people.