Set Free

Let us just praise the Lord and sing and shout hallelujah because of him, and not just for what He has done for us, but just for who He is.  Did you ever just meditate on who God is?  I think it would be impossible to figure out just who He is, although if we are born-again we can read the Word of God and get some kind of a understanding of who He is because of the discernment He gives us as a result of our status in Him.  

People who are not born-again cannot discern the truth of the Word of God, because it takes spiritual discernment, which a non-believer will never have.  Let me explain this to you, just in case you don’t know.  When you are born-again, the Holy Spirit comes into you and your body becomes the Temple of the Holy Spirit.  Please read 1 Corinthians 6:19 20, “Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Ruach ha-Kodesh who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.”

After that takes place, He will lead you into all the truth and as you obtain more and more truth, you will become freer and freer, praise the good Lord, as you put the truth you learn into practice. There are some things that no one can do without, and one them is the truth.

Think about what Jesus said about the Holy Spirit to His disciples when He was going back to His Father in John 16:5-15, “But now I am going to the One who sent Me, and not one of you is asking Me, ‘Where are you going?’ Because I have spoken these things to you, grief has filled your heart. But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away! For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. When He comes, He will convict the world about sin, righteousness, and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me; and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. I still have much more to tell you, but you cannot handle it just now. But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on His own; but whatever He hears, He will tell you. And He will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify Me, because He will take from what is Mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is Mine. For this reason, I said the Ruach will take from what is Mine and declare it to you.”

We desperately need the Holy Spirit in our lives to convict us of our sins and to lead us into all truths.  The truth is, if we are born-again our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit and we can depend on His help; He will teach us and guide us into all the truth and also convict us of all sin.  I believe without the conviction of the Holy Spirit no one will ever truly repent of their sins and have a change of heart and mind and turn from their sins to God, confessing and repenting of their sins and asking the Lord to be their Lord and Savior!!  

One thing we learn pretty quick is that God is love and there is no wickedness in Him.  We also learn that He is merciful, kind and gracious and also patient and very, very holy and just.  We learn that he hates sin but loves the sinner.  We learned He demonstrated His love and grace by providing his Son, Jesus Christ, as the precious Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

If we truly repent with a change of heart and mind and a turning away from sin to the living God, we can be forgiven.  We can experience redemption in our lives through the shed blood of the precious Savior, Jesus Christ.  This could never have happened outside of God having a plan before the foundation of the world, praise His holy name!!  Please read John 3:16-17, “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.”
  

For us to get to God, the Father, we will need to go through Jesus, the Son.  

Please read John 14:6, “Yeshua said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me.’”

God is totally awesome, even if we can’t understand every minute detail of who He is, we can know so much about Him through His Word.  I pray that this has been an encouragement and help and a blessing to you.  May the good Lord bless you and yours with His perfect peace, love and joy and health and happiness!!