CD 1710 Finding Freedom Series Week 1

Are you: "Born-Again but Bound"? "Saved but stuck"?

And this year of 2025 the Lord has promised to reveal to those who are hungry His secrets. This morning we're going to start a series on the secret success in finding freedom.There are many steps from the reality of the freedom God has spoken in our lives to learning how to walk it out. Moses told the children of Israel that the Lord was going to set them free from the bondage in Egypt. It was easier for the Lord to deliver them from Pharaoh than to deliver them from their old lifestyles and mindsets.

Jesus sets us free from our self-centeredness. He frees us from the power of sin in our lives. He frees us from the captivity that Satan has upon us, and he frees us from cultural or society captivity. Ultimately setting us free to be in union with Him.

*Series Text Galatians 5:1-9 (KJV) Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? 8 This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you. 9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

Many people think that being born again is all there is to living God’s abundant life. But being made spiritually alive is just the beginning.

Do you know someone who is spiritually alive in Christ but still bound in their daily life?

After Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, the Bible says that Lazarus was still bound hand and foot by graveclothes. Many Christians who have been raised from the dead spiritually still live in bondage and need the help of others to be loosed and let go.

“Loose him and let him go,” were the words spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ at the tomb of Lazarus, a friend who had been dead for four days. John 11:43-44, “And when he had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus come forth. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus said unto His disciples, Loose him and let him go.”

Many people are familiar with the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. I believe this story is a type, or picture, of a person being raised from spiritual death. Ephesians 2:1 says, “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.” The word “quickened” means “made alive.” Only God can give life to the dead. I cannot quicken a man’s spirit. I can give him the life-quickening Word of God, but I cannot save a man. Jesus is the Savior. I can preach the saving message, but Jesus is the only one who can spiritually raise people from the dead.

Notice that even though Lazarus was alive, because he was raised from the dead, he was still bound. There are a lot of people who have been raised from the dead, spiritually speaking, who are still bound in some areas. Lazarus was still bound by graveclothes and even had a napkin covering his face. Jesus said to His disciples, “Loose him and let him go.” Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, and His disciples loosed him from the graveclothes that still had him bound.

You see, Jesus raised people from th

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