Early this morning I asked the LORD during me pray time with Him what He wanted me to share in this study. And some time after I received Liberty. When I was preparing for this posting I did not find Liberty among the areas I had already prepared for. So I researched my material and did not miss it because this word was not listed in any of those areas. I have a feeling that GODS Liberty is not mans liberty, that said lets take a look to find out what GODS is.
Liberty:
From the Spiritual aspect is a mark of the New Dispensation, the age of Grace:
Isaiah 42:5-9 "Thus said GOD the LORD, HE that created the heavens, and stretched them out; HE that spread forth the earth, and that which came out of it; HE that gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein: I the LORD have called in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. I am the LORD: that is My name: and My glory will I not give to another, neither My praise to graven images. Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them."
The Mission of Christ to Proclaim:
Isaiah 61:1-4 "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me; because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the meek; HE has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint them that mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that HE might be glorified. And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolation's, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolation's of many generations."
This portion takes place shortly after Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness where He was tempted with mans temptations. Luke 4:14-30 "Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of Him through all the region round about. And He taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up: and, as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered to Him the book of the prophet Esaias (Isaiah). And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written, 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because HE has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; HE has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the LORD.' And He closed the book, and He gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on Him. And He began to say to them, 'This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.' And all bore Him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son? And He said to them, 'You will surely say to Me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.' And He said, 'Verily I say to you, No prophet is accepted in his own country. But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; But to none of them was Elias sent, save to Sarepta, a city of Sidon, to a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.' And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast Him down headlong. But He passing through the midst of them went His way."
The Truth the Instrumentality:
John 8:31-33 "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, 'If you continue in My word, then are you My disciples indeed; And you shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.
They answered Him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how say You, You shall be made free?"
Romans 6:15-19 "What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the Law, but under Grace? God forbid. Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants (slaves) you are to whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness? But GOD be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine (spiritual Light in teaching) which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as you have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity to iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to Righteousness to Holiness."
A New Law of Life Sets Free:
Romans 8:1-8, 9-11 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the Law of sin and death. (this being the original Laws of Moses because it does not have a way of redemption, escape within it.) For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, GOD sending HIS own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the Righteousness of the (New) Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be Spiritually minded is Life and Peace. Because the carnal mind is Enmity against GOD: for it is not subject to the (New and true) Law of GOD, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please GOD.
But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of GOD dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. (This person is enmity, and enemy, hostile to all that is GOD) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit (in mans spirit) is Life because of Righteousness. But if the Spirit of HIM that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, HE that raised up Christ (notice the change which this brings about, spiritual Life is Christ centered) from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by HIS Spirit that dwells in you."
The Bondage of Sin Broken:
Romans 8:18-25 "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him Who has subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it."
The Presence of the "Eternal Spirit" Secures:
2Corinthians 3:12-18 "Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished (terminated): But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same veil is not taken away in the reading of the Old Testament; which veil is done away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the LORD, the veil shall be taken away. Now the LORD is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face (having clear perception) beholding as in a glass the glory of the LORD, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD."
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