IS IT ABOUT YOU... OR JESUS? (5 OF 6)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Galatians 5:13-26
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Is It About You... Or Jesus? (5 of 6)
Series: Who Are You?
Jeff Strite
Galatians 5:13-26
OPEN: How many of you have heard of Harry Truman?
No, not the Harry Truman that became President of the United States and lived in Washington D.C.. I'm talking about the Harry Truman who owned 23 cats and lived in the STATE Washington.
Harry and his cats lived on the side of a mountain called ''Mount St. Helens'' back in the late 1900's. It was a volcano. The volcano had lain dormant for over 150 years but now it was beginning to rumble, and a number of people told Harry he should move because volcano was going to blow.
But Harry refused. He said: ''I've lived here all my life. I know this old mountain better than anybody else. And I'm not going anywhere.''
On May 18th, 1980, at 8:31 a.m., the mountain blew, and the force of the explosion was 500 times greater than the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The debris blackened the sky from Seattle to New York, and as far south as Oklahoma.
And nobody's seen Harry or his 23 cats ever since.
APPLY: Now a question: Was Harry free to remain on the side of the mountain?
I mean - could they force him to leave? Apparently not! Harry was free to remain on that mountain as long as he liked.
But he was not free from the consequences of his decision.
That observation brings us to our text tells us this morning. Galatians 5:1 says ''For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.'' Or as another version put it: ''Christ has liberated us into freedom....'' (HCSB)
We are a free people.
As Christians, we've been freed from the condemnation of sin, and we've been liberated from the Old Testament Law with its lists of do's and don'ts to be acceptable to God. We're not under the Law anymore. But false teachers had begun to convince Christians in Galatia that they needed to go back to those rules and regulations. They needed to be brought back under the yoke o ...
Series: Who Are You?
Jeff Strite
Galatians 5:13-26
OPEN: How many of you have heard of Harry Truman?
No, not the Harry Truman that became President of the United States and lived in Washington D.C.. I'm talking about the Harry Truman who owned 23 cats and lived in the STATE Washington.
Harry and his cats lived on the side of a mountain called ''Mount St. Helens'' back in the late 1900's. It was a volcano. The volcano had lain dormant for over 150 years but now it was beginning to rumble, and a number of people told Harry he should move because volcano was going to blow.
But Harry refused. He said: ''I've lived here all my life. I know this old mountain better than anybody else. And I'm not going anywhere.''
On May 18th, 1980, at 8:31 a.m., the mountain blew, and the force of the explosion was 500 times greater than the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The debris blackened the sky from Seattle to New York, and as far south as Oklahoma.
And nobody's seen Harry or his 23 cats ever since.
APPLY: Now a question: Was Harry free to remain on the side of the mountain?
I mean - could they force him to leave? Apparently not! Harry was free to remain on that mountain as long as he liked.
But he was not free from the consequences of his decision.
That observation brings us to our text tells us this morning. Galatians 5:1 says ''For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.'' Or as another version put it: ''Christ has liberated us into freedom....'' (HCSB)
We are a free people.
As Christians, we've been freed from the condemnation of sin, and we've been liberated from the Old Testament Law with its lists of do's and don'ts to be acceptable to God. We're not under the Law anymore. But false teachers had begun to convince Christians in Galatia that they needed to go back to those rules and regulations. They needed to be brought back under the yoke o ...
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