The Freedom And The Spirit-born Believer

Part One: The Holy Spirit is the sphere of freedom

We can not fully understand what Jesus Christ has done for our salvation, without understanding one of the main reasons for the creation of mankind, in the first place: love of God for freedom!

And freedom is a quality that God himself exercises when he decides to do something and it means - "Our God is in heaven, he does what he likes ..." I know you can do all things and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted "(Psalm 115:3 NIV, Job 42:2 ESV) Adam was created in a sphere of freedom, so he was free to express both qualities that God highly values :. trust, which is voluntary, exercise and love expressed freely.

Outside the sphere of freedom of these two qualities can not exist. God created animals, fish, etc., who inhabit the planet Earth, but these creatures are guided by an innate instinct that is embedded in their essential nature. Adam, on the other hand, created, was a freedom to choose the direction of his behavior that was not forced or manipulated in any way. He could decide for himself whether to walk with God in love, relationships of trust or abuse of their freedom and not trust God's warning and act in a particular choice of disobedience - "Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from every tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will die (literally, "die you die") "(Genesis 2:16 -17 NIV).

God so values ​​freedom, it is precisely this quality of humanity that emphasizes the image of God in us.

The first race of Adam Weber Third New International Dictionary defines freedom as God created Adam without undue hindrance or restraint, so he could do "The quality or state of being free and the ability or the ability to act without hindrance or undue restraint. " his own personal choice whether to obey God by freely profess confidence in the word of God and warning expressing his love for God through obedience. Or it could freely express his disobedience by abusing his freedom, and therefore freely exercise acts against God. And since we know that Adam abused his freedom in obedience to God, and he and his descendants after him have been caught in a sphere of sin, guilt and death since - "Therefore as sin (a self-centered and self-rewarding life away from God and the things of God) came into the world through one man (Adam) and death by sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned "(Romans 5:12 ESV).

After Adam's abuse of freedom, he and Eve had children, but Scripture records that his offspring were not born in the image and likeness of God, but in the parable of Adam's own sin and death - "This is the written record of the line of Adam (Hebrew: Toledot of 'yÄlad" means "producing" or "generations" referred to Toledot focuses less on the actual birth, but that something was, literally, "What is written this book on the descendants of Adam were to" ..) When God created man, he made him the image of God he created man male and female he blessed them, and when they were created, He called them (He:. Adam, a personal name and the crown. God's creation) When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his likeness, to its image (of sin, guilt and death) and he called his name Seth (Adams and parable unfolds in his descendants, it is called) and Adam died ... death ... Seth Enos Cainan died ... death ...

(This is the first record of the descendants of Adam in his likeness). "(Genesis 5).

The historical record of Adams descendants born in his likeness is a sin and death, where the area of ​​freedom in the things that God has lost!

Another man race: But wait a minute! There is another human lineage is recorded in Scripture, and that's a record for the freedom restored - "The first man (Adam) was of the earth, a man of the dust, and the second man (Jesus, Son of God) came down from heaven "(1 Corinthians 3:47 p.m. ESV).

There are only two written in the scriptures in two completely different men, both written documents also reveal that bore the image of each man has become. Those who followed were Adam, and continue to be born in his likeness of sin, guilt and death -. "For the wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23) But those who are born again by the Holy Spirit after the likeness of Jesus Christ, his life regenerated inside and gives His righteousness and holiness, so - "For the wages of sin is death, but ... the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (The Spirit-born believers) are created in the image of God in true righteousness and holiness" (Romans 6:23 Ephesians 4:24 b ESV).

This new birth generated by the Spirit of God is what Jesus told Nicodemus - "Do not marvel that I said: You must be born again (GK: dei humanitarian gennÄthÄnai anÅthen, literally, 'You must be born from above, the spiritual rebirth comes from God and not man). "The wind blows where it wishes and you hear noise, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with all who are born of the Spirit (Holy)" (John 3: 7-8 ESV).

The Apostle John says that the Spirit of God is the source of the new birth of a sinner - "Jesus came to His own (creation), and his own people (the Israelites) did not receive it, but those who do not receive it . premia (GK: tois pisteuousin literally "those who are obedient active addiction") in his name, he gave power to become children of God, born of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of God (GK: all "ek theou egennÄthÄsan literally" but born of God ")" (John 1:11-13 NIV).

Kenneth Wuest expanded translation of the Greek words - "in the middle of his own property, he came, and his only detainees do not take it himself, but so many people who had acquired, he gave them a legal right to be born.-Ones of God, to those who put their trust in his name, not a source of blood, nor of a desire of the flesh, not a desire for an individual gender male but was born out of God. "1

Abuse of freedom of Adam was the death penalty as God had warned. Disconnected from the source of life and the loss of the sphere of freedom that God's love, peace and the rule of supreme happiness. However, since God so strongly the values ​​of freedom, where love and trust can thrive, and - "rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, they were dead (as descendants of Adam) in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ by grace (God's unmerited favor) are ye saved (the sphere of sin, guilt and the trial of death) ... car by grace are ye saved through faith (GK: diameter tracks, literally, a level of confidence set undivided and firm hope and security "in the death and resurrection to new life), and this not of yourselves. it is the gift (free) of God, not because of (meritorious) works, lest any man should boast "(Ephesians 2:4-5, ESV 8-9).

Your identification through faith in Jesus' death and resurrection of questions to the regeneration of the Holy Spirit of your mind and puts you in the area of ​​freedom and God's wonderful love!

Death becomes an open door: Jesus Christ, we are confident that when physical death takes over our earthly body, we will go directly to the presence of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - "We are confident, however, happy to be absent from the body (earth) and be present with (GK: endÄmÄsai kai)