I am FREE!
I am OWNED!
I can hear you right now- 'Wait a minute! How can you be free if you are owned?'
Well, the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20--
"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?'
"For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."
During this week before Easter I was thinking about what Christ provided for us through His death on Calvary, and through His miraculous Resurrection on Easter morning some 2,000 years ago.
We always hear of the freedom we receive as Christians through Christ’s death and resurrection. I was thinking about this today, the Lord spoke to me and said, “You’re not completely free. I OWN you!”
He reminded me of the above verse-
“For ye are bought with a price…”
How am I bought with a price? Through the death of Jesus Christ!
Consider the following passages of Scripture-
Romans 8:1-5
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 hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
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 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.
-And-
Romans 6:1-10
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin,
that grace may abound?
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father,
even so we also should walk in newness of life.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed,
that henceforth we should not serve sin.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall
also live with him:
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth,
he liveth unto God.
AMEN AND AMEN!!!
Reread these passages if you need to!
We are freed from sin through the death of Jesus Christ!
But, once we have accepted His gift of Salvation, we are now servants of Jehovah, and we are to be seeking to serve Him in every thought, word, and deed until the day we die and meet Him face to face in Heaven!
By accepting Christ as your Savior, you are now owned by the BEST Master in the universe!
So, as you go through the rest of this week and on into the rest of your life, don’t just think about the FREEDOM you have in Christ, take it a step further and challenge yourself to find ways to thank Him through service to Him for what He’s done for you!
Christ gave His ALL, shouldn’t we at least TRY?
