Galatians 1-6: We Are Free

But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir. - Gal. 4:4-7 NIV

This is what we celebrate this season and as the years go by, it becomes more difficult to separate the truth from the trappings.  God sent his own Son that we might become sons, as Paul says, with the full rights of sons.  God didn't send his Son to turn us in to consuming and giving machines.  He sent his sons to set us free from all of that, to set us free from the law, to set us free from the need to compete, to set us free from the need to earn our salvation, to set us free from legalism of any sort, to set us free from the world, to set us free. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Gal. 5:1) What better time, than this season of the year, to throw off all the things that would enslave us and weigh us down?   What better time to not fall prey to any of the practices of the world that would trap us and destroy our freedom as sons and heirs?

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