Ep 044 (S2E25) Let Freedom Rule

References:

• Wrap up Season 2: taking a break for July
  • Season 3 will begin in August
• July 4 is a day of honoring what has been sacrificed for the sake of this country
  • My connection to the preservation of the Union
    • Iron Brigade Pride
  • What would you do if you were 100%, totally free?
    • Student stories
• Gal. 5:1 - For Freedom you have been set free…
  • stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery [bondage]. ESV
  • What is a yoke of bondage?
• What is freedom?
  • ἐλευθερία (el-yoo-ther-ee'-ah) according to BLB
    • liberty to do or to omit things having no relationship to salvation
    • fancied liberty
      • licence, the liberty to do as one pleases
    • true liberty is living as we should not as we please
• John 8:31-38 - True Freedom
• Application: 
  • So we see, if I do whatever I want, which is a good definition of sin, true freedom is to surrender what I want.
  • What is it that you need to let go of, lay down, surrender in order to be free?