A new life

15 August 2012     

Romans 7:6 But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we serve not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.

In times of war and especially when slavery was common, the victorious army would enter into the town, destroy, rape and take captive those who had a marketable value to sold or kept as a slave. A slave either submitted to their owner or they would be simply punished or executed for disobedience. When we are slaves to law and legalism, or slaves to behaviour and a belief system that keeps us as prisoners to it, this becomes the chains that holds us into that system. We feel safe in the comfort of those chains and will ensure that those around us are as well chained as we are. We then all become slaves to the law, rituals and superstitions.

Jesus came to set us free, He went into the stronghold of the enemy that kept us captive, broke our chains, and presented us as His booty or prise of His victory to our Father in heaven. Yet we still believe and submit to the slavery of the old system, because the greatest slavery is the slavery of the mind. Unless we renew our minds with a new life of the Spirit, we live as captives even though Christ has set us free. This negates what Jesus Christ has done for us, and we do not experience the freedom that His death on the cross brings us.

Be encouraged today start a new life in the Spirit, no being a slave to anything.

  

David

 

Point to ponder: Jesus Christ has set you free.

Question to consider: Do you live as a slave to sin?