"38 "Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through Him forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39 and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses. 40
"Therefore take heed, so that the thing spoken of in the Prophets may not come upon you:
41 'BEHOLD, YOU SCOFFERS, AND MARVEL, AND PERISH;
FOR I AM ACCOMPLISHING A WORK IN YOUR DAYS,
A WORK WHICH YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE,
THOUGH SOMEONE SHOULD DESCRIBE IT TO YOU.'"" (Acts 13:38-41 NASB)
Whoah, wait a minute! Did He say we can be free from all things? What kind of things!? Well, in vs 39 He says the stuff in the law of Moses (the commandments) that we try to live by but doesn't make us free. Remember in Romans
"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death...so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit." (Romans 8:2-4 NASB)
So what is this law of Spirit of Life?
It's to be love to those around you by being in Love with by knowing that the Father set you free because of Love!
You are only free when you BELIEVE Christ Jesus has set you free!
Look at verse 39 again tells us, "through HIM (Jesus) everyone who believes is freed...". Wow! Praise God!
We don't want to push away the gift of God. Don't say, "I don't believe that, there's more to it" and scoff at it. That's not a good thing. God allows us to not understand and see His ways if we push it away in unbelief...describing it won't even help.
It's to be love to those around you by being in Love with by knowing that the Father set you free because of Love!
You are only free when you BELIEVE Christ Jesus has set you free!
Look at verse 39 again tells us, "through HIM (Jesus) everyone who believes is freed...". Wow! Praise God!
We don't want to push away the gift of God. Don't say, "I don't believe that, there's more to it" and scoff at it. That's not a good thing. God allows us to not understand and see His ways if we push it away in unbelief...describing it won't even help.
BEHOLD, YOU SCOFFERS, AND MARVEL, AND PERISH;
FOR I AM ACCOMPLISHING A WORK IN YOUR DAYS,
A WORK WHICH YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE,
THOUGH SOMEONE SHOULD DESCRIBE IT TO YOU (Acts 13:40 NASB)
Let me close these thoughts by sharing an ongoing prayer of mine;
"God I believe that you have the power over sin and death. I don't doubt you (help me when my flesh clouds me and starting defining your reality by what I see - because that's not of faith (Rom 14:23), that's what I see. I don't walk by sight in your kingdom (2 Cor. 5:7). You chose to love me when I was a sinner (unadulterated motive), you died and rose again (unhindered power and unrestricted authority) all for me. I know you changed me on the inside. I'm free by faith through the blood. Help me to walk in love by your spirit."
Some incredible individual verses. Read the context of these by also reading above and below these selection in the bible as you meditate on these:
"4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life." (Romans 6:4 NASB)
"25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit." (Galatians 5:25 NASB)
"8 for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light" (Ephesians 5:8 NASB)
"6 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him," (Colossians 2:6 NASB)
"God I believe that you have the power over sin and death. I don't doubt you (help me when my flesh clouds me and starting defining your reality by what I see - because that's not of faith (Rom 14:23), that's what I see. I don't walk by sight in your kingdom (2 Cor. 5:7). You chose to love me when I was a sinner (unadulterated motive), you died and rose again (unhindered power and unrestricted authority) all for me. I know you changed me on the inside. I'm free by faith through the blood. Help me to walk in love by your spirit."
Some incredible individual verses. Read the context of these by also reading above and below these selection in the bible as you meditate on these:
"4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life." (Romans 6:4 NASB)
"25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit." (Galatians 5:25 NASB)
"8 for you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light" (Ephesians 5:8 NASB)
"6 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him," (Colossians 2:6 NASB)