2006-12-02 11:48:17 · 24 answers · asked by badferret 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm not, the truth has set me free from Jesus.
2006-12-02 11:49:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Define freedom for me?
The Truth will set you free! It will set you free from worry, regret, disharmony and suffering.
No one can serve two masters.
We are all mastered by something, think about it...what masters you? Does sin or Does Jesus?
Jesus' yoke and burden is light.
Sin, is a cruel master...sure it pays up front, but in the long run it costs like a severe credit card interest rate.
Jesus will pay that debt off and set you free!
You can have freedom from sin or freedom from God, but you will be mastered by one or the other...there is no way of getting around it.
I hope this helps. God bless you.
2006-12-02 11:58:50 · answer #2 · answered by TAHOE REALTOR 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are free from the bondages of sin. Sin no longer has a hold on you, once you know the truth. Before the truth you had no other way to live but to sin. After the truth, you have the ability to resist sin. Not that you would commit every sin without the truth, just the ones that were most tempting to you. Once we know the truth, we may still sin, but we have the ability choose not to. Before we know the truth, we don't even accept that there is sin, let alone reject it.
2006-12-02 11:57:58 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why are you a slave/indentured servant to the cause of confronting, mocking, challenging, and trying to outwit Christians?
2006-12-02 12:05:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagine you were a train. Would you not be a slave to the track? One day you try to rebel against the track and fall off. Now you can't move at all, so you are now a slave to the ground. Your true freedom was when you were on the track and followed it whereever it took you.
You are a slave to the track because you can't get off the track, but you are free when you are on the track because you can't move unless you are on the track.
2006-12-02 12:04:02 · answer #5 · answered by A follower of Christ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth does set one free. If you are not in the truth then you are a slave to sin. And under the wrath of God. I am a willing slave to Christ just as others are willing slaves to sin.
2006-12-02 12:00:30 · answer #6 · answered by eyescreamman99 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am not a slave to Jesus, but I am the daughter of He who is a King. (Jesus)
If you ever told the truth about anything, you'd know the feeling that comes with telling the truth. It frees you from the bondage of the lie that has kept you all knotted up from the inside of yourself.
2006-12-02 11:52:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
First look where "the truth will set you free" quote came from...
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To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
The Greek word used for free, ελευθερωσει, was used to express freedom from sin. Read on in scripture:
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Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son set syou free, you will be free indeed." - John 8:31-32 and 34
In the New Testament, the word δουλος, or slave, appears 124 times, particularly in the epistles.
Paul explains it well, probably because of all the New Testament writers he was by far the most intelligent and educated:
"Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey - whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that, through you used to be slaves to sin, you whole-heartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set FREE from sin and have become SLAVES to righteousness. I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were FREE from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that you have been set FREE from sin and have become SLAVES to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness and the result is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6:16-23)
In short, everyone is a slave, and in a way everyone is free. If someone is a slave to sin, they are free from righteousness. If a person is a slave to God, they are free from sin. Although the word δουλος truly meant slave (and not "servant" as some versions translate it), in context it does not mean a slave like how people enslave other people, instead it talks about what your heart is controlled by. Either you submit your life (in other words, become a slave) to righteousness, or you do not and you continue to live in sin. That is why what Jesus was offering was freedom from sin, and that His Truth would set people free from that sin.
2006-12-02 12:16:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see now. Free, Slave---Free, Bondservant ---Nope it doesn't add up. 1+1=2
2006-12-02 11:59:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
OK i will try to answer this but remember this is just from my heart I'm not a expert on this kind of thing OK.... Jesus died on the cross and took the pain of our sins on so that we can have a chance to be with god in heaven and be set free from our sin here on earth look i know that sounds weird but i believe he really loves us so much and want us to have life and i will serve him till i die ! ps i am a recovering heroin addict free from drugs and alcohol over 2 yrs now and i believe it was he who helped me and continues to help me every day
2006-12-02 11:56:10 · answer #10 · answered by sadeyez 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋