- Institutionalization
- Slave
- δοῦλος
doulos
- Why would someone who has been adopted into God’s family choose to live like a slave?
- Know who you are
Galatians 4:7 // So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then God has made you an heir.
- Son
- Your behavior will never rise above the identity you believe.
- Child of God
Galatians 4:4–5 // God sent his Son… to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
- We are family
- Stop going back
- The enemy doesn’t always need to destroy your future. Sometimes he just needs to convince you to return to your past.
- You do not obey God to become loved. You obey God because you are loved.
- Don’t let religion steal your joy
Galatians 4:15 (NLT) // Where is that joyful and grateful spirit you felt then?
- Following Jesus will make you more joyful, not more religious.
- I have to vs I get to
- Religion says, “You better.” Grace says, “You get to.”
- Live in true freedom
- You cannot build a life of freedom while protecting the system that keeps producing slavery.
- You cannot keep feeding what you are asking God to free you from.
