Burying Bad Religion - Part 4
How Does Freedom Make Us Holy?
Bad religion produces pride, anger, fear, and guilt, but it doesn’t stop the flesh. The Gospel produces love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, etc. Note that the flesh has “works” and the Spirit has “fruit.” A fruit tree doesn’t try to bear fruit, it just happens. In the same way, keeping in step with the Spirit (aka abiding in Christ, John 15) bears fruit for Him. How do we keep in step with the Spirit?
Recent Messages
If we are the Temple where redemption happens, what is our plan to draw people to Him? The answer is to relearn an ancient, almost forgotten practice: Hospitality. In a time when loneliness is an epidemic, when few people know their neighbors, something as simple as a meal together can be the starting place for something beautiful to happen.
When our bond with God was severed by our sin, He didn’t give up on us. He made a second Eden, a place for us to meet with Him and be redeemed. That place was the Temple, and the events that happened there teach us about a God who is mighty to save, the cost of our sin, and His plans for us.