Are You Free Indeed?

Obedience to God is the path to maximum freedom.

What do we learn from Genesis 2:16-17?

• It tells us a log about God
• Freedom within the Garden meant the ability and authority to do anything they wanted within the parameters God established
• Sin, not God, robbed people of freedom

Humans appear to prefer bondage

• Genesis
  • Describes the downward degradation of sin and ends with a coffin in Egypt
  • Romans 5:12
• Exodus
  • Describes how God brings the Jewish nation out of bondage and into freedom
  • Numbers 11:5
• Old Testament – New Testament

John 8:31-36

• Real freedom is freedom from the bondage of sin

Paul concerning freedom

• All of us were born in bondage to sin
  • Romans 3:10-20
• Christ came to set us free
  • Romans 3:22b, 23-24
• Many Christians still live as if they were enslaved
  • Romans 6:1-15

How?

• Know
• Reckon
• Yield
• Romans 6:14