Celebrating Fathers—Founding Fathers
Bottom Line: Celebrate _____________.
2 Cor 3:17 (NLT) For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.?
________________________________________ freedom.
1 Tim 2:5-6 (NLT) For there is one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and humanity–the Man Christ Jesus. He gave His life to purchase freedom for everyone. This is the message God gave to the world at just the right time.?
___________________ freedom.
Gal 5:1,4-8 (NLT) So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don't get tied up again in slavery to the law. For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace. But we who live by the Spirit eagerly wait to receive by faith the righteousness God has promised to us. For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, there is no benefit in being circumcised or being uncircumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love. You were running the race so well. Who has held you back from following the truth? It certainly isn't God, for He is the one who called you to freedom.
_________________________ freedom.
Gal 5:13-15 (NLT) For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don't use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.?
_____________________________ freedom.
Romans 8:18, 21-23 (NLT) Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory He will reveal to us later. The creation looks forward to the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as His adopted children, including the new bodies He has promised us.