Bible Verse of The Day – 3-5-24

Galatians 5:1 (NKJV) 1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Do you know we can put ourselves in bondage all over again if we don’t take the right steps in keeping ourselves free?

Now, we are not talking about us losing our salvation here. We are talking about sin that keeps us from growing in our relationship with Christ. Sin that puts distance between us and God.

Once God has set us free, we must put forth effort to keep that freedom.

Every day we get up we must make sure nothing puts us back into that same sin or bondage again.

We have to fight to keep our flesh from wanting to go back. Why? Because flesh loves routine, loves comfort, and it loves familiarity.

Sin is something that comes natural to us. We were all born sinners.

We have to remember before we were saved we were once used to conducting ourselves by the lust of our flesh. Now we must fight off the desires of our flesh and mind.

Ephesians 2:3 (NKJV) 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

It can be very hard to do at times.

However, when temptation comes (and it will come), remember that with the help of the Holy Spirit, and our desire not to fall into the same trap again, we can defeat the enemy and escape the temptation. God’s word tells us this!

1 Corinthians 10:13 (NKJV) 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.

So, let us not fall back into the same bondage. Let us be completely free through the way of escape that God provides in that moment of great temptation!

Amen.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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