LIVING FREE
Ground zero
for any human being is not the soul, but the Spirit. That’s why, when a person
says they are trying to “find themselves” or doing some deep soul searching,
they won’t be truly satisfied until they look at the Spirit. God says in
Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were
born, I set you apart for my holy purpose.” To have true liberty and delight in
this world, we need to know ourselves as a Spirit person and be led by the
Spirit.
John 3:8 says:
“The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear
its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it
is with everyone born of the Spirit.” When we allow the Spirit to rule, we go
wherever it pleases. Second Corinthians 3:17 tells us: “The Lord is that
Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” And Galatians
5:1 tells us we should “stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us
free.”
When we believed in God’s son, God Himself made us alive spiritually in
Him. At that moment, He took the documents that listed all the bad things
against us and folded it in half so no one could see it. Then it was nailed to
the cross. It talks about this in Colossians.
It was a custom that any person who didn’t pay their debt, had papers
written up against them. The papers were put up in a place in the city where
everyone could see. But if some benevolent person came along and paid the debt,
the paper was folded in on itself, and no
one could see the debt. It was gone, paid for.
That’s how it is when a person gets born again of Holy Spirit. All debt is paid, and the person is free.
“And
you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he
quickened [made alive] together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; Blotting
out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to
us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross” (Col. 2:13-14).
Once we’re free, and we’re endeavoring to walk by the Spirit, we’re like
the wind. We are free to obey the Spirit and go where we’re guided. Colossians 2:16: “Let no man, therefore, judge you in meat, or in drink, or in
respect of a holyday,
or of the new moon,” where you hang out or what you do.
No one can
judge you, only Jesus. Paul says he doesn’t even judge himself: “But with me,
it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment:
yea, I judge not mine own self” (1 Cor. 4:3).
Yes, “We must
all appear before the judgment seat of Christ” (2 Cor. 5:10). And “Every one of
us shall give account of
himself to God” (Rom. 14:12). We can’t do this by our worldly reasoning and
mental discipline. Colossians 1:27 tells us we have Christ in us: “To whom God would make known what is the riches
of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” We can only be free like the wind when we
let Christ take charge of our lives. We invite Jesus Christ into our hearts. We
are a three-part being: body, soul (mind
and emotions), and Spirit. With Christ in our hearts, the Bible tells us the Spirit
of Christ can be in every part of us.
“And the very God
of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thess. 5:23).
1 Corinthians
2:16 tells us: “For
who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.” When? When we invite Him in.
And the same goes for our bodies. John G. Lake believed this triune salvation
was real. He believed the Spirit of Christ was in every part of his body. He tested
this out with the scientists by having them put smallpox on his hand and watch
it through a microscope. The smallpox
microorganisms died. He did this with many other highly contagious
diseases and every time Spirit would kill
the physical evil. (I’ve put a reference for John G. Lake’s teaching and
documentation at the end of this article so you can check it out for yourself.)
As we read
about Jesus Christ, do we ever see that he battled any kind of sickness or disease in His body, which was flesh just like
ours? No. Did he have emotions? Yes, but they were appropriate to the cause.
God wants us to accept the same wholeness, and
it’s His will. Let’s receive it. Read it in the scriptures and believe.
Paul tells us:
“Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the
flesh is lusting against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and
these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that
ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit,
ye are not under the law” (Gal. 5:16-18).
Verse 25 of
Galatians 5 says: “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us
from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8: 31-38).
Let’s believe it, receive it into ourselves, and act like it! We keep
reminding ourselves of who we are and that there is no devil spirit,
no demon who is bigger than we are, spiritually.
Like Jesus, we stand. “Resist the devil, and
And with people, we walk in the Spirit. “And where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17). And “We walk in love” (Eph. 5:2).
Let’s live free and kick the devil’s butt this week!
Love, Carolyn
I just looked online, and
there are several books on John G. Lake
and his sermons. This is the one I have: John G. Lake: His Life,
His Sermons, His Boldness of Faith. His teaching “Triune Salvation” is life-changing!
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