The Liberty of Obedience

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Psalm 11934-48
Page 429
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Worldview of Freedom
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Worldview of Freedom

• PREMISE 1
• Freedom means being boundless from constraints
  and restrictions

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Worldview of Freedom

• PREMISE 1
• Freedom means being boundless from constraints
  restrictions
• PREMISE 2
• Obeying Gods authority means being bound by
  constraints restrictions

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Worldview of Freedom

• PREMISE 1
• Freedom means being boundless from constraints
  restrictions
• PREMISE 2
• Obeying Gods authority means being bound by
  constraints restrictions
• PREMISE 3
• Therefore, I will be my own spiritual authority

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Whats WRONG with being your own authority?
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Whats WRONG with being your own authority?

• 1. Lacks understanding of whos in control
  (v.37)

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Whats WRONG with being your own authority?

• 1. Lacks understanding of whos in control
  (v.37)

• Your heart is already bound to someone else

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Whats WRONG with being your own authority?

• 2. Lacks understanding of how real freedom
  works (v.45)

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Whats WRONG with being your own authority?

• 2. Lacks understanding of how real freedom
  works (v.45)

• Freedom is not a lack of restrictions its
  finding the right restrictions

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Whats WRONG with being your own authority?

• 3. Lacks understanding of the relationship
  between love freedom (vs.40 47-48)

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Whats WRONG with being your own authority?

• 3. Lacks understanding of the relationship
  between love freedom (vs.40 47-48)

• Youre most free when youre in love

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• Jesus replied, If anyone loves Me, he will obey
  My teaching. My Father will love him and We will
  come to him and make Our home with him.
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How can we transfer our authority to God?
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How can we transfer our authority to God?

• 1. Accept the Bibles Authority

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How can we transfer our authority to God?

• 1. Accept the Bibles Authority

• Dont be enslaved to your cultural moment

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How can we transfer our authority to God?

• 1. Accept the Bibles Authority

• Dont be enslaved to your cultural moment
• Dont settle for a Stepford God

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How can we transfer our authority to God?

• 2. Accept the Bibles Scrunity

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How can we transfer our authority to God?

• 2. Accept the Bibles Scrunity

• Study the Bible so it can study you

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How can we transfer our authority to God?

• 3. Accept the Finisher of the Race (v.32)

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• Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a
  great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off
  everything that hinders and the sin that so
  easily entangles, and let us run with
  perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us
  fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter
  of our faith, who for the joy set before Him
  endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat
  down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Hebrews 121-2

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How can we transfer our authority to God?

• 3. Accept the Finisher of the Race

• He ran the race not as our example, but as
  our substitute