I HAVE BEEN MEDITATING ON A ENCOUNTER OF A LAME MAN AND THE LORD. DURING THIS ENCOUNTER JESUS DECLARED TO THE LAME MAN "YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN" UPON HEARING THIS STATEMENT THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OBJECTED AND SAID ONLY GOD CAN FORGIVE SINS WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? (PARAHRASED OF COURSE) JESUS RESPONDED WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN EASIER TO SAY TAKE UP YOUR BED AND WALK OR THAT YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN BUT THAT WE SHOULD KNOW THAT HE HAD POWER TO FORGIVE SINS. AS BELIEVERS HIS ABILITY TO FORGIVE OUR SINS IS WITOUT QUESTION.

THE RESULT WOULD BE THE SAME NO MATTER WHAT HE SAID TO THE LAME MAN. THE FACT WAS THAT THIS MAN HAD BECOME FREED FROM HIS SINS, AND BEING FREED FROM HIS SIN HE WAS NO LONGER BOUND TO THE BED OF A LAME MAN.

PAUL ADMONISHED THE GALATIANS TO STAND FAST IN THE LIBERTY WHEREWITH CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE.

AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE.

IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST HE IS A NEW CREATUE. OLD THINGS ARE PAST AWAY BEHOLD ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW.

THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST TO THOSE WHO WALK AFTER THE SPIRIT AND NOT AFTER THE FLESH. FOR THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN A DEATH.

THANK GOD WE ARE FREE. AS WE ABIDE IN HIS WORD THE FREEDOM THAT WE HAVE IN CHRIST IS ENLARGED IN US. WE UNDERGO THE TRANSFORMATION BY THE RENEWING OF OUR MINDS THAT WE MIGHT KNOW THE WILL OF GOD.

GOD HAS MADE US FREE BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. THIS FREEDOM COVERS US SPIRIT , SOUL AND BODY. RECEIVE THIS FREEDOM FROM THE LORD AND ALLOW HIM TO BE GLORIFIED IN YOUR LIFE.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, MAY GOD BLESS YOU ABUNDANTLY WITH THE GRACE OF THE LORD, THE LOVE OF THE FATHER AND THE COMMUNION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

PASTOR RICHARD