Complete Freedom

"All evil is defeated."

WHERE THE Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2 Corinthians 3:17). What does that mean? Liberty from what?

Well, from every evil thing on this planet.

This is our gift from Jesus Christ. He IS God, and He WAS God. John 1:1 tells us He was God at creation. John's Revelation tells us He is forever God (Revelation 1:8). He was God in the flesh when He lived on earth. He's always been God.

But He was born as human to Mary, a virgin, and Joseph of Nazareth in order to do what only God could do, in a plan He made as God before time. It was "foreordained," or promised beforehand (1 Peter 1:20) that Jesus would bring all prophecy to pass, as a human son, as the lineage of King David, as the Lamb of God, as the Prince of Peace. God would do everything He’d set in order in one glorious act, in a timing only He could accomplish. He is specific and strategic. He is precise, and His Word never fails (Isaiah 55:11).

He would do it all to set man free, and that freedom comes not from Him on His own, but from the power of God upon Him, which is the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the Christ, or Anointed One, and the anointing is the Holy Spirit working through Him to heal and rescue all men.

“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.” (Acts 10:38)

You see, we were under bondage, forced service, to darkness. God is Light, and Jesus is the Light of the world (John 8:12). When Adam chose to sin, choosing it knowingly, he made room for darkness which ends in death. This wasn't done by any power he had, but it came to all mankind because outside of Light is darkness. God has no sin in Him (Jesus has never sinned. 2 Corinthians 5:21), and God cannot sin. Sin cannot stand in the Light.

Jesus came as one of us, in a physical body, in order to make the choice Adam failed to make. By dying willingly, on purpose, as God who had no sin, He put an end to the Law and fulfilled all the pictures of the Law with His sinless blood, which needs never to be replaced. What Israel did year after year, Jesus did once, and it was all completed (Hebrews 10:14). His death ended the need for death as cleansing. His Resurrection made Life the constant of the New Promises from God.

What we must know of His death is that when death had done its final work, when there was no more life in His body, then there was Life in Him as God. His spirit never died. The Holy Spirit cannot die. And the everlasting Life of the Spirit remade His body into a "glorified" one, raising Him back to life (Philippians 3:21).

DEATH HAS NEVER HAD MORE POWER OR AUTHORITY THAN GOD.

This is eternal life. See what eternal life did in Jesus. He'd been beaten beyond recognition (Isaiah 52:14), all His blood had drained out. His body had been decaying for three days, and don't think He doesn't remember the agony and mental pain (Isaiah 53:3). Yet, Life healed all of that. Love recreated Him, and the Father seated Him at His right hand, far above all wickedness. All evil is defeated. Jesus is FREE of it. And so, so are we. God did a complete work, leaving nothing out we would need. He gave us all of Him, including the Spirit, His very power, authority, and complete nature.

Where the Spirit is, within us, there is freedom!

“Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:” (Ephesians 1:20-21)

“All this energy issues from Christ: God raised him from death and set him on a throne in deep heaven, in charge of running the universe, everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt from his rule. And not just for the time being, but forever. He is in charge of it all, has the final word on everything. At the center of all this, Christ rules the church. The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills everything with his presence.” (Ephesians 1:20-23 MSG)


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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