Crucify the Flesh
About this episode
The episode discusses four essential qualities needed for true freedom as outlined in Galatians 5.
Freedom requires four things. Not a formula — four qualities that, without them, freedom will keep slipping away before you ever really have it. Paul lays them out in Galatians 5 with a word that doesn't leave much room for passivity: stand firm. The first is passion. You can't casually drift toward freedom. You have to want it the way Patrick Henry wanted it when he stood up and said give me liberty or give me death. The second is courage — the courage to stay focused on simple devotion to Jesus when every voice around you is trying to complicate it. The third is guidance: freedom is lost when you listen to the wrong people, and gained when you intentionally pursue the ones who draw you toward Jesus. The fourth is perseverance. George Washington lost more battles than he won. Zamperini spent years refusing the very freedom he'd been rescued for. Amy said it plainly: it took years. But perseverance made it possible. More rules will not set you free. More religion will not set you free. More knowledge will not set you free. Only undiluted devotion to Jesus will — when his Spirit wells up in you and you look at what's been yoked to your neck and decide you won't give it one more…
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