{"id":6283,"date":"2017-10-29T14:03:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T18:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/?post_type=message&#038;p=6283"},"modified":"2017-10-31T14:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T18:05:23","slug":"set-free-to-live-free","status":"publish","type":"message","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/message\/set-free-to-live-free","title":{"rendered":"Set Free to Live Free"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the value of freedom? Someone has rightly said, \u201cFreedom isn\u2019t free.\u201d It costs something. Whether it\u2019s political freedom, physical freedom, financial freedom, freedom of speech or thought&#8230; There\u2019s a price to be paid to get free. And there\u2019s a continual responsibility to watch out for threats that would steal our freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The same is true for our spiritual freedom, the kind of freedom that can only be found in Christ Jesus. Do you know this freedom? The freedom from guilt and shame? The freedom from earning and effort? The freedom to rest in the grace and acceptance of God through faith in Christ?\u00a0If you don\u2019t, I want to tell you how you can have this freedom. And if you do, I want to help you keep it!<\/p>\n<p>In Paul\u2019s letter to the Galatians, he urged them to continue to live in the freedom Christ had given them by recognizing and avoiding the threats to their freedom. We can recognize and avoid the threats to our freedom in Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6181,"template":"","tags":[2019],"series":[2503],"scripture-book":[1315],"scripture-chapter":[1338],"speaker":[2007],"class_list":["post-6283","message","type-message","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-exposition","series-set-free","scripture-book-galatians","scripture-chapter-1338","speaker-gary-combs"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/6283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/message"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/message\/6283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-book","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-book?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-chapter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-chapter?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker?post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}