Living Victoriously In Jesus

The New Year & The New You

Galatians 5:1�

For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm, then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Explanation of Galatians 5:1

• Paul instructs believers not to return to slavery under the law, but to live by the Spirit.
• The freedom that Paul is speaking of is deliverance from the curse that the law pronounces on the sinner/ individual who is striving to achieve his righteousness. Instead of striving, Paul says stand firm in Christ and the salvation granted to you by God’s grace.
• Paul insists the benefit of being free is in Jesus and His fullness of blessing of empowering grace.
• He also insists that Christians not be burdened or oppressed by the Law. “Yoke” refers to the apparatus used to control a domesticated animal. The Jews thought of the “yoke of the law” as a good thing, the essence of true religion. Paul argued that for those who pursued it as a way of salvation, the law was a yoke of slavery.

How Can We Live Our Freedom in Jesus Daily?

For us to correctly answer this question, we need to have a proper understanding of the Christian Life.

The Christian Life is a Life of Growth

1. Growing in our knowledge of Jesus and His Grace of Salvation

(2 Peter 3:18)

• Growing in maturity—moving from Milk to Solid Food

( I Corinthians 3:2)

• Growing in Worship(John 4)
• Growing in Hope (Psalm 25)
• Growing in Servanthood (Mark 10, John 13)
• Growing in Disciple making (Matthew 28)

What is the Pathway to such Growth?

The Model is Jesus

So, what does it mean to say that Jesus is the model?

Jesus is not only the Word but also Grew in His understanding of the Word.

Luke 2:52, And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and with people.

​

John MacArthur, Jesus did not cease being God in order to become man. Instead, He took on a human nature (an addition, not a subtraction), and submitted the use of His divine attributes to the will of the Father. Therefore, there were times when His divinity was on display and others when His humanity veiled it in accordance with the Father’s will. Christ was therefore subject to the normal process of human growth, intellectually, physically, spiritually, and socially.

Jesus is not Only the God We Pray to, but He learned to Pray and Teaches Us to Pray

Mark 1:35, Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he got up, went out, and made his way to a deserted place; and there he was praying.

Luke 6:12-13, During those days he went out to the mountain to pray and spent all night in prayer to God. When daylight came, he summoned his disciples, and he chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:

John 6:15, During those days he went out to the mountain to pray and spent all night in prayer to God. When daylight came, he summoned his disciples, and he chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles:

​

Jesus is Not Only the Teacher, but the Example of A Disciple

Hebrews 5:8, Although he was the Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered.

​

John MacArthur, Christ did not need to suffer to conquer or correct any disobedience. As the Son of God, He understood obedience completely. As the incarnate Lord, He humbled Himself to learn (cf. Lk 2:52). He learned obedience for the same reasons He bore temptation: to confirm His humanity and experience its sufferings to the fullest.

D.A. Carson, The verbs “learned” and “suffered” form an aphorism with a rhyming play on words in the Greek: “emathen, epathen,” similar to our “no pain, no gain.” This does not mean “he learned to obey” after moral failure; instead, he learned through hard experience all that obedience entails, so he became a high priest sympathetic to our human weaknesses.

​

.

​

The Model is Participation in the Spiritual Disciplines—A Personal Growth Plan

1. Search and Learn the Scriptures
2. Pray, converse and build a relationship with Jesus
3. Let Jesus be an example of how to handle hard times

1 Peter 2:21-23,4:19 For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. He did not commit sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth; when insulted, he did not insult in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten but entrusted himself to the one who judges justly…So then, let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust themselves to a faithful Creator while doing what is good.

​

Key Points of the Series

Key Verses from the Series

Key Passages from Series

Key Books from the Series

Invitation & Challenge

1. I invite you to a life of freedom and victory.
1. A life of freedom is found in his truth—you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
2. You are an overcomer because he is overcomer.
2. I want to challenge you to participate in the Spiritual Disciplines not as a way to be a good Christian or when God’s love, but to develop a relationship with God that can guide you through this life.