Hebrews 12:1-2 NIV
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.
Questions for Reflection:
What are the things entangling me?
What would it look like for me to live with an untethered soul?
Read 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 NLT
Very often, are not as they .
Untethered living requires the stuff the .
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Superficial Spirituality—
- Follow the religious .
- Do more religious .
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2 Corinthians 3:10 NLT
The old way, with laws etched in stone, led to death, though it began with such glory that the people of Israel could not bear to look at Moses’ face. For his face shone with the glory of God, even though the brightness was already fading away.
2 Corinthians 3:11 NLT
So if the old way, which has been replaced, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new, which remains forever!
2 Corinthians 3:16 NLT
But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. But whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.
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Jesus the .
“It is neither the Law nor the Gospel itself that kills or makes alive, but the absence or presence of the Spirit.” —Scott J. Hafemann
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Three Encouraging Truths—
- Freedom is .
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- Freedom is .
2 Corinthians 3:18 NLT
The Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.
2 Corinthians 3:18 NKJV
But we all… are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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- Freedom is not the of Freedom is the of .
2 Corinthians 3:18 NLT
Wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
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Question for Reflection:
What area(s) of my life—soul, routine, relationships, etc.—needs the ministry of the Holy Spirit?
Revelation 3:20 ESV
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
“Humankind often does not welcome the reasonableness of the teaching that fulfillment for their deepest yearnings comes from delighting in God’s goodness by trusting his promises and thereby rendering him honor. People prefer instead to accomplish things that, supposedly, provide reasons for delighting in how much they can trust themselves… Only God, working through the Holy Spirit, has the power to replace one’s foolish desire for ego-fulfillment with the reasonable, well-advised desire to find peace and joy in depending on God.” —Daniel P. Fuller
The work in God’s people is the characteristic of the .
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