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Lesson OneFreedom3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson TwoPower3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson ThreeWar3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FourFruit3 Activities1 Assessment
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Lesson FiveCommunity3 Activities1 Assessment
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity1 Assessment
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Discussion Questions
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Explain, in your own words, the freedom we have as a result of Christ’s work and how that impacts your life.
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The freedom I enjoyed as a result of Christ redeeming work on the cross is the freedom to choose the right things to do and the power to do it. The freedom is also to know that I am accepted as God’s child, accepted for my limitation and sins and all. The impact is that I can choose to do right, to obey God, to know his will and to know that whatever I do, I don’t need to earn his approval because it was already given to me. I obey and serve God out of love. I have a new identity. I am fully and totally accepted by God. I don’t need people’s approval of me.
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From what I understand, it is to be free from the ways of the world, in order to be free to live according to the way of Christ. The world is either living in legalism (which robs us of the joy of life, and leads us to sure defeat and guilt), or living in licentiousness (which makes us addicted to the thrills of sin, yet never feeling joyful and free). Christ’s way is to be free to choose right and enjoy the liberty thereof. The power of the Holy Spirit makes this choice liberating instead of burdensome. That is, freedom is not legalism nor licentiousness, but it is liberty.
How it impacts my life is to continually ask for the filling of the Holy Spirit, so that I will have both the desire and the power to live right: “it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose” (Philippians 2:13).
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Christ’s act of love in dying on the Cross didn’t just forgive us from our sins. It has set us free from the bondage of both legalism and hedonism. As a former legalistic Christian, I’m thankful that I’m experiencing freedom from those particular chains. It still creeps up in subtle ways. As I’m writing this, I’m realizing that I see it as something to be overcome and missing the point that I’m already free from it. The same is true of sin. Sin, and the enemy’s temptations to sin, no longer have any power. They only have the power I give to them. I struggle with overeating. (That’s so much easier than saying the Biblical G word) I’m not the helpless pup cowering in the cage, even if that’s how I may feel. Jesus has opened the door. Whom the Son sets free is free indeed.
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I’ve never fully understood this. I tend to be legalistic and I’ve always gotten bogged down by the fact that being set free doesn’t mean being set free to live however I want. The Law is still relevant but it’s learning to live it out as Jesus did – through the lens of love, not legalism. So I continue to learn what this looks like in my life and how to share it out in the world.
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Because Jesus died for me and rose again in power that I truly can’t even wrap my head around my heart tells me that I am free from worry, free from fear, free from insecurities of the the world’s view of me. I am free to run after Jesus – free to run from all my preconceived notions of who and what I am to be, and run into His loving acceptance of who He has made me to be… FREE
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Wow I really like how you explain this. It’s truly an extraordinary thing!
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Prior to taking this course, have you studied the fruit of the Spirit? If so, reflect on that experience. If not, what prompted you to take this course?
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No, I have never studied the fruit of the Spirit. What prompted me to take this course was my interest in learning about the fruit of the Spirit.
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I was prompted to take this course because I struggle with walking in the Spirit.
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Yes, shallowly, but not in this manner and not from the perspective of freedom “to do”. I always looks at the fruit of the spirit as something that I am unable to do fully and I am beginning to see why. It is only possible by the Holy Spirit. I’ve been under my own feeble power attempting.
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The reason why I was prompted to take this course is to become better at showing my fruits of my spirit to other people.
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I try to live my life guided by the fruit of the Spirit. But I hadn’t thought of freedom in this sense before and I’m very glad I’m taking this course.
