No Longer Slaves

[Psalms 32:5] I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. [Psalms 32:6] For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him. [Psalms 32:7] You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah. [Psalms 32:8] I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you. [Psalms 32:9] Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

[Psalms 40:1] For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry. [Psalms 40:2] He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand. [Psalms 40:3] He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. [Psalms 40:4] Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies. [Psalms 40:5] Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

[2 Timothy 1:5] having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, in you also. [2 Timothy 1:6] For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. [2 Timothy 1:7] For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. [2 Timothy 1:8] Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God, [2 Timothy 1:9] who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

[Ephesians 1:1] Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: [Ephesians 1:2] Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. [Ephesians 1:3] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, [Ephesians 1:4] even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love, [Ephesians 1:5] having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire, [Ephesians 1:6] to the praise of the glory of his grace, by which he freely gave us favor in the Beloved. [Ephesians 1:7] In him we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace

[John 1:10] He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him. [John 1:11] He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him. [John 1:12] But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: [John 1:13] who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. [John 1:14] The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. [John 1:15] John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’”

[1 Peter 1:16] because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” [1 Peter 1:17] If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear, [1 Peter 1:18] knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things like silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, [1 Peter 1:19] but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ, [1 Peter 1:20] who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake, [1 Peter 1:21] who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.

[Exodus 15:1] Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and said, “I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously. He has thrown the horse and his rider into the sea. [Exodus 15:2] The LORD is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. [Exodus 15:3] The LORD is a man of war. The LORD is his name. [Exodus 15:4] He has cast Pharaoh’s chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

[Galatians 4:2] but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father. [Galatians 4:3] So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world. [Galatians 4:4] But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law, [Galatians 4:5] that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children. [Galatians 4:6] And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” [Galatians 4:7] So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. [Galatians 4:8] However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods. [Galatians 4:9] But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

[2 Corinthians 6:15] What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever? [2 Corinthians 6:16] What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.” [2 Corinthians 6:17] Therefore “‘Come out from among them, and be separate,’ says the Lord. ‘Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you. [2 Corinthians 6:18] I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,’ says the Lord Almighty.”

[Exodus 14:19] The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them. [Exodus 14:20] It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. There was the cloud and the darkness, yet it gave light by night. One didn’t come near the other all night. [Exodus 14:21] Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. [Exodus 14:22] The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground; and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left. [Exodus 14:23] The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. [Exodus 14:24] In the morning watch, the LORD looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

[1 John 4:15] Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. [1 John 4:16] We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him. [1 John 4:17] In this, love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so we are in this world. [1 John 4:18] There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love. [1 John 4:19] We love him, because he first loved us. [1 John 4:20] If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

[Romans 8:12] So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. [Romans 8:13] For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. [Romans 8:14] For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. [Romans 8:15] For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” [Romans 8:16] The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God; [Romans 8:17] and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him. [Romans 8:18] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.