Melvin Payne

The Cross, My Statue of Liberty

Galatians 6:14

Numbers 21:5-9

I. Free From The Penalty Of Sin Because of The Cross

 

    Luke 4:18 - "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised."

 

II. Free From the Power of Sin Because of the Cross

 

    Galatians 5:1 - "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage."

 

    Galatians 5:13 - "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another."

 

III. Free From the Presence of Sin Because of the Cross

 

    Romans 8:21 - "Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God."

                                                                                                           

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