This is the second sermon in the iServe series and focuses on our freedom to serve one another. Absolute freedom ensnares us. But freedom within the guardrails that God establishes for us leads to the ultimate freedom, and that freedom is best expressed in self-less service.

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Serving as Free
Men and Women
Galatians 5:13-15

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First Point
Total freedom leads to
bondage.

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Jim
Morrison

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I think the highest and lowest points
are the important ones. Anything else
is just...in between. I want the
freedom to try everything.
(Jim Morrison)

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1 Peter 2:19
19 They promise them freedom, but
they themselves are slaves of
corruption. For whatever overcomes
a person, to that he is enslaved.

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Galatians 5
13 For you were called to freedom,
brothers. Only do not use your
freedom as an opportunity for the
flesh, but through love serve one
another.

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Galatians 5
14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one
word: “You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.” 15 But if you bite and devour
one another, watch out that you are
not consumed by one another.

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ἐλευθερία, e-lū-theria
Freedom
Used primarily to indicate
freedom from bondage

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13 For you were called to freedom,
brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an
opportunity for the flesh, but through
love serve one another.
ἀφορμή “A-for-mā”
1.favorable circumstance
2.unwarranted reason or an excuse

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Second Point
Serving one another
through love is the
highest expression of our
freedom in Christ.

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Galatians 5
13b but through love serve one
another. 14 For the whole law is
fulfilled in one word: “You shall love
your neighbor as yourself.”

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Δουλεύω (Douleūō)
• This verb contains the word
“slave.”
• Literally, Paul is calling us to gain
our freedom by surrendering it to
one another.

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Matthew 22
37b“You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind. 38 This
is the great and first
commandment.

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Matthew 22
39 And second is like it: You shall
love your neighbor as
yourself. 40 On these two
commandments depend all the Law
and the Prophets.”

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Third Point
If you pay it forward, you
will never have to worry
about the people behind
your back.

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Galatians 5
15 But if you bite and devour
one another, watch out that
you are not consumed by one
another.

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The O’Jays
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to
take your place
The back stabbers
(back stabbers)

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Galatians 5
15 But if you bite and devour
one another, watch out that
you are not consumed by one
another.

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The Revenge Center
The Dorsal
Striatum

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Martin Luther on Freedom
"A Christian man is the most
free lord of all, and subject to
none; a Christian man is the
most dutiful servant of all,
and subject to everyone."

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