Obstacles, friends, are the difficulties and trials that are in front of us that seem as big as a mountain, too big to go around and too high to climb over.
Jesus was very particular in Matthew 23:25 about the need to be clean first on the inside, and then on the outside, too. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.”
“Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.” Matthew 5:48 We are all familiar with the statement Christ made in His Sermon on the Mount to be perfect.
I want to talk about spiritual freedom because without that, we truly are not free. We find this additional definition of freedom in the dictionary as…
July 11 – 17, 2021 – All who study the life of Christ and practice His teaching will become like Christ. Their influence will be like His. They will reveal soundness of character. They are established in the faith, and will not be overcome by the devil because of vanity and pride.
“Christ, the Great Teacher, had an infinite variety of subjects from which to choose, but the one upon which He dwelt most largely was the endowment of the Holy Spirit.”