Week 32: Friday Discipleship

  • John 8:31-36

    So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”

    Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

  • 1 John 3:1-6

    See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

    Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him.

  • Question:  How can believers live with no condemnation and truly fulfill God’s holy law?

    Answer:  Because Jesus bore our condemnation at the cross, we now bear none. The Holy Spirit indwells us, empowering real trust from the inside out—no longer slaves to sin, but joyful servants of God.

  • Romans 8:1 (ESV)
    “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”