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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Are you BOUND or are you LOOSED?

I have a confession to make. Every Sunday after Sunday School, I go home and reflect on what was said during class. I reevaluate what was taught and by Monday morning Im on to the next lesson. However, there is that rare time when the previous lesson just won't leave my head. No matter how hard I try to move forward, its as if God tells me something was not said that needed to be heard. Today is such a day and the passage that is stuck in my brain is from Matthew 16:19. If you remember Jesus had just asked his disciples who people say he is, then get to the heart of the matter and asks, "Who do YOU say I am?". Through divine revelation Peter responds, "Thou art the Christ." This response pleases Jesus and then tells Peter and therefor all believers "I will give you the KEYS of the Kingdom of heaven on earth and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." I started thinking, what exactly are the keys? Look back again to the previous verses and I think you can find the answer. Remember? Christ had just finished telling Peter that for the first time he had recieved knowledge from God that Christ was in fact the Messiah. All truth has already been decided in heaven and believer can never change that we only confirm what God has already established. So understanding that, I want you to take a look at another passage that grabbed my attention. It comes from the book of Luke 13:11-12. Its the story of a woman with an infirmity for 18 years and Christ moves to her and declares her loosed from her infirmity. Are you starting to see was has me so excited? Her problem was already loosed in heaven, only when she recieved divine guidance ws she loosed from it here on earth. What has you bound? What do you need to be loosed from? The heavens already have it declared it loosed its up to you through Christ to free yourself from it here on earth. And Christ has given us the keys to do so!!!!

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