Emancipation From The Old Dad - Introduction

Introduction

Definition of Emancipation: freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child

I want to talk through 9 principles, which I will keep you in a level of secrecy until the very end about. They are 9 principles, which are used to define a particular way of living, but if I were to reveal it to you directly I feel some may not take the relevance of what is being taught.

So we shall go on a journey together!

John 8:44 says, “The devil is your father. You are from him. You want to do the sinful things your father, the devil, wants you to do. He has been a killer from the beginning. The devil has nothing to do with the truth. There is no truth in him. It is expected of the devil to lie, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

Jesus is speaking to the Pharisee’s here, We as a “modern” society often like to airbrush this truth, now we know that these Pharisee’s did not “sell their souls to the devil” but yet Jesus tells them straight that they do as their father the devil does. What incredibly hard words to bear for a person who believes their service is to God, though it was indeed mixed with much selfishness, These are hard words.

Though it is Truth, we are adopted to be Children of God by Jesus Christ (John 1:12-13, Eph 1:5), If we are then adopted then naturally we have another father, and that is what Jesus’ speaks of and that father is the Devil, Naturally we are born children of wrath.

Ephesians 2:2-3 -

2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

It is an extremely blessed gift this salvation we have in Jesus Christ!

So the reason this is called “emancipation from the old dad”, well firstly emancipation because I remember hear about children getting emancipations from their parents because their parents were in affect doing “bad or irresponsible jobs”, so this was legal ground for a “divorce” between a child and father. This isn’t why we can emancipated from our old dad (the devil) our legal ground for divorcing him is that Jesus Christ purchased for us a better home, a better father and a whole new freedom.

Naturally we’d be happy with the old dad because we are naturally “children of wrath” and this is more or less what I want to speak about, in the hope that it will encourage you toward your true Father God.

So we’ll be touring through these principles!