From what has God declared us independent? - Independence - TouchPoints

Romans 6:14Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace.

Romans 7:24Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?

2 Corinthians 3:17The Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Galatians 5:13You have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.

Colossians 1:13-14He [God] has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins.

1 Peter 2:16You are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.

If we have trusted in Jesus alone to save us, we are set free from the power of sin. This freedom is dependent, of course, on God’s grace. We are free to serve God and one another in love. But our lives are at their best when we, in our independence, depend on our Creator for his power and blessings.

Acts 10:28Peter told them, “You know it is against our laws for a Jewish man to enter a Gentile home like this or to associate with you. But God has shown me that I should no longer think of anyone as impure or unclean.”

Acts 11:8-9“‘No, Lord,’ I [the apostle Peter] replied. ‘I have never eaten anything that our Jewish laws have declared impure or unclean.’ But the voice from heaven spoke again: ‘Do not call something unclean if God has made it clean.’”

Romans 7:4-6You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, we can produce a harvest of good deeds for God. When we were controlled by our old nature, sinful desires were at work within us, and the law aroused these evil desires that produced a harvest of sinful deeds, resulting in death. But now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.

We are independent of the laws of Moses and dependent on the Spirit to guide us and provide us with wisdom, strength, counsel, and guidance.