The Lord’s Freeman

 Tonight I'd like to share something about the Lord's freeman. I forget when I first used the phrase-; among our people that- sort of caught on when I said you are born to live; you are born again to serve. In our first birth we received our natural life and that natural life will be ours for all the years that we live. But in the second birth we received Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and we received . eternal life. Eternal life is for all the years we live, and that's eternal. The natural life, sixty, seventy, eighty, I don't know how many years, but that's the end of it. But if you have eternal life, if you're born again, you will have it throughout all eternity, in my mind it's absolute stupidity for any man to remain just a natural man when eternal life is available to all men. (Example of Justin Wilson) This matter of the Lord's freeman is not just to. be born to live. But if you were not born to live you could not be born again. The second birth is primarily a birth to serve. John 3:1-4 John 3:5 "born of water" - first birth, natural birth "of the spirit" - second birth John 3 ». 6 "that which is.born of the flesh is flesh" - That's the natural man. It will always be flesh. "That which is born of the spirit" will always be spirit. The first is natural; the second is eternal life. John 3:7-12 John 3:13 "which is in heaven" - Scratched in all texts John 3:14 John 3:15 "not perish but" - Deleted in texts John 3:16-19 There's one of the great records in God's Word regarding the natural man who needs to get born again. The teaching is very simple, very plain and very easy. Our first birth gives us natural life as long as we live. Our second birth gives us eternal life as long as we live, and that eternal life is throughout all eternity. People love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil, and that's why they do not desire to be born again. A man must be born again in order to have eternal life..