Free Man
Free Man
Free Man
Acknowledgement
Chapter 1: The residence of true freedom……………………4
Chapter 2: From freedom to slavery……………………………7
From slavery to freedom
Chapter 3: In pursuit for freedom………………………………..11
Chapter 4: how we were reconciled back to Christ…………14
Chapter 5: the bath of God………………………………………….22
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Allow me to acknowledge my father and mother, Neddy
Shipopa and Maybe Moonga for their wonderful and great love
they have shown from the time I was born till this day. I don’t
take it lightly. I would like also to acknowledge my father in the
lord Prophet Prince Kazeze for his profound teaching he has
been giving me from the day we met till today.
Chapter 1
THE RESIDENCE OF TRUE FREEDOM
Freedom has a place in us. Whether we are ignorant of this fact
or not. Let me tell you a story;
There was once a certain woman who was so cruel and bitter.
With such aggressiveness the woman was jailed for committing
murder. She had ended her cruelty on her husband and the
only voice that came to her was jail.
While she was in prison for six months, they recognized that she
was pregnant. She gave birth while still in that location. And
when her male child had attained the age of 12, he wasn’t
familiar with the place. The environment felt as unfavorable to
him as the grave. He would hear tidings that there were people
that where out of prison living freely without being punished.
The young boy was now in pursuit for wisdom. There was an
old man in that place that would always sit and think explicitly
with great enthusiasm.
The boy approached the man and asked him a question that
was filled with desperation saying;
“What am I doing here?” he later added another question with
grief “What does it mean to be free and where does freedom
come from?”
The man smiled as he would hit his chest with his hand as he
continued smiling at the boy.
The boy went away thinking in his mind so conclusively that the
old man was mad with his wisdom. But because of the
unanswered questions that still were unattended by the man, the
boy chose to continue his pursuit of enlightenment.
As he went to the man for the second time, the man made a
profound statement that shock the boy’s thinking patterns. The
man said;
“When I was hitting my chest, I was making one thing clear to
you that you were not aware of; which is the source of true
freedom. True freedom comes from the heart.”
The statement kept on coming back to the boy with great
intense to be understood but made more sense to him as he
kept on thinking.
True freedom isn’t found anywhere else but in the heart. The
message was; can you find freedom while still in bondage?
There are people here on earth that are not in prison but they
are battling a hard bondage that the one in prison isn’t aware of.
This is proof that there are many ways bondage can be set on
people. Demons have kept many in bondage; defilement cases,
witchcraft, pornography, masturbation, terrorism, racism and
injustice. Is there hope we can attain freedom? How did i get
into bondage and what can I do to be free?
One major force that has made many suffer much affliction in
bondage is ignorance.
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because thou
hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be
no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I
will also forget thy children”-Hosea 4:6
Knowledge is the key to freedom. But the greatest question you
should ask is “what knowledge?”
There is only one kind of knowledge that is trustworthy, which
is the knowledge of truth or true knowledge from God. Because
each time we say knowledge, there is knowledge that enslaves,
which the devil gives.
The other force that enslaves is sin. The Hebrew word for sin is
“harmatema” which means to miss the mark.
“The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life
through Christ Jesus our lord”-Romans 6:23
I bring good news to you, that we have free spirit called Christ
Jesus that washed sin. I assure you that Jesus has to be allowed
in your heart for freedom to be accomplished and if you are
born again but yet still sinning, it’s high time you continue
walking in him because he cleans sin.
Chapter 2
FROM FREEDOM TO SLAVERY
In the bible, the first time we come across freedom is when
Adam is given authority to be fruitful and multiply and replenish
the earth and subdue it. (Genesis 1:28). But before that there
was a self-made slave and the first to become a slave called the
devil.
“thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee
so; thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked
up and down in the midist of stones of fire, thou wast perfect in
thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was
found in thee.”(Ezekiel 28:14)
The devil, in the book of Ezekiel seems to have had a nice
biographical introduction until the last part of it became sour.
From freedom the devil rebelled against God. And that become
his eternal bondage as an evil spirit.
“…I beheld Satan as lighting fall from heaven” (Luke 10:18)
The man Adam was created to look after the garden that was
eastward of Eden. And because of the devil’s subtlety, the man
fell and all his freedom to live a happy and immortal was
diminished. Sickness and chaos began and life felt miserable for
Adam and Eve. Left a word
Many are born again, but still suffer addictions, pain,
heartbreaks, attacks and afflictions. Does that mean they were
not fully born again?
This question will be answered in this book.
DEAD TO SIN
When Jesus was crucified on the cross, not only did he die for
our sins but we died with him on the cross. You might say, “But
how? I wasn’t there that time.”
Well you are not far from the truth, as long as this blood you
have had been made pure by him, then it is what it should be
like; you were purified with him.
2 Corinthians 5:14-“For the love of Christ constraineth us;
because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all
dead.”
Jesus while still on the earth accomplished two fold-works
which are;
1. Saved us from the penalty of sin.
2. Saved us from the power of sin.
Sin does not come from the outside it is within us; hence it is
fatal to us.
Temptations comes from the outside but sin dwells from the
inner chamber, if it was from the outside then it wouldn’t have
power over us.
OLD MAN
The old man is the sinful nature from our father Adam.
1 john 1:7-“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we
have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ
his son cleanseth us from all sin.”
The bible doesn’t say that the old man needs to be cleansed;
no, it says, “The blood of Christ his son cleanseth us from all
sin.” Not “the blood cleanseth the old man.”
When Jesus died it wasn’t a failure as some men speak thereof
but a substitution of the old man by Jesus. He took the place
that the old man had in us.
But to do this the old man had to be crucified with our savior.
Romans 6:6-“Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with
him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth
we should not serve sin.”
It is the old man that gave power to sin and this is the reason
Jesus is dying on the cross with the body of sin so that it would
not give power to sin.
The reason why people are struggling with sin is that they think
they can crucify the old man on themselves, well it doesn’t work
like that, you accept Jesus as your lord and personal savior and
then the old man dies.
Romans 6:11-“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead
indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through jesus Christ our
Lord.”
If we begin to feel whether the old man is dead or not then it
will rule over us. It isn’t a matter of “feeling” or “touching” but
reckoning. The old man is crucified by reckoning not by
feelings.
What then is to reckon?
To reckon is to exercise faith. This isn’t just thinking that the
old man is dead; no, it simply means to perform a substitution
between Christ and the old man.
If Jesus suffered then the old man also suffered
If Jesus was nailed on the cross then the old man was also
nailed
If Jesus died then the old man also had died
If Jesus was buried the old man too had been buried.
This is what Paul calls reckoning. Being unconscious of sin.