Dive Deeper: Freedom in Fresh Ink

Life in Relationship

English - October 06, 2017 10:00 - 11 minutes - 9.28 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
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I Love My Shepherd 26 – Chasing Freedom 3: Freedom in Fresh Ink

We are marked people.

Maybe you have a tattoo, maybe you don't. Maybe you believe in tattoos, maybe you don't.

Tattoos and the Bible = Levitical law (Leviticus 19:28) Bigger question is what are we marking ourselves with, what is worth marking ourselves with Consider our cultural context and heart, what is the purpose here, where is the glory going

Galatians 3:23-29

Humankind has a long and complicated history with marking one another. It's painful. Slavery has been alive in virtually every generation and I don't think you can think of marks on human skin without considering the past.

Israel being delivered from slavery Brand of slaves, Amazing Grace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-4NFvI5U9w

Canaan-ite religion and markings on the person Jefferson's Son - https://www.amazon.com/Jeffersons-Sons-Founding-Father%C2%92s-Children/dp/0142421847/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506966225&sr=8-1&keywords=jefferson%27s+sons

Marking ourselves, that's one thing. Marking another. That's another thing entirely.

Bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit, not our own 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

How are we marked? What is God's link over time and history to tattoos and marking, and freedom?

Ephesians 1:12-14 – sealed, Greek - sfrag-id'-zo

http://biblehub.com/greek/4972.htm

signet ring, early religious markings (for audience understanding) mark of ownership free will, FREEDOM - we submit, offer ourselves v. slavery to the praise of His glory, hope

2 Corinthians 1:21-22 – God establishes us, secure, guarantee, ratify (like Galatians 3)

http://biblehub.com/greek/950.htm - to walk where it is solid, seal gives us footing and freedom in our identity

tattoos disturbing because they remind us of something darker, the history of it all God takes what we know and brings grace into all of it

Challenge: What tattoo would you get, or do you have, to proclaim a little Jesus? What other ways can we proclaim God’s seal on our lives?

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