Gal 5:1, 13-26 | Rev. Dr. R. Brandon Harris | As a group, Christians are free, but we have a hard time seeing ourselves as free because the enslaving powers still

wield influence. Christians are those who are learning to resist the enslaving power of the flesh by yielding themselves to the power of God's Spirit, by which God is already at work within us (you "have been" set free) preparing us to receive new behavioral orientation as God's servants.