Freedom – Jack Hibbs Today

We often associate “freedom” with America, but so many of today’s Americans are chained by fear, addiction, anxiety, depression, busyness, and distraction. The true freedom that Jesus Christ offers can break those chains!

This Real Life TV program is taken from a recent teaching by Pastor Jack. It has been formatted for TV and contains some additional material. We hope you gain new insights as you enjoy this message.

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So listen. What about the words freedom? We hear it all the time, especially in the West here in America.
Freedom, freedom, the land of the free. But I don’t think so.
When you take a look at it, the land of the free is wrapped up in all kinds of drugs and fear and suicide and, and terror and, and not knowing what’s next.
No, listen to this. The Bible says there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ, Jesus.
That’s freedom to trust Christ is absolute liberty and freedom. Nobody can take that away from you. Friends.
Listen, if America is conquered and is no more or if you’re swept away and thrown in jail for some reason, nobody can take the true freedom away from you that exists on the inside that God gives.
Listen to me. I’m telling you something. This is not a game. You can be free on the inside.
You could be locked up in a concrete box and be more free than somebody who’s walking loose in the desert somewhere or along the shores of California.
Freedom is something that God gives and the whole thing about it is that God has engineered it in such a way that you and I can know freedom through the fact that Jesus Christ, according to the Bible came into this world to live a life to show us the way to God.
And then he revealed the word and will of God to us and he announced it was in advance and he was going to go to the cross.
He was going to die for our sins and on the third day, be resurrected from the dead.
Listen, I can’t explain to you the, the sense the awareness I have regarding that biblical fact, but it’s absolute freedom.
I can’t even describe it. Well, Jack, isn’t it tied to red, white and blue?
No, isn’t it tied to the constitution? No, it’s tied to God’s eternal word. It will never change. That’s freedom.
Listen, nations will come and go. Mountains will rise and fall.
Seas will, will fade away or overflow God’s word never changes friends. Listen, freedom is what you need.
And it’s only through Jesus. He’s alive. This is not a thought or a theory he lives.
So listen, let’s dive in to see what God’s word has to say.
In John chapter 16 verse five, the Bible tells us.
But now Jesus said, I go away, I’m leaving you guys to him who sent me and none of you will ask me, where are you going?
But because I have said this, these things to you sorrows filled your heart.
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away for.
If I do not go away, the helper, the word is the Holy Spirit.
He will not come to you. But if I depart, I will send them to you.
And when he has come, he will convict the world.
Watch this of sin and of righteousness and of judgment of sin. Because they do not believe in me.
If God is convicting you my friend, you need to make a decision right now.
For Jesus, don’t let your heart grow callous and of righteousness because I go to the father and you see me no more.
It’s a declaration Jesus Christ literally was born in Bethlehem.
Actually lived trafficked up and down the Galilee into uh Judea 33 and a quarter years.
The entire Roman Empire believers and unbelievers alike, both religious and civic watched his crucifixion, an actual legal recorded secular event.
And on the third day, he rose again from the dead. That’s not only recorded in the Bible.
Rome had to cope with that.
And even to this hour, the name of Jesus is a threat to unbelievers all around the world.
Pagan governments, godless nations, communist regimes, think about it.
And by the way, those things don’t have to be far, far away.
It could be in your own home. I met a woman after last service.
She says I’m the only believer in my home. I come here for peace. Study of the word.
And then I go home and I get a whole mouth full of it all. There you go.
How was it? Did you see God? Amazing.
And then also listen, we’ve been liberated, set free from sin that grieves us.
Of course, it grieves God, but it grieves us as well.
There’s no condemnation though in Christ Jesus any longer. This is a beautiful example.
It’s acts chapter two, you gotta love this. The Holy Spirit. Remember this Jesus said, I’m leaving.
I just read that moment ago. Yeah, I’m going in acts chapter one. He says goodbye.
When I listen, I’m gonna, I’m gonna go to the father and he’s gonna send the helper.
I was just talking to you about in John in John’s Gospel.
I’m gonna send the helper and when he comes, you’ll, you’ll receive power.
And um that day that he came by the way, the day the Holy Spirit came was the 50th day after Jesus had left 50.
Do you know what Pentecost means? 50 in some parts of the world? Pentecost.
Pentecostal believers are called 50 day Christians. Isn’t that cute? What do they believe in?
They believe in the power of the Holy Spirit. So I guess I’m one of them.
So Peter said now Peter, this is, this is Fisherman, Peter up until now he’s done nothing but make mistakes.
Do you know that? Open mouth? Insert foot?
Peter but the holy spirits come upon him just moments ago. Watch what happens.
Therefore, let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified?
Both Lord and Christ. Now, when they had heard this, they were cut to the heart, convicted and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles men and brethren.
What shall we do? That’s the answer everybody. What do I do about what I’m hearing? Not.
When are you gonna shut your mouth so I can get out of here, pastor and you harden your heart.
It’s not me. You’re looking at the truth of God. What will you do?
When God says, I found you out, these guys were tender enough to say, what do we do?
Then Peter said to them repent. Everybody gets offended at this though. What do you mean? Repent?
The word? The word simply means change your mind.
Your mind has been going the wrong way, change it, change your mind.
Let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of their sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit for the promises to you and to your Children and to all who are far off as many as the Lord our God will call.
Is that awesome? Amazing and beautiful. Isaiah 45 verse 22.
I love this verse Isaiah 45 22.
I’m gonna read it in the Geneva Bible, 15, 99 Geneva Bible, 15, 99.
This is the Bible, by the way that the pilgrim fathers when they sailed over from Europe to Plymouth, they had this Bible.
Look unto me and you shall be saved. This is God speaking through Isaiah.
Look unto me and you shall be saved. All the ends of the earth shall be saved for.
I am God and there is none other. Don’t you love this? This is God speaking.
God is saying, watch. Hey, the whole world. Look to me. I wanna save you everybody.
And then look, look unto me individually. Look unto me, be saved.
Hey, whole earth world look to me and be saved. I’m gonna ask you something.
How much money does it cost you to look, you know what the thing is about looking, you have to have a will.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could just pay people to get saved?
You know, don’t we have loved ones that are not saved? Wouldn’t it be great?
How much? What is this? Oh, she’s, she’s 39 95. All right.
I’ll pay that. Boom stamp. You’re saved. Wouldn’t that be great?
But listen, God’s not a pimp.
You can’t prostitute salvation.
Just pay this and you’ll go free.
Listen, I’m stepping on some toes pretty heavy right now. Just pay this and you can do that.
Are you hearing me? A Christian? Can’t think that way.
You know why the Holy spirit wouldn’t allow it. The thought might end your mind.
But then he says, knock it off and you take the conviction and say, Lord, forgive me. I’m so sorry.
That was terrible. Thank you Lord for forgiving me on the blood of Jesus. I thank you God, amen.
And you’re free. Ok?
But he doesn’t take his gospel and monetize it.
Now, you know what, how in the world it’s gotta be relational.
You gotta wanna, you gotta be willing, you gotta see the answer.
So look unto me, legalist get upset with that verse in Isaiah.
It’s got to be more difficult than that for you. It is for me.
I’m gonna look, it’s amazing. Next.
He frees us from the burdens that lead to suffering Christian.
You don’t need to be carrying burdens that you, that you have installed upon yourself in your relationship with God.
And I don’t pray long enough. OK?
So tell me, show me in the, show me where it says how many hours prayer is not something you do.
Prayer is an attitude. You have talk to God constantly. It’s not for an hour.
Why limit it to an hour all the time.
The Bible says, just keep communicating with Him without ceasing. I’m going to paraphrase this.
You can write it down. Here’s the address. It’s acts chapter 16 verses 22 to 31. This is what happened.
Paul and Silas are preaching the gospel. They got in trouble.
The religious leadership got a hold of the Roman Empire and they said we gotta, you gotta shut these guys up, created some story about them, got them arrested and, and had them thrown in jail and it says that they were ordered to be put in the stocks.
We were in Boston and they had, do you guys know what stocks are?
You know what, that’s like stocks.
So your feet are here and your hands are here in this wood and you’re hanging there.
Let me tell you, I lasted 10 seconds. It’s excruciating painful, terrible.
And they were there and the Bible says that all the prisoners were there as well.
And the Bible says at midnight, Paul and Silas began to pray.
Can you imagine who knows what they said?
But knowing Paul, it’s something like Lord, I hate these stocks.
They hurt my body, but my life is more than my body right now.
So you’ve got a plan for this because I’m gonna later on write in the book of Hebrews.
All things work together for good to those who love the Lord, to those who are called according to his purpose.
And apparently this is your purpose.
So God, we’re just asking you to show yourself what’s up, what do you want us to say or do?
And maybe Silas, it doesn’t say it says they began to sing songs. Can you imagine?
Hey, you know what I feel like we should sing some songs.
Now, can you imagine Silas? You’re in pain, total pain. Let’s sing a song.
Let’s sing a song about that. They start singing a song in worship to God.
And the Bible says an earthquake hit the prison and it says all of the doors to the prison doors of all the prisoners opened up and all of their shackles fell off.
The problem is Paul and Silas, they, they were in stocks, everybody’s free and they’re singing this little light of mine and all the doors open up and the jailer who is responsible, see is what’s happened.
And a jailer in the Roman Empire.
If prisoners got loose and you’re the jailer, the Bible says that he pulled out a knife to kill himself.
That’s the right thing to do because the Roman Empire would have tortured him to death for blowing it on the job.
Can you imagine? Hr Rules today? You imagine in and out? You didn’t flip that right?
You didn’t flip that burger, right? That’s what they did then.
So the guy said that’s why I’m gonna kill myself. They’re all escaping.
And Paul said, don’t do yourself any harm. We’re all here.
Why would a bunch of prisoners not run away? They were free to go.
They stayed and the jailer ran and fell down before them and said, what must I do to be saved?
Let me tell you something right now.
If God is gonna move among his people that will be the result.
A lot of people talking about revival right now will see.
We have to wait and see what I’ve seen in a lot of conversations is that people are experiencing church who have been deprived of church for years.
Now, the last couple of years and now they’re having church again. That’s great. God bless.
Let’s do it and let’s do it across the nation.
But here’s the thing when you talk about revival, we need to be careful about what we’re talking about.
It’s not about you feeling good, it’s about you being revived.
You know what revival can only happen to believers?
Did you know that you never want to have the world revived? That’s not a good thing.
All you have to do is go to Sacramento to figure that one out.
You don’t want the world revived.
You want the church revived and when the church is revived, it gets so beautiful that you can sing songs at midnight and the world says, what must we do to be saved?
Revival leads to an awakening. Don’t ever confuse it.
Revival must lead to awakening and revival must have holiness and the world will say I want what you have, by the way, the whole country can be lost, but you personally can have a revival all by yourself.
As you walk with Jesus, you can have it.
You can be, you can be in that prison and have a revival and you’ll affect other people everywhere you go.
Listen, he, he takes away our sorrows that would tend to consume us.
There is no condemnation. You have the sentence lifted from you. You’re no longer ordered to prison.
It’s been lifted. We also know that we should and ought not to worry.
Worry that blinds us.
You know why you can’t see God’s favor sometimes Christian, you know why you’re not celebrated and enjoying the fact that you’re not condemned.
You’re liberated and free. It’s because you worry and when you worry, listen, we all know this.
When you worry, it blinds you to the reality of things that are right in front of you.
It’s hard to trust God when you’re worrying and you’re not gonna have any peace when you’re worrying.
Are you a Christian? Yes, I’m a Christian. Oh, I’m just worried sick about that thing. Trust God.
I trust the Lord. I’m just worried sick about that thing, dude. You gotta pick one.
The worry will blind you and you’re a Christian, you’re going to heaven, but you’ve been derailed and hindered yesterday.
I had a chance to speak to uh a great gathering of Christian children’s ministers from all over.
In fact, some from Japan and Canada and Australia was amazing.
And the passage of scripture I used when was when Jesus said forbid, not the little Children to come to me.
And that word it uh forbid not is don’t put, don’t put stumbling blocks in front of the little kids so that they, it’s hard for them to get to me.
Don’t you love that about God’s heart? God says, don’t put, don’t put an obstacle course between me and kids.
They need to be able to run straight to me. What’s wrong with you guys?
And he was rebuking his disciples. Peter. Are you bozo? What are you doing? Don’t do that.
Don’t hold the kids back, James back off. Let the kids come straight to me. You guys come on.
It’s awesome. I would love to have seen that. God doesn’t want any hinder hindrances.
He doesn’t want any stone walls between you and Him.
We’re gonna meet, we’re gonna meet that woman who was caught in the act of adultery.
We’re gonna meet her in heaven. Can you imagine? Hey, I read about you in chapter eight, John’s Gospel.
What was that? How did that come down?
She’ll say, can you imagine?
She’ll say, do you know I was this close to being stoned to death?
And here’s the thing, Jack, they would have been completely justified and stoning me to death because that’s what the law said.
But the moment I saw Jesus, he looked up when he looked at me, when he looked at me, I knew something was, I didn’t know what, but I knew with one look, he was gonna do something and just with his actions and his words, he rescued me and I determined right then and there, I’ll never be the person I used to be.
I don’t want to be that person anymore.
I want him to have all of me and he told me to get up and go live my life and I lived the rest of my life for him.
Can you imagine the story she’s gonna show she’s gonna be able to point out to people, you see all those people they come to, they came to Christ because of what Jesus did in my life.
What about the thief on the cross who is guilty of all kinds of crimes at the last minute?
Get saved kind of stories he’s gonna hear from people for eternity.
People are gonna be saying I was on my deathbed and somebody read me your story and I gave my heart to Christ just like you did in that last moment and we end here.
It’s freedom from fear, fear produces hopelessness.
People there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ. Jesus.
So listen, regarding freedom, we know as a country, as a nation, freedom comes at the expense of blood.
We know that according to the Bible, the ultimate freedom comes at the expense of the ultimate one who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
And listen, it is the blood of God Jesus Christ, according to the Bible is God’s son come into this world.
Jesus came to pay off our sin debts.
So right now, for example, think about it in a, in a way none of us are free here in America, we’re not free.
Our nation is in debt. We are in, in freefall as it goes.
People listen, if not already, they’re going to become incredibly nervous and fearful. If they don’t know God’s truth.
Are they free? But I live in the land of the free. But are you free?
See, the truth of the matter is, it’s not something that’s written down on paper.
The issue is, is it in your life?
Is it in your hearts now as man takes away our freedoms that doesn’t rock my world.
What comforts my world is the fact that Jesus Christ, what he gives, he doesn’t take back the freedom he gives is eternal but it can be experienced.
Now, we’re not living this Christian life and we’re just waiting for the end to come.
What he has promised is real.
Now you can experience Him him now in this life, friend, listen, you want freedom, you want liberty.
This is how you have to have it. You’ve got to have it in the person of Jesus Christ.
The Bible tells us that if we receive the son of God, John chapter 12 verse one to as many as received him to them, gave he power the right to become Children of God friend.
You need that you need him in your life.
It’s a decision that you willfully make Jesus Christ come into my life.
Be the Lord and savior of my very soul. I repent of my sin.
Thank you for dying for me and I give you my life.
And I ask you now, Lord Jesus, take hold of me, take me all the way through friends.
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