Listen, freedom. Christ can set you and I free. That’s the greatest message of the Bible.
You might be saying, well, you know, last time I opened up bible, it said thou shalt not this, and thou shalt not that.
Listen, when God says thou shalt not do this thing or that thing, it’s to save your life.
That’s why God says that, but Listen.
Why don’t you stop focusing on that and start focusing on what God has promised you?
And that is eternal life. Listen, the Bible says that the law of the spirit of god, the Holy Spirit.
He’s got a whole new law for you and I to live by for those of us who believe not the third commandment or the seventh commandment.
It’s the law of life. The Bible tells us that the law of love is that of the love of Christ.
At work in us and at work out of us. It’s an amazing relationship with God.
So listen, here’s the question. Do you live today with that blessed kind of a life?
I’m not talking about perfect. We’re not perfect.
But I’m talking about living a life that you are excited about every day to live for god.
It’s amazing. When you realize that god wants to use you, you can’t be stopped. Friends, listen.
You will know that God saves sinners. That’s Jack. That’s you, that’s me.
But when he puts his spirit in our lives, he forms us to go share this redemptive love to as many people as we can possibly meet.
So you want to do that. You get excited the more that you that.
Heaven will be excited about you every time you share Christ.
The Bible tells us that when you and I share Christ with somebody in except lord the Bible says, the angels rejoice.
Heaven rejoices. So let’s grab our bibles and let’s dive into this episode. Christ can set you free.
And I pray that it will transform your life.
And as you’re getting ready, you get out your notebook, you get out your pen, Remember this.
Right now, expect the Bible to speak to you. This is not a book.
It’s the living word of God, and he wants to speak to you now.
Are you free to follow Jesus?
Are you free from what the world would try to bring under you and its bondage and its intimidation.
I don’t have the time to tell you what we’ve gone through this week with intimidation from the media world.
They can do anything they want. They can make up whatever they wanna do to try to silence the truth.
Guess what? God will never allow his truth to be silenced. Ever. It’s impossible to silence truth.
Jesus said I’m the way the truth and the life, and no man comes to the father, but through me.
And you can do all you want to shut that down, but you can never shut it down.
God will go right around it. And we heard it all, all the excuses. Oh, we’re sorry.
And we don’t know why. And this and the other. And, oh, maybe that.
And then this, and One of the accusations against me is I preached a sermon that I wrote my sermon without quoting any other human being, me, mine.
And in fact copywritten by me.
And they accused me of breaking copyright laws on that sermon.
How do you do that? I rip myself off.
And then when that was pointed out, that went away.
The world is gonna do whatever it does do.
And everyone, listen, will try to push their authority on you. Just know this.
Jesus Christ is the king of kings and the lord of lords and you’re his child.
And and he rules and reigns in your life. Listen.
Benjamin Franklin said god governs in the affairs of men.
And I I believe Ben Franklin, because he was simply quoting really good theology.
There’s a new authority. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just that’s him.
For the unjust that’s me, that he might bring us to god being put to death in the flesh, Jesus died in the flesh, but made alive by the spirit.
It’s the spirit of god the Bible says that resurrected Jesus from the dead. How could the grave?
Why didn’t the grave keep him down? Because, listen, because he was sinless.
Jesus wasn’t a really good man who impressed god and won the prize, the Bible says that he was the god man who came from heaven to earth to live in this world and meet all of the requirements of the law satisfying the law.
Imagine if Moses could have been personified two thousand years ago, in the ten commandments.
Jesus would have lived his life at the end of his thirty three and a quarter years.
Moses would have went. Awesome. That’s incredible. So you’re the one I prophesied about.
Moses would have bowed down. He lived the perfect life.
You and I can’t. He died on the cross.
His body died on the cross. By the way, you do know that. Right?
His body died on the cross? That’s all that died on the cross is his body as a sacrifice.
By the way, when you and I die, that’s all that dies. Is your body.
You know the you, the you that you are? That lives forever. Where are you going?
Last service, somebody came here from Atlanta, and they said, I gotta hurry gotta hurry back to Ontario airport.
I gotta catch my flight back out to Atlanta. Came to first service.
Some so I said, where are you going? Atlanta?
Can you say today if somebody asks you, where are you going, Kevin?
Hopefully, it’s the next flight out of here. Would that be great?
Kevin, do you know that? You’re supposed to know that? The Bible tells us to know that.
The Bible says in first John three verse five, and you know that he, that is the son of god, has was manifest to take away our sins.
Jesus came to take away our sins and in him, there is no sin. There you go.
The sinless had to die for the sinful. The just for the unjust. Watch.
If you have a problem with that, God is saying to you today, you need to get right for heaven.
If you have
a problem with that, it’s called pride.
I’ll do it myself. Pride. I don’t need this. Yes, you do. No, I don’t. It’s pride.
Did I already say this? We’re not asking you for a penny. We don’t listen.
You we listen. God bless you, but you don’t have to come back here ever again.
There’s no membership to sign up on. Did we pass the plate?
We only want you to make sure you’re right with him.
And it’s between you and him.
And when he calls you out on the inside, you’re to respond to him.
He is sinless and pure And he died where I was supposed to die, and he rose again from the dead so that the grave could never hold me or you if you trust him.
You know that? The Bible says for the Christian, the Christ follower, to be absent from this human bodies, to be present with the lord.
Wouldn’t you like to know for sure that the moment you breathe your last or you see that train coming down the track or that truck?
You just known that last moment. Oh my goodness. I’m gonna see Jesus right now.
The Bible says, to be absent from this bodies, to be present, and the word is immediately.
Well, do I have to walk through some gauntlet? No.
Even before Stephen died in the book of acts, he saw the glory of god before he breathed his last.
Is that the authority that’s over your life? It’s your choice.
There is an authority over your life, if you like it or
not.
It’s either you or god. In first Peter chapter two, verse twenty four, first Peter two twenty four, who himself at his Jesus bore our sins in his own body.
Wow. On the tree that’s a reference to the cross that’s made out of wood, that we, having died to sins, that is, how do I die to sins?
I receive him as Lord and savior. I ask him to come into my life.
That’s when the Holy Spirit takes over.
And sin no longer has the strength of the power that it once had in my life.
Do you guys understand that? Those of you who are new to this, Everybody around us, we’re all the same.
The only difference is there’s people here that are saved and people here that are not saved.
What does that mean? There are people here going to heaven and those and there are people here going to hell.
Well, that’s not nice, but it’s true. Well, I don’t wanna go. Great. Grab the ticket. Jody paid for.
What’s the ticket? He died for you on the cross rose again from the dead.
He paid the price that you couldn’t pay to give you his righteousness that you could never earn.
It’s a great exchange. And when you realize that you fall in your face and you realize, oh my gosh, lord, how can you be so good to me?
I’m a wretch. Oh, wretched man that I am?
Who shall deliver me from his body of sin and death says, Paul. I thank god.
But there’s therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
And a new law is written in my life by the Holy Spirit’s Power.
God puts the love in your heart to love him. Isn’t that weird? Think about that. Do you love me?
You ask somebody. Do you love me? And you say, yeah, I love you. No. No. I mean, really really.
Stop going around. You love me? Yeah. I said I love you. Don’t say it like that.
Do you love me? Listen.
Again, if you have to ask if you’re loved, you need marriage counseling.
No, and I’m not saying to be funny.
If you’re married and you have to ask someone, do you love me? That’s that’s listen.
We gotta get that fixed. It’s free. You need to come. We gotta get Bible. No. I’m serious.
We all have different languages, and we need to learn how to speak them.
But one of those things should be absolutely unshakable, and that is I know that I love Lisa, and I know that she loves me.
Does she put up with a lot? Can you imagine being married to me? That’s why she’s like this.
She’s like a steady ship at sea. I’m like going from wave to wave.
God’s got his way of doing crazy things. Right? I’m grateful.
But just know that. God wants you to know that his love is upon your life.
And the Bible tells us in Hebrews chapter nine verse twenty eight.
So Christ, that is Jesus, was offered once to bear the sins of many.
Are you in that many? Imagine that he died for the sins of all.
The reason why you see how come it says many, not all because it says all in some places. Listen.
That’s true. He died for all, but not all except him. That’s the many. He died for everybody.
You could be sitting in the church right here right now and saying, yeah, you know, I guess that’s all good for you guys.
Christ died for the many. He died for the all.
But to settle it in your own life, you need to make the decision for yourself.
And then also this, you guys, is that there’s a new order.
In verse three, there’s a new order by design.
For what the law could not do, listen up everyone, for what the law could not do and that
it was weak through the flesh, I love this god did. I love that.
I said, well, wait a minute. The law is awesome and holy and pure. Right? Yeah.
All of that stuff. Totally true. You just said it’s weak. Yeah, it is weak.
Listen, I’m quoting Paul the apostle here from the Bible.
For some of you who are legalists, maybe you’re Jewish today and you’re saying I find that highly offensive.
I get it. But can I remind you?
I’m reading from a Jew two thousand years ago who knew about being a Jew way more than you do.
He was the Jew of Jews, the Hebrew of Hebrews.
He was saul of tarsus, all the apostle. And he says, the law is amazing.
But it’s got a weak spot. What’s the weak spot? Can’t save you.
Let’s go to the meaning of that word weak. The word means feeble.
You never think of the law being feeble, do you? You know, it’s it’s in stone, the ten commandments.
Yeah. It’s awesome to point out what’s wrong and to to tell you what to do, but does anywhere in the ten commandments?
Is it anywhere in the Bible? Tell you in the old testament laws how to be saved.
The law is feeble. It’s unable. It’s without the strength to help.
Or to save it’s powerless regarding the context of salvation that is redemption forgiveness restoration access into the presence of heaven, it cannot do.
It can’t do it. So I’ve told you guys this before and I’ve burned out this analogy.
I’m trying to milk it as long as I can.
But I told you before that some dear friends of ours got me for my birthday, a race, a racetrack on the Porsche race course in air in in LA.
For ninety minutes, you got to go as fast as you want.
And you know what? About a hundred I don’t know.
Let’s say, just to be safe, a hundred, two hundred feet away. Was the four zero five freeway.
I’m going a hundred and eighty, and they’re going fifty five.
You can go look at it online. It’s amazing. Here’s the thing.
They had to drive fifty five. Why it’s posted? What what are you doing?
Fifty five? Why is that important you? It’s the law. What are you doing?
Oh, right now? One twenty? One eighty. How are you able to do that? It’s not posted.
Do you hear me? It’s a racetrack. There’s no speed limit.
There was no law to break. You can have all the laws that you want.
You’ll be weighed under a pressure and you’ll You’ll you’ll you’re you’re a Christian? Who wants that?
You not only don’t have people who wanna be with you. You don’t wanna be with you.
Because your experience with god is a real bummer.
And then you realize, wait a minute.
He lifted the law that it doesn’t condemn me anymore in all of my wrongs? That’s right.
Not only that. He’s gonna rhyme that law, the spirit of the law he’s gonna write on your heart.
You don’t have to read it. You put it in you. And he’s going to do it through you.
Here’s the here’s what you’ll do for the rest of your life. Cooperate.
Put your foot on the pedal and go. Break when you need to.
Tomorrow morning or today, when you get out of this church, you should be hell should tremble when these doors open up.
Hell should go. Oh gosh. There they go. They’re loose. Why?
Because of the spirit of the law that god has placed in your heart is the spirit of life, not of stone.
And that’s a whole new order over your life designed by god. Listen to this.
Acts thirteen thirty nine says for by him.
That’s Jesus Christ, everyone who believes is justified from all from listen, from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Is that any more clear? Be where therefore lest what has been spoken in the prophets, the old testament prophets come upon you.
What is that? Behold you despisers, marvel and perish. Why?
For I work a work in your days, a work which you will by no means believe the one word to declare it to you I’m declaring it to you.
Jesus sets people free. He washes away your sins. He moves inside. It’s not religion.
It’s meeting the lord Jesus Christ in reality, and he’s the one that gets you ready for heaven.
He does it and you don’t. You cooperate. You walk with them.
When Jesus went through the toll gate with Matthew in the north of Galile Lee, all he said to Matthew was.
Imagine that. He’s a he’s a He’s a toll keeper. Matthew’s he’s sitting there.
You’re supposed to pay him money when you go through the regions. And Jesus is watched by.
There’s the bible doesn’t say Jesus paid anything. Maybe he did. It doesn’t say. He probably did.
But it doesn’t say, but he just walks by and the Bible says that he looks at Pew and says, come follow me.
And that awesome. I love that. How many rules? How many rules?
How many rules did he set up? Okay. Peter, I mean, Matthew. Here’s the deal.
Set up these seven hurdles.
And then I’m going to have quicksand at the other end.
And after you make it through all that, I want you to climb that tree.
He didn’t do any of that stuff. He just said, Matthew. Come and follow me.
Kind of being an invitation as I can mention Billy Graham or being a crusaders like that or Greg Lori at a crusade?
I have a message. Jesus said, come and follow me. God bless you. Thanks for coming. You’re welcome.
That’s it. But you know that, isn’t that true? Come and follow me.
Roman chapter five verse six is for when we were still without strength. I love this.
Transilation, for when we were still without the ability to pull ourselves out of the hole.
We had no strength left to get ourselves out of what was causing us to sink.
Is it drugs? Is it a bad relationship? Is it sex? Is it money? Is it power?
What is it? And you have no I you’d I, pastor, Jack.
I appreciate what you’re saying, but there could never be change in my life, you’re stuck in a hole.
You’re trying to do it your way.
As long as you keep trying to get yourself out of it, he’s gotta wait.
It’s like the man drowning. Don’t ever try to rescue a guy drowning. Stay away from them.
So that’s cruel. Uh, that’s brilliant. Let him drown. Then rescue him.
Because he’ll kill himself and you. Wait till he’s completely devastated. God does that with you and I.
God, help me. I don’t know why because things are so messed up. I turn everything.
And he takes it. That’s the number one thing for me is that he takes it.
I just go. But he’s not like me. So he he just waits. He’s not offended.
He’s listening. And then you start going under. You’re done. You spent it all.
You tried it all and you start sinking. Then he grabs you.
Pulls you out of the pit.
Mark ten forty five for even the son of man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.
So friends, listen. It’s true. It’s a fact, Christ can set you free.
I tell you what, I have the opportunity to speak to people all over the world when they get in touch with me and tell me what a verse meant to them.
What a sermon did to them, what the word of god has done to them.
Listen, no matter where you live in the world, the fact of the matter is people can build walls and fences, and have barricades and an entire army to keep out the truth of god’s word, but it will not work.
God just steps over the fence with his truth right into your heart and to your life.
He gave his life so that you and I can live. Think about it. That is the gospel.
God gave his life. For god so loved the world, the Bible says that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever That’s you and I.
Whose soever would believe on him would not perish, but have everlasting life. That fact, that truth in your life.
Should cause you to be preoccupied with pleasing god. Think of it.
When you realize how much he loves you, You’re gonna walk around in love with God.
And you’re gonna be preoccupied in loving him.
So, for example, friend, listen, when you and I come to the end of our lives, We say the end of our lives in this world.
The fact of the matter is the end of our lives, meaning mission complete.
When you and I pass when we die, Jesus said we don’t really die. We move into his presence.
We live forevermore. Hey, listen, there’s a whole lot more teach and encouragement that we wanna give you right here.
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