WEBVTT 00:00:00.300 --> 00:00:05.320 John 8, 36 reads, If the Son therefore shall 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:12.359 make you free, you shall be free indeed. And 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:18.839 then Galatians 5, verse 1, Stand fast therefore 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:21.719 in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:27.760 and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. 00:00:30.200 --> 00:00:32.219 Here's the thought I'm going to talk about for 00:00:32.219 --> 00:00:36.119 a little bit this morning. Let freedom ring. 00:00:37.859 --> 00:00:45.640 Let freedom ring. Father, I love you this morning. 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:53.780 So grateful for the power of your presence in 00:00:53.780 --> 00:00:58.810 this house today. Lord, as we break the bread 00:00:58.810 --> 00:01:06.290 of life, which is your word, let this word be 00:01:06.290 --> 00:01:14.170 life, health, peace, nourishment to every heart, 00:01:14.269 --> 00:01:19.930 every body in this place today. In Jesus' name. 00:01:20.230 --> 00:01:23.310 And everybody say it. Amen. Tell your neighbor, 00:01:23.409 --> 00:01:32.900 let freedom ring. Let freedom ring. Y 'all don't 00:01:32.900 --> 00:01:35.200 get too far because I don't know how far I'll 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:37.439 get. If y 'all just want to sit right here, just 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:40.760 sit up here just a minute. Go ahead and sit down, 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:44.760 baby. Sit down. I'm about to preach, darling. 00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:49.019 She's ready to stand and help me all the way. 00:01:52.060 --> 00:01:55.040 Hallelujah. Give the Lord another praise in his 00:01:55.040 --> 00:02:13.210 house. As a nation, we're about to celebrate 00:02:13.210 --> 00:02:22.289 our 250th birthday as a nation. It's quite a 00:02:22.289 --> 00:02:26.949 milestone. If the Lord doesn't tarry, I don't 00:02:26.949 --> 00:02:29.710 know if she'll make another 250 in the condition 00:02:29.710 --> 00:02:33.849 she's in and getting in. At least not in the 00:02:33.849 --> 00:02:37.840 condition that you and I know it. And as we know 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:41.719 the freedoms that we have and that we enjoy. 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:52.199 It's all bought with a price. The declaration 00:02:52.199 --> 00:03:00.419 of separation. We think the war began in 1776. 00:03:00.419 --> 00:03:04.300 It did not. It actually began in 1775, the American 00:03:04.300 --> 00:03:08.020 Revolution. The Battle of Concord in Lexington, 00:03:08.219 --> 00:03:12.620 Massachusetts is where it all began. All we get 00:03:12.620 --> 00:03:17.060 stuck in our mind is 1776 where that second Continental 00:03:17.060 --> 00:03:20.419 Congress brought forth that beautiful document 00:03:20.419 --> 00:03:24.580 that we know as the Declaration of Independence 00:03:24.580 --> 00:03:30.319 where that all of mankind is given the right 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:39.550 to pursue life, liberty, And happiness. It took 00:03:39.550 --> 00:03:44.930 eight years for that to finally end. It wasn't 00:03:44.930 --> 00:03:48.330 a very quick ordeal. It was a long ordeal. 1783 00:03:48.330 --> 00:03:54.930 was when the American Revolution ended. And in 00:03:54.930 --> 00:03:58.189 the ensuing 250 years, there's been some very 00:03:58.189 --> 00:04:00.310 bright moments for this nation, but there's been 00:04:00.310 --> 00:04:04.620 some dark moments as well. There's some things 00:04:04.620 --> 00:04:07.740 that we are ashamed of. I am for us as a nation. 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:13.500 Some of the atrocities that we've put on people. 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:18.819 But thankfully, that's all hopefully behind us. 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:23.199 And we learn from our history. I think if anything 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:25.339 we learn from history is that we don't learn 00:04:25.339 --> 00:04:30.740 from history. And there's a grave danger to repeat 00:04:30.740 --> 00:04:43.819 it. But as for now, freedom still rings. We're 00:04:43.819 --> 00:04:46.540 still here today with the ability to do what 00:04:46.540 --> 00:04:51.860 we have just done, to worship the Lord in spirit 00:04:51.860 --> 00:04:56.220 and in truth. Amen? That's the reason I think 00:04:56.220 --> 00:05:00.180 every week we should really exercise that ability 00:05:00.180 --> 00:05:03.720 to its fullness. Hopefully you're worshiping 00:05:03.720 --> 00:05:05.740 at home. Hopefully you sing at home. Hopefully 00:05:05.740 --> 00:05:08.560 you praise and pray and get in your word at home. 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:11.699 But if you wait till Sunday, at least get it 00:05:11.699 --> 00:05:13.980 all built up and let's get in here and give it 00:05:13.980 --> 00:05:22.120 all. Jesus said here in John's Gospel in this 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:24.319 8th chapter, whom the Son sets free, they are 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:30.480 free indeed. He had earlier in this chapter told 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.019 the Pharisees and all who were listening that 00:05:33.019 --> 00:05:37.420 he is the light of the world. And then he goes 00:05:37.420 --> 00:05:40.259 into this discourse about the heavenly father 00:05:40.259 --> 00:05:44.019 and who he is and as he is related to the father. 00:05:44.699 --> 00:05:48.139 And they're all confused and they're not getting 00:05:48.139 --> 00:05:51.740 it right. They're not understanding everything 00:05:51.740 --> 00:05:56.319 the Lord is telling them. And he says, well, 00:05:56.379 --> 00:05:57.639 you're never going to figure it out. You're going 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:00.540 to be lost in your sins. You just won't accept 00:06:00.540 --> 00:06:02.600 the fact. If you've seen me, you've seen the 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:09.540 Father. I am of the Father, sent from him. And 00:06:09.540 --> 00:06:12.759 same token in Galatians, Paul writing to the 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:16.420 people of God there about their freedom and liberty 00:06:16.420 --> 00:06:22.500 in Christ. He encourages them to stand fast in 00:06:22.500 --> 00:06:26.180 the liberty. wherewith Christ has made us free. 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:29.759 And then he encourages them and instructs them 00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:33.300 not to be entangled with the yoke of bondage 00:06:33.300 --> 00:06:37.000 again. Don't get caught back up in the mess that 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:41.060 you've been set free from. Hello? That's a danger 00:06:41.060 --> 00:06:43.060 for us all today, and it's an encouragement we 00:06:43.060 --> 00:06:48.240 should hear. As believers, we're giving... I 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:52.439 think a far more important declaration of independence 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:58.019 than even what we enjoy as a nation. The deliverance 00:06:58.019 --> 00:07:00.220 and victory that you and I have through Christ 00:07:00.220 --> 00:07:06.699 is better than any freedom that any government 00:07:06.699 --> 00:07:14.180 of this world could offer you. And it's important 00:07:14.180 --> 00:07:16.620 for us to understand that as we see the days 00:07:16.620 --> 00:07:21.639 grow and time begins to pass, it's important 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:26.220 for us to stand firm in the liberty of Christ 00:07:26.220 --> 00:07:31.720 with every fiber of our being. We do so through 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:36.079 the enabling power of the Holy Ghost so as not 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:39.970 to relinquish. this freedom again to the enslavement 00:07:39.970 --> 00:07:43.750 of the world, meaning any worry, any fear, any 00:07:43.750 --> 00:07:46.970 anger, any resentment, any type of lust, any 00:07:46.970 --> 00:07:50.810 type of greed, or any other sin which besets 00:07:50.810 --> 00:07:54.509 us and moves us off of the pathway of this liberty 00:07:54.509 --> 00:07:58.329 that we have in Christ. And always remember that 00:07:58.329 --> 00:08:02.269 liberty in Christ is not a license to sin. Hello? 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:08.360 Just because grace abounds, should we continue 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:15.180 in sin? God forbid, no. The author of Hebrews 00:08:15.180 --> 00:08:17.379 in the 12th chapter puts it this way, Wherefore, 00:08:17.379 --> 00:08:19.699 seeing we also are compassed about with so great 00:08:19.699 --> 00:08:21.779 a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every 00:08:21.779 --> 00:08:23.959 weight in the sin which doth so easily beset 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:26.220 us, and let us run with patience the race that 00:08:26.220 --> 00:08:29.500 is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author 00:08:29.500 --> 00:08:32.129 and the finisher of our faith. who for the joy 00:08:32.129 --> 00:08:35.110 that was set before him endured the cross, despising 00:08:35.110 --> 00:08:37.490 the shame, and is set down at the right hand 00:08:37.490 --> 00:08:40.210 of the throne of God. For consider him that endured 00:08:40.210 --> 00:08:42.649 such contradiction of sinners against himself. 00:08:43.389 --> 00:08:46.769 Least you be wearied and faint in your minds. 00:08:47.330 --> 00:08:50.309 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving 00:08:50.309 --> 00:08:54.169 against sin. Look to Jesus. Maintain the liberty 00:08:54.169 --> 00:08:56.190 and the freedom that you have been given from 00:08:56.190 --> 00:09:01.200 the bondage and the power of sin. In the joy 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:06.240 that we have in Christ. There's good news for 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:13.059 us today. And that news is this. Jesus is the 00:09:13.059 --> 00:09:18.720 expert in deliverance. 2 Peter 2 .9, Peter puts 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:21.100 it this way. The Lord knoweth how to deliver 00:09:21.100 --> 00:09:26.009 the godly out of temptations. And for us, it's 00:09:26.009 --> 00:09:27.929 good for us to understand that Christ didn't 00:09:27.929 --> 00:09:30.970 intend for you and I to stay captive to the forces 00:09:30.970 --> 00:09:34.129 and the influence of this world or the shifts 00:09:34.129 --> 00:09:37.730 that occur in this world or the sway and the 00:09:37.730 --> 00:09:41.809 lean of culture. 1 John 3 and 8 declares, for 00:09:41.809 --> 00:09:45.009 this purpose the Son of God was manifested that 00:09:45.009 --> 00:09:49.889 he might destroy the works of the devil. Now, 00:09:49.950 --> 00:09:52.429 it's important we understand what the word destroy 00:09:52.429 --> 00:09:57.269 means, right? Destroy means to dissolve, to break 00:09:57.269 --> 00:10:00.970 up, or to melt, or to put off. In other words, 00:10:00.990 --> 00:10:07.690 Christ came to liberate humanity from the works 00:10:07.690 --> 00:10:11.590 and the power of Satan. Isn't that wonderful? 00:10:12.549 --> 00:10:16.330 And when we begin to understand it's for the 00:10:16.330 --> 00:10:19.370 entirety of the human race, and when we begin 00:10:19.370 --> 00:10:22.720 to think about All of mankind is seeking deliverance. 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:24.620 They just don't know really what they need to 00:10:24.620 --> 00:10:28.559 be delivered from. And the main thing we have 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:31.100 to be delivered from, first of all, is ourself. 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:35.899 Where we acknowledge our need. When we begin 00:10:35.899 --> 00:10:39.779 to think about life and all the things that transpire 00:10:39.779 --> 00:10:42.080 in and through life. There are lion's dens. There 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:45.740 are fires. There are pits. Amen. From which everyone 00:10:45.740 --> 00:10:49.480 needs some type of deliverance. We're contending 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:53.740 with the forces that stifle us at every point. 00:10:56.039 --> 00:11:01.259 But there is good news. And that good news is 00:11:01.259 --> 00:11:05.590 clear. And it is the theology of deliverance 00:11:05.590 --> 00:11:09.750 through Jesus Christ. And that theology dominates 00:11:09.750 --> 00:11:14.350 the scripture and those promises which offer 00:11:14.350 --> 00:11:16.710 us help. I got to stay on track right here because 00:11:16.710 --> 00:11:18.909 we're going to get going here in just a second 00:11:18.909 --> 00:11:21.669 as we're laying this framework. And what we have 00:11:21.669 --> 00:11:24.509 begun to experience in here this morning, somebody 00:11:24.509 --> 00:11:27.009 said, well, you've killed a spirit. If I've killed 00:11:27.009 --> 00:11:31.039 that spirit, then it need killing. Because the 00:11:31.039 --> 00:11:36.990 word does not. The word edifies, it comes together 00:11:36.990 --> 00:11:39.950 with, and when we come back to the point here 00:11:39.950 --> 00:11:43.710 in just a moment, we have a mental concept and 00:11:43.710 --> 00:11:46.110 we have a biblical understanding that what I 00:11:46.110 --> 00:11:49.730 am longing for, he has promised to me. And the 00:11:49.730 --> 00:11:52.450 enemy cannot take it away from us. He cannot 00:11:52.450 --> 00:11:56.370 rob. Why? Because we have been liberated through 00:11:56.370 --> 00:11:59.470 Christ. So we stand fast, therefore, in the liberty 00:11:59.470 --> 00:12:02.269 that Christ has given us. And that is the power 00:12:02.269 --> 00:12:04.789 of the theology of deliverance. Deliverance that 00:12:04.789 --> 00:12:10.789 is dominated throughout Scripture, my Lord. So 00:12:10.789 --> 00:12:14.730 what we would use as a term is, Lincoln used 00:12:14.730 --> 00:12:20.129 the emancipation. Emancipation, which simply 00:12:20.129 --> 00:12:23.330 means to liberate. It means freeing. It means 00:12:23.330 --> 00:12:27.029 releasing. It means unshackling. It means unfettering. 00:12:27.029 --> 00:12:31.730 It means untying. Jesus Christ is the ultimate 00:12:31.730 --> 00:12:36.690 one who brings about emancipation for humanity. 00:12:37.230 --> 00:12:41.330 Oh, my Lord, this morning, there is a great anointing 00:12:41.330 --> 00:12:43.210 in this house today. The Spirit of the Lord is 00:12:43.210 --> 00:12:46.169 here, and we're declaring the emancipating power 00:12:46.169 --> 00:12:50.929 of Jesus Christ who sets liberty on all. So there's 00:12:50.929 --> 00:12:53.690 the liberty for healing where there's the bondage. 00:12:53.809 --> 00:12:56.950 It's time to get some folk unshackled here today. 00:12:57.210 --> 00:13:00.240 It's time that we see. the shackles and the chains 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:04.080 of bondage of sin and disease begin to break 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:07.259 and fall and crumble. Why? Because we are declaring 00:13:07.259 --> 00:13:11.580 let freedom ring and the sun sets free is free 00:13:11.580 --> 00:13:28.220 indeed. It's 1863 when Lincoln declared the Emancipation 00:13:28.220 --> 00:13:31.980 Proclamation, setting humans who were enslaved 00:13:31.980 --> 00:13:37.639 free. But the saddity of it is, that was 1863 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:44.179 in January. And it took till June of 65 for it 00:13:44.179 --> 00:13:50.080 to fully spread across this nation. Let me tell 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:51.679 you something, it don't take two years for the 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:55.240 Lord to declare some emancipation in our life. 00:13:56.029 --> 00:14:00.529 Woo, my Lord. Yeah, when he declares it, it's 00:14:00.529 --> 00:14:03.690 a done deal for you. Amen. When he proclaims 00:14:03.690 --> 00:14:06.090 it over our life, then it takes place at the 00:14:06.090 --> 00:14:09.440 very moment of his declaration over you. When 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:12.220 we think about how that the Bible just brings 00:14:12.220 --> 00:14:15.299 this deliverance and emancipating theology together. 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:18.559 In the first five books of the Torah, we'll read 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:21.960 and you'll see how that he delivers from chaos, 00:14:22.019 --> 00:14:25.659 bondage, anarchy, disease. And he'll deliver 00:14:25.659 --> 00:14:28.899 out of the wilderness and deliver into a promise. 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:32.379 Amen. It's in his word. The historical books 00:14:32.379 --> 00:14:35.799 of Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, the Kings, 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.019 the Chronicles, Esther, Nehemiah, and Ruth. Reveal 00:14:39.019 --> 00:14:42.740 how he delivers and rescues us from our enemies. 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:45.480 Hallelujah. When you read the Chronicles of the 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:48.600 Kings, it's about defeat and victory. Defeat 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:52.360 and victory. Sin and rebellion and victory. How 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:55.440 that God liberates, amen, and brings about the 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:58.039 victory for the life of the people of God, amen, 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:00.700 on those who are his covenant. You've got the 00:15:00.700 --> 00:15:03.620 poetic books, the books of Psalm, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, 00:15:03.820 --> 00:15:06.399 that beautiful song of Solomon, which reveal 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:10.009 his liberating power. as he frees us from affliction, 00:15:10.009 --> 00:15:16.409 contempt, and distress. I'm telling you, it's 00:15:16.409 --> 00:15:20.529 a thread throughout the whole book. The books 00:15:20.529 --> 00:15:22.350 of the prophets announce his deliverance from 00:15:22.350 --> 00:15:27.610 a backslidden condition. You're gonna be in bondage 00:15:27.610 --> 00:15:31.750 70 years. Go ahead and build some houses. Go 00:15:31.750 --> 00:15:35.769 ahead and plant your garden. But don't get too 00:15:35.769 --> 00:15:40.220 comfortable. 70 years, I'm coming back after 00:15:40.220 --> 00:15:44.759 you. And I'm going to bring you out, amen. Look, 00:15:44.980 --> 00:15:48.320 when God says I'm coming to get you and he sets 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:52.080 a timeline, when the timeline is fulfilled, look, 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:54.659 we used to put it this way, there ain't no devil 00:15:54.659 --> 00:15:57.440 in hell can hair lip it. God's going to do it. 00:15:58.159 --> 00:16:01.379 If he's declared it, he will prove his point 00:16:01.379 --> 00:16:04.440 that he's coming to deliver. There's no king, 00:16:04.620 --> 00:16:07.759 there's no nation, there's no one can stop God 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:11.179 from liberating whom he's already prophesied 00:16:11.179 --> 00:16:14.480 a liberation to come to. Don't get too comfortable. 00:16:14.500 --> 00:16:18.039 I'm coming after you in 70 and we're going out 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:24.460 and you're coming back to my city. Oh, it doesn't 00:16:24.460 --> 00:16:26.360 stop with the Old Testament. The liberation moves 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:28.980 on through the New Testament. His emancipation 00:16:28.980 --> 00:16:32.279 continues. The Gospels exhibit his deliverance 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:36.919 from sickness. Sorrow and pain. But the gospels 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:40.600 also reveal to us our liberation from the power 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:45.440 of sin itself. How so, pastor? I'm glad you asked. 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:48.820 As John, standing in the Jordan about waist deep, 00:16:48.899 --> 00:16:52.600 declares, behold, the Lamb of God, which takes 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:57.519 away the sins of the world. My God, there's liberation. 00:16:57.659 --> 00:17:00.820 There's a liberation theology. There's a declaration. 00:17:01.220 --> 00:17:05.380 Let freedom ring. The Lamb of God takes away 00:17:05.380 --> 00:17:13.839 the sin. Woo! My Lord, that's just the four gospels. 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:25.319 Acts pours out the Spirit. And the church is 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:32.160 freed from complacency. Hey, Lord, couldn't I 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:34.200 put both feet and grind a little right here? 00:17:37.140 --> 00:17:40.539 We need a little freedom from complacency. What's 00:17:40.539 --> 00:17:43.619 that mean? We've got lazy in our relationship 00:17:43.619 --> 00:17:50.259 with God. We take things way too for granted. 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:55.549 Like the liberty that we have. All that COVID 00:17:55.549 --> 00:17:57.750 garbage and shutting down church and all that 00:17:57.750 --> 00:18:02.890 stuff was a test run to see if we'd actually 00:18:02.890 --> 00:18:04.630 do it. Well, they're gonna have a different story 00:18:04.630 --> 00:18:06.390 next time they try that because I don't think 00:18:06.390 --> 00:18:09.890 it's gonna be so easy. It ain't gonna be easy 00:18:09.890 --> 00:18:13.210 to shut the church down again. Nope, it's not 00:18:13.210 --> 00:18:16.390 gonna be so easy. My Lord, we gotta leave this 00:18:16.390 --> 00:18:20.859 world from something. Hello? And if I don't have 00:18:20.859 --> 00:18:24.440 enough faith in God, I had all three versions 00:18:24.440 --> 00:18:30.319 of it. Well, didn't you hang a shot? No, I did 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:39.559 not. I didn't. Didn't want one. Now look, I won't 00:18:39.559 --> 00:18:43.880 take their next one either. Why? It might help 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:45.559 you, yeah, but it hurts when they give it to 00:18:45.559 --> 00:18:49.529 me and I'm not into pain. It's the needle. I'm 00:18:49.529 --> 00:18:54.829 sorry. You say, well, I took it, Pastor. Are 00:18:54.829 --> 00:18:57.349 you talking down on me? No, I am not. You do 00:18:57.349 --> 00:19:08.569 you. Hello? The way all that came about, if I 00:19:08.569 --> 00:19:10.549 was his oldest brother, Ron, I'd have took one. 00:19:14.349 --> 00:19:17.799 He didn't hear me, I'm glad. You don't have to 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:25.200 tell, you don't have to tell him. My Lord, they 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:29.000 had a demographic of our people scared to death. 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:37.180 Stayed locked up at home for a year. It was dangerous 00:19:37.180 --> 00:19:40.980 and many people lost their life. Preachers of 00:19:40.980 --> 00:19:43.839 the gospel, men I know, faith preachers, anointed 00:19:43.839 --> 00:19:47.799 men of God. But I don't think it's going to be 00:19:47.799 --> 00:19:50.000 so easy to shut the doors of the church the next 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:53.059 time. It ain't going to be that easy to close 00:19:53.059 --> 00:19:57.819 these. I'm not shutting them. Not doing it again. 00:19:57.880 --> 00:19:59.960 We're not doing it again. Not doing it again. 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:08.059 I'll be in here by myself. The Spirit pours out 00:20:08.059 --> 00:20:12.720 the freedom from complacency of people empowered 00:20:12.720 --> 00:20:17.380 for service and anointed. To issue the kingdom 00:20:17.380 --> 00:20:21.960 dictates of the most high God. empowered to see 00:20:21.960 --> 00:20:24.700 that they be fulfilled. It's not the acts of 00:20:24.700 --> 00:20:27.140 the apostles. It's the acts of the Holy Spirit 00:20:27.140 --> 00:20:30.539 through the apostles. It is the Holy Ghost who 00:20:30.539 --> 00:20:33.339 poured out on men and they begin to believe that 00:20:33.339 --> 00:20:35.559 exactly what the word declares, Jesus actually 00:20:35.559 --> 00:20:38.619 told them, it's expedient that I go away because 00:20:38.619 --> 00:20:40.539 if I don't go away, the promise can't come. But 00:20:40.539 --> 00:20:42.420 when the promise gets there, you're gonna be 00:20:42.420 --> 00:20:45.539 empowered to do greater works than I do. You're 00:20:45.539 --> 00:20:47.880 gonna do because I'm going to the Father and 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:50.400 he's dispatching the enabling power. to move 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:53.059 upon your life, to invade the darkness that is 00:20:53.059 --> 00:20:56.460 around you and do these great and mighty works. 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:00.700 Deliverance, the 21 epistles express deliverance 00:21:00.700 --> 00:21:13.000 from sin's mastery. Stand fast, therefore. Revelation, 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:17.539 Christ completely liberates from the world's 00:21:17.539 --> 00:21:25.799 power. And the influence of Satan. He who stood 00:21:25.799 --> 00:21:31.220 with his vesture. Dipped in blood. Changed the 00:21:31.220 --> 00:21:37.460 bloody vesture for a white one. Took those crowns 00:21:37.460 --> 00:21:39.559 of thorns that they placed. And replaced them 00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:43.509 with the crown of glory. Takes the sword of the 00:21:43.509 --> 00:21:46.529 spirit to his hand and begins to proclaim with 00:21:46.529 --> 00:21:50.190 a new name on his thigh, my God. He begins to 00:21:50.190 --> 00:21:53.289 announce judgment on the world, but liberation 00:21:53.289 --> 00:22:07.789 to the bride. God himself delivers. And nothing, 00:22:08.029 --> 00:22:14.490 nothing. is beyond his power to emancipate your 00:22:14.490 --> 00:22:19.269 life. Nothing. Nothing and no one is able to 00:22:19.269 --> 00:22:22.670 stand. Psalm 3 and 8 says, salvation belongs 00:22:22.670 --> 00:22:26.630 unto the Lord. Thy blessing is upon thy people. 00:22:27.349 --> 00:22:30.089 And there's nothing the enemy can do about it. 00:22:30.869 --> 00:22:34.630 Job 5, 19 declares, he shall deliver thee in 00:22:34.630 --> 00:22:40.130 six troubles. Yeah, in seven there shall no evil 00:22:40.130 --> 00:22:46.430 touch you. 91 and three, that beautiful psalm, 00:22:46.430 --> 00:22:48.190 the 91, he that dwelleth in the secret place 00:22:48.190 --> 00:22:49.630 of the Most High shall abide in the shadow of 00:22:49.630 --> 00:22:53.289 the Almighty. The third verse says this, surely 00:22:53.289 --> 00:22:55.910 he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler 00:22:55.910 --> 00:22:59.390 and from the noisome pestilence. Don't you want 00:22:59.390 --> 00:23:03.309 to get rid of the noisome pestilence of the voice 00:23:03.309 --> 00:23:09.059 of the enemy? My, my, my. All he does is run 00:23:09.059 --> 00:23:14.700 his mouth. Don't you ever just want to say, shut 00:23:14.700 --> 00:23:23.920 up? Would you please shut up? And if you'll come 00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:26.119 behind that with, in the name of Jesus, please 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:34.640 shut up. He'll shut up. He has to. Because he 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:38.079 knows he's not the ultimate authority. The emancipator 00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:43.440 is the ultimate authority. He delivered. God 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:47.240 just delivers. I mean, that's just what he does. 00:23:47.500 --> 00:23:51.440 That's just who his being is. He delivered Noah 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:54.759 from a flood, right? Didn't he not? Moses from 00:23:54.759 --> 00:23:58.460 an Egyptian. Joshua from some Canaanites. Samson 00:23:58.460 --> 00:24:02.900 from Philistines. David from a Goliath and on 00:24:02.900 --> 00:24:05.779 and on and on it goes. Elisha from King Ahab. 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:10.880 Gideon from an army. It's what he does. So what 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:12.599 are you saying, Pastor? Whatever it is, it's 00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:16.549 got you cornered up. Whatever it is has you bound 00:24:16.549 --> 00:24:19.470 up, tied up, shackled up. Whatever it is, it's 00:24:19.470 --> 00:24:22.589 keeping you from exercising your faith in the 00:24:22.589 --> 00:24:25.289 liberty that has been proclaimed over you. Just 00:24:25.289 --> 00:24:28.750 show of hands real quick. Who's the child of 00:24:28.750 --> 00:24:31.869 God whom the Son has set you free? I mean, you're 00:24:31.869 --> 00:24:33.789 not living under the bondage of sin anymore. 00:24:35.980 --> 00:24:38.200 Then if the Son has set you free, then you are 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:42.359 free indeed. Then you have to stand firm. Get 00:24:42.359 --> 00:24:48.220 your mind made up that I'm going to stand in 00:24:48.220 --> 00:24:50.220 the liberty and I'm going to take the word of 00:24:50.220 --> 00:24:53.059 God into my heart and know and declare that I 00:24:53.059 --> 00:24:57.619 am free. I'm going to jump over all of this and 00:24:57.619 --> 00:25:01.339 get over to where we can move on. We're moving 00:25:01.339 --> 00:25:10.180 past this. The Lord's on me. He's known me to 00:25:10.180 --> 00:25:15.099 preach. Gospel to the poor. Sent me to heal the 00:25:15.099 --> 00:25:16.839 brokenhearted. Preach deliverance. Oh, preach 00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:23.299 deliverance. Luke 4, 18 and following. Those 00:25:23.299 --> 00:25:26.619 are my, that's my life. These are what I hold 00:25:26.619 --> 00:25:29.619 my everything on. How many of you know what your 00:25:29.619 --> 00:25:32.619 life verse is? You got one. Well, if you hadn't 00:25:32.619 --> 00:25:34.819 read enough to get one, let me encourage you. 00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:39.339 To start reading your Bible and get a hold of 00:25:39.339 --> 00:25:42.980 one. Well, what's a life verse? It's that one 00:25:42.980 --> 00:25:46.200 when it doesn't matter what's going on, you can 00:25:46.200 --> 00:25:50.210 go to it. You can go to it. You can go to that 00:25:50.210 --> 00:25:52.609 place and you can begin to read right there and 00:25:52.609 --> 00:25:55.650 you can feel your help show up. That verse, that's 00:25:55.650 --> 00:25:57.789 the one I'm talking about. 30 years of pastoral 00:25:57.789 --> 00:26:00.769 ministry, I got Luke 4 .18 following. For the 00:26:00.769 --> 00:26:03.630 spirit of the Lord is upon me and he has anointed 00:26:03.630 --> 00:26:07.390 me to preach. Amen. I didn't call me. I didn't 00:26:07.390 --> 00:26:09.670 anoint me. And when all hell's breaking loose 00:26:09.670 --> 00:26:12.190 and folk really don't like you much and things 00:26:12.190 --> 00:26:13.910 aren't going too well, Brother Green, you've 00:26:13.910 --> 00:26:17.029 been there. I always go to here. I always go 00:26:17.029 --> 00:26:19.630 to here. I don't have to read it. It's branded 00:26:19.630 --> 00:26:22.990 on my mind and it's branded on my soul. But there's 00:26:22.990 --> 00:26:25.190 something about turning it over there and just 00:26:25.190 --> 00:26:27.930 reading it again to reiterate to me that the 00:26:27.930 --> 00:26:31.190 son has set me free and I am free indeed. And 00:26:31.190 --> 00:26:33.930 there is no bondage. There is no power. The spirit 00:26:33.930 --> 00:26:37.309 of the Lord is on me. My God, the spirit of the 00:26:37.309 --> 00:26:40.630 Lord is on me. And because him being on me, he 00:26:40.630 --> 00:26:44.329 has anointed me to preach, preach, preach. Preach 00:26:44.329 --> 00:26:47.279 what? That he is the ultimate emancipator. There's 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:50.259 no bondage in your life that he doesn't have 00:26:50.259 --> 00:26:55.220 power over. Let freedom ring. Hallelujah. I wish 00:26:55.220 --> 00:26:57.500 somebody would praise him like he know what I 00:26:57.500 --> 00:27:18.500 am talking about. Well, hallelujah. We are. The 00:27:18.500 --> 00:27:21.920 Holy Ghost has freedom among us to move on us. 00:27:26.420 --> 00:27:33.460 Well, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord, 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:37.119 delivering of captives, recovering of sight to 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:42.480 blind, setting at liberty those who are bound, 00:27:42.779 --> 00:27:50.650 bruised. He commissioned the 12 disciples. When 00:27:50.650 --> 00:27:54.230 he sent them out, go heal the sick, raise the 00:27:54.230 --> 00:27:57.170 dead, cleanse the leper, and drive out the demons. 00:27:59.210 --> 00:28:02.549 He called the 70, paired them up, sent them out 00:28:02.549 --> 00:28:09.789 two by two with the same directive. Before his 00:28:09.789 --> 00:28:16.390 ascension, Matthew 28, Mark 16. He broadened 00:28:16.390 --> 00:28:20.690 the scope to include every believer. You and 00:28:20.690 --> 00:28:30.450 I. I want you to go preach the gospel. Teach 00:28:30.450 --> 00:28:37.009 them what I taught you. Baptize them. Mark gives 00:28:37.009 --> 00:28:43.750 even more deep. Cast out devils. Lay hands on 00:28:43.750 --> 00:28:47.130 the sick. Jesus said they shall speak with new 00:28:47.130 --> 00:28:52.269 tongues. It's in the book, folks. They drink 00:28:52.269 --> 00:28:54.690 any deadly thing, it ain't gonna hurt them. They 00:28:54.690 --> 00:28:56.609 can take up serpents, and you can do that at 00:28:56.609 --> 00:29:11.970 your own liberty. But I'm free. The Son has set 00:29:11.970 --> 00:29:15.640 me free. And I endeavor daily to stand fast, 00:29:15.940 --> 00:29:19.740 to stand firm, to stand fixed, concreted in that 00:29:19.740 --> 00:29:23.539 liberty. No license other than to be licensed 00:29:23.539 --> 00:29:28.319 to live as he lived. To be the image that he 00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:31.039 is trying to transform me into, which is his 00:29:31.039 --> 00:29:34.440 own likeness. That's the liberty. That's the 00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:36.180 liberty. We're free. We're free from failure. 00:29:36.180 --> 00:29:38.779 Somebody needs to hear this today. Why? Because 00:29:38.779 --> 00:29:41.259 the word declares it. Philippians 4 .13, you 00:29:41.259 --> 00:29:43.599 can do all things through Christ who strengthens 00:29:43.599 --> 00:29:46.640 you. I can do all. It's that little 10 -finger 00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:49.140 prayer, right? How many knows that one? Anybody 00:29:49.140 --> 00:29:50.900 that does not know? You never heard that. Anybody 00:29:50.900 --> 00:29:53.859 never heard that, that 10 -finger prayer? Well, 00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:56.720 good. I don't have to explain it again. You're 00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:01.059 free from want. You're free from want. My God 00:30:01.059 --> 00:30:03.140 shall supply all of your need according to his 00:30:03.140 --> 00:30:05.849 riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 00:30:05.849 --> 00:30:08.490 4, 19, 2 Timothy 1, 7, you're free from fear 00:30:08.490 --> 00:30:10.789 because God hath not given you a spirit of fear 00:30:10.789 --> 00:30:13.890 but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 00:30:14.289 --> 00:30:17.009 You're not going crazy. I don't care what that 00:30:17.009 --> 00:30:19.890 voice in your ear is declaring. Tell him to shut 00:30:19.890 --> 00:30:23.049 up because you have been liberated by the power 00:30:23.049 --> 00:30:25.789 and the Son has set you free. You don't have 00:30:25.789 --> 00:30:28.109 to live in the darkness of depression. You don't 00:30:28.109 --> 00:30:29.910 have to live through the weight of oppression. 00:30:30.230 --> 00:30:32.549 You can arise to the joy and the light of the 00:30:32.549 --> 00:30:34.980 glorious love of God through his Son. Christ 00:30:34.980 --> 00:30:37.579 Jesus who has liberated you and set you free. 00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:47.920 Free from doubt. God has given to every man the 00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:52.420 measure of faith. Faith cometh by hearing and 00:30:52.420 --> 00:30:57.980 hearing by the word of God. Free from weakness, 00:30:58.119 --> 00:31:01.059 Psalm 27, one for the Lord is the strength of 00:31:01.059 --> 00:31:05.339 my life. Huh? He'll pick up our weary heads and 00:31:05.339 --> 00:31:08.779 our hands that hang low. Free from the power 00:31:08.779 --> 00:31:12.339 of the enemy. For greater is he that is in you 00:31:12.339 --> 00:31:16.019 than he that is in this world. Would you please 00:31:16.019 --> 00:31:19.779 kindly stop diminishing the power of Christ that's 00:31:19.779 --> 00:31:24.680 in you. And just release what is in you. What's 00:31:24.680 --> 00:31:27.599 in me, Pastor? It's Christ who is in us. The 00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:33.779 hope of glory. That's who's in you. You remember, 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:41.099 he went down and took the keys away. Yeah. He 00:31:41.099 --> 00:31:44.599 lives in you, free from defeat. 2 Corinthians 00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:47.599 2 .14, now thanks be unto God, which always, 00:31:47.940 --> 00:31:51.140 that's a pretty good word, I think, in this text, 00:31:51.259 --> 00:31:55.819 which always causes us to triumph in Christ. 00:31:57.160 --> 00:31:59.460 Better stand where I won't get wound up. I'm 00:31:59.460 --> 00:32:03.099 on. Come in. I got both wheels down, but we may 00:32:03.099 --> 00:32:11.440 have to circle. Excuse this, your captain speaking. 00:32:15.140 --> 00:32:17.740 There's a storm down below. As soon as the weather 00:32:17.740 --> 00:32:19.640 clears and clouds are gone, we'll be coming in 00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:22.440 for our approach. Until then, we're going to 00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:31.839 hover 22 -5. Keep your seatbelts on. Hands in 00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:34.180 the seat at all times. Thank you. It's your captain. 00:32:37.559 --> 00:32:45.220 Come on, buckle up. 1 John 1, 7 declares there's 00:32:45.220 --> 00:32:50.900 some freedom from sin. For the blood of Jesus 00:32:50.900 --> 00:33:00.650 Christ cleanses me from all sin. If a man sin, 00:33:00.950 --> 00:33:03.529 he has an advocate with the Father, Christ Jesus 00:33:03.529 --> 00:33:07.349 the righteous. And if we are faithful and just 00:33:07.349 --> 00:33:09.829 to confess our sins, he is faithful and just 00:33:09.829 --> 00:33:13.109 to cleanse us of our sin and all unrighteousness. 00:33:13.269 --> 00:33:15.910 What are you saying, Pastor? Stay repentant. 00:33:17.430 --> 00:33:19.470 Stay repentant. Well, we don't have to fight. 00:33:19.549 --> 00:33:21.130 Well, I've been waiting on the segue. Here it 00:33:21.130 --> 00:33:23.730 is. We don't fight the devil anymore. Hogwash! 00:33:23.910 --> 00:33:34.720 You fight him every day! Here's something for 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:38.480 somebody. You've been emancipated from worry, 00:33:38.660 --> 00:33:43.579 unshackled, untied, released, let go from worry. 00:33:45.180 --> 00:33:49.079 1 Peter 5, 7 says, cast all your care upon him, 00:33:49.180 --> 00:33:58.400 for he careth for you. For those of you that 00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:01.240 don't feel worthy, man, I used to battle that 00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:04.730 one. I used to really battle that one. Anybody 00:34:04.730 --> 00:34:10.110 else? Unworthiness. You just felt unworthy. Man, 00:34:10.110 --> 00:34:13.309 I used to fight that. Because I know a lot of 00:34:13.309 --> 00:34:18.510 preachers forget who they were. I remember what 00:34:18.510 --> 00:34:21.510 I am. Because I haven't left from what I were. 00:34:21.590 --> 00:34:24.349 I'm still it. Just a sanctified Holy Ghost feel 00:34:24.349 --> 00:34:31.400 version of it. There is therefore now no condemnation 00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:34.820 to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not 00:34:34.820 --> 00:34:37.840 after the flesh, there's the kicker, but after 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.920 the Spirit. You don't have to be condemned of 00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:46.400 your past. We all got one. Ain't nobody in here 00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:51.659 any less sinner than what you were. Humanity, 00:34:51.659 --> 00:34:57.800 we put grades, levels on sin. We do that. Oh 00:34:57.800 --> 00:35:01.210 man, that's a... Man, that's bad. Well, no, all 00:35:01.210 --> 00:35:09.949 sin's bad. Some sin are atrocious. Right? Against 00:35:09.949 --> 00:35:17.090 humanity. They will be judged accordingly. But 00:35:17.090 --> 00:35:25.369 all sin, any sin, is a mark against God. You're 00:35:25.369 --> 00:35:29.739 free from discouragement. Because there's encouragement 00:35:29.739 --> 00:35:33.820 in Christ, consolation of love, fellowship in 00:35:33.820 --> 00:35:38.119 His Spirit, affection and compassion. So we can 00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:42.219 make our joy complete by being of the same mind, 00:35:42.340 --> 00:35:45.500 maintaining the same love, united in and by the 00:35:45.500 --> 00:35:49.920 same Spirit. That's why Paul told the Philippians, 00:35:49.960 --> 00:36:10.340 let this mind be in you. This is so much. Lord, 00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:12.539 I love you today. I thank you so much for your 00:36:12.539 --> 00:36:16.159 goodness and your mercy. Lord, as your spirit 00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:21.400 was moving in this place, you still reside. Now 00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:29.079 we even have more upon which to stand. We have... 00:36:29.420 --> 00:36:33.920 the confirmation of your word over our dilemma. 00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:43.099 So I speak it, Lord, let freedom ring. Let freedom 00:36:43.099 --> 00:36:45.239 ring in the hearts and minds of your people. 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:56.380 Let freedom ring. If you need a touch this morning 00:36:56.380 --> 00:36:58.440 to continue to stand, I want you to come on. 00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:03.679 in the liberty that you've been given. If somewhere 00:37:03.679 --> 00:37:07.960 through the process of this message, the Lord 00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:09.800 has brought your attention to whatever might 00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:13.360 be binding you, tying you, restraining you, restricting 00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:18.619 you, and you won't free from it, come on. Sickness, 00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:29.699 disease, emotional scarring. Mental suppression. 00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:36.340 Oppression. The devil trying to just wear you 00:37:36.340 --> 00:37:39.960 out and wear your mind down. I just wonder. Been 00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:42.320 how I had to cross it a couple times. Evidently 00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:44.159 the devil's been whispering in somebody's ear. 00:37:47.099 --> 00:37:49.380 Now here's where the rubber meets the road. What 00:37:49.380 --> 00:37:52.059 are you going to do about it? You just going 00:37:52.059 --> 00:37:55.349 to keep listening? You know, it's like a skeeter. 00:37:55.369 --> 00:37:57.090 You're sitting out on the porch trying to drink 00:37:57.090 --> 00:38:01.550 your evening coffee. And you do that. And the 00:38:01.550 --> 00:38:03.530 little wind off your hand blows him over here 00:38:03.530 --> 00:38:06.590 about two feet. You get another sip and then 00:38:06.590 --> 00:38:10.730 you hear... And you do that again. You know when 00:38:10.730 --> 00:38:13.769 that stops? For me, let me tell you when that 00:38:13.769 --> 00:38:17.349 stops for me. When I put my glasses on. Because 00:38:17.349 --> 00:38:21.630 he's within two feet. I get my glasses on and 00:38:21.630 --> 00:38:27.639 I hear... And I turn around and look. That's 00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:32.239 when the noise stops. That's when the buzzing 00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:35.179 stops. Well, that's what you need to do today. 00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:40.940 That buzzing that you hear, come let the devil 00:38:40.940 --> 00:38:43.860 just get smacked in the mouth by the Holy Ghost 00:38:43.860 --> 00:38:47.480 this morning. Just shut him up. But now see, 00:38:47.579 --> 00:38:49.980 it's only you. If you want free from his voice, 00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:52.380 come on. If you don't, just sit there and do 00:38:52.380 --> 00:38:54.880 this all week. And then come Sunday, you say, 00:38:54.940 --> 00:38:59.059 boy, I wish I'd come down there. Anybody else? 00:38:59.059 --> 00:39:02.079 You need prayer today. Sickness, disease, whatever, 00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:05.780 whatever, whatever. Doesn't matter. If it's binding 00:39:05.780 --> 00:39:08.880 you, holding you, restricting you, the immense 00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:12.639 impending power of Christ is here to set you 00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:12.840 free.