Sermon notes 6/30/13:
I am the resurrection I am alive. I am I am
•people who don't go to church or believe in god live a life pertaining to the world.
• godly music is satisfying and motivating.
• those who love Jesus want to praise and rejoice in The Lord.
~£. The truth that sets you free £~
• maybe god wants to set you free of something in your life that you've been bound to for sometime now.
• when was the last time god answer a very important prayer for you?
• for you, or for a friend, or family that you prayed for.
• the body of Christ is one, we pray rejoice, shout, cry for each other.
• the spirit of god interprets the word of who hears it according to the need of the individual.
• we don't all hear the same thing.
- £ Real Freedom £.
• what does freedom mean in your life?
• what does freedom mean to you.
• freedom isn't wrapt up in the things we perceive, its not palpable, its an idea or conception.
• 1/3 of the people in Jesus day were either in poverty or was a slave.
• when you hear the word freedom, do you think or you feel something.
• what is the first thing that comes to mind?
• do you think "I wish I was free" "I wish I had freedom"
• maybe it is because your in a marriage thats troubling or job or a society that you live in.
• what In your life is causing you to not be free
• John 8: 28-36
• Jesus says that if you continue in his word "you are true disciples of mine and you will know the truth and the truth would set you free."
• what is the truth that sets you free
- why did Jesus come?
• he came to seek and save the lost
•he came so that we can have a life in heaven more abundantly. A life that's fulfilling.
• to set the captives free.
• how many of you feel like you are captive?
• are you spiritually free.
• your not free until you are spiritually free.
• all of us has been captive to some areas of our live.
• you may be suffering from something In which you don't realize what the cause or problem is.
• what does it take to be free?
• what makes the individual not free?
• are you free and if not how are you not free?
- £ what are the things that a
captivate us?
1. error taught and or heard.
• the confusion of error.
•those who live by their performance.
•When you want to impress god by your performance, you can't because there is no one to compare yourself to. You will always live in a life of uncertainty and confusion.
• there is a subdue confusion until god sets you free.
• living with uncertainty is living in captivity.
• that comes from not knowing the truth
2. Evil habits:
• people are captive to lying and deception (those are just examples of evil habits)
• they can't be honest because of the underlying fear of rejection.
• this can be telling someone you love them when you don't.
• many people grow up with these habits so they think its right.
3. Sexual immorality:
• there is no such thing as sexual freedom apart from god.
• people say I want to express my sexuality which ever way I please
• that's captivity
4. Alcoholics:
• they can't stop because they can't.
• they say I can stop when ever i want but if you ask them why don't you stop it's because they can't their addicted therefore captive.
• that is foolish captivity
• many who drink say they are free to do it.
• they might have been free but they are no longer.
• something is controlling you your not free but enslave.
• smoking for example is the same case.
• is there anything in your life that has a grip of you
• that if it was to be taken away you wouldn't feel free.
• you see addicts living the most miserable and destructive of lives facing headaches and fever all the symptoms the body experience when these things are taken from it, yet they can't astray from it.
5. Laziness:
• why are we working for those who dont want to work and pay their bills.
• they say they don't work because they can't get a job
• it's a form captivity.
6. Profanity:
• they think they come across as the strong macho man that it makes them seem stronger.
• they claim to be free
• but some can't sit down and have a decent conversation without using profanity
• and they say that's who they are
• but its dishonoring to god
• it's a form of captivity.
~ all of these people claim to be free.
• all these habits and faults are going to prevent them from coming Into heaven if they don't repent.
• when you die only your relationship with god gets you into heaven
• your captivated with a lie that your free
• your not free until your freed by having a personal relationship with god
• you may say if i have a personal relationship with god, therefore free, it means i cant drink, commit adultery,smoke, destroy myself. So that's not free
• that's the devils lie
• that's not freedom but a bondage.
7. Emotional Bondage:
•their difficult to identify but theyre there
• those are hard to overcome.
• have you repented and confess to god but still don't feel free.
• there are emotion deeply hiding until identified,that prevent us from Being who god wants us to be.
• are you free emotionally?
• could it be your living in slavery and not realizing it.
• just because its been that way doesn't mean it's supposed to be
• you can't stop when ever you please until you turn to god
• many people have outstanding abilities and talents and skills yet are emprison by a spirit of fear
• I'm afraid that I'm not going to make it, or im adrak of what's going to happen.
• I'm afraid of what people think or say
• there emprison to fear
8.False guilts:
• once you repent,your free
• don't let guilt suppress your joy and happiness
• no one can sen you free aside from god.
9.jealousy:
• there people so jealous that they can't even think straight
• they won't admit what the problem is
10. Anxiety
- it's like fear
• it keeps you bound
• maybe it's the way you grew up or you were treated
• if you say you grew up all your life like that doesn't mean it's the will of god
• many kids grow with fear and anxiety and give into i.
• they'd like to be free but can't get out
• they don't know what is going on
• you don't have to perform or please god just be yourself because he loves you with all your faults.
• he sets you free
• it's nothing like similar to an emotional freedom
• something you surpass that was bounding you and incarcerating you.
• god does not see race or color or language he sees us all the same, because he created us.
• anything that prevents me from being what god wants me to be is holding me captive.
• God wants you to let him be in you,what he wants to be In you.
• some people are taught that every time they sin, they are going hell. That's not true. God is forgiving dont do it again.
11.some people are bitter:
• because the way they grew up that way in their family
• anger,hostility,jealousy bitterness, resentment are just as much a part of you, as let's say your arm
•many are bitter, because of the way they grew up and were treated
• when you grow up where there are reasons to be hostile and bitter it becomes a part of you.
12. Unforgiveness:
• is total captivity
• it drives you and holds you captive in every area of your life
• these are the things we don't see in people.
• how many feel very secure today?
• what is the basis to your security ?
- is it money, your nationality, your status, where you were born?
• none of us has any security apart from Jesus Christ
• you can't build your life on insecurities.
•Jesus is the stabilizer in our life
• his the same today and always
• when we see things from gods point of view,we start getting free, and until we do we are not free
• no one is ultimately free to do what they choose
• we are influence by that which is good and godly or that which wicked and bad.
• your personal testimony are affected by all the things listed above
• it's hindering you and you became a slave to it.
• years go by saying "one of these days" "sometime" "maybe next week" (procrastinating) then god calls and their not ready.
• if you have any of these attitudes it's going to hinder you in someway or another
• you can't be unforgiving bitter jealous and be used by The Lord in any way
• you need to let go of that.
£ What is the truth that set us free ?
~The truth about our salvation
• that Jesus sets us free from our past, present, and future sins if we repent and accept him as our savior
• he provides salvation and sends the Holy Spirit to seal us as a child of god. to convict us of our sins.
• it begins with the cross and is built by the power of the Holy Spirit that lives within you
~The truth about spiritual position
•Once you were separated from god. You were distant, now you re join to him. before you rejected him, now you accept him and he accepts you. Once you were guilty and walked in darkness, now you walk in light and your guilt free.
• god wants to set you free of everything and anything that hinders us and his plan for us.
• Our spiritual positions:
~ 2 Peter 1: 3-4
• see that his divine power has granted to you everything pertaining to life and godliness
• we trust Jesus yet have different positions and possessions
• god has given us his nature
• we have the nature of god within us
• if I want to be free we need to claim who we are and what we have
•walk in the way he,Jesus christ, would walk
• it's starts with Jesus
•Hebrew 4 :15-16
•Philippians 4:13
• Acts 1:8
• John 3:16
• You must CHOOSE to be free
• how do I become free by doing this?
• by responding to the things on the basis of my salvation,possession and position, jesus.
•you have the nature of god and the personhood of a follower of Christ
•who I'm i on Christ Jesus
• who I'm I in Christ
• you respond base upon truth
• the truth shall make you free
• the truth of whom he is in us
• I become free by responding in who I am according to Jesus,
my possession according to Jesus,
and my position according to Jesus.
• you would live in captivity, it's a choice you make to be free base on the truth.
• he says trust me
• the truth would set you free
• you need to want and be willingly to be free
• it's about trusting and obeying god
• if you can read and obey the previous mention scriptures you can be free
• do you want to be free?
• you need to tell yourself "at this time in my life is the time to be free"
• I want freedom
• it starts with Jesus and the work of the Holy Spirit in your life
• trusting him to supply you and live within you
• when your in captivity you feel small
• but wen your free the weight and guilty is gone,its all gone
• now you can please god because you want to not because of what is going to happen to you.
• captivity is a choice
• perceive god as your personal savior trust in him because he promises and only he can do it
•Trust The Lord and watch him work
• You will thank god for doing what he did in your live.
•God intentded for us to have a life of freedom and liberty
• trust in Jesus as your savior
• listen and clarify your mind, whats holding you captive and respond accordingly.
I am the resurrection I am alive. I am I am
•people who don't go to church or believe in god live a life pertaining to the world.
• godly music is satisfying and motivating.
• those who love Jesus want to praise and rejoice in The Lord.
~£. The truth that sets you free £~
• maybe god wants to set you free of something in your life that you've been bound to for sometime now.
• when was the last time god answer a very important prayer for you?
• for you, or for a friend, or family that you prayed for.
• the body of Christ is one, we pray rejoice, shout, cry for each other.
• the spirit of god interprets the word of who hears it according to the need of the individual.
• we don't all hear the same thing.
- £ Real Freedom £.
• what does freedom mean in your life?
• what does freedom mean to you.
• freedom isn't wrapt up in the things we perceive, its not palpable, its an idea or conception.
• 1/3 of the people in Jesus day were either in poverty or was a slave.
• when you hear the word freedom, do you think or you feel something.
• what is the first thing that comes to mind?
• do you think "I wish I was free" "I wish I had freedom"
• maybe it is because your in a marriage thats troubling or job or a society that you live in.
• what In your life is causing you to not be free
• John 8: 28-36
• Jesus says that if you continue in his word "you are true disciples of mine and you will know the truth and the truth would set you free."
• what is the truth that sets you free
- why did Jesus come?
• he came to seek and save the lost
•he came so that we can have a life in heaven more abundantly. A life that's fulfilling.
• to set the captives free.
• how many of you feel like you are captive?
• are you spiritually free.
• your not free until you are spiritually free.
• all of us has been captive to some areas of our live.
• you may be suffering from something In which you don't realize what the cause or problem is.
• what does it take to be free?
• what makes the individual not free?
• are you free and if not how are you not free?
- £ what are the things that a
captivate us?
1. error taught and or heard.
• the confusion of error.
•those who live by their performance.
•When you want to impress god by your performance, you can't because there is no one to compare yourself to. You will always live in a life of uncertainty and confusion.
• there is a subdue confusion until god sets you free.
• living with uncertainty is living in captivity.
• that comes from not knowing the truth
2. Evil habits:
• people are captive to lying and deception (those are just examples of evil habits)
• they can't be honest because of the underlying fear of rejection.
• this can be telling someone you love them when you don't.
• many people grow up with these habits so they think its right.
3. Sexual immorality:
• there is no such thing as sexual freedom apart from god.
• people say I want to express my sexuality which ever way I please
• that's captivity
4. Alcoholics:
• they can't stop because they can't.
• they say I can stop when ever i want but if you ask them why don't you stop it's because they can't their addicted therefore captive.
• that is foolish captivity
• many who drink say they are free to do it.
• they might have been free but they are no longer.
• something is controlling you your not free but enslave.
• smoking for example is the same case.
• is there anything in your life that has a grip of you
• that if it was to be taken away you wouldn't feel free.
• you see addicts living the most miserable and destructive of lives facing headaches and fever all the symptoms the body experience when these things are taken from it, yet they can't astray from it.
5. Laziness:
• why are we working for those who dont want to work and pay their bills.
• they say they don't work because they can't get a job
• it's a form captivity.
6. Profanity:
• they think they come across as the strong macho man that it makes them seem stronger.
• they claim to be free
• but some can't sit down and have a decent conversation without using profanity
• and they say that's who they are
• but its dishonoring to god
• it's a form of captivity.
~ all of these people claim to be free.
• all these habits and faults are going to prevent them from coming Into heaven if they don't repent.
• when you die only your relationship with god gets you into heaven
• your captivated with a lie that your free
• your not free until your freed by having a personal relationship with god
• you may say if i have a personal relationship with god, therefore free, it means i cant drink, commit adultery,smoke, destroy myself. So that's not free
• that's the devils lie
• that's not freedom but a bondage.
7. Emotional Bondage:
•their difficult to identify but theyre there
• those are hard to overcome.
• have you repented and confess to god but still don't feel free.
• there are emotion deeply hiding until identified,that prevent us from Being who god wants us to be.
• are you free emotionally?
• could it be your living in slavery and not realizing it.
• just because its been that way doesn't mean it's supposed to be
• you can't stop when ever you please until you turn to god
• many people have outstanding abilities and talents and skills yet are emprison by a spirit of fear
• I'm afraid that I'm not going to make it, or im adrak of what's going to happen.
• I'm afraid of what people think or say
• there emprison to fear
8.False guilts:
• once you repent,your free
• don't let guilt suppress your joy and happiness
• no one can sen you free aside from god.
9.jealousy:
• there people so jealous that they can't even think straight
• they won't admit what the problem is
10. Anxiety
- it's like fear
• it keeps you bound
• maybe it's the way you grew up or you were treated
• if you say you grew up all your life like that doesn't mean it's the will of god
• many kids grow with fear and anxiety and give into i.
• they'd like to be free but can't get out
• they don't know what is going on
• you don't have to perform or please god just be yourself because he loves you with all your faults.
• he sets you free
• it's nothing like similar to an emotional freedom
• something you surpass that was bounding you and incarcerating you.
• god does not see race or color or language he sees us all the same, because he created us.
• anything that prevents me from being what god wants me to be is holding me captive.
• God wants you to let him be in you,what he wants to be In you.
• some people are taught that every time they sin, they are going hell. That's not true. God is forgiving dont do it again.
11.some people are bitter:
• because the way they grew up that way in their family
• anger,hostility,jealousy bitterness, resentment are just as much a part of you, as let's say your arm
•many are bitter, because of the way they grew up and were treated
• when you grow up where there are reasons to be hostile and bitter it becomes a part of you.
12. Unforgiveness:
• is total captivity
• it drives you and holds you captive in every area of your life
• these are the things we don't see in people.
• how many feel very secure today?
• what is the basis to your security ?
- is it money, your nationality, your status, where you were born?
• none of us has any security apart from Jesus Christ
• you can't build your life on insecurities.
•Jesus is the stabilizer in our life
• his the same today and always
• when we see things from gods point of view,we start getting free, and until we do we are not free
• no one is ultimately free to do what they choose
• we are influence by that which is good and godly or that which wicked and bad.
• your personal testimony are affected by all the things listed above
• it's hindering you and you became a slave to it.
• years go by saying "one of these days" "sometime" "maybe next week" (procrastinating) then god calls and their not ready.
• if you have any of these attitudes it's going to hinder you in someway or another
• you can't be unforgiving bitter jealous and be used by The Lord in any way
• you need to let go of that.
£ What is the truth that set us free ?
~The truth about our salvation
• that Jesus sets us free from our past, present, and future sins if we repent and accept him as our savior
• he provides salvation and sends the Holy Spirit to seal us as a child of god. to convict us of our sins.
• it begins with the cross and is built by the power of the Holy Spirit that lives within you
~The truth about spiritual position
•Once you were separated from god. You were distant, now you re join to him. before you rejected him, now you accept him and he accepts you. Once you were guilty and walked in darkness, now you walk in light and your guilt free.
• god wants to set you free of everything and anything that hinders us and his plan for us.
• Our spiritual positions:
~ 2 Peter 1: 3-4
• see that his divine power has granted to you everything pertaining to life and godliness
• we trust Jesus yet have different positions and possessions
• god has given us his nature
• we have the nature of god within us
• if I want to be free we need to claim who we are and what we have
•walk in the way he,Jesus christ, would walk
• it's starts with Jesus
•Hebrew 4 :15-16
•Philippians 4:13
• Acts 1:8
• John 3:16
• You must CHOOSE to be free
• how do I become free by doing this?
• by responding to the things on the basis of my salvation,possession and position, jesus.
•you have the nature of god and the personhood of a follower of Christ
•who I'm i on Christ Jesus
• who I'm I in Christ
• you respond base upon truth
• the truth shall make you free
• the truth of whom he is in us
• I become free by responding in who I am according to Jesus,
my possession according to Jesus,
and my position according to Jesus.
• you would live in captivity, it's a choice you make to be free base on the truth.
• he says trust me
• the truth would set you free
• you need to want and be willingly to be free
• it's about trusting and obeying god
• if you can read and obey the previous mention scriptures you can be free
• do you want to be free?
• you need to tell yourself "at this time in my life is the time to be free"
• I want freedom
• it starts with Jesus and the work of the Holy Spirit in your life
• trusting him to supply you and live within you
• when your in captivity you feel small
• but wen your free the weight and guilty is gone,its all gone
• now you can please god because you want to not because of what is going to happen to you.
• captivity is a choice
• perceive god as your personal savior trust in him because he promises and only he can do it
•Trust The Lord and watch him work
• You will thank god for doing what he did in your live.
•God intentded for us to have a life of freedom and liberty
• trust in Jesus as your savior
• listen and clarify your mind, whats holding you captive and respond accordingly.
