well obviously you can tell I'm holding
a Bible in my hand the Bible the book
that people will say uh you can't
believe it it's full of mistakes uh the
book that people will say yeah you know
every home should have a Bible
a book that people will say I picked up
this book
and my life was transformed
well I come from the camp of I picked up
this book and my life was transformed I
want to ask you this question
when we look around at our country we
have a nation that was founded upon
certain documents that promised or at
least provided for us Liberty and
freedom now we look at a nation today
that's not free and we're losing our
liberties
but no matter what country you might
live in under whatever government
this book introduces you to the God of
all freedom and the God of all Liberty
which is amazing to me because this is
not a political book
in fact the great political tyrannical
regimes of the world are deathly afraid
of this book you want to know why why
would this book be banned in so many
countries
because it sets people free let's dive
into it and find out why
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I'm going to tell you straight up these
verses are personal to me these are my
go-to verses
when I need them they're there
and I'm gonna I want you to have them
these are my trans verses
get that transverse
trans
transverse transverses trans formation
here it comes
Ephesians 2 10.
for we are his workmanship the Greek
word is poem
we are his poem
created in Christ Jesus for good works
righteousness which God prepared before
him that we should walk in them is that
awesome
how cool is that the tennis shoes I'm
wearing somebody made them I didn't know
the guy I I I don't I I don't even know
where they made them I just got him and
put my foot in them
and my feet could say these shoes were
made before you knew it this is true God
says I made you before you knew you
and I gave you a life to live that's
waiting for you why don't you unwrap it
and I love the fact that God uses the
word poem poema
in Greek I am the songwriter I am the
poet and you
you're the one I'm working on
but he'll never knock down the door
to get that work done you got to open
the door
you have to invite him in
Ezekiel 36 27 this is awesome
I will put my spirit within you and
cause you to walk in my statutes
and you will keep my judgments and do
them
the way that he talks
there's just no bologna with this
I hear it like this because this is the
way this is how he speaks to me Jack
listen up
I will put my spirit within you I'm
doing that and I'm going to cause you to
walk in my statutes they're my statutes
I'm going to cause you to walk on them
and I will
keep or you will keep my judgments I'm
going to give you the ability to do that
Jack
and you'll do them
I can't do those things
but because it's working from the inside
out relationship versus religion he does
it I remind him of this all the time
this isn't Cur listen I'm so happily
enslaved to his freedom
Ezekiel 37 14 I will put my spirit in
you and you shall live
wow Isaiah 1 18. this is awesome love it
God says come now let us reason together
says the Lord though your sins are like
Scarlet they shall be as white as snow
though they are red like Crimson they
shall be as wool and all of that's
beautiful but you know what word I love
the most is the word reason come let us
reason the word in Hebrew means
come let's uh let's go at it you and I
together God is saying you want to argue
come up here
let's go
isn't that isn't that just like him to
say to us so you think you're something
huh
why don't you bring your big guns up
here
State your biggest argument Jack let it
rip
and that verse implies
that you're gonna lose
and the greatest thing you can do is to
lose your fight with God
stop we'll hook up stop
by the way please read your Bible more
you'll have less questions to trouble
you
it's really true
but God says you want a reason you want
you want to fight about it
just know this I know how to handle sin
I wash it away
and the blood of my son
second Corinthians 5 20 and 21
. now then we are ambassadors for Christ
as though God were pleading through us
I impore you on Christ's behalf be
reconciled to God here comes for he that
is God made him that's Jesus who knew no
sin to be sin for us
that we might become the righteousness
get the word righteousness of God in him
that's awesome
the righteousness of God at work
I'm going to read this to you it's a
note to myself but if it blesses you
then so be it slaves must do the bidding
of their Master if their Master is sex
drugs and rock and roll money Pride
power manipulation greed lust anger
violence hatred brutality perversion
then you will easily be able to tell Who
the Master is
if that's going on in your life the
remarkable thing is that your master or
my master isn't some remote outside uh
outside of us dressed up in a cloak or
some fancy Armani suit when we look in
the mirror we are looking at the
representation of the master we serve
so Paul's challenge to us comes down to
what kind of a life are you living
and if you're saying today I'm living a
life I'm in a
but I don't know if it's worth having
and God would say to you today I'll give
you a life of value
yes he's holy and yes he's pure and yes
he cannot have sin in his presence but
he's also the god that says you come to
me
and I'll wash you clean
I just
he's amazing
when you see a frustrated little kid
he's he doesn't know what he wants he's
filthy dirty he's been climbing around
in the backyard he's stubbed them no
Toes or something his snots running down
his nose his hair is whacked out right
he's just a mess and he's also hungry
and tired of the saying he's just a mess
and you see a mom or a dad just deal
with it right then and there they just
get the towel out they're washing or
hosing down his face and cleaning them
up and getting them all ready for bed or
whatever it is don't you see us like
that with God
he can handle it
servitude of sin
leads to prison
uh I mean it could lead to physical
prison
but that's not the prison I'm talking
about
prison of being stuck with yourself and
nobody else
stuck with you on this I'm not talking
about being lonely
I'm talking about being in a crowded
room but you are alone with you
because you've never let him in
because you have these shrines set up
of sin and he wants to break those
things down notice in the Old Testament
how many times in the Old Testament do
you see God telling a king of Israel go
and tear down those high places
you ever read about those the high
places the Bible's being very nice to
you and it uses the word high places
they're very that word high places is a
very pornographic word
go and tear down those centers where
people gather and do all kinds of
perversity God says the land is cursed
so long as this is happening
go clean that up
and so Josiah does that or David does
that
but also servitude to Christ is that
incredible forever freedom
when he says what to do I I know it
sounds like when he says in the Bible
what to do it sounds like he's telling
us I I've now surrendered that too to
God I've I've learned to just stop
fighting and I don't hear God telling me
anything
I hear God saying things to me
because you know
I'm going to tell you this and it's kind
of like there's some resistance there
so my prayer is Lord I don't want to
resist you in any way if there's
anything in my life that's resistant to
take it out
that you might be able to speak to me
and I'll follow you
Einstein said in his latter years of
life that he actually discovered that he
hardly knew anything
Einstein
I would like to know what he thought he
didn't know
but isn't that true as a Believer the
further along we get it's kind of like
you know
that's okay good
you take the wheel
I'm talking about Jeremiah 29 you know
this verse 11 and 12.
for I know the thoughts that I think
toward you says the Lord thoughts of
peace and not of evil
to give you a future and a hope
then you will call upon me and pray to
me and I will listen to you
the next thing that we have right here
real quick is verses 17 and 18 and that
is his grace commands us as his children
I won't belabor this his grace commands
us it's beautiful as his children
he says in verse 17 but God be thanks
that though you were slaves of sin yet
you obeyed from the heart
that form
cast mold
die
of Doctrine in other words Bible
Doctrine was poured into your life and
it filled you up
Bible Doctrine was poured into you went
in through the ears and the heart of
your life and Bible you were filled with
like a gas tank is filled with gasoline
you were filled with Bible lean
right Bible lean and you were filled up
that's what he's referring to your body
took in the Bible the form the
scriptures the doctrines were poured
into you
and your skin on the outside but your
Bible on the inside when you bleed it's
Bible
to which you were delivered Verse 18 and
having been set free from sin you became
slaves of righteousness Hallelujah to
that
yes I want to be under the command of
God's grace
Hallelujah to that
it's absolutely awesome Galatians 4
verse 19 says my little children for
whom I labor in birth again until Christ
is formed in you
God's grace commands you so listen it's
not God's grace given to me that I might
go sin up a storm it's God's grace
whereby some Temptation knocks on my
door and I can say get off my property
get out of here
whatever it might be
you know those routine things maybe in
your life there's this stuff that you've
just
you've just decided this is just the way
it is until I die this sin is going to
be a part of my life it's a dark spot on
my soul I want you to know today you
invite Jesus Christ in on this because
he is your master and you are his slave
and none of his kids
have to put up with that
all we need to do is cry out to him
and listen when you do he's going to say
to you okay this is what we're going to
do from here on out
he'll lead you and guide you
listen to it Jesus said this is strong
are you guys okay
John 8 34 says and Jesus answered them
and said most assuredly I say to you
whoever commits sin is a slave of sin
let me help some of you out before you
panic
he whoever commits sin the word is just
plans on sinning
it's just you're looking at your watch
right now saying when's he done
I gotta I got a thing I gotta go do I
gotta I got some sending to do you guys
already taken an hour of my sin time
Jesus says whoever commits sin is a
slave of sin
and a slave does not abide in the house
forever
but a son abides forever see
I love that a son abides forever
therefore if the son makes you free you
shall be free indeed you want to be a
child of God
yeah then become listen
become one who's under his command
and then third and finally it's this
verse 19 his grace shapes us into his
instruments
verse 19 tells us
I speak in human terms because of your
wokeness or it should be weakness but
the
it's probably the same meaning if you're
of your flesh
for just as you presented your members
as slaves of uncleanness and of
lawlessness leading to more lawlessness
so now present your members as slaves of
righteousness for holiness
present your body to God
we had no we had no problem presenting
our body our members that's the word
members the the word in the Greek
actually means parts
so what parts all parts
public parts and private parts
are God's Parts if you're a Believer
Your Parts belong to God what parts
public parts and private parts
they all belong to God are you a
Christian yes I am then your public and
private parts belong to God
see where can he have my public parts
and I have my private parts no he's your
master
so if you haven't decided to stop coming
to the church yet you you will and about
in about three seconds here
this
this implies very strongly
that
we cannot
have
a life of sin determining that as a
Christian I will keep this even though
he has said no
that you're going to do it anyway
hang on
the dangerous
horrific
truth is that when he starts giving you
over to that thing
you hear him less
you can't he used to say to you stop
this
then it's
listen
stop this but it's
it's not that he's changing his tone
it's just that he's changing the volume
it's not even him changing the volume
it's what the Bible says where our ears
have become thick or callous
he's still speaking the same
to our hearts against that thing
so that when he says don't do this
I want you to be free we have shut him
out
Christians do this
and it's it's my prayer as your pastor
to that to ruin your life today in this
area that you as a believer that you
wind up finding out what it's really
like to be absolutely an instrument of
his grace and take the shape of God's
grace in this world
we live in an amazing moment of time I
say this every week now but it gets more
amazing every week
in first John chapter 1 verse 6 almost
done first John 1 6 says if we say that
we have fellowship with him and walk in
darkness we lie and do not practice the
truth he who says I know him and does
not keep his commands as a liar and the
truth is not in him Whoever has been
born of God does not sin for his seed
his god-see Born Again experience
remains in him and he cannot sin because
he has been born of God that means you
can't practice sin do we sin yes do we
want to
today I I say I'm a Christ follower of
Jesus I want to follow him Paul Paul
would say I I wrote a book on this
and it would mean this that we're being
shaped
sculpted carved crafted fashion the word
is translated chipped I like that
chipped away have you ever seen a
sculptor chipping away have you ever
seen I don't know if you've ever been to
Italy uh in Tuscany and you've seen
David
you stand in line for hours to see
Michelangelo's David
and it's you're standing there and it's
supposed to be the most anatomically
perfect human being ever carved
and
he just it took him years and he just
chipped chip chip chip chip chip chip
chip the holy spirit's doing that to you
and I chip chip
what are we supposed to do stance
let him do it
final word and I mean it
I have this equation
that works for me and maybe it'll work
for you and it's this
the correlation between me Desiring to
be used by God
is in direct proportion to the magnitude
of my yieldedness to be controlled by
God
and the outcome of this correlation is
an action
and it's called discipleship
and so for me this is it's on the screen
final verse this is it
you can get a tattoo if you want on this
we should maybe spray paint this on your
car
Galatians 2 20.
you want to talk about an amazing
statement seems like a bizarre
contradiction
but it's talking about enslavement to
his freedom I've been crucified with
Christ
it is no longer I who live but Christ
lives in me
in the Life which I now live in the
flesh
I live by faith in the Son of God who
loved me and gave himself for me
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so the question today for all of us is
have we been liberated have we been set
free
you know those issues of life that we
are learning in the Bible chips away at
us hammers away at us
let's be honest those things where in
life they're difficult
we don't like them but can I suggest
this to you and I think you'll get it in
a second the things that you and I have
hated in Life or despised in Life or or
said that's just too hard maybe it's
maybe it's your college exam or a
schooling or a marriage or a business
venture or an idea whatever it might be
and it's just so hard
that if you just stick with it
that you wind up coming through it and
then you look back and you say wow not
only did we make it or not only getting
my diploma or getting this degree or
getting this job worth it
but I'm so grateful for all of the
hardships that brought me through this
because without the hardships I never
would have been able to come to where
I'm at today
what happened
out of the situations you were chiseled
you were made
into the person that God wants you to be
in all of our difficulties God's at work
don't despair God is working in my life
look
I'm going through tough stuff
but I thank God for it because listen
the Bible says that Jesus announces
we're going to have tough times but we
have good cheer
so we'll get through this season and
we'll get through this weather or we'll
get through these finances it's gonna
work
God's made you his promises you can
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