The Great Freedom Celebration - Moment of Truth Bible Baptist Church 7/5/26

[SPEAKER_00]: Well now, now if you can turn to second Corinthians 3 17, I'm not used to having hair.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you guys, I don't know how you all put up with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, second Corinthians 3 17.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you can please stand on to three in God's word.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now the Lord is Spirit.

[SPEAKER_00]: And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

[SPEAKER_00]: His word, you may be seated.

[SPEAKER_00]: July the fourth, July the fourth, what a great day.

[SPEAKER_00]: What a great, great day.

[SPEAKER_00]: We celebrated every year and it is a beautiful day.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love it, I love it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I remember as a kid, I love this so much.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was a day about having fun, picnic and growing up fireworks.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, one of my earliest memories is, burning my fingers in the air to death with those.

[SPEAKER_00]: You remember those little snakes?

[SPEAKER_00]: You remember that you'd burn, they'd come up.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's one of my earliest memories.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's something I burned it so bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I was crying.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what Fourth of July was to me as a child.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know anything else.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just going down, having a good time, going to meet family and going to carnivals, and such, it was a lot of fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: Celebration.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot of fun.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the Declaration of Independence was signed on that day to so much more than just partying.

[SPEAKER_00]: Some people don't realize that they don't care about it either.

[SPEAKER_00]: They don't realize just how blessed they are to be in the country.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have the freedom to be doing what we're doing this very day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Some nations don't.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, they go to religious stuff.

[SPEAKER_00]: but they don't have the freedom.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's why this country started in the first place was for the freedom to worship Jesus Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: To be able to worship in the way they self it, and we're going to talk about that today.

[SPEAKER_00]: So in July the 4th, 1776 at Declaration of Independence was signed.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Revolutionary War had already started a year before.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, it started on April the

[SPEAKER_00]: And October the 19th, 1781, America signed in Yorktown to secure the American independence.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, it wasn't in until September of the third, 1783.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was over eight years of war for freedom.

[SPEAKER_00]: In a lot of times, when people talk about revolutionary, where they almost talk about it, as if it was just the Declaration of Independence and it was over, but it's far from true.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of things happen at that time.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of things happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact,

[SPEAKER_00]: There were nearly 70,000 American patriots who put the death at the time.

[SPEAKER_00]: That died.

[SPEAKER_00]: People don't talk about that, usually.

[SPEAKER_00]: People who weren't necessarily soldiers.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of them are farmers and other type of people.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they died.

[SPEAKER_00]: They died.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they did that so that you could be right here having the free life that you have today.

[SPEAKER_00]: And people forget about it or they don't know about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of history about freedom.

[SPEAKER_00]: And people misunderstand what that word means.

[SPEAKER_00]: from England, the Revolutionary War, and in the Declaration of Independence it was uh there were 56 men who signed it and about 52 were active members of the Church of faith and here's what happened.

[SPEAKER_00]: Five of those men were tortured as traitors, nine died in war, two of those men lost sons in war and two of those sons were captured.

[SPEAKER_00]: And my assumption is that God, I'm back, I really don't know to be sure.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it says this on the Declaration of Independence, I do have a copy.

[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't find it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was going to bring it out here too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I couldn't find it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wouldn't it matter you would be able to read it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it says this.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says, in Congress, July 4th, 1776, we hold these truths actually.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me read the whole thing too.

[SPEAKER_00]: It starts off before that.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says, in unanimous declaration of 13 United States of America, when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands, which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the Earth, and separate the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and the nature of God and

[SPEAKER_00]: to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to this separation.

[SPEAKER_00]: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain enalable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about the Lord God here.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's about freedom, freedom, liberty, and rights, and opinions.

[SPEAKER_00]: But we're not here to talk about all that.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're here to talk about a different kind of liberty, different kind of independence.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're here to talk about something that God has given us.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we'll talk about that today.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, the title today is a great freedom celebration.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we had a lot of that yesterday praise the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was so great.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love patriotism.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really do.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact,

[SPEAKER_00]: I have a specific special Bible, I save every year just for this, for fourth of July.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this is a new King James Bible, and inside of it, it's all, I gotta be careful because I got some bookmarks and stuff that I want to read from, if I have time, and I may not.

[SPEAKER_00]: But because I don't want to be here for two hours with you, I'm sure you don't want that either.

[SPEAKER_00]: But we have all sorts of wonderful markings in here that are things that different

[SPEAKER_00]: Presidents and other wonderful American historians and other people wrote all about Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: You don't see this in today's history, do you?

[SPEAKER_00]: And you don't see it in today's Bible very often, but many presidents most back in the day were Christians and a lot of the history people were Christians.

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, Washington was a name of.

[SPEAKER_00]: Washington Carver, uh, that sounds cool.

[SPEAKER_00]: They might think they're, well, doors watching in Carver, thank you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Man who have been a peanut butter.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't you know it's kind of sad that he made a lot of things, that's why he's known for the most peanut butter.

[SPEAKER_00]: When he, you have a snack.

[SPEAKER_00]: But he was more for a lot of that.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was a good Christian man.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said it awful lot about Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I mean, I was read hundreds of things people said about the Lord Jesus is right here in this Bible and many other things I read.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the point is that these men who start a country, it was founded on the gospel of Jesus and that's true.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even those who were not Christian,

[SPEAKER_00]: believe in God and they believe in Jesus and they believe in the principles in which we have the gospel.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so they found in our country upon it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So let's take a look.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are two different kinds of freedom that we're going to talk about.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's the worldly freedom.

[SPEAKER_00]: And by that we're talking about the false definition.

[SPEAKER_00]: The false meaning that false narrative, as young people say, and they're not all the ones to do, this is a freedom with a lost look at.

[SPEAKER_00]: When they hear freedom, they think of, now, they understand, they're immature, they don't understand, they don't have the whole spirit to explain what this independence means.

[SPEAKER_00]: Or backslane Christians, do the same?

[SPEAKER_00]: And by backslane Christians, I either mean backslane Christians who have been saved and ignorant or they're ignorant because they've been raised foolishly and they don't understand.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you have to take that with consideration a lot of times.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not that they're necessarily trying to be disobeying, although a lot of them are, let's be honest.

[SPEAKER_00]: But they say about the Declaration of Freedom, they have a lot of time talking about Declaration of Freedom from God.

[SPEAKER_00]: free to do anything you want to do that God doesn't care because he loves you so you can do anything you want but I say to you if you're a parent you love your children so much but that doesn't mean that you can get freedom to do anything you want they want to do that means you love so much that you're trying to keep the safe

[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine a little child who doesn't know any better what's to run on a highway?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, you love him so much with trying to keep him from getting hurt.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what God's trying to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: He knows what's better.

[SPEAKER_00]: He knows better in a parent.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because he knows everything in a parent doesn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: In parents, you know that you don't know everything, but God does.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you take what you do know and you try to help your child with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: grandparents who are the same way.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're trying to help your child and your grandchild and your nephews and nieces and all the little neighborhood kids.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you seem doing something ignorant, it's not because they're necessarily trying to get in trouble all of their might, you know, some kids are ordinary, but you're trying to help them.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not always their fault that their parents will teach stupid

[SPEAKER_00]: to know or to teach him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, love, I can't, I want to do whatever makes him happy.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, God loves enough not to let us do whatever makes his happy.

[SPEAKER_00]: If whatever makes his happy is bad for us, it might be poison to the soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's not going to kill him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, just because it's not going to kill the body.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't mean it's not going to kill the soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: So this is what it says.

[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, let's turn to second Timothy chapter three.

[SPEAKER_00]: Second Timothy chapter three.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, got so many things marked.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's hard to know where to go here.

[SPEAKER_00]: Second Timothy chapter three.

[SPEAKER_00]: Versus one through seven, and it says this.

[SPEAKER_00]: And second Timothy chapter three, verse one through seven, by the way, if you ever get a chance,

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'll go there later.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, let's do this here.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, second tip to each step, three versus one through seven.

[SPEAKER_00]: But know this, that in the last days, Paris times will come.

[SPEAKER_00]: For men will be lovers of themselves.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lovers of money, boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient to perish, unthinkful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despivers of good, traders, headstrong, hotty, levers of pleasure, rather than levers of God, having a form of godliness,

[SPEAKER_00]: For this sort, they are those who creep into households and make captives of gollable women.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like that it used to work gollable.

[SPEAKER_00]: Gollable women.

[SPEAKER_00]: loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: Man, that is powerful.

[SPEAKER_00]: That is so powerful.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Paul.

[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for your bloodness.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, his abutness and bloodness is sometimes necessary.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just like certain people that we see in politics and other places.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have sometimes, maybe they're a little too blunt, but sometimes, bloodness is needed because you don't need to be around the bush.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes, if you need to speak the truth, you need to speak the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it is necessary to know this, and what are we talking about the world, the world is the lost, those who are lost to sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're under Satan's deception, and under Satan's deception.

[SPEAKER_00]: Independence, independence, if people hear that word, the world, you know, they hear the word independence and they think it's liberty, liberty to what, freedom, freedom to what, for rights and, and they look at the definition.

[SPEAKER_00]: As we say, well, I'll go to do whatever we want to do in whenever, just because you have the right to do whatever and whenever doesn't mean you should.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this also means to them to answer to no one, and everything goes.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's no authority, no law, lawlessness, no higher power.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is where you get a lot of the communism and other things.

[SPEAKER_00]: Probably that is, you do have people to answer to.

[SPEAKER_00]: The government controls everything.

[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, they're doing it to know that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And with that, a lot of people who want to answer to no one, this is a lot of times where we get stuff like atheism, agnostics, which is to be completely honest.

[SPEAKER_00]: They'll tell you, it's just they don't know what to believe.

[SPEAKER_00]: atheist who just don't call themselves that, or people who are atheistic, uh, but haven't proclaimed it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that all people are that way.

[SPEAKER_00]: There might be people who want to believe in a higher power, but they don't know a higher power, they want to believe it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But anostic is usually an atheist who just hasn't proclaimed it, put a stamp of it on your yet.

[SPEAKER_00]: What the ones I've known at least, at least ones I've heard of, uh, and then there's loss.

[SPEAKER_00]: And some believers are saved, but they live like the world.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then you get the question, are they really saved?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because they're living like the were well, that's twin them in the Lord, but always help bring them back to Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I used to know a lot of Christians say, whether or not they're not saved in it, they're living in sin, they're not saved.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, now we don't want to say that, because we don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: So yes, I know what you're going to say, and you're right, by the actions we're not.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's true that we should be able to know when you meet someone, but everybody has problems.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody messes up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody may have a problem with certain sins, we'll have weaknesses.

[SPEAKER_00]: So just pray for that person, try to bring it back.

[SPEAKER_00]: So they have the right to say no to God, and the Bible, and they do try to take the Bible and twist it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it does it make your choice right.

[SPEAKER_00]: But,

[SPEAKER_00]: Say no to God, to make you slave to sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: And make you slave to sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: Whether you realize it or not.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I want to give you a verse to help you here.

[SPEAKER_00]: First Peter, 2016.

[SPEAKER_00]: This will help you Christian.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about the Christians who may be having trouble knowing where to go.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking to any of you necessarily or in you home or watching necessarily, but then again, maybe you're struggling with something.

[SPEAKER_00]: So this will help you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because we all struggle, not only.

[SPEAKER_00]: We all struggle with something, we're all having to tell the war of some sort.

[SPEAKER_00]: At least I have.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I'm the only one.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_00]: But let's look at second Peter, our excuse me, first Peter, 2016.

[SPEAKER_00]: As free people do not use your liberty as a covering of evil, but live as servants of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a good.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love that one.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're to be servants of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now some people say that means you're slave to God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you can take that as you will, but as a, quote unquote slave to God.

[SPEAKER_00]: He, it's a different kind of slave.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the kind of servant of freedom of servant of absolute freedom.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's take a look at this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's look at the biblical freedom, biblical freedom.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and that's the kind of freedom we want, praise the Lord God, a biblical freedom.

[SPEAKER_00]: The biblical freedom definition is saved and free from damnation and burns of sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: because this is the declaration of freedom from sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have that declaration of freedom from sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, we know that people sign the declaration.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, people get confused between the declaration of independence.

[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, when the people came back and made the constitution.

[SPEAKER_00]: That was 1787, but don't worry about that because in 1791, they came back and then they started making the different Bill of Rights, but that's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing about your Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Salvation, Jesus did all right there.

[SPEAKER_00]: He did it all in one shabang.

[SPEAKER_00]: He died across and rose in the grave.

[SPEAKER_00]: And with that, you had your declaration of freedom with salvation.

[SPEAKER_00]: He gave you the Bill of Rights as a Christian.

[SPEAKER_00]: He gave you the constitution of your right and they put it all together in the Bible.

[SPEAKER_00]: Think the early Christian founders for that because that's a beautiful thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: but it's all for us and we can read these things and know what they mean.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks to people like Peter, like John, like Paul, and yes, Jesus' literal brothers, James and Jude as well.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thank goodness, praise the Lord, because they all helped us.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we can, and yes, as people like Luke 2,

[SPEAKER_00]: wonderful raise the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: So let's see what this is to say.

[SPEAKER_00]: What do we have?

[SPEAKER_00]: We are free from the change of sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't mean you don't struggle with things, you know, last week I drew those pictures that took a long time.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if you remember right there was the lost person who has changed to the ball of sin, he's changed around the neck.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then we had the the save man and don't you remember he was holding on to the great big ball of sin He's hang on on to down the chain what snack but he's still hanging on to cuz some of his Christians We have a hard time letting go to that great big ball of sin We hang on to say oh, it's so difficult to let go let go Jesus has saved you from it now that doesn't mean it's yours lost still you're not lost

[SPEAKER_00]: But we get lost to the slavery in this lifetime, and this physical lifetime to those things, but you don't have to worry about your free from it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let go, let it roll away.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's old song says, every bird in my life roll away.

[SPEAKER_00]: I love that old song.

[SPEAKER_00]: That was a good one.

[SPEAKER_00]: My dad used to sing and have a good time with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Every sin has to go and eat the crimson flow.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hallelujah.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a beautiful song.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, let's see what it says in song, 119 verse 45.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see what it says now.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is great.

[SPEAKER_00]: At first of all, you're a servant of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have the right to be obedient.

[SPEAKER_00]: to be happy in the spirit and the Holy Spirit.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hallelujah.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have the right to make the right choice.

[SPEAKER_00]: And once the right choice, the right choice is God's word.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when God's word, it will agree when you're making the right choice.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the beautiful thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now here's the thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: know the word.

[SPEAKER_00]: Follow the word.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's why it's important to come to church.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why it's important to make sure you're going to a Bible believe in Bible, follow on church because you have people online, you have people, yes, even on TV.

[SPEAKER_00]: Another people will try to take the word and manipulate the way that devil did.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying they're of the devil, but yes, even certain people can be used to the devil to try to manipulate and twist the word and try to get you to feel as if you're doing wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: because they try to twist the definition and meaning of what the word he ever says.

[SPEAKER_00]: So now let's look at what it says in Psalm 119 verse 45.

Psalms 119:45

[SPEAKER_00]: I will walk in freedom for I had devoted myself to your commandments, by the way, this is David speaking to the Lord God Himself in 119, Psalm 119, is the longest, longest chapter in the Bible.

[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that beautiful?

[SPEAKER_00]: I've said to you for, and I'll say it again.

[SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible.

[SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 117 is the shortest.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Psalm 118 is the middle of the Bible, right there in the middle.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that.

[SPEAKER_00]: That'll help you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's take a look at certain quotes and I'm gonna try if I could fit it in here I'm gonna fit just a few.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many wonderful American quotes and I can't get through them all but I'll try to get a couple.

[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, George Washington, you know George Washington, I like this hairdo.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so don't get jealous.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so George Washington, he said this, he said, is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

[SPEAKER_00]: all these same people who've done it, there's not many.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we see people who've gone without it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you've seen that I'm not going to name names and I'm going to reinvent it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then it is the duty of, this is also towards Washington.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and humbly to implore his protection and favor.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, he said a lot of other things, I'm not going to go to that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, no way, this is a good one.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, let us with caution and this Georgia again.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let us with caution and does this supposition that morality can be maintained without

[SPEAKER_00]: without religion, reasoned experience, but for bit us to expect the national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

[SPEAKER_00]: We have to have the Lord God and his is a principle to help us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Patrick Henry, oh, he's one of my failures.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you know, Patrick Henry, maybe not personally.

[SPEAKER_00]: I did go to the place where he preached this very statement.

[SPEAKER_00]: And, uh,

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to get you out of Virginia.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I know not what others may choose, but ask her me.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's asked for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Give me liberty or give me death.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's where he said that.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what that reminds me a little bit of.

[SPEAKER_00]: Browns, you were Joshua says, that's for me and my house.

[SPEAKER_00]: We will serve the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't that sound like that little bit?

[SPEAKER_00]: I saw you back there.

[SPEAKER_00]: I knew what you was doing to sister.

[SPEAKER_00]: You could either think of that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the other things he said, I can't go through them all, because Patrick Henry said, oh, he said, oh, a whole Bible's worth nearly, at least 13, 14, great ones.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I tried my best.

[SPEAKER_00]: So listen to this one.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, the most cherished possession, the spectricaner again, the most cherished possession I wish I could leave you is my faith and Jesus Christ for with him and nothing else you can be happy.

[SPEAKER_00]: But without him and with all else,

[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that beautiful?

[SPEAKER_00]: Isn't that amazing?

[SPEAKER_00]: That's astounding.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to this, and you should remember this.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you're like this one.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're like this a lot.

[SPEAKER_00]: Said, should I keep back my opinions at such a time through fear of giving a fence?

[SPEAKER_00]: I should consider myself as guilty of pleasing towards my country and have an act of disloyalty toward the majesty of heaven, which I revered above all earthly kings.

[SPEAKER_00]: In that beautiful, in that wonderful, he's right, he's right, amen, God more, it is what he'll say.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is when people forget God that tyrants forwards their chains.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, the Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, all the other books together are worth the Bible, what he's saying.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, here's the last one I will say.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot more, but I'll say the last one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Being a Christian is a character which I prized far above all this world has or can boast.

[SPEAKER_00]: What he said.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Patrick Henry said a lot, in that great, now I'm going to move on.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I can finish up here.

[SPEAKER_00]: We need to remember the declaration of freedom with God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, others think that they have freedom without God and they do, they have freedom to sin and not feel guilty in this world.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it's not freedom.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's sin is a chain of slavery to be eternal damnation.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's not freedom.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lie from the devil himself to make them never get free from what they need to be free from.

[SPEAKER_00]: But we have a declaration of freedom with God.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says in 1 Corinthians 722, it says in 1 Corinthians 722, for he who is called in the Lord, while a servant is the Lord's free man.

[SPEAKER_00]: Likewise, he's who is called, while free is Christ's servant.

[SPEAKER_00]: See, you're a servant, but you're free at the same time, and the world can understand that they don't get it.

[SPEAKER_00]: They think you're brainwatched, but you're not.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're so watched.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're watched.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why does snow praise the Lord God?

[SPEAKER_00]: James 125.

[SPEAKER_00]: James 125, but whoever it looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful here, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in his deeds.

[SPEAKER_00]: This goes back to what we were talking about in Senisco.

[SPEAKER_00]: We come out our works, our works aren't what free us, but when we are free, we do the works freely.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's a beautiful thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, remember this, when we're with God, we have a declaration of freedom from slavery.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, a declaration of freedom from slavery.

[SPEAKER_00]: Galatians 5-1, Galatians 5-1.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was for freedom that Christ set us free.

[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

[SPEAKER_00]: Galatians 5-13.

[SPEAKER_00]: For you, we're called to be free, brothers, only do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

[SPEAKER_00]: And remember, with God, you have, and there's the biggest one, you have the declaration of freedom for eternity.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have everlasting salvation, everlasting life.

[SPEAKER_00]: John 832 says, for you know the truth and the truth will set you free.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said this, you know this word, you've heard it many, many, many, many times.

[SPEAKER_00]: He is the way, he is the truth, and the truth will set you free.

[SPEAKER_00]: He goes on the same verse 36 at John 8.

[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, if the sunset you free, you shall be free indeed.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing is going to take you back to damnation, nothing will take you, it make you lost again.

[SPEAKER_00]: Only Christ can set you free, only Christ can set you free.

[SPEAKER_00]: It is a matter of the people down the street we'll tell you, I'm not talking about anyone in particular, no, I'm not talking about these churches okay, I don't think I'm saying that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm talking about the fact that the people in this world relied you, try to get your money.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's not what we're about.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're not talking, I'm talking with the church, all the churches.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about Jesus Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the only one who can set you free.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the only one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Romans 6, 22, through 23.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, boy, I love these verses.

[SPEAKER_00]: Romans 6, 23 says this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now you guys remember, he's speaking to Rome.

[SPEAKER_00]: Rome had been filled with so many lies for so long, worse being false dots.

[SPEAKER_00]: And not just gods.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was still going to go this way for quite some time.

[SPEAKER_00]: And even now, they have false gods in such a manner.

[SPEAKER_00]: We talked a little bit about last week.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's got to pray for them.

[SPEAKER_00]: They get manipulated.

[SPEAKER_00]: but they were praying to creatures.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're praying to people that don't exist.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you just gotta pray for them for that.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it says in Romans 6, 22, through 23, but now since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the outcome is eternal life.

[SPEAKER_00]: For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life and Jesus Christ are Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've heard of that a couple times, I think.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it's a good verse, good verses.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's good to remember it that you cannot earn it.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a gift.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I was in Israel, I had a man who told me he was gonna give me a gift.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he gave me this, I don't remember what it was exactly.

[SPEAKER_00]: He gave me this thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't worth much beyond us with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: But he gave me this thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he was a seller there, a salesman.

[SPEAKER_00]: He gave me this thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: I give you gifts.

[SPEAKER_00]: He gives me this gift.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then he's supposed to give.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then he says, I give you gifts.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now you give me a gift of $2,000.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's so hard.

[SPEAKER_00]: I did.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't really want it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't care about it whatsoever.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I did it because he impressed me that he was such a smuser and he did a good job.

[SPEAKER_00]: He did a good job and manipulate me and also I just wanted him off my back.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I got to if I'm honest about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the truth is that it kind of impressed me and here's the other thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Two American dollars that him can help a lot to us.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a couple of bucks but to them it's a lot more than that.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I did it and I gave him somebody.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was that.

[SPEAKER_00]: It looked like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: stuff camel.

[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, I gave to it to somebody, stuff a sand by the way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I know because they got all over my bag.

[SPEAKER_00]: But anyhow, they don't know how to sew extremely well.

[SPEAKER_00]: But at least that guy didn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: But what we ended up doing, what we ended up doing is he believed a gift was something you buy, something pay for.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not.

[SPEAKER_00]: And actual gift, many people say, you have to earn earn your salvation, earn your way, and you'll see it many

[SPEAKER_00]: You cannot earn your way to heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: A gift is something Jesus Christ paid for on the cross, brought back up to you from the grave.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was just on the cross.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what you need to learn.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is not on that cross anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also, he's not in the grave anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a reason.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a reason.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not even on earth anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now he's with you on earth in your heart.

[SPEAKER_00]: But he's in heaven and he's gonna come again.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be ready, be prepared, be prepared.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have that independence, be prepared.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here is another great one from Romans.

[SPEAKER_00]: Romans 8, 1, 2, 1, my all time favorites, of course I say that a lot, but this is true, I love it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Romans 8, 1, 2.

[SPEAKER_00]: There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit, for the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free, the law of sin and death.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: You are set free today.

[SPEAKER_00]: I talk about this nearly every year, but the truth is, you are set free, free, and indeed, as wonderful as it is.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I love it.

[SPEAKER_00]: We are so blessed to be in the United States of America.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I wouldn't chance to bring anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: And as much as I love that red white blue, I love this red white blue.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just as much, if not more, which is the Christian flag of why, because I am so thrilled I can live in this country of America and speak the word of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: It would mean nothing if I didn't have that red cross on my heart and feel why I snow and how the royalty of the lower cries within me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I am set free for eternal life.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: James won 25.

[SPEAKER_00]: Whoever looks into the perfect log liberty and continues in it is not forgetful.

[SPEAKER_00]: I already said that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I apologize.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm recording myself.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will finish by saying this.

[SPEAKER_00]: The greatest freedom celebration when I was a little kid, my dad used to tell me he was son.

[SPEAKER_00]: One month and ten days before he was born was the greatest Fourth of July I've ever seen.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was talking about the bicentennial Fourth of July and that was of course 1976.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, I don't know that you'll ever see one like him.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, it was so big.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I had doctors who told me I'd be dead by time I'm sturdy.

[SPEAKER_00]: They were wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: God is right.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's my physician.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will be 50 and August, the only God knows.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't just think anything's going to happen, but hey, here's the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter because the Lord isn't charged, not me.

[SPEAKER_00]: And here I am.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the year, 2026, and I got to see the semi-quist, I got to say, right, semi-quist Antonio.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that is the 250th anniversary of our country, and that's beautiful.

[SPEAKER_00]: The greatest freedom celebration of my life, because I wasn't here for the bicentennial, but here's it's even greater.

[SPEAKER_00]: The greatest freedom celebration was, yesterday,

[SPEAKER_00]: is when I'm going to go through those gates.

[SPEAKER_00]: And everyone's going to be celebrating.

[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, it's going to happen to you and to you and to you and to our guests today, and to all these people who know Christ is the Lord Savior.

[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't just happen when you go through those gates.

[SPEAKER_00]: It happened the day you asked Jesus Christ in your heart as your personal and Savior angels everywhere, we're praising the Lord God because another one was saved.

[SPEAKER_00]: Your name was erased.

[SPEAKER_00]: from the book of sin, and now it's written in the Layers Book of Life, Hallelujah.

[SPEAKER_00]: It can only be done through Jesus Christ, our Lord Savior, not done because of you, but because of Jesus when you ask him save me, Lord, save me.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, you're saved.

[SPEAKER_00]: Today you'll be with me, not in paradise that happened before Jesus died.

[SPEAKER_00]: Today you'll be with me in heaven when you come to be with me and you will be.

[SPEAKER_00]: of all time in your life, I guarantee it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And let us close, let us close, one more time, one more time with James W.25, one more time.

[SPEAKER_00]: But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful here, but a doer of the word.

[SPEAKER_00]: This man will be blessed in his deeds.

[SPEAKER_00]: God did everything necessary for you to go to heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: All you have to do is call on the heaven.

[SPEAKER_00]: All he has to do is to call on him and he will save you today.

[SPEAKER_00]: You will be free from eternal damnation, from eternal chains of sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: You will be free, free, and deep.

[SPEAKER_00]: Independent, not a God.

[SPEAKER_00]: You will still depend upon what He did for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you'll be independent from all the fear and pain that you made suffer from right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if right now, you are a Christian.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you are still afraid, what others are gonna say, you need not to.

[SPEAKER_00]: Cause you're not gonna have to answer to them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, right now in this world, you may have to answer to if you'll be you don't need to be afraid.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus has already saved you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Those chains are loose.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let go of that great big ball of sin, that great big chain.

[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't have you anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: It only has you if you allow it to.

[SPEAKER_00]: God loves you, you've been set free.

[SPEAKER_00]: Today, remember that this is a great big day of freedom celebration, and we can celebrate every day for the rest of our lives.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's bound for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lord Jesus, we celebrate today, and we thank you for what you did upon the cross race.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when you arose from the dead Lord God, you said it's all free from those chains.

[SPEAKER_00]: You said it's free forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: All we have to do is call to you if there be anyone who's here or who's a home or who may be watching someday years now, who just isn't sure, who maybe is afraid to come forward or afraid to call, I pray Lord God, you give them the courage they need.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe there are people out there that we will never meet.

[SPEAKER_00]: who are just terrified right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't know where they're gonna go.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray through the Holy Spirit that you Lord God will send them the answer, through which ever minister, which ever word that they need, whichever scripture, I pray you send them to it that they will find you Lord God.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray in your name, where Jesus Christ, this will be the day that they will come to know you and be set free, independent from sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: and a servant to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: In Jesus' most holy and precious name, amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.