Faith and Freedom
Sermon Delivered on July 03, 2011Faith and Freedom
Today's Speaker: Pastor Dan Housam
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?"
Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. I know you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are ready to kill me, because you have no room for my word. I am telling you what I have seen in the Father's presence, and you do what you have heard from your father."
"Abraham is our father," they answered.
"If you were Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then you would do the things Abraham did. As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. You are doing the things your own father does."
"We are not illegitimate children," they protested. "The only Father we have is God himself."
John 8:31-41
Be Free By Applying the _______________
Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive one another.
Leviticus 19:11
Surely you desire truth in the inner parts;
you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Psalm 51:6
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
1 John 1:8
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
John 14:6
Do Not Go Back to Slavery to __________
Because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.
Romans 8:2 (NLT)
You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature.
Galatians 5:13
The sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature.
Galatians 5:17
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:19-21
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.
Galatians 5:22-25
Avoid Distraction of Misdirected ________________
A man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
2 Peter 2:19
Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: "Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"? … Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
Colossians 2:20-21,23
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have.
Hebrews 13:5
Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
1 Corinthians 9:19
The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
Galatians 5:6
