November 5, 2025 • 39 mins
True freedom isn’t about getting more options for oneself, but becoming free from the bondage of sin to walk in righteousness. We trace a bold, honest line from Eden’s wide-open garden to Paul’s gritty vision of liberty that chooses service for the sake of others. Along the way, we examine how one boundary tested trust, how the fall revealed our tendency to use freedom poorly, and how the Spirit leads us out of bondage into a life where righteousness is not a burden but a joy.
We talk through Genesis and the original scope of human freedom: real work, real dominion, and only one restriction. That context changes how we read our choices today. Rather than chasing loopholes or cloaking compromise in spiritual language, we ask how to live in freedom publicly—submitting to rightful authority, practicing integrity, and letting our conduct silence ignorance. Paul’s words come alive: “Though I am free, I made myself a servant to all.” Freedom becomes a mission. It is the power to become “all things to all people” to win some, not to perform for approval, but to love people toward hope of Jesus Christ.
We also address quieter battles: envy masked as disappointment, the habit of hiding our gifts, and the fatigue in the test of waiting while others seem to flourish. Galatians reframes our identity—the free children of promise, led by the Spirit, called to stand fast and resist the yoke of bondage. Romans reminds us that freedom has a direction: away from sin, toward holiness. If your heart needs a reset on what liberty looks like in practice—clear allegiance, steady character, and generous service—this conversation will meet you where you are and point you forward.
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j - Jesus M. Ruiz (00:03):
The vision received was that of blood cells
traveling throughout the body,supplying the much needed oxygen
and other nutrients to thediffering members of the body to
fulfill their purpose.
Once the blood cells are spent,they must return back to the
heart to be refilled beforebeing sent out again and fulfill
their purpose.
Wow, did y'all hear that?
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Bishop Harris with us inspirit.
How about that?
How about that?
Whoo, yes.
That that was an interestingsurprise.
The message, yes, it is onfreedom.
Amen.
Amen.
Wow, that was surprising.
Freedom.
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How many of you ever seen themovie Braveheart?
Do you remember when WilliamWallace was on the altar and he
was tied down and strapped up,and they were cutting his
innards out.
Yeah.
But in the midst of that andthe faces he was making, he was
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able to get a breath.
And he screamed out freedom.
Because for the Scottish, atleast for William Wallace,
that's what he would fought anddie for.
And I don't know if youremember a few weeks ago, we had
some scriptures up there aboutfreedom.
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We had some songs.
We started and ended with songson freedom.
And I guess the theme had notleft me.
And I'm watching a lot ofthings that are going on in the
nation today, and how freedomseemed to be dwindling in our
nation that we once were foundedin.
And trying to understand itall.
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And just becoming unhappy withthe things that I see going on
in the nation.
I guess the Lord was justministering me over the week
when I found out that I neededto share something.
The word that was in mythoughts, the word that was in
my spirit was about freedom.
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And I realized as I began tostudy that we are beings that
are created to live in freedom.
We were not created and put onthis earth in bondage.
We were created and put on thisearth with a great, an immense
amount of freedom.
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And enslavement was not a partof the original plan.
That was not the originalintention.
And Jesus wanted us to walkwith him in the cool of the
garden, in utter freedom.
Freedom where we would not evenknow that we were naked before
him.
It wasn't His originalintention.
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And so I want to look into whywould God want us or create us
with so great a freedom, knowingwhat happened.
So if you will, turn with me toGenesis 1.
And yes, we'll begin in thebeginning.
When God created the heavensand the earth.
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And the earth was formless andvoid, and darkness was over the
surface of the deep, and theSpirit of God brooded upon the
waters.
We know that beginning, andwe're going to skip to verse 26.
And God said, Let us make manin our image, after our
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likeness, and let them havedominion over the fish of the
sea.
It's okay if she doesn't getit.
And over the fowl of the air,and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and over everycreeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth.
So God created man in his ownimage.
In the image of God created hehim, male and female, created he
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them.
And God blessed him, and Godsaid unto them, Be fruitful,
multiply, replenish the earth,subdue it, have dominion over
the fish and the sea, and overthe fowl of the air, and over
every living thing that movethupon the earth.
Everything that God created, Heplaced man dominion over.
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The fowl, the fish, everyliving thing, every living thing
that moves upon the earth,every living thing was all for
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Adam.
And God said, Behold, I havegiven you every herb bearing
seed, which is upon the face ofall the earth, and every tree in
which is the fruit of theyielding seed, to you it shall
be for meat.
I've given you every tree andevery seed and every fruit that
comes from every tree, that'sgoing to be your meat, that will
be your food.
And it's yours, all yours.
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Every single one of them.
And to every beast of theearth, to every fowl of the air,
and to everything that creepethupon the earth where there is
life, I have given every greenherb for meat, and it was so.
And he also gave the creaturesdominion over every fruit of
every tree.
And he gave this tremendous,immense amount of freedom.
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It says in ver in chapter 2,verse 15, it sort of focuses on
when God created man out of thedust of the ground.
He said He took man, andafter He created him, He put him
in the midst of the garden todress it and keep it.
And the Lord commanded the man,saying, Of every tree of the
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garden thou mayest freely eat.
And you know there was only oneforbidden tree.
Just one.
Just one.
But I wanted to contrast thosetwo sections, not because I like
copying and pasting, because Iwant you to understand that in
the midst of all of that freedomthat God gave man, he also gave
him with that freedomresponsibility.
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He was to dress it, he was tokeep it.
We don't think about that whenwe think about our freedom.
We think about our rights.
We think about, well, we havethe right to do this and to say
this and to publish this and todo that.
But when God gave us thatfreedom, he gave us also with it
responsibility.
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And it says in verse 19, andout of the ground the Lord God
formed every beast of the fieldand every fowl of the air, and
brought them unto Adam to seewhat he would call them.
Responsibility.
He didn't just let them thereto indulge in all of the freedom
and all of the fruit, but hegave him responsibility.
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And he brought every animal,and Adam named every single
Adam, excuse me, animal that wascreated.
And Adam called every livingcreature that was the name
thereof.
Notice it was on the earth.
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Didn't he create the sun, themoon, the stars, the galaxies,
the Milky Way, the differentother galaxies?
All of that was also created,but he only gave man dominion
over the earth.
And some might read that, andsome might ask, well, why only
the earth?
Why didn't he give him dominionover everything he created?
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Is God being selfish?
Is God saying, no, no, no, no,I you can only have this little
bit because the earth is quitelittle compared to all creation.
But think about that.
Why did he only give it to himon the earth?
And my question to thatquestion will be how do you know
he wasn't going to?
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See, I see it as Adam was achild of God.
And don't parents, I'm talkingto parents now, don't you
parents give your children alimited amount of freedom?
Ask yourself why.
Why is it that yourthree-year-old has this certain
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amount of freedom, but your12-year-old has a greater level
and degree of freedom?
Go ahead and answer.
Why why is that?
He's more responsible.
He's probably, hopefully, shownhimself more trustworthy.
And what would happen if yougave the freedom you gave your
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12-year-old to yourthree-year-old?
What have you allowed yourthree-year-old to cook on the
stove?
Probably not.
What have you allowed yourthree-year-old to go make a
bonfire in the backyard?
Or bonfire in the basement.
You would be an unwise parent,wouldn't you?
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Because you know what your sonor daughter is capable of
handling.
God knew what Adam was capableof handling.
And he tested him.
He gave them the tremendous,immense responsibility of all
the earth, except just onething.
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It's like giving you all thefreedom you want to do with this
room, and I place a sticker doton the floor and I said, look,
do whatever you want.
Just don't touch the dot.
Would you think that you werein bondage?
Would you think that you were aslave?
No.
You have all this freedom.
What are you talking about?
Okay, I won't touch that.
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Now imagine if there wassomething in here in this room
that you'd want, like computersor or or or skiing on the
outside in the backyard.
You'd just enjoy all of thatfreedom.
And you wouldn't touch thatdot.
But God knew what Adam wascapable of handling, and he gave
him the responsibility tohandle it.
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And some of you might bequestioning, but look what
happened.
Well, yeah, look what happened.
I'm a parent, I giveresponsibility to my children.
Do I still not take a risk thathe's gonna fail or she's gonna
falter?
Yeah, of course you do.
And God did the same thing.
He doesn't give you a testthat's already fixed.
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Why is he gonna give you amultiple choice test of only one
answer to every question andthen answer's right?
What kind of test is that?
There's no test.
You're gonna pass.
But he had to test Adam.
Adam had to show himselftrustworthy and responsible with
the very little that he wasgiven.
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And with that freedom, we knowwhat happened.
But it didn't need to be so.
He fell, and all thegenerations thereafter cannot
speak a word because they allfell in the very same manner.
They had freedom and they chosecontrary.
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Adam, Eve tried to usurpauthority.
Instead of takingresponsibility over all that
they had in their power, allthat they had in their
possession, they tried to do theone thing that they simply were
not allowed to do.
Our ancestors handled theirfreedom irresponsibly.
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And we now live in a fallenday, in a fallen age where we
suffer sickness and disease andinfirmities and sweat off the
brow and famine and sword andpestilence and plagues and
finally death.
Because our ancestors andourselves have handled our
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freedom irresponsibly.
We can't blame God, we can'tblame others, we can't blame our
circumstances.
We can only look into the manin the mirror.
It says in 1 Corinthians 7 22,Paul was speaking to the
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Corinthians, and he made a verysimple statement.
He said, For he that is calledin the Lord, if he's a servant,
because in Paul's day and age inKoran there were many servants,
then there were many masters,and that's just the way it was.
He says, If you were a servant,but you were called into the
Lord, meaning you were bornagain and you came into the
kingdom, even if you're aservant, you're still the Lord's
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free man.
And likewise also he that iscalled, who was free, who is
actually the master, well, he'sactually Christ's servant.
And so he's called us intofreedom, no matter what position
we find ourselves in, whetherwe have the master or whether we
are the servant.
Because in the kingdom we areChrist's servants.
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We have the freedom to beChrist's servants.
And if we turn to 1 Corinthians9 19, we'll read more there.
Paul continues and he says,There's a purpose why we are
called into this freedom.
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And the purpose kind of was notwhat was originally intended,
but because of the fall, we knowthat God already had a plan to
deal with our fall, yet thedeclaration of him calling us to
freedom remains.
But there's a purpose in thefreedom in which we are called
in in this fallen day and age.
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And Paul says in 1 Corinthians9 19, For though I be free from
all men, yet I have made myselfservant unto all, that I might
gain the more.
Paul is saying, I havevoluntarily been free, but I
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have voluntarily chosen to be aservant so that I can gain the
more.
That doesn't sound like a manthat treats his freedom
irresponsibly, but he putshimself under in order to gain
something even more.
He's self-sacrificing.
He's thinking about others.
And he says, unto the Jews,I'll become a Jew.
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He says, unto those that areunder the law, I'll come under
the law.
Unto those that might gain themunder the law, the purpose for
being whatever it is that I needto be is in order to gain their
salvation.
That's my purpose as a Christ'sservant on earth.
I'm here for them.
I'm not here to flaunt myfreedom.
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And unto the to them that arewithout the law, in other words,
unto the Gentiles, thoseoutside of the covenant of the
law, I'll be to them as onewithout the law.
That I might gain them that arewithout the law.
And to the weak, to the poor,to the ones looked down on, to
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the persecuted, I'll become justas they are too.
That I might gain the weak.
I am made, he says, all thingsto all men, that I might by all
means save some of them.
That's his more, that he gainssome of them.
And this I do for the gospel'ssake, that I may be a partaker
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thereof with you.
Paul understands that thebusiness of the kingdom is the
business of saving souls.
Because we live in a day andage where we are in a fallen
day.
A fallen age.
This business of saving soulsis an element of the restitution
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of all things.
Yes, God is going to return,and God is going to restore
everything to its originalpurpose and intention.
But along the way, there willbe a process, and that process
is a very slow, arduous, longtime process of saving souls one
by one.
Paul partook in this kingdomwork of the Lord, and he became
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an instrument of thisrestitution work of God.
Why else are we called intothis freedom?
Romans 6, 16.
Paul speaks again, but thistime to the Romans.
He says, Know ye not to whom yeyield yourselves servants to
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obey.
His servants ye are to whom yeobey, whether of sin unto death
or of obedience untorighteousness.
But God be thanked that ye werethe servants of sin, but ye
have obeyed from the heart thatform of doctrine which was
delivered you.
But he says, being then madefree from sin, you became
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servants of righteousness.
The calling of freedom of hischildren is not freedom to do
what you want, but freedom towalk in righteousness.
Because that is treating yourfreedom responsibly.
And be servants of God and hisrighteousness.
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Because when you were servantsof sin, you were free from
righteousness.
You couldn't do righteousnessbefore you were born again.
You could try, but God saysthat all of your works are as
what?
Filthy rags.
Because it was not sanctifiedby the Holy Spirit.
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You can be as good as you want,and there are some quote
unquote good people out there,but because their works are not
sanctified by the Holy Spirit,where he sanctifies their good
works, it is nothing but filthyrags.
It is nothing but works done intheir own power, not dependent
upon God.
And so in the end, they couldboast because I did this day, I
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did that, I did the.
But it wasn't, I did it undersubmission to you.
There's a difference.
What fruit had ye then in thosethings whereof ye are now
ashamed?
The things that you did before,aren't you ashamed of them now?
Even so, for the end of thosethings, the things that you did
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before is death.
But now being made free fromsin and become servants to God,
ye have your fruit unto holinessand in the end everlasting
life.
And he's still calling us tofreedom.
But because we live in an ageof the fall and are in bondage,
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freedom is progressivelyproportional.
Y'all heard of progressiverepetitious revelation, so I
think you understand the idea ofprogressive.
What does this proportionalmean?
It means that the less that youwalk in unrighteousness, the
more you're gonna walk inrighteousness.
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But if you continue to walk inunrighteousness, the less you're
gonna walk in righteousness.
So your freedom is proportionalto are you walking away from
these things because God hascalled you away, but he's called
you unto these things.
He's calling us to freedom fromsin, but at the same time,
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freedom to walk in hisrighteousness.
Righteous living.
And this is what was originallyintended from the beginning.
A righteous walk that isn'tself-centered, but
self-sacrificing.
And God gave us an allegory.
Y'all ever heard of Pilgrim'sProgress?
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Ever read Pilgrim's Progress?
Anybody?
I know you have.
A couple of you back there.
Pilgrim's Progress is anallegory.
And it's using uh maybe whatmaybe archetypes or or
particular types of Christiansand their names and using it to
relay a greater understanding ofusing those names.
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Like one of the names is, well,one of the names is Christian.
Give me another name.
unknown (22:40):
Evangelist.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (22:41):
Huh?
Evangelist.
That's his name.
Now it's his function in thestory, and so you sort of get an
understanding of what anevangelist does and how he puts
you on the right track.
But in the Bible, the Bibleitself says, I've given you an
allegory.
And the allegory is this therewas once a man who had two sons.
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One son was born of thebondwoman.
The other son was born of thefree woman.
He actually called thebondwoman the bond maid.
That's what she was.
She was a maid.
She was a servant.
She wasn't the free woman.
The free woman was his wife.
And it says that this story wasgiven to you as an allegory
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because the bondwoman was bornafter the flesh.
The free woman was born ofpromise.
You remember the child ofpromise was Isaac.
But the child of the bondwomanwas Ishmael.
And he represents those thatare born of the flesh, not of
the word of God, not of thepromise.
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And so to be a child of thepromise, you have to be born of
the free woman.
And the bondwoman wasrepresentative because she came
from Arabia.
She represents Mount Sinai inArabia.
But where do what happened onMount Sinai?
The law was given.
But the free woman representsJerusalem.
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And it says that Jerusalem isthe mother of all.
What happened in Jerusalem onthe day of Pentecost?
The Holy Spirit was given.
Tremendous difference therebetween born of the flesh and
born of the Spirit.
And to be born of the Spirit,you become a child of promise.
You become a child of freedom.
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And if you read Galatians 4,I'm just going to read Galatians
5 (24:33):
1 because this is the ending of it.
Before that, it says inGalatians 4 30, cast out the
bondwoman and her son.
Do away with the things of theflesh.
For the son of the bondwomanshall not be heir, but the son
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of the free woman will be.
So then, brethren, we are notchildren of the bondwoman, but
of the free.
And here it here's where heconcludes.
He says in Galatians 5:1, standfast therefore in liberty.
And that's the Bible word forfreedom.
Yes, it uses the word free insome places, but the Bible word
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was liberty.
It meant freedom.
Stand fast in your freedomwhere Christ made you free, and
be not entangled again with theyoke of bondage.
Those that are led by theSpirit are the sons of God.
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There are only two types ofpeople in this age of the fall.
Those that are of the flesh,those that are of the spirit.
Only two.
And a fact of the matter isthat the children of flesh
always persecute the children ofthe spirit.
And there's a battle raging inthis world, a battle raging
between the children of bondagewho want control, and the
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children of freedom.
Children of promise.
Because maybe your parents, Ispeak for my family.
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My mom wanted to get me out ofthe influence of my cousins and
my uncles and my aunts.
She wanted something better forme.
And she took me out of there.
She might have let me spendweekends with them, but she
didn't want me near them.
And she left New York to get toTampa to get away from them.
And then my family followed herto Tampa.
She left Tampa to go to Miamito get away from them.
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And then my family went toMiami.
But she was always trying toget away from them, always
trying to get me free of theirinfluence.
Because she didn't want me toget entangled in the bonds that
she knew that she walked in.
Did she see it that way?
No, I'm I'm I'm talkingspiritual here.
My mom didn't see it that way.
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And unfortunately, my mom diedbecause she could not get out of
their entanglement.
But she got me out.
Praise God, she got me out.
Jesus said, and ye shall knowthe truth, and the truth shall
make you free.
He said, If you commit sin,you're a servant of sin.
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And he says, What we just readin Galatians that the servant
abideth not in the houseforever.
He is not the heir.
God will not allow a servant tobe the heir.
It is only to go to the son.
The son is who will abideforever.
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The son is who will inherit thepromises of his father's
kingdom.
And Jesus said, if the sontherefore shall make you free,
you shall be free indeed.
So coming back upon this, Iremember Adam and Eve were
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created and birthed in liberty.
I don't know how long it was,but they walked with God in the
cool of the evening, the cool ofthe morning, and they had some
time to enjoy this freedom untilyou know how they felt.
And because of their fall, sinhas infected all of creation.
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Paul said in Romans 8, 19, andhe uses the word creature as a
metaphor to represent all ofcreation.
He says that the creature isearnestly expecting something.
It earnestly desires somethingto happen because when it
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happens, the creature, creation,will be delivered from its
bondage that it didn't doanything to get into.
It says their earnestexpectation of the creature
waited for the manifestation ofthe sons of God.
For the creature was madesubject to vanity, not
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willingly.
The earth, the trees, all thethings that are living that are
dying now that are not human,they didn't do anything to
deserve that.
It was what man did, and whatman did affected all of
creation.
But the creature, by reason ofhim who he had subjected the
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same in hope, he was put a...
God, put all of creation intosubjection because of what man
did, but the creature in hopeknows that it shall be delivered
from the bondage of corruptioninto the same glorious liberty
of the children of God.
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Because when the manifestationof the children of God come,
that will establish and startthe restitution of all things
that God has created.
And I talked to you about sogreat a freedom that we should
have.
And what's wrong?
Can y'all say, oh yeah, I livein that every day.
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I know what you're talkingabout, Brother J.
Uh-huh.
No.
Some of you are like, where areyou going with this?
For some of us, I'm talking toa lot of Christians.
I'm talking to those that areseeking.
Some of our problem is that wehave the same problem Adam and
Eve have.
For some reason, we don'thandle freedom too well.
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And we certainly are nothandling it responsibly.
Saints, there's nothing newunder the sun.
The struggles that we havetoday are dressed and colored
differently, but they are thesame struggles that our brethren
had in the old covenant.
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The same type of choices thatneed to be made in order to walk
in freedom are the same choiceswe need to make today.
Peter said in 1 Peter 2, hesaid, Dearly beloved, I beseech
you as strangers and aspilgrims, abstain from fleshly
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lust, which war against thesoul.
Have your conversation behonest among the Gentiles.
That whereas they speak againstyou as evildoers, that they may
by your good works, which theyshall behold, glorify God in the
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day of their visitation.
I'm not sure.
If the shoe fits, wear it.
If the shoe doesn't fit, moveon and don't worry about it.
But if the shoe fits, wear it,I'm not sure if we as Christians
are leaving a reputationamongst the unbelievers around
us that causes them to lookbeyond themselves and consider
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the God that we serve.
And Peter's addressing this,and he's saying, Submit yourself
to every ordinance of man forthe Lord's sake, whether it be
to the king the supreme or untogovernors, as unto them that are
sent for the punishment ofevildoers and for the praise of
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them that do well.
See, I knew a Christian, Istill know him, but I knew a
Christian in Miami that did nothave a license from the FCC to
broadcast on the radio.
But he did it anyway.
And he did it anyway in thename of Jesus, in the name of
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God.
And you think, well, he'strying to put some Christian
radio on.
But according to Peter, you aresupposed to submit to those
laws and those orders.
And so we as Christians, wekind of finagle our way and we
try to take shortcuts to try toobtain God's favor and blessings
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in our lives, yet we arebreaking the very laws that we
are advocating to uphold.
And then we clothe it inChristian garb.
Peter says, For so this is thewill of God, that with
well-doing ye may put to silencethe ignorance of foolish men as
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free, and not using yourliberty for a cloak of
maliciousness, but as servantsof God.
He doesn't play the fence.
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When he says he's for God, he'stotally for God.
And they won't even botherasking you about some question
because they already know youranswer.
But there's some of us whereour friends would go ahead and
have the audacity to ask usbecause they don't really see
our commitment to the Lord.
And that's not their fault.
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That's our fault.
Because they should knowwithout a shadow of a doubt in
which God do we serve.
And they should know his namebecause we are not ashamed of
his name.
I say that we are using ourfreedom irresponsibly.
It has become a cloak ofmaliciousness, a cloak that
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tries to get away with thelittle things here and the
little things there, and we tryto get by and we try to get
ahead and we try to finigle ourway to obtain whatever blessings
and whatever favor, but itseems to be out of step with
God's timing.
And to some of us, I thinkwe've become a very sorry lot
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indeed to have that type ofreputation.
Again, if the shoe fits, wearit.
If the shoe fits, don't worryabout it.
Find another shoe in thismessage that'll fit you.
But you have to understand thatif you are born again into this
covenant that we all espousehere, and you've been given the
gift of the Holy Spirit, you'vebeen given power, you've been
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given anointing, you've beengiven gifts to know things that
no one else would know becauseyou are receiving it from heaven
on high.
And then you don't appreciatethat blessing.
You treat it cheaply.
You don't even believe that Ican actually receive that from
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the Lord.
I can actually give that wordto that person, constantly
doubting, constantly wondering,and yet that's exactly what he's
given you the gift for.
And we hide it.
We'll sing to the top of ourlungs in the basement of our
house, but come church Sunday, Ihardly clap my hands.
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I hardly give a step.
Why?
What are you afraid of?
I think for some of us, wedon't have any appreciation of
what God has given us.
We seem to always recognizewhat God is doing in other
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people's life, but at the sametime that we notice it, we also
notice what God hasn't done forus yet.
And we're not fully 100% happyfor the other person because
deep within our hearts, and Idon't know who that is for, but
deep within our hearts, we'relike, how come I haven't gotten
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my answer yet?
We murmur and complain in themidst of our heart, and we don't
tell nobody.
And only those that reallydiscern by the Spirit of God can
detect something wrong.
There's something going on inthat person's heart.
I don't know what it is, but II could tell there's something
going on in that person's heart.
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And it's because deep withinthat heart they're murmuring,
complaining that they don't havewhat other people are getting
around them.
We become discontent with ourstate of affairs to the point
where we almost get depressed,and some of us actually do.
And you wonder, how can aChristian be depressed with so
much to be thankful and gratefulfor?
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They're Christians walking indepression.
And we become malcontent withinourselves.
To the point where if it'sthere long enough, we're not
even happy when other people areblessed.
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The vision received was that of blood cells
traveling throughout the body,supplying the much needed oxygen
and other nutrients to thediffering members of the body to
fulfill their purpose.
Once the blood cells are spent,they must return back to the
heart to be refilled beforebeing sent out again and fulfill
their purpose.
Wow, did y'all hear that?
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Bishop Harris with us inspirit.
How about that?
How about that?
Whoo, yes.
That that was an interestingsurprise.
The message, yes, it is onfreedom.
Amen.
Amen.
Wow, that was surprising.
Freedom.
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How many of you ever seen themovie Braveheart?
Do you remember when WilliamWallace was on the altar and he
was tied down and strapped up,and they were cutting his
innards out.
Yeah.
But in the midst of that andthe faces he was making, he was
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able to get a breath.
And he screamed out freedom.
Because for the Scottish, atleast for William Wallace,
that's what he would fought anddie for.
And I don't know if youremember a few weeks ago, we had
some scriptures up there aboutfreedom.
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We had some songs.
We started and ended with songson freedom.
And I guess the theme had notleft me.
And I'm watching a lot ofthings that are going on in the
nation today, and how freedomseemed to be dwindling in our
nation that we once were foundedin.
And trying to understand itall.
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And just becoming unhappy withthe things that I see going on
in the nation.
I guess the Lord was justministering me over the week
when I found out that I neededto share something.
The word that was in mythoughts, the word that was in
my spirit was about freedom.
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And I realized as I began tostudy that we are beings that
are created to live in freedom.
We were not created and put onthis earth in bondage.
We were created and put on thisearth with a great, an immense
amount of freedom.
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And enslavement was not a partof the original plan.
That was not the originalintention.
And Jesus wanted us to walkwith him in the cool of the
garden, in utter freedom.
Freedom where we would not evenknow that we were naked before
him.
It wasn't His originalintention.
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And so I want to look into whywould God want us or create us
with so great a freedom, knowingwhat happened.
So if you will, turn with me toGenesis 1.
And yes, we'll begin in thebeginning.
When God created the heavensand the earth.
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And the earth was formless andvoid, and darkness was over the
surface of the deep, and theSpirit of God brooded upon the
waters.
We know that beginning, andwe're going to skip to verse 26.
And God said, Let us make manin our image, after our
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likeness, and let them havedominion over the fish of the
sea.
It's okay if she doesn't getit.
And over the fowl of the air,and over the cattle, and over
all the earth, and over everycreeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth.
So God created man in his ownimage.
In the image of God created hehim, male and female, created he
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them.
And God blessed him, and Godsaid unto them, Be fruitful,
multiply, replenish the earth,subdue it, have dominion over
the fish and the sea, and overthe fowl of the air, and over
every living thing that movethupon the earth.
Everything that God created, Heplaced man dominion over.
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The fowl, the fish, everyliving thing, every living thing
that moves upon the earth,every living thing was all for
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Adam.
And God said, Behold, I havegiven you every herb bearing
seed, which is upon the face ofall the earth, and every tree in
which is the fruit of theyielding seed, to you it shall
be for meat.
I've given you every tree andevery seed and every fruit that
comes from every tree, that'sgoing to be your meat, that will
be your food.
And it's yours, all yours.
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Every single one of them.
And to every beast of theearth, to every fowl of the air,
and to everything that creepethupon the earth where there is
life, I have given every greenherb for meat, and it was so.
And he also gave the creaturesdominion over every fruit of
every tree.
And he gave this tremendous,immense amount of freedom.
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It says in ver in chapter 2,verse 15, it sort of focuses on
when God created man out of thedust of the ground.
He said He took man, andafter He created him, He put him
in the midst of the garden todress it and keep it.
And the Lord commanded the man,saying, Of every tree of the
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garden thou mayest freely eat.
And you know there was only oneforbidden tree.
Just one.
Just one.
But I wanted to contrast thosetwo sections, not because I like
copying and pasting, because Iwant you to understand that in
the midst of all of that freedomthat God gave man, he also gave
him with that freedomresponsibility.
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He was to dress it, he was tokeep it.
We don't think about that whenwe think about our freedom.
We think about our rights.
We think about, well, we havethe right to do this and to say
this and to publish this and todo that.
But when God gave us thatfreedom, he gave us also with it
responsibility.
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And it says in verse 19, andout of the ground the Lord God
formed every beast of the fieldand every fowl of the air, and
brought them unto Adam to seewhat he would call them.
Responsibility.
He didn't just let them thereto indulge in all of the freedom
and all of the fruit, but hegave him responsibility.
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And he brought every animal,and Adam named every single
Adam, excuse me, animal that wascreated.
And Adam called every livingcreature that was the name
thereof.
Notice it was on the earth.
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Didn't he create the sun, themoon, the stars, the galaxies,
the Milky Way, the differentother galaxies?
All of that was also created,but he only gave man dominion
over the earth.
And some might read that, andsome might ask, well, why only
the earth?
Why didn't he give him dominionover everything he created?
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Is God being selfish?
Is God saying, no, no, no, no,I you can only have this little
bit because the earth is quitelittle compared to all creation.
But think about that.
Why did he only give it to himon the earth?
And my question to thatquestion will be how do you know
he wasn't going to?
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See, I see it as Adam was achild of God.
And don't parents, I'm talkingto parents now, don't you
parents give your children alimited amount of freedom?
Ask yourself why.
Why is it that yourthree-year-old has this certain
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amount of freedom, but your12-year-old has a greater level
and degree of freedom?
Go ahead and answer.
Why why is that?
He's more responsible.
He's probably, hopefully, shownhimself more trustworthy.
And what would happen if yougave the freedom you gave your
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12-year-old to yourthree-year-old?
What have you allowed yourthree-year-old to cook on the
stove?
Probably not.
What have you allowed yourthree-year-old to go make a
bonfire in the backyard?
Or bonfire in the basement.
You would be an unwise parent,wouldn't you?
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Because you know what your sonor daughter is capable of
handling.
God knew what Adam was capableof handling.
And he tested him.
He gave them the tremendous,immense responsibility of all
the earth, except just onething.
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It's like giving you all thefreedom you want to do with this
room, and I place a sticker doton the floor and I said, look,
do whatever you want.
Just don't touch the dot.
Would you think that you werein bondage?
Would you think that you were aslave?
No.
You have all this freedom.
What are you talking about?
Okay, I won't touch that.
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Now imagine if there wassomething in here in this room
that you'd want, like computersor or or or skiing on the
outside in the backyard.
You'd just enjoy all of thatfreedom.
And you wouldn't touch thatdot.
But God knew what Adam wascapable of handling, and he gave
him the responsibility tohandle it.
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And some of you might bequestioning, but look what
happened.
Well, yeah, look what happened.
I'm a parent, I giveresponsibility to my children.
Do I still not take a risk thathe's gonna fail or she's gonna
falter?
Yeah, of course you do.
And God did the same thing.
He doesn't give you a testthat's already fixed.
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Why is he gonna give you amultiple choice test of only one
answer to every question andthen answer's right?
What kind of test is that?
There's no test.
You're gonna pass.
But he had to test Adam.
Adam had to show himselftrustworthy and responsible with
the very little that he wasgiven.
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And with that freedom, we knowwhat happened.
But it didn't need to be so.
He fell, and all thegenerations thereafter cannot
speak a word because they allfell in the very same manner.
They had freedom and they chosecontrary.
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Adam, Eve tried to usurpauthority.
Instead of takingresponsibility over all that
they had in their power, allthat they had in their
possession, they tried to do theone thing that they simply were
not allowed to do.
Our ancestors handled theirfreedom irresponsibly.
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And we now live in a fallenday, in a fallen age where we
suffer sickness and disease andinfirmities and sweat off the
brow and famine and sword andpestilence and plagues and
finally death.
Because our ancestors andourselves have handled our
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freedom irresponsibly.
We can't blame God, we can'tblame others, we can't blame our
circumstances.
We can only look into the manin the mirror.
It says in 1 Corinthians 7 22,Paul was speaking to the
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Corinthians, and he made a verysimple statement.
He said, For he that is calledin the Lord, if he's a servant,
because in Paul's day and age inKoran there were many servants,
then there were many masters,and that's just the way it was.
He says, If you were a servant,but you were called into the
Lord, meaning you were bornagain and you came into the
kingdom, even if you're aservant, you're still the Lord's
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free man.
And likewise also he that iscalled, who was free, who is
actually the master, well, he'sactually Christ's servant.
And so he's called us intofreedom, no matter what position
we find ourselves in, whetherwe have the master or whether we
are the servant.
Because in the kingdom we areChrist's servants.
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We have the freedom to beChrist's servants.
And if we turn to 1 Corinthians9 19, we'll read more there.
Paul continues and he says,There's a purpose why we are
called into this freedom.
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And the purpose kind of was notwhat was originally intended,
but because of the fall, we knowthat God already had a plan to
deal with our fall, yet thedeclaration of him calling us to
freedom remains.
But there's a purpose in thefreedom in which we are called
in in this fallen day and age.
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And Paul says in 1 Corinthians9 19, For though I be free from
all men, yet I have made myselfservant unto all, that I might
gain the more.
Paul is saying, I havevoluntarily been free, but I
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have voluntarily chosen to be aservant so that I can gain the
more.
That doesn't sound like a manthat treats his freedom
irresponsibly, but he putshimself under in order to gain
something even more.
He's self-sacrificing.
He's thinking about others.
And he says, unto the Jews,I'll become a Jew.
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He says, unto those that areunder the law, I'll come under
the law.
Unto those that might gain themunder the law, the purpose for
being whatever it is that I needto be is in order to gain their
salvation.
That's my purpose as a Christ'sservant on earth.
I'm here for them.
I'm not here to flaunt myfreedom.
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And unto the to them that arewithout the law, in other words,
unto the Gentiles, thoseoutside of the covenant of the
law, I'll be to them as onewithout the law.
That I might gain them that arewithout the law.
And to the weak, to the poor,to the ones looked down on, to
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the persecuted, I'll become justas they are too.
That I might gain the weak.
I am made, he says, all thingsto all men, that I might by all
means save some of them.
That's his more, that he gainssome of them.
And this I do for the gospel'ssake, that I may be a partaker
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thereof with you.
Paul understands that thebusiness of the kingdom is the
business of saving souls.
Because we live in a day andage where we are in a fallen
day.
A fallen age.
This business of saving soulsis an element of the restitution
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of all things.
Yes, God is going to return,and God is going to restore
everything to its originalpurpose and intention.
But along the way, there willbe a process, and that process
is a very slow, arduous, longtime process of saving souls one
by one.
Paul partook in this kingdomwork of the Lord, and he became
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an instrument of thisrestitution work of God.
Why else are we called intothis freedom?
Romans 6, 16.
Paul speaks again, but thistime to the Romans.
He says, Know ye not to whom yeyield yourselves servants to
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obey.
His servants ye are to whom yeobey, whether of sin unto death
or of obedience untorighteousness.
But God be thanked that ye werethe servants of sin, but ye
have obeyed from the heart thatform of doctrine which was
delivered you.
But he says, being then madefree from sin, you became
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servants of righteousness.
The calling of freedom of hischildren is not freedom to do
what you want, but freedom towalk in righteousness.
Because that is treating yourfreedom responsibly.
And be servants of God and hisrighteousness.
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Because when you were servantsof sin, you were free from
righteousness.
You couldn't do righteousnessbefore you were born again.
You could try, but God saysthat all of your works are as
what?
Filthy rags.
Because it was not sanctifiedby the Holy Spirit.
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You can be as good as you want,and there are some quote
unquote good people out there,but because their works are not
sanctified by the Holy Spirit,where he sanctifies their good
works, it is nothing but filthyrags.
It is nothing but works done intheir own power, not dependent
upon God.
And so in the end, they couldboast because I did this day, I
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did that, I did the.
But it wasn't, I did it undersubmission to you.
There's a difference.
What fruit had ye then in thosethings whereof ye are now
ashamed?
The things that you did before,aren't you ashamed of them now?
Even so, for the end of thosethings, the things that you did
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before is death.
But now being made free fromsin and become servants to God,
ye have your fruit unto holinessand in the end everlasting
life.
And he's still calling us tofreedom.
But because we live in an ageof the fall and are in bondage,
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freedom is progressivelyproportional.
Y'all heard of progressiverepetitious revelation, so I
think you understand the idea ofprogressive.
What does this proportionalmean?
It means that the less that youwalk in unrighteousness, the
more you're gonna walk inrighteousness.
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But if you continue to walk inunrighteousness, the less you're
gonna walk in righteousness.
So your freedom is proportionalto are you walking away from
these things because God hascalled you away, but he's called
you unto these things.
He's calling us to freedom fromsin, but at the same time,
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freedom to walk in hisrighteousness.
Righteous living.
And this is what was originallyintended from the beginning.
A righteous walk that isn'tself-centered, but
self-sacrificing.
And God gave us an allegory.
Y'all ever heard of Pilgrim'sProgress?
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Ever read Pilgrim's Progress?
Anybody?
I know you have.
A couple of you back there.
Pilgrim's Progress is anallegory.
And it's using uh maybe whatmaybe archetypes or or
particular types of Christiansand their names and using it to
relay a greater understanding ofusing those names.
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Like one of the names is, well,one of the names is Christian.
Give me another name.
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Evangelist.
j - Jesus M. Ruiz (22:41):
Huh?
Evangelist.
That's his name.
Now it's his function in thestory, and so you sort of get an
understanding of what anevangelist does and how he puts
you on the right track.
But in the Bible, the Bibleitself says, I've given you an
allegory.
And the allegory is this therewas once a man who had two sons.
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One son was born of thebondwoman.
The other son was born of thefree woman.
He actually called thebondwoman the bond maid.
That's what she was.
She was a maid.
She was a servant.
She wasn't the free woman.
The free woman was his wife.
And it says that this story wasgiven to you as an allegory
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because the bondwoman was bornafter the flesh.
The free woman was born ofpromise.
You remember the child ofpromise was Isaac.
But the child of the bondwomanwas Ishmael.
And he represents those thatare born of the flesh, not of
the word of God, not of thepromise.
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And so to be a child of thepromise, you have to be born of
the free woman.
And the bondwoman wasrepresentative because she came
from Arabia.
She represents Mount Sinai inArabia.
But where do what happened onMount Sinai?
The law was given.
But the free woman representsJerusalem.
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And it says that Jerusalem isthe mother of all.
What happened in Jerusalem onthe day of Pentecost?
The Holy Spirit was given.
Tremendous difference therebetween born of the flesh and
born of the Spirit.
And to be born of the Spirit,you become a child of promise.
You become a child of freedom.
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And if you read Galatians 4,I'm just going to read Galatians
5 (24:33):
1 because this is the ending of it.
Before that, it says inGalatians 4 30, cast out the
bondwoman and her son.
Do away with the things of theflesh.
For the son of the bondwomanshall not be heir, but the son
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of the free woman will be.
So then, brethren, we are notchildren of the bondwoman, but
of the free.
And here it here's where heconcludes.
He says in Galatians 5:1, standfast therefore in liberty.
And that's the Bible word forfreedom.
Yes, it uses the word free insome places, but the Bible word
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was liberty.
It meant freedom.
Stand fast in your freedomwhere Christ made you free, and
be not entangled again with theyoke of bondage.
Those that are led by theSpirit are the sons of God.
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There are only two types ofpeople in this age of the fall.
Those that are of the flesh,those that are of the spirit.
Only two.
And a fact of the matter isthat the children of flesh
always persecute the children ofthe spirit.
And there's a battle raging inthis world, a battle raging
between the children of bondagewho want control, and the
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children of freedom.
Children of promise.
Because maybe your parents, Ispeak for my family.
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My mom wanted to get me out ofthe influence of my cousins and
my uncles and my aunts.
She wanted something better forme.
And she took me out of there.
She might have let me spendweekends with them, but she
didn't want me near them.
And she left New York to get toTampa to get away from them.
And then my family followed herto Tampa.
She left Tampa to go to Miamito get away from them.
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And then my family went toMiami.
But she was always trying toget away from them, always
trying to get me free of theirinfluence.
Because she didn't want me toget entangled in the bonds that
she knew that she walked in.
Did she see it that way?
No, I'm I'm I'm talkingspiritual here.
My mom didn't see it that way.
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And unfortunately, my mom diedbecause she could not get out of
their entanglement.
But she got me out.
Praise God, she got me out.
Jesus said, and ye shall knowthe truth, and the truth shall
make you free.
He said, If you commit sin,you're a servant of sin.
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And he says, What we just readin Galatians that the servant
abideth not in the houseforever.
He is not the heir.
God will not allow a servant tobe the heir.
It is only to go to the son.
The son is who will abideforever.
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The son is who will inherit thepromises of his father's
kingdom.
And Jesus said, if the sontherefore shall make you free,
you shall be free indeed.
So coming back upon this, Iremember Adam and Eve were
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created and birthed in liberty.
I don't know how long it was,but they walked with God in the
cool of the evening, the cool ofthe morning, and they had some
time to enjoy this freedom untilyou know how they felt.
And because of their fall, sinhas infected all of creation.
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Paul said in Romans 8, 19, andhe uses the word creature as a
metaphor to represent all ofcreation.
He says that the creature isearnestly expecting something.
It earnestly desires somethingto happen because when it
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happens, the creature, creation,will be delivered from its
bondage that it didn't doanything to get into.
It says their earnestexpectation of the creature
waited for the manifestation ofthe sons of God.
For the creature was madesubject to vanity, not
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willingly.
The earth, the trees, all thethings that are living that are
dying now that are not human,they didn't do anything to
deserve that.
It was what man did, and whatman did affected all of
creation.
But the creature, by reason ofhim who he had subjected the
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same in hope, he was put a...
God, put all of creation intosubjection because of what man
did, but the creature in hopeknows that it shall be delivered
from the bondage of corruptioninto the same glorious liberty
of the children of God.
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Because when the manifestationof the children of God come,
that will establish and startthe restitution of all things
that God has created.
And I talked to you about sogreat a freedom that we should
have.
And what's wrong?
Can y'all say, oh yeah, I livein that every day.
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I know what you're talkingabout, Brother J.
Uh-huh.
No.
Some of you are like, where areyou going with this?
For some of us, I'm talking toa lot of Christians.
I'm talking to those that areseeking.
Some of our problem is that wehave the same problem Adam and
Eve have.
For some reason, we don'thandle freedom too well.
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And we certainly are nothandling it responsibly.
Saints, there's nothing newunder the sun.
The struggles that we havetoday are dressed and colored
differently, but they are thesame struggles that our brethren
had in the old covenant.
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The same type of choices thatneed to be made in order to walk
in freedom are the same choiceswe need to make today.
Peter said in 1 Peter 2, hesaid, Dearly beloved, I beseech
you as strangers and aspilgrims, abstain from fleshly
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lust, which war against thesoul.
Have your conversation behonest among the Gentiles.
That whereas they speak againstyou as evildoers, that they may
by your good works, which theyshall behold, glorify God in the
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day of their visitation.
I'm not sure.
If the shoe fits, wear it.
If the shoe doesn't fit, moveon and don't worry about it.
But if the shoe fits, wear it,I'm not sure if we as Christians
are leaving a reputationamongst the unbelievers around
us that causes them to lookbeyond themselves and consider
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the God that we serve.
And Peter's addressing this,and he's saying, Submit yourself
to every ordinance of man forthe Lord's sake, whether it be
to the king the supreme or untogovernors, as unto them that are
sent for the punishment ofevildoers and for the praise of
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them that do well.
See, I knew a Christian, Istill know him, but I knew a
Christian in Miami that did nothave a license from the FCC to
broadcast on the radio.
But he did it anyway.
And he did it anyway in thename of Jesus, in the name of
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God.
And you think, well, he'strying to put some Christian
radio on.
But according to Peter, you aresupposed to submit to those
laws and those orders.
And so we as Christians, wekind of finagle our way and we
try to take shortcuts to try toobtain God's favor and blessings
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in our lives, yet we arebreaking the very laws that we
are advocating to uphold.
And then we clothe it inChristian garb.
Peter says, For so this is thewill of God, that with
well-doing ye may put to silencethe ignorance of foolish men as
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free, and not using yourliberty for a cloak of
maliciousness, but as servantsof God.
He doesn't play the fence.
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When he says he's for God, he'stotally for God.
And they won't even botherasking you about some question
because they already know youranswer.
But there's some of us whereour friends would go ahead and
have the audacity to ask usbecause they don't really see
our commitment to the Lord.
And that's not their fault.
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That's our fault.
Because they should knowwithout a shadow of a doubt in
which God do we serve.
And they should know his namebecause we are not ashamed of
his name.
I say that we are using ourfreedom irresponsibly.
It has become a cloak ofmaliciousness, a cloak that
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tries to get away with thelittle things here and the
little things there, and we tryto get by and we try to get
ahead and we try to finigle ourway to obtain whatever blessings
and whatever favor, but itseems to be out of step with
God's timing.
And to some of us, I thinkwe've become a very sorry lot
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indeed to have that type ofreputation.
Again, if the shoe fits, wearit.
If the shoe fits, don't worryabout it.
Find another shoe in thismessage that'll fit you.
But you have to understand thatif you are born again into this
covenant that we all espousehere, and you've been given the
gift of the Holy Spirit, you'vebeen given power, you've been
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given anointing, you've beengiven gifts to know things that
no one else would know becauseyou are receiving it from heaven
on high.
And then you don't appreciatethat blessing.
You treat it cheaply.
You don't even believe that Ican actually receive that from
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the Lord.
I can actually give that wordto that person, constantly
doubting, constantly wondering,and yet that's exactly what he's
given you the gift for.
And we hide it.
We'll sing to the top of ourlungs in the basement of our
house, but come church Sunday, Ihardly clap my hands.
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I hardly give a step.
Why?
What are you afraid of?
I think for some of us, wedon't have any appreciation of
what God has given us.
We seem to always recognizewhat God is doing in other
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people's life, but at the sametime that we notice it, we also
notice what God hasn't done forus yet.
And we're not fully 100% happyfor the other person because
deep within our hearts, and Idon't know who that is for, but
deep within our hearts, we'relike, how come I haven't gotten
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my answer yet?
We murmur and complain in themidst of our heart, and we don't
tell nobody.
And only those that reallydiscern by the Spirit of God can
detect something wrong.
There's something going on inthat person's heart.
I don't know what it is, but II could tell there's something
going on in that person's heart.
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And it's because deep withinthat heart they're murmuring,
complaining that they don't havewhat other people are getting
around them.
We become discontent with ourstate of affairs to the point
where we almost get depressed,and some of us actually do.
And you wonder, how can aChristian be depressed with so
much to be thankful and gratefulfor?
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They're Christians walking indepression.
And we become malcontent withinourselves.
To the point where if it'sthere long enough, we're not
even happy when other people areblessed.
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