How The Truth Can Set You Free, Part 1

Welcome to this weekend's InTouch podcast with Charles as a believer in Jesus.

You can embrace and rest in the spiritual liberty that God gives you. Here's part one of how the truth can set you free. Love excited about what I want to share with you today because I believe if you will listen very carefully and apply what you hear that many of you who have been saved a long time but have never really even begun to reach anywhere close to joy in your Christian life. I believe in this passage of Scripture is the solution and the answer to beginning to enjoy the Christian life and I want to encourage your parents to listen very, very carefully for yourselves but also for children because the title of this is how the truth can set you free. So let's begin reading in John chapter 8 and let's begin with verse 28 Jesus had forgiven the woman taken in adultery that he and the Pharisees got the conversation so this is part of the says in verse 28 of John eight Jesus therefore said when you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak these things as the father taught me watch this next front verse, and he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone for.

Don't you wish you could always say this, I always do the things that are pleasing to him, you wish you could tell folks that about your relationship to God always do the things that are pleasing to him as he spoke these things. Many came to believe in him.

Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews who had believed him.

If you abide in my word, then you are truly disciples of mine and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

They answered him are Abraham's offspring, we've never yet been enslaved to anyone how is it that you say you shall become free. Jesus answered them, truly, truly, I say to you everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin and the slave does not remain in the house forever. The son does remain forever. If, therefore, the sun shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. You and I are living in a rebellious age and age in our society when everybody wants to be free. We will not only the limitations in the restrictions we want no accountability and we won't know consequences, but Fran life is not that way because God says we are accountable to him, and we are accountable to each other in certain areas and so there's no such thing as a life of total complete freedom because we are all either the slaves to our old flesh which gets us in trouble. All we are subservient to and slaves to the Lord God. Would you open your heart to ask God, Lord, if I am in some form of bondage and do not know.

Would you please show me that that I may indeed be free.

We live in bondage and the bondage has been programmed and in order to be released from that the certain things that not must take place novel to set you parents with all of my heart.

Listen to be careful what you say to your children. Be careful how you say it being careful what you failed to say and be careful.

The expression on your face. Whatever it might be because friend you are programming success or failure into the grid system of your children every day.

The thing that's wrong with this crazy mixed up hurt desperate devilish world is this. We don't take time to recognize what we are doing to so we have whole groups of people who grew up feeling rejected and then we wonder why they become angry and violent because they are hurting on the inside. They want acceptance. All of us need acceptance, a sense of belonging, a sense of being worthy, and a sense of being competent and thought to be that I want to plead with you parents get on your face before God and ask him to show you pleas for your children's sake and your own sake show you what you're really doing to your children now on the results of that is it paralyzes it paralyzes it gives a sense of inhibition and you know what it does it it it puts a level on what you and I are capable of doing and becoming and achieving all of our life when we've had that kind of stuff programmed and are thinking all of our life we have to live that if we don't learn how to overcome that with every time we arise the pressures that and if we're not careful, the pressure gets heavier and heavier and heavier until finally think I'm not worth anything and you know what happens. So we give up to a settle for lifestyle. Over here that will never reach the capacity for which we have been divinely ordained to reach and equipped by Almighty God to reach it is there. Well, I can identify with that because I do feel them. Some people I do feel insecure at times. I do feel so absolutely inadequate. Oftentimes we'll see what the Lord Jesus said about all that because Jesus Christ and he alone is the Liberator visit. If, therefore, the son, the son of God, Christ shall make you free, usually friendly. I then go back up to. If you will. Verse 31. Jesus therefore was saying to those who believe in him.

Now watch this carefully. If you abide or continue in my word condition. Now then you are truly my disciples and and you shall know the truth and what shall set you free. The truth shall set you free.

In order to be free from what I've I have been programmed with in the past are whatever I may have done whatever habits may be than the past may not be something that someone else programmed may be seen in the past are some simple habit. Whatever it might be.

There are three things I want you to notice here the truth that sets men, women and young people free is the truth that comes in the following on the first of all the truth. First of all, my position in Christ to stay with me. The truth of my position in Christ. And I'm in him and he's in me second by a person that is who I am in Christ Jesus, who am I in him, and thirdly my possessions in Christ.

What do I have in him.

When I understand my position in him. When I understand my person my personage and him and when I understand my possessions what I have in him. When I understand that and make application of those three primary crews in my life.

I'm on my way to being free.

I want to watch something this move from there for just a moment. Stay with me.

There are three attitudes that every single one of us need. We need the sense of feeling that we belong with us in the family or group. The sense of belonging. Secondly, the sense of worthiness and third of the sense of competence. All of us need that with another set of three. I watch this my position in Christ gives me my sense of belonging. Therefore, what is that dude that eliminates one of those three things I was taught about insecurity, inferiority, inadequacy, list my position in Christ assures me of my belonging and will not know to whom I belong and I don't feel insecure. Listen God is my security and the truth is my friend. He's the only security of you have everything else you have is passing. What is your reputation, your finances, your position, whatever it is it's all passing the only security you have.

That is the only thing that is movable, unchanging, unalterable, and eternal that you have is Jesus Christ living within your heart.

Your position is that your and him therefore you have a sense of belonging. If you have a sense of belonging and you are secure and insecurity is canceled out. Secondly, what about my person. My person says that I'm worth so much that God the father sent his only begotten son into this world and he would've died for me.

Had I been the only center down there that says something about your he came to give his life a ransom for many.

And that means you that God love you enough to give his only begotten son just for you friend that make you worthy in the eyes of God.

You don't have that God made you just the way you are and if you allow him he'll make you the way he is so inferior to what if I know who I am and I worthiness in him that cancels out my attitude of enteric in the third and then is my possession. That is what do I possess in him you read the promises of God's word. There they are my possessions eliminate the problem of what of inadequacy because when you have Jesus Christ, he says, in Colossians, you have what you have everything seriously.

When we began to understand the truth. The truth frees us from what I feeling insecure, inadequate, inferior, and you begin to understand who you are and what you have and where you headed, and what this wonderful God of ours is trying to do in your life.

He wants us to notice what he says. The truth will set you free.

Even say your feelings in such a freak.

He says the truth will set you free.

That is you and I have a choice.

I can easily about the facts of what I know all the feelings that change now. The fact is, listen. The facts are that I am in Christ and Christ is in me.

The facts are.

I know who I am in him was St. a servant, the son of a king. And I know what I'm incapable of doing that is in Christ Jesus.

There is nothing I do not possess. There is nothing I cannot do in him there. The facts you can do anything got what you do. You are worthy of something… For you. You are somebody you belong to God, and you belong to his kingdom. You belong the body of Christ. You are somebody special in his up. That's a fact that your feelings Kate won't happen to me I don't deserve all of that is slush satanic slush that he feeds your mind because you think if the grid systems been programmed. That way it's very easy if you believe that solemnly warn you right now before the series is over. Some of you are going to feel very very out of touch with reality when you begin a sentence like hallelujah I am adequate before God because he said so I don't feel but I know I'll innovate with that for which I sound like an idiot.

You may sound like it would you just tell the truth and I'm sending you my friend, I'm telling you the gospel truth before God and God wants you to know the truth in order to become everything God has equipped you to become. He says the truth shall set you free. Know what is worse, back to verse 31. He says not if you about in my word, that is what where is this truth coming from.

If you about my work conditioned upon your body.

The word about your means list the Greek words Mino which means continuing that is rested carrion and that is just hang in there with the display with if you abide in my word, then you truly disciples of mine. The Greek word masse tasteless disciple means a learner. It comes from the root word Monsanto, which means to focus one's attention to intensify one's attention. That is to seek after a disciple is one who is seeking after the truth of his master. Listen and the word carries within the meaning to pursue in order to experience that you get that to pursue in order to experience.

That is, he says if you want to know the truth, you get the truth by living in abiding in continuing in the word of God, not just reading it home home five minutes before go to bed when he returns, reverses, that's not continuing in the word. Listen, watch, this is it is abiding, living, absorbing the word of God in order to experience the truth of what he says not just model daily Bible reading of chapter 6 and verse both or not I'm talking about getting in the word and asking God to absorbing the money and was happy when that happened. The truth of who he is and who you are and him and who you are and your possessions in Christ that will free you if you can take the word of God and absorbed into your mind and heart and began to pursue and experience the truth of it I don't care what kind of past you had. It makes no difference what it's been you are asking God to forgive you for the past to reprogram your thought pattern so that you can begin to think this is think facts, not what feeling stopped thinking, feeling, think facts are facts are. You are adequate you are secure and you are somebody in God's eyes, and friend. When you begin to know the truth. He says the truth will liberate you from what the shackles of inferiority, inadequacy, a sense of worthlessness, can't do it. You don't happen you give up some of these very comfortable feeling of being rejected. If you know that a person who, for who who has that problem in the grid system you know what they'll do if you stick around long enough they'll do something to prompt you to get you reject them because they are comfortable being rejected as much as they hate rejection them more comfortable being rejected than they are being accepted because you see that's where they lived all these years somebody devastated them. I'm saying to you my friend, God wants to free us. This is why some in failing business. You know what I've seen this happen they get right up to where it's going to happen. They don't feel worthy because I will tell you again that old grid system that's been programmed brother it's it's real is your flesh and blood and formal pile.

It dominates and dictates unless it is reprogrammed by what Paul said in Romans chapter 12 into verses that all of us know by heart, and he used the phrase be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the what the renewing of your grid system is what he said those two words, not in the great so that's why said mine by the renewing and how do you renew it. He says by continuing in the word and the word sets me free. That is when I am able to see myself and my life from God's viewpoint, then get and he says it is yours and mine for the asking. The first step to freedom is stop reading the Bible to what you been read. I want to challenge you to meditate on the eighth chapter of John the one solid week that you can do that yet. You will note pad the pencil and just start reading John chapter 8 and only five minutes before bedtime. Rated because remember what he said the truth will set you free.

But it's the truth that comes from abiding in continuing in focusing and concentrating hanging in there seeking to experience the facts of God's word and he says whatever is in your life that are not to be there. He will set you free.

Father, we thank you and praise you that all truth begins with knowing that Jesus Christ and he alone is adequate to forgive us of our sins that his atoning death on the cross satisfied your requirement of my penalty and therefore that we can be freed from the penalty of our sin and liberated to become the sons of God by receiving Jesus Christ as their personal savior and then you will teach us how to live that life of freedom and so I will ask for somebody who's listening. Somebody father who so identify what you said today there so hung up so bound by so many thing attitudes, resentment and bitterness and all the rest. Things that have happened in their past, would you show them today. The wisest thing they could do right now when I finish bring us to get on their knees, confess their sins were there may be an tell you, by faith that there receiving you is there saving their Lord and they want to be in the know the truth and he began to experience the freedom and the began to know the liberty of is that there is in Christ Jesus Summerwood you show them how important that is. And let that decision be a step forward in their obedience to you.

Thank you and raise you and Jesus.

Amen. Thank you for listening to how the truth can set you free.

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