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Sons, Not Slaves of God

(Sermon Outline)

1)      I am excited about what is developing at LSCC

a)      Driving Passion – Kingdom Come – Will be Done – Earth reflecting heaven rather than hell.

b)      We have been exploring the New Covenant in the last year – why it is exciting.

c)      We have explored the mission and importance of Church.

d)      Transformations in the world are driven by the church – character and structure.

i)        Matt 20:25-28 – Kingdom reversal – The Jesus Revolution!

ii)      Darkness – Light | Fear vs Love

e)      One of the keys to worldwide transformation is when every member of the church does his part causes the growth of the body in love.

i)        Finding and walking in the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

f)       This is our Father’s household business – He is looking for Sons and daughters to join Him in His mission, and that is the idea we are going to explore today.

g)      Robert’s Calling to America – raising up sons of God.

h)      One of the regular themes at LSCC is from Romans 8 – All creation groaning.

2)      If we are going to transform the world for Jesus Christ, we need to sons of God not slaves.

a)      1 John 4:18–19 (NKJV) — 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love Him because He first loved us.

b)      The issue at stake here is internal vs. external motivation.

3)      Sons vs. Slaves – Sons have a different relationship to the house than slaves.

a)      Galatians 4:1–7 (NKJV) — 1 Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. 4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

i)        Owners vs. Employees

b)      Hebrews 10:1–2 (NKJV) — 1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. – BUT I KNOW HOW BAD I AM.

c)      Making people feel bad rarely makes them better, but often makes them worse.

d)      The law can show us a vision of the Character and nature of God so that we hunger and thirst for righteousness through the power of the Holy Spirit.

4)      Love is a powerful motivator.

a)      2 Corinthians 5:14–15 (NKJV) — 14 For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; 15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

i)        Passionate people do not burn out, love does not burn out.

5)      The power of God’s love transforms our lives and transforms the world – New Covenant.

a)      Galatians 3:1–3 (NKJV) — 1 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified? 2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh?

i)        Even a message of Grace can be heard as a message of condemnation when there is bad programming.

ii)      There is even a sense where “conviction” becomes the death of the Holy Spirit.

iii)    Story of praying

6)      A New Covenant Community – Where God’s Sons and Daughters are Raised!

a)      Hebrews 12:22–24 (NKJV) — 22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

i)        Father Forgive them

b)      Ephesians 2:14–18 (NKJV) — 14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

c)      The power of the blood of Jesus to bring reconciliation and unity.

d)      A community of grace – not taking account of wrongs – covering faults in love – but motivated by the love of Christ.

7)      Sons not Slaves of God

a)      The challenge of language

b)      1 Corinthians 7:22 (NKJV) — 22 For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ’s slave.

c)      John 8:34–36 (NKJV) — 34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. 36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

d)      Romans 8:19–21 (NKJV) — 19 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

e)      Breaking the slave mentality.

f)       Owning our identity and mission as sons and daughters of God.

g)      Building the church, the family of sons and daughters of God.

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Love you bless you guys

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Without any further ado our pastor is going to come and break the word to us this morning Pastor Bill

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I also just wanna

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reiterate how excited we are about the church services that are going to begin on April 4th on Tuesday night

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As you heard we’re gonna have a time of rock and roll type style worship

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and it’s gonna be really a life giving fiery time of praising Jesus Christ So if that’s the kind of way that you like to express the the your adoration for Jesus Christ I’d really encourage you guys to attend

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Oh yes And we will be doing a sunrise service at 8 30 not at eight o’clock this year 8 30 because of the change of not having a Bible study The sunrise service that we do every year will be at 8 30 not at eight o’clock

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Well Lord we just come before you because

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we acknowledge Jesus you are the savior of the world You are the redeemer and that you have hope for each person and you have hope for the nations Lord and you we have genuine hope because the gospel of Jesus Christ is powerful to transform lives and to transform cultures So we just ask you Lord that is we get into your word that your word would get into us

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and it would change us from the inside out And that we would be manifested as your people on this earth because you called us to be the light of the world not just called us to be You actually said we are the light of the world We are the salt of the earth that is who we are Lord So make it manifest in Jesus name

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Amen

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The title of today’s message is sons not slaves of God

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Now I wanna before I really get into the message I kind of wanna reiterate some of the themes that the Lord has been speaking and some of the things that the Lord is doing at Life Springs Church I’m really excited about what I’m seeing happen and I’m seeing that many people are activating their gifts

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and as their gifts are being activated uh lives are being changed and being renewed And you know you could see it even really uniquely last night at the men’s group It it was not just the number of people that were there it was the quality of life that was there and that we’re really seeing real life um happening in many areas So what I’m really happy about that

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but I also see a driving passion that has come out from all the different people that have been speaking And as people are talking and that driving passion is not Lord just build a big church or Lord let us enjoy church but it’s Lord let your kingdom come and let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven

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And that may sound you know like that’s the challenge with church versus um genuine Christianity There there I don’t like that language True church is genuine Christianity But a lot of times church can also turn us off to the weight of things that we talk about Does that make sense The weight of things we talk about So when we say a driving passion is for your kingdom to come and your will to be done on earth as it is in heaven

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that can just sound like language Does that make sense But really there’s a bold

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proclamation in that statement we actually believe that there’s more hope than just if you believe the gospel you go to heaven when you die

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It’s a bold proclamation that there’s hope for every human being on planet earth and there’s hope for every relationship and there’s hope for every community and there’s hope for every nation and there’s hope for every generation

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What is that Hope Lord your kingdom can come and your will can be done on earth as it is in heaven

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But sometimes we think only in an ultimate fashion Does that make sense Like when Jesus finally returns then there will be hope

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No

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there’s no if if that’s all that we believe or there’s hope when we die and we get to go to heaven No that’s not enough for people on planet earth that are wrestling with trials and tribulations and injustice and depression and discouragement and addiction and all the things that are robbing people of life If we don’t believe in a gospel that can set people free today and that can change everything

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then we have no message of salvation for the world where they live So saying that we have a driving mission

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or driving passion of your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven is actually something very specific and unique and powerful and profound

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But you also have to understand that a passion

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also deter it is also a way of expressing motivation right What we are passionate about is what we’re motivated by right And so many people in this broken world are motivated by so many unhealthy things I want to be seen as important

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I want to be seen as helpful or good I wanna have power position wealth and there’s nothing wrong with a multitude of blessings of good things in the proper order

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But if our goal and our passion isn’t God let the world come to know Jesus let them know you for themselves let them be lifted up

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then we’re kind of almost a little dysfunctional aren’t we

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If our driving passion and motivation is not correct

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then it’s really dysfunctional

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So when I say that the passion here is your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven It’s not just empty words These things have very deep significance because if our mission and passion and motivation isn’t the Kingdom of God first and in His righteousness and make your name great

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to be servants

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then we’re dysfunctional

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And so I thank God that I’m seeing something different And the practical outcome of that motivation

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is the possibility to cause life on planet Earth to reflect heaven

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When that isn’t the driving motivation

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then life on planet Earth reflects health whether it’s in your personal psychological life whether it’s in your relational life whether it’s in your communities it doesn’t matter

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when we get the heart right

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it transforms everything

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So in the last year we’ve been exploring the new covenant

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and and I really think that’s exciting because the reason we have hope your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven is because we know that it is a possibility because of the new covenant

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It was not possible before the new covenant Now it is possible Christ has died Christ has risen ascended on high sat down on the throne and sent his holy spirit to bring that life to the world And we’ve been talking about that many of the preachers have been talking about that in the last year So go back through the archives and listen to it But it’s so important to connect the dots of what we’ve been talking about because it’s all weaved into something very important

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Uh We’ve we’ve explored the mission importance of the church of Jesus Christ because all of these ideas they don’t actually get operational

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unless there is a context for them to become a reality And that context is church

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Church is the context where we get empowered by the Holy Spirit where our gifts build up the body of Christ where people’s lives are transformed

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We’ll talk we’ll hopefully land on It’s actually the household where the sons of God and daughters of God grow up right So all these things that um we hear week after week they’re all connected into

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a vision and a mission of why we need to build church It’s connected to hope for this generation hope for the nation hope for the world hope for individuals hope for lives grounded on a real salvation that is available through Jesus Christ to anyone who will receive it

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But the fullness of that life is only realized in the context of Christian community or church Not that we can’t I mean you know we never want to put God in a box Joseph had no fellowship in Egypt but he thrived Daniel had to go into hard places But the general principle

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is that as we connect with our brothers and sisters in Christ and their gift ministers to us and our gift ministers to them we all grow

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It’s powerful

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really believe that we transform lives through the gospel And that is the strategy to transform the world God’s strategy to change the whole world

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is to change lives through the gospel of Jesus Christ Transformations in the world are driven by the church

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And I’ll say it has to do with not just changing individual lives but it is individual lives but it’s also the very structures of this world to reflect heavenly structures and patterns Does that make sense And and we’re gonna get into that a little more later as we start to understand the difference between sons and slaves right

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Because it it changes the whole structure We’ve talked about how when there was an authoritarian church structure that was like empire and then new structures arose That’s what gave birth to nations like America It first began in church policy It tells you the power and impact of the church in the values and in shaping lives and shaping leaders that shape the world

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I think it’s I think it’s exciting

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one of the and and then I said also the structure if you think about it I have to talk to one of the things I like people saying and this this is definitely politically charged today

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But I agree with this principle guns don’t kill people people kill people

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I think if people are willing to think the gun itself if I put a gun and leave it on you know out in the grass that gun and except for some weird freak of nature like some weird thing that for the most part that gun is not going to kill anybody

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it’s only when that gun is picked up by a human being who chooses to use it wrongly

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right That’s what kills people Human beings acting wrongly The gun is just

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an instrument

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right It’s completely neutral and a lot of people they get down on things like government the government is bad the government is evil The government is as good or bad as the people that are wielding it Just like that gun

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that you could one could actually say government is like a giant gun

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It could be used to you know kill game and feed multitudes or it could be used to kill the multitudes

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It’s only as good as the people that are leading it But that’s the same thing for business because some of us today think that maybe government in America may be owned by corporate America

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Corporate America is only corporate America is neutral We always become we’re against government or we’re against business No they’re just like that gun they are neutral They’re as good as the people that run it and the structures

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that have been put into place Does that make sense

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That’s why church is so important because it’s where we grow good people

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I mean people might be offended by that But that’s the truth The gospel changes lives The gospel makes us loving the gospel gives us strength to do what’s right when it’s really hard to do what is right

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The gospel makes us self sacrificing but it’s not just the gospel it’s that life of Christ in us You see what I mean But then the gospel als or the word of God also tells us how to structure things in a way to agree with the way God designed it

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That’s what we’re seeing in education And I talk about this with people all the time we want to get a better outcome And even in classical education they’re often using progressive models and don’t realize it and want to get a better outcome But the the very models or pedagogy that is um pushed through curriculum is often just another form of progressive education That means it was developed

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out of a different system that doesn’t work to develop the image of God a man that you know I don’t have time to explore that today or will never get in the message

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Um

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But really Matthew 2025 through 28 is the Great Kingdom reversal or like the movie I believe is called the Jesus Revolution

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The kings of this earth like to lord it over one another but it shall not be so in my kingdom but he is greatest shall be least and servant of all It’s a complete world transformation through servant leadership where we don’t we don’t rule and and use people for our own selfish ends and to get rich or to be powerful or to be important But but we serve to be a blessing to lift other people up

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It’s really a difference of a world in darkness or a world in light

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a world in bondage or a world that is free Isn’t that interesting All of this is what’s at stake every week when we come week after week to hear the word of God preached

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to worship Jesus Christ together

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to connect with one another because this is the context where that grows out of

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so that we see that what we do week after week as we come here has real significance and importance even if it might feel like planting a grass seed and trying to go out every day looking for that grass seed to grow But that’s how Jesus said the kingdom grows

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If you sit out there watching Come on you silly grass seed Why aren’t you growing I’m frustrated I want a whole yard of grass and all I’ve got is this desert

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You got to be patient and you got to make sure it gets watered and protected for the Texas heat If you don’t if you don’t feed it lots of water in the midst of a Texas heat that grass is never going to grow anyway But that’s another story You might be better with astroturf

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Mhm

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Yeah That has nothing to do with anything except that grass does not grow without water

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One of the keys to worldwide transformation is when every member of the church does their part It causes the growth of the body and love

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And that actually is the whole statement why I started on a rabbit trail today because I’m seeing that happening at Life Springs Church

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I’m seeing people stepping up and serving God and acting and building and not being told what to do but actually coming up with creative ideas and being empowered to do it And as we’re watching it happen it’s exciting It’s transformational And I really think that that’s the way that we build healthy churches is empowering people

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I would say this is our father’s church is our father’s household

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in worldwide transformation The worldwide liberation movement is our father’s business

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and the Children of the father get involved in the father’s business right He’s looking for sons and daughters to join him in his mission And that is the idea that we are going to explore more today

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And when I was thinking about this idea we’re gonna explore I couldn’t help thinking about Robert Burns who sent us to Belfast He came here I mean he was he actually ran with a lot of amazing um ministries and men of God But

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ever and he always had his um opportunities to go the big conference route Like when I first went first time I went out to see him we went golfing with uh Rick Joyner and went and saw Bob Jones and we met all those big name people and he was always invited into those conferences And he says I don’t he goes I care more about growing something real

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and I care more about the anointing than anything else

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It was really some something amazing And I saw miracles happen around him and and I was saying God why he do He breaks a lot of the rules He

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in our religious because he loves

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you know and has life and has what is authentic You you see what I mean And and when he was sent to he was actually sent by the Lord to America and the prophetic word he got I thought was very interesting He said I’m sending you to America

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this time not to colonize it

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I’m sending you to a fatherless generation

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to raise up sons for God

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The weight of that is actually quite profound to me

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because we’re looking at a world that is more and more broken

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and more and more Children are growing up in a world of dysfunction where they’re not loved where they’re not accepted where they are even abused and then they grow up and try to get married or try to get in a relationship and the whole thing just becomes one giant mess

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And then people are saying is there hope to even transform lives or to build anything healthy when so many people are so broken

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And the answer is the gospel of Jesus Christ could convert cannibals

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it could convert the worst barbarians It could convert Britain where they used to hold wives in common

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in human sacrifice was obnoxious

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The gospel of Jesus Christ can heal the most broken of people No matter what type of Brokenness that is It doesn’t matter if we are without father or mother it doesn’t matter how bad our past is it doesn’t matter We can overcome and break out of all of the programming of the past through the love of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ

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I’m sending you to a fatherless generation to do what to raise up sons And I’d say today we have to make it clear sons and daughters of God not because we’re being politically correct but because if we’re honest

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sometimes the old carnal evil world gets in

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and can Degener and can look down upon different genders

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You you see it all the time Commercials men are so incompetent they can’t even wash their own laundry

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and then women can be treated in ways that are not acceptable It’s an unfortunate element of a broken world

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that can only be healed in Jesus Christ

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Hm

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And one of the last thing that I’m gonna bring it up here before we really get in is one of the themes for years at life Springs has been Romans eight

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All of creation is groaning

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It’s been subject to bondage and it’s groaning Waiting for the deliverance from bondage that will come through the revelation of the Sons of God

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It’s a very different hope than the hope of One day Jesus is going to come back and rescue the sinking ship

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It’s a hope that as the sons of God arise in this earth they cause light to shine they cause healing to come They cause blessing and breakthrough and healing and deliverance

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And not because we are anything special

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but it’s all because Jesus has done it all at the cross

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and that’s the truth

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So if we are going to transform the world for Jesus Christ we need sons of God not slaves

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in my early days As a preacher God would often give me dreams was still does But one time I had a dream and I saw all the people of God and they had pyramids over their heads

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God does this He’s really funny He speaks to you often in ways that makes you wrestle with Him to figure out what in the world do you even mean God

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I mean there’s times where he spoke to me He said God I know that was you but I don’t even want to know the answer

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And then he gave it to me anyway because he’s real and he doesn’t care if he’s speaking to you He wants to speak to you

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But I was thinking about why did I see all these pyramids over the heads of the people

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And then the Lord said to me it’s the slave mentality of Egypt that is on my people

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The slave mentality of Egypt is on my people

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And what our potential is

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when we’re under a slave mentality is hidden from the world

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It’s an idea we’re going to explore and hopefully unpack

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But we’ve got to break the slave mentality And the and the key verse that I I wanna bring is first John 4 18 through 19 There is no fear in love but perfect love casts out fear because fear involves torment But he who fears has not been made perfect in love

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We love because he first loved us

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I don’t I read it accurately We love him

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because only if we love him can we love others We love him because he first loved us

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This passage is so important for us to understand because it’s getting at the heart of external coercion versus internal motivation

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So much Christianity is often built by external coercion

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we can make you feel really bad so that you want to try to do better But then you keep failing or you never will live up to your full potential and you have a real danger of going down the road of the only group of people in scripture that got condemnation from Jesus Christ the Pharisees

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we keep trying to drive God will not be happy with you You shouldn’t do that This is supposed to be a Christian church You’re supposed to be a Christian

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You need to be held accountable and I understand there’s times to hold accountable There is a lawful use of the law I’m not saying that But we have gotten so far away from understanding that we are trying to get to the heart of motivation out of love rather than out of fear until we can transition from fear to love We will always be a slave and not a son

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And we have it packaged in in so many ways in our life to try to drive people by fear fear of disapproval fear fear of conflict fear of a million things that I need to avoid And I never become truly alive or free

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I gotta go out witnessing why Because that’s what I have to do to make God happy

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I’ve got to build the church I’ve got to go out and win people to Christ me me me me me

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The problem is you’re not going out with life It’s not reproductive it’s not transformational

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But when we’re motivated by love because he first loved us then we then we love him and then our hearts start to break with compassion And I want them to know the same Jesus that I know I can’t live Lord

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God if they are walking in darkness God that they should live without knowing the precious communion of your holy spirit and of the hope that is in you Lord And to know your love and to know your goodness and to know your grace

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As long as we’re driven by fear we don’t have genuine life

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Perfect love casts out all fear

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so many people I mean that’s why we Dave talks about his testimony He ran because he said I’m not good enough I can’t be good enough That’s the slave mentality

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And that slave mentality creates so much dysfunction It’s obnoxious

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sons verse slaves I’m gonna keep reading scriptures because scripture is what actually has the authority to break this yoke

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But I say sons have a different relationship to the house to the family business which we said a little earlier The family business is the worldwide liberation movement

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Sons and daughters have a different relationship than slaves

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Galatians 41 through seven Now I say that the air and we know that the air is the sun right

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The heir As long as he is a child does not differ at all from a slave

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though he is master of all but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father

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even so we when we were Children and this is why I said the slave mentality

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even so when we were Children were in bondage under the elements of the world But when the fullness of time had come God sent forth his son born of a woman born under the law to redeem those who were under the law So we see that he’s painting the picture Those who are under the law are those that are slaves

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Those who are under the law are slaves Those who are the redeemed of the Lord are sons

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that we might receive adoption as sons He sent his son to redeem us so that we could be adopted as sons and no longer be slaves

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And because you are sons God has sent forth his spirit of his son into your heart crying out Abba father daddy Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son And if a son then an heir of God through Jesus Christ

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the weight of this is so incredible

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We’ve been born again All these things that we we we we talk about week after week here you’ve become an heir you’ve become a son

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There’s a spirit that cries out father daddy that knows him that no longer just tries to do what’s right But is a son That’s the father says you are mine You belong to me you belong to my house and all that is mine is yours because of what Jesus Christ has done If you receive him

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It’s amazing isn’t it

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And and really that’s part of what we’ve been trying to do at life Springs Church is to get this reality of ownership

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of the mission of Christ of the church And and I was talking with mel about this and he said because we also talk about

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all kinds of things from economics to business structures to everything in the kingdom And and the whole original idea of of of the stock market came from you know reformed theologians that instead of just one person owning the whole business and only one person benefiting from it The idea is many people get to own it and benefit from the outcome And it actually drove business

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an industry to a whole new level

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It really did

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But it left out a major stakeholder the worker

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you know we only went one direction and didn’t think to go the other direction And I always think that if we can go both directions and then this whole thing could take off like wildfire once again Does that make sense But but it’s this idea that that structure comes from the it came from the church and it came from theologians and as they got these convictions they were also demonstrated in the church

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And this was the model when every member does Their part causes the growth of the body and love people Employees don’t give yourself to the business like the owner does

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they don’t care for it and serve it and nurture it and take care of it

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and sacrifice for it

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Nor do they benefit from the fruits of it either

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Do you see what I’m saying

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And if you and if everyone and so you can see some of this idea if people buy into the mission the mission of the business if it gives them significance if it gives them purpose if it gives them worth then they will in a way it’s reproducing a form of ownership even if they’re not directly getting the direct benefits of it

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which is a challenge to rethink again Remember I said heavenly structures manifested into every area of life And so what we’re seeing is more people at life Springs Church are starting to take ownership of this is my church

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or this is your church It’s OK to say this is our church This is my church for each one of us to say that it’s a little worse if I say it because then it seems wrong But you see what I’m saying Right This is our church This is our family this is our household We are on mission together

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And it’s exciting because as people are taking ownership then it’s starting to take off slowly at first But that seed is growing

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and it’s exciting

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But that ownership

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only sons own the father’s business Slaves just serve in it

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Slaves just serve in it And for too long the church has been structured for the professional ministry

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to shirk responsibility

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slaves want to get rid of as much responsibility as they can heirs own The responsibility

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Aren’t these interesting ideas to think about and ponder and to work out and and these ideas if they can be worked into the nature of the model of a church then can be broken as bread for other structures in society

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Because I think I kind of hinted at that in a way didn’t I mel

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but I really do believe with my heart It’s the biblical model that you read in Ephesians And if you just think about it a little bit it could transform business just as a whole Um Multiple people having ownership in a company

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that’s what has made business take awfully crazy Even if it’s often led by they forget they’ve gotten subverted to the almighty dollar

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They’ve been subverted away from values that make them a blessing And now they’ve become that dangerous gun we were talking about

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and they will always be a dangerous gun until they are led by people that say our first priority is the glory of God and betterment of men

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Every politician every business leader every business owner the whole world is transformed from simple ideas like that

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But in the vacuum of a community and and Christianity or religion or whatever you wanna call it that calls people to those values Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die What are you living for I want to have the most why not I want to have the most pleasure and the most fun and the most money and the most power and the most fame

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and in the end it doesn’t truly satisfy and all it does is make life a living hell for too many people

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I mean that’s what it does Right

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But what are you living for if I can make somebody’s life better

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if I can lift them up if I can serve them if I can connect them to Jesus Christ if I can help others succeed and have significance and worth and value and dignity and humanity and compassion And the list goes on these are values that are worth sowing into the world and having the leaders of this world hold to and model and exhibit

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And that’s part of the mission of the church isn’t it Where are they gonna come from There’s no other way to get out of the flesh to get out of sin and through the gospel of Jesus Christ you can tell people all day long don’t be a jerk Only Jesus makes you not one

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honestly you can say to people walk in love walk in compassion But if human beings are being honest

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we need grace

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we need power from on high We need a savior from our sin That’s why I say the church is the epicenter of a worldwide transformation movement

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because only Jesus can give us the power to do right

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When the cost could be death

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And I don’t know And people say oh yeah physical death Sure But no How about just the loss of your job and income in your house and your home and your relationships and every your dignity and your name and your reputation

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That’s enough

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all their lives subject to the fear of death

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that the overcomer did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death Where could they come from

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All that can be said is these men have been with Jesus

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That’s the only place that power comes from These men have been with Jesus and it’s beautiful isn’t it

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It’s beautiful It’s sons not slaves The slaves will break rank the slaves will flee the slaves will

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It’s got too costly

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But the sons

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this is who I am

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I can’t help but to be who I am

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Poly

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just renounce Christ and you can live and avoid all the suffering and torment and torture

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I’ve walked with God all these years and he’s been nothing but good to me How can I deny him now

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These men have been with Jesus

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That’s what changes lives That’s what sheds the love of God and brought into our heart so that we can do right when all the pressure of hell is on us to do what is wrong These men have been with Jesus

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Hm

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Keep going

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because we’re exploring the idea

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of sons have a different relationship To the house than slaves Hebrew 10 1 through two Because we just saw that Jesus Christ said the slaves were those who were under the law in Christ Those who received redemption in Christ became heirs and sons crying out father daddy knowing him being able to say I know the Lord I don’t just know about him I know him He’s my father and he loves me and he’s good to me He’s been nothing but good to me

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And he has healed me and he has delivered me and he has saved me and he has forgiven me and he’s caused this love in my heart to abound and that love abounds to others And this grace abounds to others

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because I know him Hebrews 10 1 through two for the law having a shadow of good things to come and not the very image of the things can never with the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year make those who approach perfect

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for Then they for then would they not have ceased to be offered for the worshipers Once purified would have had no more consciousness of sin

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The law could not remove a consciousness of sin nor could it purify or make perfect

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There there’s a number of things there isn’t there

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the the the gospel the new covenant can make you perfect

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and it ultimately will make you perfect

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But then it transitions doesn’t it

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Because it talks about no more consciousness of sin

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even when you’re not perfect

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If God had to wait till we were holy enough to use us this whole world would be doomed to hell

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But God uses these jars of clay He works to imperfect people

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but those imperfect people are always walking around saying I’m a horrible wretch of a human being

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They’ve got their eyes unworldly things and carnal things

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they have a consciousness of sin

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and they have no light It’s not productive It’s not reproductive anymore Does that make sense

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I mean that’s one of the challenges How can God use me when I know how bad I am

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because it’s never been about our holiness We’re not Hindu Holy men or Buddhist holy men All these ideas comes from paganism

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not from the gospel of Jesus Christ

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The gospel is what has the power to change your lives Not how good or bad I am

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Does that make sense He’s the savior We’re not the savior He is the sancti fire We’re not the sancti fire but he has the power to change every life

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He does

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making people bad Rarely makes them better

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but often makes them far worse

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When we focus on each other’s faults We all go to hell

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I don’t mean literally I’m talking like it turns the world into a living hell until we can cover each other’s faults and love It says love takes no accounts of wrong We’ve got way too many accountants in this world

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We got the the devil is the ministry of accusation We’ve got too many people joining the Ministry of Accusation in this world You rarely make people better by focusing on their faults

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We’ve got to connect with that part in them that aspires to nobility that aspires to being human that it aspires to dignity And it’s written on the hearts of all humankind

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But when and that’s what the law does That’s what Paul says

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The law came sin revived and I died I would not have known what was good and evil Had it not been the law But as I studied the law and imagined what would the world look like if we didn’t murder one another And if we lived according to the law we realized it would be like heaven on earth That’s what I want Oh my God But I keep doing wrong who will deliver me from this body of death

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That’s what the Gospel has done

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The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death He has given us power to become sons of God They will know you are Christians by your love for one another not a love that came by an act of your will not a love that came from human performance or following rules and regulations but a love that stemmed from He first loved us

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and experiencing that personally

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That’s the only way

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that is the only way

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the law can show us a vision of the character and nature of God So we hunger and thirst for righteousness but we only find it through the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ It’s new covenant Christianity that transforms lives

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Love is a powerful motivator Second Corinthians 5 14 to 15 for the love of Christ compels us because we judge thus that if one died for all men then all died and he died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and rose again

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Paul that just that simple idea The love of Christ compels us

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It’s not the law it’s not the rules it’s not the regulations it’s not the duty it’s the love of Christ compels us His love has been shed abroad into our heart and that love is so powerful

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The song of Solomon says if a man was to give all he had for love he would count it as nothing That’s the love that’s to compel us And if that’s not what what’s compelling us then we’re still slaves and not sons

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We’re still living as slaves and not sons even if we’re born again

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even if we’re born again until we’re mature in love That’s not what drives us That’s not what motivates us But when we come to that place where the love of Christ compels us we’ve grown mature in love and we’re manifested as sons and daughters of God

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That’s what the world needs That’s what the church has to produce That’s what we need to restructure our thinking and our and our theology and our doctrine in our structures about not how to build a big church but how to reproduce sons and daughters of God how to get people to grow mature in love

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Because that is the only way to transform this world It’s the only way out of the mess that the world’s been heading And I hear I heard it even last night and I would challenge the word God gave me when I was a brand new Christian is that the church is designed to keep people immature

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He said gave me numerous dreams about it over the years again and again and again that the very structures are structured to keep people in immaturity until we have the courage to reform the church But we’ve inherited values We’ve inherited ideas we’ve inherited expectations We’ve inherited a wine skin

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that can’t grow people mature in love

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And so we have to have to have the courage to rethink

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dream again and restructure knowing seeing the end

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in designing from the end backwards mature in love People who stand strong people who have dignity

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when we’re motivated by love I said passionate people do not burn out love does not burn out

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What would a man give for love

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Passionate people don’t burn out because the love of Christ compels them

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They don’t get disillusioned because the love of Christ compels them they have mercy they have grace they have compassion they forgive because the love of Christ compels them

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The power of God’s love transforms our lives and it will transform the world through the new covenant Galatians I’m just reading a lot of scriptures because I’m hoping that you’ll go back and look at these scriptures because the notes are in your bulletin

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because they’re they’re trying to connect dots But it’s not a it’s more like a

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scripture journey right Galatians 3123 oh foolish Galatians who has Bewitched you that you should not obey the truth before who obey the truth That could be a harsh word in church obey the truth What truth before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified

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This only I want to learn from you Did you receive the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith Are you so foolish having begun in the spirit Are you now being made perfect by the flesh

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sons and slaves So mentality versus slave mentality right there as clear as to see

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Jesus Christ was presented before your eyes as crucified meaning what for God so loved the world even in our Brokenness even in our fallen that he gave his only son he loved us He laid down his life for us There is the heart There is the epicenter there is the source of life There is the fountain

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You started that Well in that truth Christ was portrayed among you as crucified and that love ro woke up that will love woke up in your own hearts and in your lives And you walked in the spirit of it You were walking in the reality of it

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But then you started to go down the road of loss and regulations and rules and not good enough and I should and I shouldn’t and don’t touch and don’t taste and don’t eat

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The list goes on and on And now you feel good because you keep all the rules but you’ve lost that love You’ve lost that fire you’ve lost that substance you’ve lost that reality You’ve lost that grace Get back into the spirit of God Get back into reality

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Hm

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Even but here’s the hard part about all this too Even a message of grace can be heard as a message of condemnation When there’s bad programming

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we tell you how much you know we we can say all these things that are true and the word of God says them But when we have that slave mentality all I hear is I’m failing again I’m failing again I’m failing again I’m failing again And so yes I’ll I’ll say one you could totally get wrong You need to repent

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change your mind Actually dare to believe that God loves you

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because you are speaking lies and that’s not the truth that sets you free Even a message of grace is heard as a message of condemnation to those that are under a slave mentality

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even conviction a sense where conviction can become the death of the Holy Spirit

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I was gonna tell a story about this but now I’m just gonna throw it out there instead

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Sometimes I’ve seen it where the spirit of God that love that I was talking about was real It was present it was tangible We were experiencing it and then it disappeared And then I looked up and everybody was down on their knees

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What And I said what is what’s going on God’s calling me to go deeper God’s calling me to go deeper But the glory had left the glory had departed

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Why Because they were getting into the law and the flesh

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And it was actually was when I had been praying with this guy for like a week and the other guys and we’re all praying and had an encounter with God And I asked my friend who we’ve been praying with for about a week And I said what do you feel The Lord is saying He’s saying we have access by the blood of Jesus Christ and the holy of Holy And we can come boldly and those other three men jump

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back up and we started praying again and had an even greater encounter with the presence and glory of God But it was that sense of conviction that robbed them from the presence of God It seemed so holy it seems so righteous but they couldn’t discern life from death

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We need to be a new covenant community where God’s sons and daughters are raised But we have Hebrews 12 22 through 24 But we have come to Mount Zion to the city of the living God to the heavenly Jerusalem to a numerable company of angels to the general assembly of the church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven to the judge of all to the spirits of just men Made perfect

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to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant

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into the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel

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Let me just I’m gonna stop with that one

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But I want you to get this

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the new covenant There’s a blood that speaks better things than the blood of Abel Remember where you’re talking about at the heart of this is the gospel to become sons the love of Christ compelling us

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It’s that voice we hear from the blood of Jesus that was shed versus the blood of Abel that was shed

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the slave mentality the law the old covenant the old creation is tied up with that blood of Abel

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the new covenant the new creation the hope for the world the light dawning on planet earth is in the blood of the of Jesus Christ that was shed

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the blood of Abel cried out give me justice

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the blood of Abel cried out it was wrong Give me justice bring vengeance

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The blood of Jesus cried out Father forgive them for they know not what they do

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That blood of Abel could never bring forth salvation or healing or deliverance or transformation because all it did was take an account of wrongs and tagged everybody You are evil You are a law breaker you are wrong

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You are condemned

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The law is not bad But the law says you are condemned

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The law is an expression of what it means to be loving and good and true

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But in the flesh all we did was fail The law says you are condemned

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The blood of Jesus says you are forgiven

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The blood of Jesus says you are forgiven It is taken away the handwriting that was against us the breaking of the commandments It has delivered us from the curse of the law What was the curse of the law I’ve broken it

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And now we have no more consciousness of sin but being sons and we crowd off a father daddy and I know your love and I know your mercy and I know your grace and I know your forgiveness And now I have hope and I have light You’ve turned my darkness to light and now I go out and transform the world through this gospel

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It’s

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total world transformation

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When we get hold of the difference of being a slave

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versus a son

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And that’s what we need to see happen in the church of Jesus Christ

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I’m gonna jump to the very end and then work backwards another day because I’m just gonna read that scripture

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as a closing

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Romans eight because this is what we’re going after

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This is what we’re trying to produce to break the slave mentality and raise up sons of God

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To go is that prophetic word Robert got was to go to a fatherless or even a motherless or a broken or a written off generation

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and raise up sons and daughters for God

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Romans 8 19 through 21 for the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revealing

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of the Sons of God For the creation was subjected to futility not willingly but of Him who subjected it in hope because the creation itself will also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty

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of the Sons of God

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There is a worldwide liberation movement there is power and hope for everyone in the whole world

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but it’s connected to raising up sons and daughters of God

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And that happens first and foremost in the church of Jesus Christ

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and out of there flows the transformation of the world

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Hallelujah

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Thank you Lord for that word

 

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