Bishop GE Patterson I Am Free

I'm gonna briefly go to Scripture me knowledge the presence of elder Mac King friend of ours pastor Christ Community Church of God in Christ in Chicago stand up l king who had to have you with us on today and we recognize the relatives of our members sister Anila Rogers visiting with us today for the healed Doyle family reunion for the people who are you all right god bless you all and the relatives of our member sister Patricia career visiting with us today from the Duquette Harris Taylor cook family reunion 25 people where you all right back here behind the counter and all of our visiting friends we are so happy to have you on this day Dave just before Independence Day as it is celebrated throughout our nation tomorrow being the 4th of July choir members we don't give you all the modern night offers because I know you won't come no way so no rehearsal tomorrow night but Saints I don't want you to forget that this Tuesday is first Tuesday and from bedtime tomorrow night until after the benediction on Tuesday night we will be fasting and praying I trust to see you here Tuesday night and then Wednesday I'll join the other Saints in Kansas City for our national aim convention I would like to invite your attention to the Gospel according to John chapter 8 I feel that on the eve of this Independence Day holiday as I have in the past I'd like to revisit this particular passage of Scripture and hopefully we'll bring to you its spiritual meaning John chapter 8 and in the Gospel of John chapter 8 I want to begin with verse 31 and read through verse 36 John chapter 8 verse 31 if you have that same man come on let's read together then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him if you continue in my word then are you my disciples indeed and ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free then answered him we be Abraham's sea and were never in bondage to any man how saith now ye shall be made free jesus answered them verily verily I say unto you whosoever committed sin is the servant of sin and the servant abideth not in the house for ever but the son abideth ever if the son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free indeed a man well how many of you can declare today I am free alright I am free this word which came from the lips of he who is the word our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was pinned many years many centuries prior to the Declaration of Independence that was signed in the year 1776 whereby the thirteen colonies declared themselves free from the mother land of England from the tyranny of the king declaring that we are now a free nation and that we are no longer in bondage to anybody well as a result of the signing of the Declaration of Independence war broke out it's one thing to declare yourself free it's another thing to be ready for the wall that will follow and I want to say to you today that when you determine in the realm of the spirit that I will no longer be a slave to Satan I will no longer be a slave to any of his demons I will not be a slave to the habits I will not be a slave to those things that help kept me chained and bound and not walking in the freedom of the Spirit to do the will of God you can say it but get ready for war because Satan is not going to just because you say it release you into the freedom that you claim you've got to understand that this life even the life of a believer in Christ this is a battlefield some people think is like waving a magic wand and once you wave that magic wand and say one or two magic words then automatically things that used to be exists no more and I've stepped into a new life but you have got to be prepared to resist the devil you got to be prepared to resist him with everything that he's going to throw at you once you proclaim yourself to be free oh I'm talking to somebody in here today that's been chemically dependent and you haven't continued to deal with those chemicals those drugs and alcoholic beverages and the things that have helped you enslave kept you enslave you haven't continued in that because you don't want to be free but you just have not been willing to fight the battle see when God is working in your behalf to set you free you yourself are going to have to prove some kind of resoluteness some kind of determination you got to let the devil know that it does not matter how well people who are cigarette addicted they have that thing of talking about them having a nicotine fit you got to be willing to go through your nicotine fit and if God sees that you are willing that Lord I'm no longer going to allow the enemy to enslave me but I'm determined that if I die I'll die before I let the enemy put his chain back around my neck and when you show God your determination he gives you the strength and you don't have to walk in bondage you don't have to be a slave to anything God has designed you to be free now that this particular chapter and it is interesting when you read the Word of God to see how especially when it deals with the life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ many times a circumstance or situation would arise and some comment would be made and then what happens afterwards in that chapter is that there is something to clarify I think it might have been what two Sundays ago when we revisited that parable of the prodigal son and we dealt with it not so much from the prodigal son but from compassionate father because that chapter opened with Jesus sitting down eating with sinners and the religious folk condemned him because he took time with sinners so what happens Jesus embarks upon a series of parables dealing with lost things talks about the sheep that is lost and about the colon that the widowed woman lost in the house and finally he talks about the son the prodigal son that went off wasting his substance and the emphasis was simply this that wide you are condemning me for taking up time with sinners you've got to understand that my mission is to seek and to save that which was lost and when you read the Bible so many of the stories in the New Testament that after someone makes a criticizing a condemning statement toward Jesus what happens in the rest of the chapter is his way of proving that you are wrong and I'm right this chapter opens with the woman that was taken in the act of adultery here they come bringing a woman to Jesus sin this woman was caught in the very act of adultery and Moses law said she should be stoned what do you say about it Jesus stooped down on the ground and start writing paying them no attention and when you read the story you see that they kept on after him but I don't know of anything that that for lack of a better term that bugs me any worse than somebody asking a question and as though they think you didn't hear they keep on what about it what about it wait until I give you an answer I heard what you had to say and the strange thing is people will think about something for seven or eight weeks or months and then they'll come and ask you a question and they want to answer in two seconds you know you had seven months to think about it before you asked it well maybe you needed this give me two days Master what about it should we snow them that's what Moses law said and Jesus stooped down wrote on the ground and somebody said and I don't know what he wrote I wasn't there somebody said that he just began to enumerate some things murderer and all the murderers walked out lion and the lion walk down and when he got through writing there was nothing left they may not have been guilty of what she was given guilty of but they would guilty or something and then the other part that he could have written was where is the man you brought the woman but how could you catch the woman in the act without catching the man and according to the law both of them were to be stoned and you can't catch nobody in a hat that required two people and just catch one so when Jesus finished writing he looked up and said I'll tell you what you know okay the law says stoner so you lose without fault you'd be the first one to cast a stone and all of them that conscience condemned them knowing that if they were not guilty of what she was guilty of they were guilty of something so here Jesus begins to teach following this experience with the woman and let me just finish that story that when everybody walked away Jesus wanted to know from the woman where are those thine accusers she said well they all gone well if no man condemned thee the Lord Jesus said I don't condemn you either but go and sin no more now here he is the son of the Living God the word incarnate in human flesh he and he alone having the power to forgive sin and those critics those religious critics and you could say what you want to the worst critics you'll find at church critics religious critics they always ready to condemn you Jesus put it on on this wise strain our neck and then swallow a Campbell beers are trying to pick the mote out of your brother's eye and you got a big old log in yours church folk can be a mess but I don't want to deal with that today he's talking about sin and how that when one is enslaved by sin he's not just committing sin he's a slave now now let me just say this to somebody that's listening to me now somebody that's addicted to crack somebody that's addicted just to tobacco whether you're smoking it and there's still some folk suing it whether you are addicted to these chemicals or whether it is liquor and you keep telling everybody else and Ogron with them I can stop whenever I get ready and you see that that habit has caused you to lose your job you see that it has caused you to just about lose your home you see that it's about to make you lose your very mind and you're still talking about I can quit whenever I get ready you need to wake up and realize that you are a slave the devil is doing just like they said you know the monkey on the string every time he pulls a string you jump some y'all looking at me funny but I got to tell you like it is any time the enemy gets his claws into you and that's any kind of a lifestyle that displeases God and yet you can't seem to straighten yourself up you have become a slave and you need to declare yourself independent you need to tell the enemy I've been in bondage to this thing long enough I've been a slave to this thing long enough and I am determined that I'm going to be free and I'm not talking about some time in the distance I'm drawing the line today and I'm saying saving from this minute forward you have no control over my life you got to say it and you've got to mean it and you've got to be willing to resist with everything in you listen to what Jesus says here he says to them if you continue you got a lot of folk will start but they won't continue how many people have I seen come out of the rises and come from the various sections down here on the main level with tears running even dripping from that chin after being pricked to their heart by the preaching of the gospel and stand right here and say that from this moment forward my life will never be the same and once the emotion of the moment wears off they find themselves right back into the stuff that they were in it is not enough just to hear the word you must continue not just something that made me feel good Sunday morning but you've got to continue in it on Monday you got to continue on Tuesday you got to continue by turning the television off and sometimes taking the telephone off of the hook and picking up your Bible and reading the Word of God oh it's mighty interesting to turn on some of the television programs whether they are talking about problems of today and where they are offering solutions sometimes I get amused I don't I don't watch I don't have nothing against Oprah Oprah I think a dynamic woman she but I don't listen at her reasons and all of her cues I don't I don't listen to dr. field and the reason I don't listen to them is because I don't think they have the answers I don't think nobody have the right answers until they give me the answers out of this book giving me what sounds like that psychology is not the answer the real answer to the problems of life is found in this book you got to get in the Word of God and you got to continue in it and sometimes you're going to have to turn off the television and pick up your Bible and let God speak to you out of his word Jesus says to them if you continue in my word not not in the word of the philosopher but in my word then are you my disciples indeed and you shall know the truth when I was just a little boy and didn't fully understand what my father was saying I heard him teaching one night and he mentioned how that people take that statement the truth will make you free the truth doesn't make you free by itself the only truth that makes you free is the truth that you know truth is there but if you don't know it if you don't accept it if you don't apply it it does not make you free look let me explain it maybe a little bit better I'm told that back when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation he set free all slaves in the United States but there were slaves who continued for weeks and months to be slaves even though the truth was you're free but they were not free until they knew the truth all you don't hear what I'm saying I'm here to tell you that that that was a declaration written in the council of eternity that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life and by the Acts of Jesus Christ on Calvary's cross you are free from any kind of bondage Satan wishes to impose upon you but you're not free unless you embrace that which he has done for you he's made you free not only has he set you free from sin he's even set you free from sickness he said he came into the world to do what to destroy the works of the devil John 10 and 10 blessed be the name of Jesus I want you to know the Lord said there that the thief cometh to do what to steal kill and the destroy anything that diminishes your life it didn't come from the Lord Satan wants to steal Satan wants to kill Satan wants to destroy you and he will try with sin and he'll also try with sickness with illness with disease within family but when you claim Jesus Christ to be your savior you can also claim him to be your healer and I want you to know you can be set free today even from that sickness that is seemingly taking your life away moment by moment and minute by minute all you got to do today is to believe God and declare yourself free let me go on back to the script and I'm almost finished you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free not listen listen to this they answered him this is verse 38 our other 33 we be Abraham see and we will never in bondage to any man it is something how people can blind their eyes to their own history what do you mean Abraham seed and when they were in bondage to any man Abraham had a son named Isaac Isaac fathered a son named Jacob in fact there were two Esau and Jacob Jacob's name was changed to Israel Jacob had twelve sons one of them was named Joseph and he was sold by his brothers in the slavery down in Egypt and what happens down Potiphar loved him put him over his house and mrs. Potiphar one day desired that handsome young man and when she could not get him to violate the trust of a husband he had to leave his coat behind and she told her husband that this young man tried to take advantage of me and Potiphar threw him in prison but because he was an interpreter of dreams he came out one day and interpreted Pharaoh's dream and Pharaoh put him over the whole realm of Egypt and the cost that was famine everywhere else Joseph's brothers ended up in Egypt and it ended up that they grew into a nation and their roles a king that knew not Joseph you all know that story and those who went to Egypt as yes became slaves and for 430 years Abraham C was in bondage and here they are we Abraham see we will never in bondage to any man sometimes folks won't wake up and realize the truth some of your all that's listening to me now and you're saying I don't see why you say I'm a slave to drugs I'm a slave to liquor I'm not a slave to anything if you're not why don't you quit everybody who's involved in a homosexual lifestyle hasn't made themselves comfortable tell mine I was born this way that still some folk who know that if you're a man you ought not be acting like a woman that still some women who know you have no business trying to be a man and you're miserable but you don't know how to get loose you need to admit your slave your slave or something that you don't understand something is wrong in your psyche oh I know I know when I start preaching like this I know I'm a dinosaur I don't I don't deny being a dinosaur oh but I'd rather be a dinosaur than to embrace the stuff that this generation is embracing I believe my god is too wise to make a mistake I thank my brother if God had wanted you to be a woman he'd have brought you here's one and it's because of the mindset that you have become a slave even to actions and a lifestyle that God is not pleased with but that is the one thing that Satan will do he will make one deny the truth of that situation we never been in bondage to any man how sad that you should be made free jesus answered verily I say unto you whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin and the servant abideth not in the house forever but the son abideth forever in other words he's saying now you fellas are trying to condemn me but I want you to know that I'm the son I'm the son of him who created the heaven the earth and all things that are therein I'll be here my name is alpha I was here when it started and when it's all over you can call me Omega because I'm the beginning and the end but I want you to know you need somebody to set you free he said if the son therefore shall make you free you shall be free indeed free from all of your hang-ups free from all of your habits free from your bondage free from being a slave to the devil and I'm glad to know today as I go to my seat I toriel wouldn't be up before you long that I am free somebody in here you can remember when you were bound I'm talking about bound and had a case of the cane hip it's like Paul said when I wanted to do good evil was on my right hand I wanted to do good but I couldn't do good because evil or powered me so the good that I wanted to do that was exactly what I didn't do and the evil that I didn't want to do was exactly the thing that I did and Paul said when I was in this state I said o wretched man that I am Who Shall deliver me from the body of this death and while he was wondering how can I be set free I see Jesus when he came on the scene of time and when Jesus came on the scene of time he said I want you to know that I'm the only one I've got the key that can release you from every chain and my god from on high when he died and went down into the depths of Hell Satan looked like had enslaved men from the earliest of times but I hid Jesus and the only way that I can get into the underworld I've got to die and let my spirit go down into the underworld and according to what Peter says he says that the Lord Jesus he went back into the time of Noah into the antediluvian world and he preached to the spirits that were in prison and while he was on his spiritual tool he took the key away from the grave he took the sting out of death and he comes out that morning with all power in his hand and I him saying I am he that liveth that was dead but the whole I'm alive for more and I got the key to hell and death that I'm holding in my hand I just want to tell you today that if you are locked into a habit if the devil has you bound then you can't seem to get a loose geocells I have a break up I wish you tell somebody Jesus is a habit break up he can break the chain of bondage he can set the captives free he can release you from sin dungeon if you wanna be free but he's not gonna do it against your wheel he's only gonna do it if you want to be free is anybody in here today that's tired of being bound and say I wanna be free I want you to know he'll set you free free from sin free from bondage free from poverty free from anything the devil at all on you I wish you tell somebody I'm free

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Published: Fri Nov 04 2016