Wouldn’t It Feel Good To Be Free? | Pastor Steven Furtick

God is more interested about freeing you in your spirit then he is freeing you from your situation this is a core teaching and a core tenant not only from this pulpit but it is the essence of the gospel is that God is more interested in delivering us on the inside changing us on the inside and rearranging our internal condition than he is about arranging our external affairs this gospel is not popular to preach in an age that is so consumed with changing scenery we are more concerned with the scenery than we are with our spirits and Paul is teaching us a lesson we'd be wise to listen to him he says I'm not out yet but I'm free I'm still right here in this cell physically but spiritually I'm free free from what free from pain no no I'm hurting free from uncertainty no I don't know what they're gonna do to me free from have you ever asked God to set you free from certain people and he keeps trying and you keep texting him back so work with the Lord that was a whole series right there I'm free oh you're coming home no well I'm free I'm free I'm I'm free watch this this is what I've been praying lately I stopped praying God set me free from it whatever it is you know this imagination that if that got better I would be better because sometimes that got better and I got worse so I stopped praying God set me free from it because sometimes God set me free from the situation and I took myself into a new situation and I took my same chains from the last situation the last relationship into the new relationship so lately I've been praying and if you want to pray it with me repeat after me God set me free from me if you don't get that you haven't lived long enough because you will get tired of yourself at some point and you will get tired of making your own movies of which you are the star and everyone else is a prop and you will want something bigger in your life then how I feel in this moment you want something bigger in your life than what I am earning you will want something bigger in your life then status and so Paul said I'm um I'm free not not the freedom that you can see but I am I'm free from the invisible prison so I'm free because I'm releasing some things and Paul says I'm I'm releasing myself from the prison of resentment I'm releasing myself from the need to know the reason why everything is the way it is I'm releasing myself and it's really beautiful because he could have waited around to be set free by somebody else but he decided I'm gonna use the keys that God has given me so I've got my own keys called faith and trust and praise and gratitude and so I don't need you to free me I am setting people free from my need for them to validate me I found freedom when I realized that I have all of the resources I need through the Spirit of God and it is through the provision of his spirit oh it's just an intro but it's so good because Paul's saying I'm not out but I'm free nothing has changed in my situation but I don't need my situation to change God has changed me and whom the Sun sets free is free indeed I'll stop screaming on this when you get free it makes you wanna holler when you get free it makes you wanna clap when you get free it makes you want to shout it makes you wanna throw off the chain [Applause] [Music] shout I'm free look at the person next to you and say free from what you think of me [Applause] hands and worship I want people to think I'm one of those weird Christians I think it's kind of weird that somebody that didn't die for you would dictate the level of your faith and that you would ever be ashamed of the gospel when you claim to be free if he set you free we don't have long take 10 seconds embrace them like you're free that's good six five four three two one Philippians chapter 1 Paul said I'm I'm free I don't know whether I'll get out of this prison but whether or not I get out of this prison is not the hinge on which my faith swings because I made a decision to be free free of bitterness free of blame real freedom freedom that nobody can give you but Jesus and freedom that nobody can take away it's a different kind of freedom it's not just the freedom to do whatever you want and say whatever you want that pretend freedom it's a real freedom it's a deep freedom there's a freedom that I hope to experience more and more in my life and I pray the same for you because Paul said I want you to be free in it funny that he's he's praying for them he's in prison and he's the freest one of them all some of the least free people I ever met in my life had the most stuff and Paul is so free at this point he's free from the need to know what happens next he's free he's free wouldn't it be wouldn't it be good to be free like that and he sets himself free instead of waiting for someone else to and how he does it it's kind of a cool I guess it's a psychological and theological lesson all at once he does it by remembering because if he dwells too much on what he's going through right now it will cause him to lose hope if he dwells too much on what's going to happen next it'll cause him to be unstable and he can't control that anyway so listen blakeney he says give me my camera he says I thank my God in every remembrance of you this is Philippians chapter 1 in every prayer with joy and I thank him for your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now so he revisits in his mind a time maybe thirty years earlier that he began this work with these friends in Philippi and now he's writing them a letter about his current situation but the way that he deals with his anxiety how many of you are dealing with anxiety in your life and you don't mind raised in your hands so I can preach right to you he remembers he remembers and he concludes something when he revisits his memory of God's faithfulness because there there there is a way of remembering the past that will paralyze the potential of today but there is a way of remembering the past that can fuel your faith for tomorrow Paul does the latter he says I thank my god every time I remember you and I remember your partnership I'm not in this by myself from the very first day until now and I am confident of this that he who began a good work in you who started it that's what they used to say in middle school and when there was a fight and you get dragged in the principal's office and so we used to have a saying I didn't start it but I finished it and so God does both and when the devil starts picking on you don't forget who started it if God started a good working you guess what he's gonna do he's gonna finish it now you won't know all the details when it starts but God is not like you and so he knows the end from the beginning God saw the last frame of the movie before he started casting or directing so God reveals he sinks to us in Reverse it's like Abraham I'm gonna bless the whole earth through you okay can you tell me how no go to the land I will show you and the details will unfold as your obedience does and so Paul says I remember how this started and I know who started it it was God because I wasn't even trying to get to Philip I actually when I think about how I came to you how we started it was almost an accidental miracle I call it that knowing that nothing is an accident to God but I'm one day I'm gonna preach when I ever get the courage to do it a whole sermon called miracles by mistake just like what feels like the worst mistake of your life and it was really God using human weakness to display divine strength my young people know what's up I love it so Paul he has like a faith flashback David did the same thing there's Goliath he's big lion was big the bear was big the bigger they come so if the lion went and the bear went Goliath is about to go it's called a fake flashback and Paul says I I remember I'm released in Reverse it's kind of weird in order to go forward with faith I got to remember hey thanks for watching make sure to click the subscribe button on your screen so we 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Length: 12min 10sec (730 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 21 2018