0648 The Motive for Freedom

Testimonies:

- Husband and wide healed of HIV

- Girl led by spirit (lead us not into temptation)

- From crazy to pastor

Recap of the Last Week!

Deliver us from evil one (Matthew 6:9-13)

- victory, freedom, deliverance is like money = more is better

Your soul is like a house, not box (Matthew 12:45)

House that has three levels, many rooms. Jesus is the landlord

Deliverance gets enemy out. Discipline puts on the locks on doors. Devotion makes Jesus landlord

Deliverance gets darkness out. Discipline closes curtains. Devotion turns on light.

If I turn off the light, darkness will not come, it's been here already!

Real freedom is not to remove but replace with light!

STORY: Motive for freedom!

Where the Spirit of The Lord is there is FREEDOM (2 Corinthians 3:17)

Our definition of freedom is inaccurate at best and dangerous at worse!

Donkey is not free when it's loosed but when it's used (Matthew 21:1-11)

Loosed donkey is in trouble. Train off train tracks is also in trouble!

Your freedom has a purpose: you're either a vehicle or target

The amount of control Sin has over you, that is how much bondage you have

The amount of control Spirit has over you, that us how much freedom you have

Donkey was most free, not when robes were removed from neck but when Jesus sat on its back!

Let My people go so that they can serve Me (Exodus 7:16)

17 times in 9 chapters, the motive for deliverance is revealed

Promise land was the goal, serving was the motive.

You can't be Gods servant, if you are Pharaohs slave!

Go, and inherit your land, be free, or serve your God!

God saw that you were good slaves, but you are bad servants!

You did not get better life, better master! God is to replace to remove Pharaoh!

ARE YOU AS GOOD OF SERVANT TO GOD AS YOU WERE SLAVE OF SIN?

Freedom is not being filled with self but with Holy Spirit

When freed from sin to be filled with self is changing rooms in same prison, or seats on the bus!

Satan became satan by trying to be God. "Do what thou wilt"

As a sinner, your freedom was taken; as a saint your freedom is given away!

Prodigal son was good son but bad servant as well!

He did not hate him, loved himself. Did not go against - went away!

Sonship is free, servanthood is costly.

Israel did not get because of being bad servants. Prodigal son lost it being bad servant!

Same God whom you call your Father is your master!

Same Jesus whim you call your Savior is also your Lord!

Enemy seeks to tempt you out of being good servant

If you the Son, come down from the cross?

If you would treat your boss like you treat Holy Spirit? Would u still have your job?

Would you like servant like yourself?

Caleb fully followed, (Caleb - dog) - I will give you homes, not you building me pyramids

Good and faithful servant - enter the joy!

Jesus - I will exalt you above every name

God will exalt you or humble you!

Martyrdom was baptism in blood, not in water. Martyr is witness in Greek!

July 6th 2013 - Father Miner killed

Christian businessman found dead

Peter died to Peter first!

Saeed is in prison for 300 days on Thursday

Exodus 3:18 Lord met with us, let us go on 3 days journey that we may sacrifice in wilderness

Exodus 5:1 Let My people go that they might hold feast for Me in wilderness

Exodus 5:3 Let us go to wilderness 3 days to hold feast lest He fall upon us with pestilence

Exodus 5:8 No more straw they say, let us go to sacrifice to our God

Exodus 5:17 People complain and Pharaoh repeats why he removed straw

Exodus 7:16 First plague intro, Let My people go that they might serve Me in wilderness

Exodus 8:1 Second plague intro, Let My people go that they might serve Me

Exodus 8:8 Ask to remove frogs, I will let you go to sacrifice to The Lord

Exodus 8:20 Fourth plague, Let My people go that they might serve Me

Exodus 8:25 Pharoah said Go sacrifice to God in the Land. Moses replied we can't do here in Egypt.

Exodus 8:28 Pharoah said Go but don't go too far

Exodus 9:1 Fight plague Let My people go that they may serve Me

Exodus 9:13 Seventh plague, Let My people go that they may serve Me

Exodus 10:3 Eighth plague intro How long will you hold my people away from serving Me

Exodus 10:7 Servants of Pharaoh replied let them go to serve their God

Exodus 10:24 Ninth plague result, go and serve your God only your flocks stay back, Moses replied we need flocks to sacrifice to God

Exodus 12:31 Pharoah let them go Rise, and go and serve The Lord

Around 34 A.D., one year after the crucifixion of Jesus, Stephen was thrown out of Jerusalem and stoned to death. Approximately 2,000 Christians suffered martyrdom in Jerusalem during this period.

About 10 years later, James, the son of Zebedee and the elder brother of John, was killed when Herod Agrippa arrived as governor of Judea.

Around 54 A.D., Philip, a disciple from Bethsaida, in Galilee, suffered martyrdom at Heliopolis, in Phrygia. He was scourged, thrown into prison, and afterwards crucified.

About six years later, Matthew, the tax-collector from Nazareth who wrote his gospel in Hebrew, was preaching in Ethiopia when he suffered martyrdom by the sword.

James, the brother of Jesus, administered the early church in Jerusalem and was the author of an Epistle by his name. At age 94, he was beat and stoned, and finally had his brains bashed out with a fuller's club.

Matthias was the apostle who filled the vacant place of Judas. He was stoned at Jerusalem and then beheaded.

Andrew was the brother of Peter who preached the gospel throughout Asia. On his arrival at Edessa, he was arrested and crucified on a cross, the two ends of which were fixed transversely in the ground (this is where we get the term, St. Andrew's Cross).

Mark was converted to Christianity by Peter, and then transcribed Peter’s account of Jesus in his Gospel. Mark was dragged to pieces by the people of Alexandria in front of Serapis, their pagan idol.

It appears Peter was condemned to death and crucified at Rome. Jerome holds that Peter was crucified upside down, at his own request, because he said he was unworthy to be crucified in the same manner as his Lord.

Paul suffered in the first persecution under Nero. Paul’s faith was so dramatic in the face of martyrdom, that the authorities removed him to a private place for execution by the sword.

In about 72 A.D., Jude, the brother of James who was commonly called Thaddeus, was crucified at Edessa.

Bartholomew preached in several countries and translated the Gospel of Matthew into the language of India. He was cruelly beaten and then crucified by idolaters there.

Thomas, called Didymus, preached the Gospel in Parthia and India, where exciting the rage of the pagan priests, he was martyred by being thrust through with a spear.

Luke was the author of the Gospel under his name. He traveled with Paul through various countries and is supposed to have been hanged on an olive tree by idolatrous priests in Greece.

Barnabas, of Cyprus, was killed without many known facts in about 73 A.D.

Simon, surnamed Zelotes, preached the Gospel in Mauritania, Africa, and even in Britain, where he was crucified in about 74 A.D.

John, the "beloved disciple," was the brother of James. From Ephesus he was ordered to Rome, where it is affirmed he was cast into a cauldron of boiling oil. He escaped by miracle, without injury. Domitian afterwards banished him to the Isle of Patmos, where he wrote the Book of Revelation. He was the only apostle who escaped a violent death.

Vladislav - healed of depression, no more bad dreams, feels Power of God, no ,ore body pain

Prince - came on May 18, now has a job in phone service

Khary - diabetes - stopped taking medicine, got job 50% of all airplane timers, gonna go to doctor to check

Janet - 4 times, her grandson was in accident 2009, now moves his body and even kicks,

Eric - I felt spiritual lift, spiritual attacks were broken off of me...

Dorcas - healed of hip pain

Lady who had cancer - 2 operations