Freedom

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will experience true freedom.

1. Freedom from the sinful and demonic masters that enslave you!

Acts 16:16–18 “16 Once, as we were on our way to prayer, a slave girl met us who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She made a large profit for her owners by fortune-telling. 17 As she followed Paul and us she cried out, “These men, who are proclaiming to you a way of salvation, are the servants of the Most High God.” 18 She did this for many days. Paul was greatly annoyed. Turning to the spirit, he said, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out right away.”

Python Spirit - Orical of Delphi

Greek speaks literally of a “python spirit.” The python was the symbol of the famous Delphic oracle and represented the god Apollo, who was believed to render predictions of future events.

John B. Polhill

Python was a snake that guarded the Temple of Apollo and was eventually killed by Apollo. Later the word python came to mean a demon-possessed person through whom Python spoke.

R. Kent Hughes

The second is a person of a very different stamp: an unfortunate demon-possessed slave girl, whose owners exploited her condition for their material gain. She is described by Luke as “having a pythonic spirit” or being a “pythoness”—that is, a person inspired47 by Apollo, the Greek deity specially associated with the giving of oracles, who was worshiped as the “Pythian” god at the oracular shrine of Delphi in central Greece.

Frederick Fyvie Bruce (Professor)

Most High God- God or Zues

Annoyed.

Christian freedom is freedom to serve, not freedom to sin.

John Robert Walmsley Stott (English Preacher)

One of the deceitful things about sin is that it promises freedom but only brings slavery.

Warren W. Wiersbe

2. Freedom from the comfort and fear of being accepted by the world!

Acts 16:19–24 “19 When her owners realized that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities. 20 Bringing them before the chief magistrates, they said, “These men are seriously disturbing our city. They are Jews 21 and are promoting customs that are not legal for us as Romans to adopt or practice.” 22 The crowd joined in the attack against them, and the chief magistrates stripped off their clothes and ordered them to be beaten with rods. 23 After they had severely flogged them, they threw them in jail, ordering the jailer to guard them carefully. 24 Receiving such an order, he put them into the inner prison and secured their feet in the stocks.”

16:19- THe sprit left Her and so did the profit of the owners

Mark 5:16–17 “16 Those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man and told about the pigs. 17 Then they began to beg him to leave their region.”

THese Men are JEws

Beat with rods.

2 Corinthians 11:25 “25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the open sea.”

The Enforcement offices Symbole a bundle of rods with an axe coming from the middle with Fasces The symbol and the in modern times by the Fascist Movement and Mussolini.

3. Freedom from the imprisonment and chains that you didn’t even know held you captive!

Acts 16:25–40

Some know they are helpd in physical bondage and can praise the Lord some are blind to the chains that hold them down.

Brgohnt a light not knowing he was in darkness

Washed there wounds and then was washed

Lydia - Business women

Slave

Guard