following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all open door church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church church get real about the fact the truth that jesus is the truth that the word is the truth jesus is a truth and that we want to get real we want to challenge every individual in here to be able to look at their life and say do i honor the truth do i live the truth do i walk the truth do i know the truth so long as i get real i pray that your holy spirit will get real with each person this room and that they won't have to look at themselves in themselves alone and ask themselves do i know the truth is it true set me free you pray this in jesus name aim in the truth will set you free how many know that the truth will set you free will i set you free just this forget about jesus this forget about the gospel this forget anything about the bible this just be real people we're going to get real now we don't know jesus we don't know anything about god well the truth still set you free think about it if you're a person that lies all the time is there any freedom in line get jesus out of the picture disc it got out of the picture this get morality out of the picture if you walk around telling lies if you walk around believing lies are you going to walk in freedom are you going to walk in bondage and all of us know the answer is we're going to walk  bondage the reality is the truth will set you free but i will tell you when you know the truth of truth there's something greater that happens so this take a look know the truth the truth will make you free john chapter eight verses thirty one and thirty two jesus said to the people who believed in him you are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings and you will know the truth the truth will set you free everybody knows if i underline it means read it if i put it in a ball and underline it means really read it is said of the people who people the people who walk believed in him these were not the people who did not believe in him he talked to the people that believed that of jesus said the people believed in him you are truly my disciples listen he's going to tell you how your is disciple they believed in him do you believe very that believes in jesus is a disciple of jesus christ or do you know there's many people who believe in jesus but they're not a disciple of jesus they're not a follower of jesus you know the devil believes in jesus he better believe in him he was where jesus was at but he says those who believe in him your are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings he says if you remain faithful to my teachings then you're my disciple but what if you don't even know what his teachings are i can be faithful something you don't know what they are we're going to get than a moment if you remain faithful to my teaching and you will know the truth in the truth will set you free the truth was set you free i absolutely believe that with all my heart if you want freedom walk in truth and that truth means you got to be truthful to yourself and truthful to others and most importantly got to be truthful to god but the truth will set you free i work with drug addicts on a regular so i work with drug as i keep said i don't want to work with drug addicts anymore are i want to work with normal people the problem is i haven't found a normal person yet but pastor used to make a joke my pastor is very of all the ministry has evolved in st it's a lot of the things i've done he's done and he's done a lot more than i've done and he's travel the world and he says i could be a room with a thousand people in the demon possessed person sits next to me why i could be in a room with five hundred people in the person as a drug addiction or a problem sits next to me i feel the same way i can't get away from it always seems like there's always screwed up people then i look in the mirror is all my goodness i know why familiar spirit i'm screwed up and so that's why i screwed up people are attracted to me because i'm up but out of it is the truth will set you free and this is right i can tell you the first thing i look at what somebody as an addiction problem or any kind of a problem the kind of sin issue where the since up is i say to him here's the reality unless you get truthful with yourself with god with me i can help you is that true you've got to get truthful you've got to get real walk in freedom to walk in freedom you need to remain faithful to the principles in the bible you will know the truth in the truth was you free the first step is you got to what you have to be faithful to the principles in the bible if you know what the bible says and you do something different and that you're not being faithful to it you want to be in freedom how do you know if you know the bible says not to live this kind of lifestyle you live that lifestyle you will not find freedom is a lot different i didn't know when i was an atheist i didn't read no buyable i didn't know anything about the bible whatsoever there's a lot of ways i lived i did not know but i didn't tell me that it was wrong but you know there was something in my spirit that said it was ro but there was never a conviction and then me given i became a point where i believed in this buyable all of a sudden those things i did wrong that i really didn't feel bad about when i read the word of god read that this is the truth the word of god of a son there's conviction in my heart because i was confronted with the truth that starts to bring a place for one to walk in freedom you don't want to walk a bondage you want to walk in freedom so let's get real that can we get real today is all right for me to be totally honest with you can i get really honest with the the freedom we're talking about america is not true freedom the freedom of america is that you can just get away and do whatever you want to do and it's ok believe whatever you want to believe do it you want to do i'm an american so i get the freedom to believe and do whatever i want and what happens with that if you're not careful you're going to freedom what are you doing you're walking in bondage because your butt in bondage to those things that you claim gives you freedom you know what if i'm in america i have the freedom to use drugs laws i don't bother anybody else is that freedom to do drugs i got some people who would say no it's not you know what i have freedom in america you know what is laws you don't get caught it's ok or in america you know what i got freedom so when i go to jail you should be give me cable t v and it's funny because i did prison minute for years and i would go into the jails and guys would get into fights over what channel was on t v they complain about the food i got a solution if you store we go and we buy bread and they buy these loaves the loaves the missionaries with buy loaves of bread loaves of bread i'm thinking why don't we buy anything else besides what we can do with the bread all that bread make what stuffing i don't know what you do with the bread we go to do the bread and then we do the sermon we do the teaching in his limited funds where they could buy so much but you know we do this this is all prisons that we had and they would be min that will line up like cattle and they lined up like this what we would call a pod here a cell there be it section this size here sights here there could be forty min going to the bathroom in there and sleeping in the same spot and then in america i want freedom you better give me cable channel you better let me out playboy in america but i'm in prison that's not freedom true freedom is the freedom to say no to see to freedom is when you want to do something and to be able to say no i want to do this but i can walk away from it that's true freedom true freedom is not to be taunted by the thoughts of sin true freedom is the be able to walk in victory over area area of your life if we get real everyone of us have to mit shame freedom for the wounds of the past where the victim badge let me tell you my story you know every one of us have a story you every one of us a gone through trials and tribulations anybody had a broken heart before you probably felt like a victim we're all victims but you know what god wants to free us from those wounds of the past freedom from generational curses freedom from the sin that so easily in tangles us freedom the patterns of the sun golly roll that's the freedom that god wants to give us whatever area we're not walking in freedom we have not applied the truth let me read that again whatever area we are not walking free would not apply the truth you will find the truth is in capital letters because who is the truth jesus christ is the truth we have not apply the truth we have not allowed jesus and the application of his word the truth in that error of your life and this is what i mean by that i believe there's any area where you are walking in bondage that's the area that jesus has allowed to be and that in your life so what i mean by that if you're walking around with bitterness guess what whatever is bringing that bitterness is an area that you didn't lead jesus work in if you walk around with hatred it's an area where if you walk around with racism so tell me how christians could be racist but ab jesus how can that possibly be if you have jesus christ your life because you haven't applied the truth and that error of your life so whatever area we do not apply to jesus the truth whatever we don't apply the principles of the word is an area where we're going to walk in bondage and not freedom so this look it's a pretty liberal principles for those who are members of this church who've been attending church even attending any time at all this applies to you if you came for the first time  hook let you've been reading me on facebook then you're on the hook because a lot of my share i share on facebook too in the last year listen to me i want to get real with the congregation and i talk about freedom biblical principles last year i've talked about being how many of you when i taught the series fasted how many whether i teach a series not know that fasting is a part of something that's in this bible talk about fast and pray how many of you have ever fast in your life fasted for ten days i made a joke of fasting for ten days all that garlic and onions roasted garlic roasted onions my boss after about five days as you can walk into the office again unless you stop whatever you're doing sometimes you do things crazy ok but out of it when you fast and what you pray supposed to be is supposed to be the first friday of every month as opposed to the night of our day of fasting and prayer so supposed to be the first friday the month we're supposed to fast for the day and then we pray in the evening i would guess that almost nobody has ever done that and it was say in the bulletin on opus is that now almost all the time is that fast in prayer there's times i forgot oh my goodness i'm the pastor i said  you when you get in god's presence you want have no problem saying i can't start for me to worship i don't know people hear me this and that i would say you know what you haven't applied the truth in that area the bible teaches that i did a whole series i remember two years ago i did a whole series of all the words for worship and praise in the hebrew is like fifteen words and some of them the word is clapping as some of it is that lift your hands up some of it is crazy pray when the definition is this crazy pray  actually happened you see in king david want to it's crazy praise they turn around to bring that they turned around to bring the ark of the covenant back into jerusalem and he had crazy praise it says he ripped off his clothes not all of them don't get worried he didn't rip them all off and all this in the midst of it there's one in the car and i knew there's one thing that we could do we couldn't change all the circumstances but one that we could do is still say we're going to praise god regardless because going on the praise god regardless have you had to do that with the loss of your sister  you have to learn how to praise god even in the midst of the loss is that there's something when we praise god so there's all these principles of truth but guess what you don't apply them they won't work for you oh pastor rich i don't know about except in jesus really works i tried put that in the offering won't give any money i don't think tithing works i tried it how do you try it you gave ten cents and you wonder why didn't work i'm going to try jesus so you try jesus so i know one  and with christ you got to jump in all the way if he's the truth why would you not want all of the true think about that if he is the truth and this is the truth why would you not want all of it every bit of it the truth will set you free let's get real if you do not apply the truths that are found in scripture you will not walk in freedom if you don't apply the truths that don't matter how much truth it is if you know all about chemistry but you don't do the experiment that's wh not going to work you got to apply it if you not believe the bible is the word of god you will not apply the truths that are found in scripture that will give you the build to walk in freedom if you don't believe this is the word of god if you think this is just some old book guess what you want to play the principles so the day of did a bible study with people i realize there's people that don't believe this if you don't believe this why would you apply it i'll tell you the defeat mean you why is it that some of you grew up in christian holmes you grew up with religion some of you grew up in the church and you don't believe this buyable me is an atheist believes in this bible why because as an atheist i did something i says if i'm going to believe this book i got to know it's true so what i did is i took this book and i compared it i look up archaeology i look up science i get a book that says evidence demands a verdict by josh mcdowell i study it out i say what is the reality how these prophecies for them to come to true what's the odds of these prophecies to come t and all the stuff started seeing something for this book to not the odds of this book not being true is greater than this book being true the reality is this book can be confirmed all over and over and over again you are there so many bible translations yeah there is guess what all these bible translation but they all say you need to accept jesus christ your lord and savior to be born again i don't care what translation it is it says the same thing all yeah but it says  appear except to the lord asst so that's the true why no they all say the same thing except jesus christ your lord and savior and so if you don't believe this is the truth you want to apply to if you want to apply it you won't walk christ and then you'll say ah doesn't work i want to serve jesus but i don't want to believe the book tells me how to serve jesus so if you don't believe this is true why don't you go on a hot watch and say to god you know what i don't know if this bible is true you prove to me it's true i put on you god to prove to me it's true and i will tell you he will prove to you it's true but the problem is some of you when he goes to prove to it's true to give you some evidence you're going to deny the evidence because you don't want this to be true because if this bible is with this is the truth of jesus the truth what does it mean about my life it means i got a lot of my life up to the truth or i'm walking a line and i know what i'm it i'm walking allies so all throw away the truth go ahead and throw the truth  listening to me maybe you're on the in you're listening to me listen to me the bottom line is when you meet god in the day of judgment go say you remember when you was on channel seventy seven on the cable channel in seattle this past a riff stood up this is if you don't believe this is the truth a check it out but if we don't believe the truth we're going to have a problem and if we don't believe that truth or not believe in jesus christ the truth will set you free let's get real if you do not spin time in relationship with christ the truth to grow in his grace you will not walk in freedom i wish i had freedom like that person that person seems to not struggle with sin why is because they spend more time with jesus than it is because they are better do you really think that connect tell you something has to riches no better than any person ever worked with and i've worked with the last lost of lost of human beings this is side i've been with child molesters that molested little girls i've been with murderers that killed more than one person i've been with drunk drivers who kill people other drunken driving i've had arsonists i've worked with that have burned up paul and i am no better than them you are just to me and them as i know my jesus that's the only difference is i choose to walk in the truth the best i know how and i fall short of the time but here's the reality if you're not walking with jesus you're not going to have freedom because the truth what gives you free he's with if your freedom if you don't know jesus christ your lord and savior you will not have the bil walk in freedom try it if you don't know jesus try to live a godly life without christ come on how many knows how to walk a got a life with christ so it's hard to walk a guy like with christ how much more if you don't know christ is the truth jesus that gives us the grace to live in overcoming a life of freedom i say it over and over again i know that grace is unmerited favor people say grace is a favor that's true but i hate that definition is not for me to sin and get away with it also paul said just the opposite that grace is not so you know i could do some people are saying this and paul's time they say and i hear christians say it today well you know what it's god it's all nobody believes that i've had christians say those kind of things i've had crips turn around be it a church husband or wife husband wife husband cheats on his wife with that person's wife they all get divorced and the pastor marries the new couple and the past is about because you know god strays covers a lot of what i'm saying is that there is there is hope t v dot org and we have information on frequently asked questions about christianity real let you know step by step accept jesus christ you lord and savior encourage you to go to there is hope t v dot org that is there is hope t v dot org also let you know if you would like to talk to me person you can always give me a call toll free anytime one a six six one god door churches are vision is loving gun loving people loving life now that's the vision for a church to love god to love people love life let me tell you something that if you love god and love people you will love life you know why some people don't love life they don't love god or they don't love people if you love god you don't love people you won't love life let me tell you something else when you love life you will love people you will love god it goes both ways and out of it if you have a love and a passion for god god i just love you with all my heart thank you jesus so you've done so much for me laura i just love you lord what can i do for you that's what happens when you have true love love the lord what can i do you love me how can i love you you know god is going to answer love people that's what he's going to say he's going to say love me because you only love him and you but he know the greatest commandment love the lord thy god with all your heart soul mind and the second greatest commandment is what love others as yourself so loving god leads to loving people let me tell you if you love god or i love you so much what can i do he says i want you to love this person over here i want you to love this person over here i want you to do this for this person here almost are you still love me people start loving god you don't think th a fire let me tell you if you say i don't have a fire in me why don't i have a fire in the wind i'm not excited about life you're probably not loving god loving people try it just try that if you if you think life is kind of boring to start saying god  love people and let me tell you you will be able to love people the way god has you to love them unless you start loving god so long i am my life and i'm a deadbeat human being i'm a deadbeat christian i'm the boss blowing christian there is god change me ok you have been listening to there is so with pastor richard over through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle open door church located in period committed to loving god loving people and loving wife seattle open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you there doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven seattle open door church is located at six twenty five south west one hundred forty ninth street in period next to the southwest courthouse