free most of you know so if the sun sets you free be free indeed how many know those two verses ok one of us to say that most of you do not full context of those versus sun sets free is free indeed that you can be free through jesus christ we are going to be celebrating july th is happening what is a thursday is july th ok and we celebrated in america for what purpose what's the reason we celebrate freedom right then america is the land of the free and the home of the brave ok it actually comes for the star spangled banner so we celebrate freedom in america freedom is a great thing is a wonderful thing we're here today and we can preach today and we don't have to be afraid of somebody killing to shooting us imprison us because we have freedom in america freedom is a great thing we're going to talk about is the freedom that jesus talks about not america freedom but the freedom that jesus talks about because america's freedom many in america i wonder if not most of america think freedom m you can do whatever you want that's what freedom means in america to mold you could do whatever you want you have freedom to do whatever you want yes you have the freedom to worship any way you want you have the freedom of religion you have the freedom to own guns you have the freedom to vote you have the freedom to not vote right and you have the freedom to live the lifestyle you want to live as long as it doesn't break any law do you know a lot of that freedom we talk about has good in it and there's some freedom that has bad in it because guess what you also have the freedom and do have the freedom to sin the freedom to sin leads to bondi beach but in america you have a lot of freedom to  don't countries you don't have the freedom to sin if you want to be a homosexual marriage you will not be killed in other countries you will be killed if you're homeless if you have the freedom to sin i'd be the other free to be a homosexual and freedom to be whatever you i will lean towards sin how many know that it is our nature jesus coming on this earth dying for since that he gives us victory over sin it is a victory to live a victorious life but here's the truth of the matter unless crisis in our life and we allow him to rule and reign we lean towards bondage we don't lean towards freedom do you know that many of us pick up arch we pick up our chains of sin when you sin you become into bondage and that bondage could be all kinds of different things as so we have that body you know it's amazing some people embrace the chains how many people are braced their addiction they embrace it how many embrace you know i need some money and so i need some money so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go gambling so i can get some money so i can make money how we know that those who have that mindset most of the time what they lose ok and the sad part is sometimes they don't lose so they don't realize they're wearing chains but then they lose everything they find out there were changes all kinds of different chains that we put on and how many know the devil is behind all that trying to grab us he's trying to pull us in the problem is it doesn't look like this could be a car i'm up here my wife you come up here now you come up here now kate if the devil came to my wife and told her to do something that was sin and he he probably does away with this because she'd run wouldn't she so he turns around and uses something sweet but you know what it really is he wants to take her out he just doesn't happen to use this do you know he does not want you to have freedom to not sin he watch you have freedom to sin he doesn't want you to have the freedom to not sin ruin talk about the freedom to not somebody else to beat me up if i did that to him ok we're going to take this passage so we here in the word if you know the truth the truth will set you free we here the sun sets you free you'll be free indeed but listen if you up to die i want to be direct right now if you want to be free we're going to find out who want to be free you got to be in the word you know why some people aren't free they're too stubborn so if you're in a church service in the pastor says grab this the light of the world whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life jesus is going to give principals of how you can walk in freedom jesus is going to give you principles that will teach you truth that will help you to be free and the st truth he says here is if you walk in darkness you walk in sin he says i am the light of the rolled whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but we have the light of life if you're not following him guess what you're going to walk in darkness i have a question for you if you're walking in darkness deception and going bondage of sin have no conviction and how you are living are you a true follower of christ i'm a dead t o you again if you're walking in darkness deception and going body each of sin have no conviction in how you are living are you a true follower of christ jesus as their  not walk in darkness so jesus says we're follows will not walk in darkness if you're choosing to walk in darkness you're not walking in the light you're not following jesus because listen to me if you're following jesus does he take you into darkness now if you follow jesus when you take we take you at times a place of dark this to minister to others that are in darkness so in other words would jesus in you into a bar minister somebody in a bar this it will be absolutely because guess what you may never be able to minister to that person that said the bar unless you go into the bar but if he calls you in lead you into the darkness of the bar what's his purpose for you to bring a light in the midst of the darkness because some of you think you shouldn't do that and you know what that's one reason why we don't have th dark this is the ministers not to so we participate in the darkness because we're supposed to be bringing the light this is it if you're walking in the darkness if you're participating in darkness and deception if you're participating in an ongoing sin with to repent you are living in bondage do you know that if you are walking in on going willful sin that everybody knows the rules as it even call a darkness then you're walking in bondage and you can be set free if you choose to walk in bondage i got a civil different chains here i got nice these chains your hands are going to get dirty i won't dare touch my shirt because my wife will kill me but if i was to put these chains on my shirt what would happen they start to get dirty right get messed up so there is sin like that and we all know about that kind of sin and even the last even the wicked know what kind of sin that is but the problem is for many things they got t bring the light so if you walk in darkness if you walk in sin you most likely are not following jesus and if you're not following jesus you will live in bond and if you live in bondage the sun can't set you free because you don't want to be free and ninety four in the bible where body has to be in the bible if they want to be free if you don't want to look at the verses why won't you look at him or read him because the word of god itself will speak to you i don't know a pastor richest saying well when you read it you know exactly what i'm saying but then again i don't really want to hear the word because the word might convict me and then i'd have to repent john eight to eighteen to nineteen this is jesus speaking i am the one who bears witness about myself and the father who sit me bears witness about me they said to him therefore where is your father jesus answered you know neither me nor my father if you knew we are god now listen what he says this look at it again i am the one who bears witness about myself jesus speaks about who he is and the father sit me where's bears witness about me so jesus speaks who he is and the spot father speaks who he is he's saying we are one if you seen the father you've seen me if you see me you've seen the father he's talking about something about relationship isn't a he's talking about relationship they said to him therefore where is your father and others are saying where is your dad joseph they don't understand who is father truly is jesus answered you know neither me nor my father if you knew me you know my father also i have a question did jesus say they did not know him or the father why did jesus tell them that why did jesus say that to them here's the reason why if you know jesus in the father you do there will you do their will if you have relationship with them you would do their will if i have a relationship with my father i will honor my father will i not if i have a healthy relationship with them is a jew says you don't know me you don't know the father they were doing his will he's talking to the jewish leaders the religious ones the fairer c s and the a probably got angry as can be because then they realize he's saying they don't know god and they get they would get angry as can be and their type of people that have another kind of bondage they are the ones who are controlled by religion not relationship they're the ones controlled by the legalism they're controlled by the do's and dull it's their the ones that are controlled by nothing new that has to do with relationship with god is all about the law all about the rules do you understand that that is bondage all soul so i want to give you the ten commandments and tell you to live by them every one of those commandments are good for you and i tell you you must live by them and if you believe you must live by them by your own straying what will happen you will be miserable all the tie you will be embalmed each all the time now this take the old testament ten commandments and take jesus interpretation of them old testament they commit adultery jesus says if you even look at a woman you've committed lust and you committed adultery jesus made the role harder so if you try to follow the rule according to jesus us you have a real hard time jesus takes the commandment says you shall not kill and he says even if you hate somebody you have them you follow that commandment that jesus gives and you try to do that on your have a hard time as soon as anger fills you you will have filled guilt will feel shame i broke what jesus said i am no good i am a cannot follow god's law i am a use this human being there is nothing i can do to serve god god is a mean cruel god do you know that is body legalism is bondage trying to fulfill the law and your own strain is bondage and you are poor by guilt and shame all the time they're controlled by everything you do is built upon guilt and shame on your poor and one way to another and you're trying to fulfill god's word on your own strain and that is bondage that is not freedom jesus said the truth will set you free and jesus said if the sun sets you free you're free indeed but if you walk in darkness you walk in blatant will on going on repentance then you're not free if you don't know the father if you don't know g s the future of a love relationship with god and you're trying to follow the rules you don't have freedom now i want you to think about something soul that word no means to perceive to know by off for me observation in other words there's a knowing that you know because you can see it so it for example i know carmi loves me because she shows expressions of law that's how i know  perceived i observe that you showed love overwhelming love that those my my what it does it humbles me it causes me to say how do i show my love back as the church showed me love you see it i deserve the love one then what does it make me want to do to love back you see if you know god the father you know jesus you know their love if you know their love of you want to give love back if you're not giving love back to god by the life that you live you have to ask yourself do you know him if you're not giving love back to jesus for all that he's done for you yet there is yourself do i really know him as my lord and savior because listen if you love somebody you honor them you respect them you do you kin to show your love towards them if you know the father god almighty you know jesus there should be something that you're doing that does what reflects that relationship if you know what your doing grieves the holy spirit causes god to be sad and you continue to do it what kind of relationship do you have and i would argue that you're probably b up in sin you're bound up in self you're bound up in other things and those things that you're in bondage to is more important to you than god lord god i would pray for each one of us  would embrace the truth that we would embrace jesus christ lord i prayed for each of us lord god that we would be at a place where we'd be honest about our relationship with christ and we would ask ourselves do i have a relationship with jesus am i born again do i have the spirit of god living in me do i hate sin or do i love sin do i love the word or do i hate the word do i want to spend time with jesus or do i want to spend time in the role that each of us would really explore and ask ourselves do i want freedom to sin or do i want freedom to not sin do i want relationship with jesus or do i want relationship with the things of this world and i would pray father god if there's anybody in this room that doesn't know jesus christ as lord and say they would ask jesus to take charge of their life lord if there's anybody in this room that knows about jesus but doesn't know jesus that they would cry out to get a relationship with jesus christ would pray that anybody that's been in bondage to sin they would take these principles that we have shared and they would apply them in their life so they can get the victory god i'd thank you that through jesus christ we can have victory over sin through cheese christ we can experience eternity in heaven and so one sigyn lord i would pray that if there's anybody that's in this room there's anybody that is watching this t show if they have not made a commitment to jesus christ they would do that today they would say jesus i'm a sinner i'm bound up in sin i'm bound up with this world i want to get free lord anybody that is pray that in by that is said that anybody that's their heart of hearts that they can be assured that they have eternal life in jesus christ and experience the joy of heaven and not face the condemnation of hell so we thank you jesus that you purchased salvation for us and through you we can be free in jesus name a open 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 don't love life let me taste something else when you love life you will of people you know love god it goes both ways and out of it if you have a love and a passion for god and you say 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 already love him and you but he know the greatest commandment love the lord thy god with all your heart soul mind and the nd 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 oh star you still love me people start loving god you don't think there's 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 won't be able to love people the way god has you to love them unless you start loving god alone i my life and i'm a deadbeat human being i'm a deadbeat christian i'm the boss blank christian areas god change me 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  loving life will 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 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