Freedom isn't something you hope to reach someday. Jesus already finished the work, and you are free, period.
Pastor Bill Scheer kicks off a two-week series on freedom at Guts Church, walking through John 8, Romans 6 and Romans 8. Learn how to cancel doubt, stop giving sin authority over your life, and live free from condemnation and the curse. Along the way, he shares a real story about refusing to compromise when God has already given you everything.
MESSAGE NOTES
• Jesus has set us free and through faith in His Word. We learn to live in that freedom.
John 8:36
Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
1 Corinthians 2:16
For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct
Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
Philippians 2:5
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus
John 8:31–36
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you
abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall
know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
33 They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and
have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, ‘You
will be made free’?”
34 Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever
commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 And a slave does not abide in
the house forever, but a son abides forever. 36 Therefore if the
Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
Romans 8:1–2
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in
Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but
according to the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
Galatians 3:13–14
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having
become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who
hangs on a tree”), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come
upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the
promise of the Spirit through faith.
1. Jesus breaks the authority of sin.
• Sin has no authority in my life!
Sin no longer has the right to rule my life.
Romans 6:6-14
6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the
body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer
be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin.
8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live
with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the
dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him.
10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the
life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon
yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ
Jesus our Lord.12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you
should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members
as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves
to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as
instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have
dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
• The sin that once ruled you has no right to run your future!
2. Jesus frees us from condemnation.
3. Jesus redeems us from the curse of the law.
• We’re living in an age of redemption.
Galatians 3:13-14
13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having
become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who
hangs on a tree”), 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come
upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the
promise of the Spirit through faith.
Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs
according to the promise.
