02-03-2025 part 1: Rediscovering Forgiveness: Wisdom from God's Word!
The central theme of this discourse revolves around the imperative necessity of learning to receive forgiveness. Dr. David Spoon elucidates that while individuals often grapple with the concept of forgiveness, it is vital to embrace the grace extended by God. Throughout the dialogue, he emphasizes the significance of acknowledging one's missteps and the transformative power of divine mercy in fostering personal healing and renewal. The discussion further highlights that true forgiveness is not merely an abstract notion but a practical application in our interactions with others, reinforcing the idea that receiving forgiveness enhances our capacity to extend it. Ultimately, the episode serves as a poignant reminder of the profound implications of accepting God's forgiveness in our spiritual journey.
Dr. David Spoon's discourse in this episode addresses the vital topic of forgiveness, a cornerstone of the Christian faith. The discussion begins with a poignant examination of the necessity for believers to embrace the concept of divine forgiveness, not only as a theological principle but as a transformative experience in their daily lives. Dr. Spoon articulates that many individuals grapple with self-imposed guilt and shame, which can obstruct their path to accepting the fullness of God's mercy. By referencing biblical scripture, he outlines the integral relationship between repentance and forgiveness, positing that acknowledgment of one's wrongdoings is essential for truly experiencing the grace that God offers. This theme of acceptance is further reinforced as he emphasizes the call for believers to extend forgiveness to others, thereby reflecting the divine nature of Christ in their interactions.
As the dialogue progresses, Dr. Spoon delves into the complexities surrounding self-forgiveness, highlighting a common struggle among Christians who find it challenging to forgive themselves for past mistakes. He elucidates that the adversary often capitalizes on these feelings of inadequacy, leading individuals to doubt their worthiness of God's love. By presenting Jesus as the ultimate advocate who intercedes for sinners, Dr. Spoon provides a framework for understanding how believers can garner the strength to forgive themselves and others. The episode is interspersed with personal anecdotes and scriptural insights, enriching the conversation and inviting listeners to reflect on their own experiences with forgiveness.
In the latter part of the episode, Dr. Spoon emphasizes the communal aspect of forgiveness, urging listeners to engage with one another for support and prayer. He highlights that the journey of forgiveness is not meant to be traversed in isolation but rather as a collective endeavor within the body of Christ. By sharing testimonies and prayer requests, believers can foster an environment conducive to healing and reconciliation. Ultimately, the episode encapsulates a profound message: that the acceptance of God's forgiveness is not only a personal journey but also a communal responsibility, urging listeners to embrace and share the grace they have received.
Takeaways:
- Dr. David Spoon emphasizes the importance of receiving forgiveness as a fundamental aspect of Christian faith.
- The act of prayer should be integral and continuous throughout all phases of life, not just in moments of desperation.
- Acknowledging one's faults and seeking forgiveness from God leads to spiritual renewal and healing.
- The concept of advocacy in faith is illustrated through the role of Jesus as our defender before God.
- Forgiveness is an ongoing process that enhances our capacity to extend grace to others.
- The transformative nature of receiving God's forgiveness enables believers to overcome feelings of guilt and shame.
Transcript
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Speaker A:In our audience are people that can pray a little later on.
Speaker A:I'm gonna share a great praise testimony to be coming about.
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Speaker A: -: Speaker A: -: Speaker A: -: Speaker A:By golly, you'll end up talking to Jammin Jacob.
Speaker A:Talking to Jim and Jacob is like heading into the week with great faith and expectation.
Speaker A:That's what it's like because we're heading into the week with great faith and expectation.
Speaker A:So I'm just gonna ask you, do you have faith?
Speaker A:Do you have expectation?
Speaker A:That's the question that I'm asking.
Speaker A:I'm trying to just lay it out there before you.
Speaker A:It's one of the most amazing elements that sometimes we will revert to prayer as a last stand in a situation.
Speaker A:And yet the Lord calls upon us to pray always at all events, in the beginning, in the middle, at the end.
Speaker A:We don't just pray at the end of something when there's nothing left.
Speaker A:We also pray when it starts, when it's in the middle, when it's in the end, at all phases.
Speaker A:Because the Lord is involved in the beginning, in the middle and the end, which is another reason why he's called the Alpha and the Omega.
Speaker A:So what can we pray for you about, John?
Speaker A: Romans: Speaker A:Paul states this.
Speaker A:He says, join in my struggle with me by praying for me.
Speaker A:That's what he's asking people to join him in his struggle by praying.
Speaker A:And we will do the very same.
Speaker A:Now, before we get to that, I want to make sure you understand a couple of different things.
Speaker A:Number one, you can also reach out to us in other ways.
Speaker A: -: Speaker A: -: Speaker A: -: Speaker A: -: Speaker A:Or you can send an email davidemustincrease.org that's davidemustincrease.org and you may be thinking, well, talk to me, talk to me, Dave, what's the dealios?
Speaker A:Well, you can bring a prayer request, you can bring a praise report, something the Lord has done in the phenomenal realm.
Speaker A:How about that?
Speaker A:How about acknowledging that when you share a praise report or a testimony, it honors God?
Speaker A:Most important thing there is right there, honoring the Lord.
Speaker A:Isaiah 43, 7.
Speaker A:We were created to bring glory to God.
Speaker A:Come on now, that's amazing.
Speaker A:Plus, let me say this, you also strengthen it in your own lives.
Speaker A:Plus, you end up being a blessing to other people.
Speaker A:Plus.
Speaker A:So I'm just going to give you a quick praise report and then I'll get from Jacob whatever info he's got for me here.
Speaker A: I got this today at: Speaker A:God moved a mountain.
Speaker A:We just got the official yes to our company hiring the nurse from church.
Speaker A:Christy.
Speaker A:Praise the Lord.
Speaker A:Thank you, everybody that's been praying for that.
Speaker A:We want to give the Lord a praise offering because that is an awesome, awesome, awesome testimony.
Speaker A:Prayer works.
Speaker A:There was no way Christy should have been able to be approved.
Speaker A:Then Julianne went to bat, sought the Lord.
Speaker A:We began praying all over people all over the country.
Speaker A:100% turnaround.
Speaker A:The mountain has been moved and the prayer has been answered.
Speaker A:That is what we're talking about.
Speaker A:Why?
Speaker A:Because God loves us.
Speaker A:I know.
Speaker A:Just yesterday, some politician.
Speaker A:You can do all your prayers and good thoughts all you want.
Speaker A:Doesn't matter.
Speaker A:See how ridiculous that person is?
Speaker A:They're talking against Jesus.
Speaker A:You catching that?
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:Talk about Antichrist.
Speaker A:Hello.
Speaker A:There you go.
Speaker A:Even John, chapter first, John, chapter one, verse two, chapter two.
Speaker A:Sorry.
Speaker A:Verse 8, 9, 10, 11.
Speaker A:All talk about the Antichrist.
Speaker A:People that deny Jesus, those are the people that think prayer can't work.
Speaker A:Ouch.
Speaker A:That hurts.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:We do have something from Jacob.
Speaker A:I think somebody called in, so I want to see what's going on.
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Speaker B:Yes, somebody called in.
Speaker B:They didn't want to be on the air, but they called in for a prayer request.
Speaker B:Her name is Pat.
Speaker B:Peggy.
Speaker B:And she wanted you to pray for her oldest son, Davis, who has cancer.
Speaker B:So she.
Speaker B:That's her prayer request.
Speaker A:All right, let's do it.
Speaker A:Let's do it right now.
Speaker A:So, Peggy, if you're listening, we're going to pray for Davis right now, as everybody's going to take their faith, my faith, your faith, all our faith, together collectively and pray for Davis because he's got a cancer scenario, and that's no fun, obviously.
Speaker A:So let's pray.
Speaker A:Father, we come before you right now and we praise you and thank you first and foremost.
Speaker A:You make it clear, Jesus, when you set up that pattern.
Speaker A:Our Father, who art thou in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Speaker A:Glory unto you, the Lord God Almighty, for doing all that you've done for us.
Speaker A:Past us, through us, with us, around us, because you love us.
Speaker A:And now we petition you as we only can.
Speaker A:We identify you as the King of the universe.
Speaker A:And we petition in the name of Jesus for something we can't do.
Speaker A:Do.
Speaker A:But we believe you can because we have faith.
Speaker A:And so we're asking you to move yet another mountain, Lord God, this time it's For Davis, who's suffering from a cancer diagnosis in a situation.
Speaker A:And Peggy's needing grace and mercy and healing power.
Speaker A:We don't own it, Lord.
Speaker A:You own it.
Speaker A:We petition you to pour it out.
Speaker A:Touch Davis, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker A:So we might hear yet another testimony to glorify your name.
Speaker A:We might rejoice with Peggy.
Speaker A:We might rejoice with one another.
Speaker A:For we cry together, Lord, your word says, and we laugh together and cheer together.
Speaker A:So manifest your kingdom for these people.
Speaker A:We ask you, Lord, in your graciousness, to extend it in Jesus name.
Speaker A:Amen and Amen.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:All right, folks, we got that rolling, right?
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Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Is that Davis or David?
Speaker A:What was that?
Speaker A:Davis.
Speaker B:Davis, yeah.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Just making sure.
Speaker A:Okay, I got that.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:All right, so see, sometimes.
Speaker A:Because it's so close to David, you know?
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Anyway.
Speaker A:All right, so let's go back to what we're talking about.
Speaker A:It might be a praise report, might be a prayer request.
Speaker A:It might be something that's just on your heart and mind.
Speaker A:You want to share it.
Speaker A:The Lord's blessed you, the Lord's protected.
Speaker A:The Lord's guided.
Speaker A:He's provided.
Speaker A:It's amazing how much the Lord does and how much we don't give him credit for.
Speaker A:Sometimes when I'm driving down the road and I look at all the people and they're driving and there's a lot of distractions.
Speaker A:I mean, I think people will at least be honest about that.
Speaker A:That in fact, during that time, I'm amazed that the Lord has such mercy on all of us, that we're not just smashing into things.
Speaker A:I just want to point that out to you.
Speaker A:I think God is much more gracious and has saved us from death more times than we are aware.
Speaker A:But at some point, we will see and know.
Speaker A:Anyway, you are welcome to call.
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Speaker A: -: Speaker A: -: Speaker A:You see, what's great is that we can always come before the Lord.
Speaker A:Instead of running away from God when something's wrong or bad or even when we're doing something wrong, run to God, not away from him.
Speaker A:Some of us have this tendency to not pay attention to God's testimony.
Speaker A:What is God's testimony?
Speaker A:Testimony is when we've done something wrong.
Speaker A:What did he do he put it in the law so we couldn't miss it?
Speaker A:The priest got to come on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, one day of year into the actual presence of God, dealing with what?
Speaker A:The sins of the people.
Speaker A:Instead of running from away from God, we should be running to God.
Speaker A:Instead of hiding and putting on fake clothing, we should be empty before him and be honest and watch his healing power, his grace, and his mercy.
Speaker A:I maintain and will fight this to the very end.
Speaker A:We do not understand the fullness of the grace of God, how it is that we can do so many dumb things.
Speaker A:And yet he's right there.
Speaker A:Amazing, right?
Speaker A:Okay, we do have somebody else on the line.
Speaker A:Let's see what's going on.
Speaker A:Let's go ahead and send them on through.
Speaker A:Knock, knock.
Speaker A:This is David.
Speaker A:Who am I talking to?
Speaker C:Hey, David.
Speaker C:This is Samson.
Speaker A:Hi, Samson.
Speaker A:How are you, brother?
Speaker C:Good.
Speaker C:Hey.
Speaker C:I want to publicly apologize to our David Spoon Experience family on my last Friday.
Speaker C:One of my jokes wasn't very uplifting, and I think it was a very poor choice by me.
Speaker C:And I want to publicly confess about my poor choice and ask our family to please forgive me.
Speaker C:And I truly apologize if I hurt it or offended anybody.
Speaker C:So please forgive me and I love you and thank you for listening this request.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker A:Thank you, my brother.
Speaker A:You are blessed.
Speaker A:Do you hear me?
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:God bless, bro.
Speaker C:Thank you.
Speaker A:Bye bye.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:Very good.
Speaker A:You think?
Speaker A:Why is that important?
Speaker A:Well, the Bible says, confess your faults to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed.
Speaker A:So we pray for Sam.
Speaker A:Pray for him over the weekend that he would not take.
Speaker A:He said something shouldn't have said.
Speaker A:Okay, got it.
Speaker A:Now, look, I haven't done that 5,000 times.
Speaker A:We'll just move on from there, okay?
Speaker A:Great job, Samson.
Speaker A:That's a great spirit, a great attitude.
Speaker A:When we do something wrong.
Speaker A:Let me just say this.
Speaker A:I don't care if this is bothering anybody or not.
Speaker A:Listen, when we do something wrong, we bring it.
Speaker A:We bring it to the Lord.
Speaker A:So I'm sitting there and I'm reading in First John, chapter two of my devotionals, and I am amazed.
Speaker A:And this is something we'll probably get into.
Speaker A:But I'm just overwhelmed.
Speaker A:Sometimes when you look at 1 John 2, I'm opening up my Bible, which means we're going somewhere else that I wasn't planning on going.
Speaker A:So what else is new in First John, chapter two?
Speaker A:And I want you to hear what is said because it's an amazing what's the word I'm looking for.
Speaker A:It's an amazing statement.
Speaker A:We miss my little children.
Speaker A:So here is John writing to my little children.
Speaker A:These aren't to Gnostics that some scholars might say, that's absurd.
Speaker A:There's more personal tonality in this epistle than any other epistle ever.
Speaker A:And so, my little children, these things I write to you so that you may not sin.
Speaker A:And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
Speaker A:So I'm not smart the way that like Robert of Robert and Rosalind are smart because they're attorney kind of people, right?
Speaker A:But I think to some degree that when we look at the phrase advocate, I think to some degree we can in fact understand that an advocate in many ways is a defense attorney in many elements, not all, but in many.
Speaker A:And what we need to recognize is when we do dumb dumb, and we've done dumb dumb, we have an advocate, we have a defense attorney, we have Jesus standing for us, advocating for us on our behalf.
Speaker A:And it's Jesus, he advocates in the advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, which verse 2 of 1 John 2 says he himself is the propitiation for our sins.
Speaker A:That word propitiation means the actual sacrifice.
Speaker A:So Jesus is our propitiation, Jesus is our sacrifice.
Speaker A:He as the sacrifice, comes to God the Father and on our behalf, defends us.
Speaker A:Is he defending our sin?
Speaker A:No, he's not.
Speaker A:He's defending the righteousness that has been put upon us because of our connection to Jesus.
Speaker A:And I gotta say this, this is something that's.
Speaker A:I haven't said this in a long, long time.
Speaker A:Wow.
Speaker A:Just flooding my own heart and mind with memories of my Christian walk right now.
Speaker A:In the beginning of my Christianity, it took me a while to get into the zones and to get, you know, really connected to the Lord.
Speaker A:But once I started getting, drawing near to God and drawing closer to God, one thing that I noticed that it was starting to become unescapable is that as I was drawing closer to the Lord and getting closer to him, remember in 1 John 1, in him is all light.
Speaker A:He is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Speaker A:So when you're getting closer to him who is light, some of the stuff in us kind of pops up.
Speaker A:Some of our darkness gets seen by us.
Speaker A:So I spent a really long time trying to understand, Boy, I'm getting closer to the Lord, but I'm seeing worse and worse.
Speaker A:I'm seeing things in me I didn't even think were there or could still be there or Function in those ways, or whatever the case may be.
Speaker A:And as I grew in the Lord, one of the things that came to me in my communion with the Lord is I have to have the same faith that Jesus loves me as I have to have that same faith that he forgives me.
Speaker A:Do you know how many people out there who are listening to my voice right now say yes to Jesus, but then also end up agreeing with Satan when Satan accuses them?
Speaker A:Listen, Satan is the accuser of the brethren.
Speaker A:That is his definition on his name, right?
Speaker A:That is one of the things that he does.
Speaker A:He comes against us, he challenges us, he says that we are no good.
Speaker A:He did the same thing to the Son of God.
Speaker A:If you are the Son of God, only Satan goes.
Speaker A:If you were really a Christian, same thing.
Speaker A:It's the same reasoning.
Speaker A:It's the same.
Speaker A:And we need to be standing in the forgiveness that God grants us with the same level of faith that we believe Jesus Christ died, was buried, and rose again and is coming back.
Speaker A:We need to have the same faith and confidence in the mercy and the grace, the forgiveness and the kindness of God that we have had in all these other areas with God.
Speaker A:Everybody thinks, oh, God's going to going to make it right.
Speaker A:The righteous judge is going to come, it's going to get all righted, Everything's going to be switched around.
Speaker A:That's true.
Speaker A:But you also, and I also need to function on a regular basis that the forgiveness of God is a part of our lives.
Speaker A:Do you know that dumb thing you did before you were a Christian and then you became a Christian and you were like.
Speaker A:And then you find out, you're amazed that you started to do other dumb things in different realms.
Speaker A:And you might have even felt worse about what you've done afterwards, going, I'm a Christian, I should know better.
Speaker A:No, you're a Christian.
Speaker A:And because you're redeemed, you're more aware of what you're doing and how wrong it is because you're drawing closer to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
Speaker A:You're drawing closer to the light of the world.
Speaker A:And in him is no darkness.
Speaker A:As you draw closer, that reflection of his light shows everything.
Speaker A:Everything.
Speaker A:And those thoughts, those words, those actions that we've all engaged with in petitioning the Lord and seeking his help, those are under the blood of Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:Now, you just answered this question.
Speaker A:Is your sinning and your struggle bigger than Jesus as a savior?
Speaker A:That's the question we have to answer.
Speaker A:How much does he love us?
Speaker A:That in his Continued ministry as he sent the Holy Spirit to do his ministry on the earth.
Speaker A:At the same time, Jesus is interceding for us, defending us.
Speaker A:He's our advocate.
Speaker A:So listen to me, listen to what I'm going to say.
Speaker A:When Peter was talking to all of the people, when they were making their first time decision, right?
Speaker A:They're making their first time decision as Peter is talking to them in Acts chapter two, and they're all like, oh gosh, what do we got to do?
Speaker A:What do we got to do?
Speaker A:Then when you get into Acts chapter three and we've covered this at great length, so I don't want anybody to miss this, but we need to understand that when we get confronted by the Lord and there's something in us and we need to change, here's what the word of God says.
Speaker A:Acts chapter 3, 3, 17.
Speaker A:Now brethren, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did your rulers.
Speaker A:But those things which God foretold by the mouth of his prophets and by the Christ that he would suffer has been fulfilled.
Speaker A:Repent, therefore be converted, that your sins may be blotted out so that refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.
Speaker A:When you've done something wrong and you know it, own it.
Speaker A:Just exactly what Samson did.
Speaker A:Moving on, dead, gone, under the blood no more.
Speaker A:But now in doing that, we open ourselves up before the Lord for times of refreshing.
Speaker A:Can I get an unspoken amen on how many of us need times of refreshing?
Speaker A:How many of us need that refreshment?
Speaker A:How many of us need that renewal?
Speaker A:How many of us need that time?
Speaker A:Or you go into the word of God and he speaks to you through his word and it drops off the page and you just become alive.
Speaker A:That's his commitment to us.
Speaker A:That's his non ending.
Speaker A:I am with you forever.
Speaker A:Promise he will never abandon you now.
Speaker A:He will never forsake us and even when we do something wrong.
Speaker A:And I know there's some of you out there going, dave, you don't know.
Speaker A:You don't know it's bad.
Speaker A:Here's my response.
Speaker A:You don't know your Savior because he knows what you were going to do, did and will do and saved you anyway.
Speaker A:That's the kind of savior we serve.
Speaker A:That's the kind of king that's in our lives.
Speaker A:I'm telling you right now, some of you, you're bound up in some of this and it's like, look, you don't owe your sin anything and it taunts you.
Speaker A:It's kind of like Goliath taunting you.
Speaker A:Listen to this taunting you?
Speaker A:I mean, is that just you're thinking?
Speaker A:What do you mean sin's taunting me?
Speaker A:Listen, when God was talking to Cain and Abel, God told Cain, sin is crouching at your door.
Speaker A:It desires to have you.
Speaker A:He told him, hey, that sin's got an appetite.
Speaker A:It's hungry for you, pal.
Speaker A:That's what sin is.
Speaker A:That's what sin does.
Speaker A:But that's what the grace of God delivers us from.
Speaker A:I want you to hear it.
Speaker A:I want you to know it.
Speaker A:I want you to embrace it.
Speaker A:I'm sick and tired of, you know.
Speaker A:Well, Christians shouldn't do this.
Speaker A:Christian shouldn't do this.
Speaker A:Christians shouldn't do this.
Speaker A:That's always the worldly people telling people what a Christian should be.
Speaker A:How would they know what a Christian's like?
Speaker A:They don't even know Jesus from a brown paper bag.
Speaker A:It's absurd.
Speaker A:What you are as a Christian is forgiven.
Speaker A:The blood of Jesus is greater than your stupidities.
Speaker A:And it's of more value than all the gold in all the world.
Speaker A:That's the payment God made for you.
Speaker A:The blood of Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:Christ.
Speaker A:So once you've acknowledged it and once you've come before the Lord and God, help, which I think still is the greatest prayer ever, help, you need to be a receiver.
Speaker A:A receiver of the forgiveness of God.
Speaker A:And let me tell you this.
Speaker A:The more you receive the forgiveness and the grace and the mercy that comes from God, the more you extend it.
Speaker A:Because the more you take in, the more you're capable of sharing.
Speaker A:And some of you are kind of like, well, I can't forgive this person, or I can't forgive this.
Speaker A:Well, that's something much deeper going on than you just can't forgive.
Speaker A:It's because you're not forgiving yourself, maybe even for getting caught in the whole thing, caught up in the whole thing in the first place.
Speaker A:Here's what I'm trying to say.
Speaker A:God loves you.
Speaker A:He chose you.
Speaker A:He wants to spend eternity with you.
Speaker A:He doesn't spend eternity with somebody he doesn't like.
Speaker A:That's just dumb.
Speaker A:And God wants to spend eternity with you personally.
Speaker A:You and your sins are forgiven as a Christian in the blood of Jesus Christ.
Speaker A:Ephesians 1:7 by his blood.
Speaker A:Colossians 1:20 by his cross.
Speaker A:Those sins, no, gone, sorry.
Speaker A:Wiped out.
Speaker A:Now what are we doing?
Speaker A:Getting to look like, be like, function like, think like, speak like, do like Jesus as God is releasing his billboards of Jesus all over the planet.
Speaker A:That's a mighty powerful kingdom, isn't it?
Speaker A:It's still advancing 2,000 years later.
Speaker A:That's how powerful it is.
Speaker A:That's how much God loves you.
Speaker A:And I.
Speaker A:Some of you are out there and you're like, wow, is this all part of it?
Speaker A:Is all part of the plan?
Speaker A:No, this is all impromptu because the Lord is trying to say something to people.
Speaker A:Receive my forgiveness.
Speaker A:You are forgiven.
Speaker A:That is what the Lord speaks to his people.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:All right, cool.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker A:We will take our break and then come back, see what happens then.
Speaker A:You're listening to the David Spoon Experience right here on Kaam 770, the truth station here in Texas.
Speaker A:Short break.
Speaker A:Don't go anywhere.
Speaker A:Galatians 5:1.
Speaker A:This is one of the first verses in my Christian faith that I learned, which is, you know, you don't think about it, but when I first became a Christian, people would share this verse with him.
Speaker A:I didn't know why.
Speaker A:I was gonna find out why, because God was gonna set me free from a lot of drug use.
Speaker A:But I didn't know then what was going on.
Speaker A:I was like, oh, I keep hearing this verse.
Speaker A:Galatians 5:1.
Speaker A:The freedom for freedom.
Speaker A:Christ has set us free.
Speaker A:Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.
Speaker A:So now in our society, you say the word slavery and people start going, and then everybody starts freaking out.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:We're never going to change what the gospel is.
Speaker A:And the gospel is the reality, the truth.
Speaker A:We're not going to alter for culture.
Speaker A:We're not going to say it differently so people aren't offended.
Speaker A:If you're offended, turn the radio off.
Speaker A:Okay?
Speaker A:That's your answer.
Speaker A:You've got fingers.
Speaker A:Use them.
Speaker A:You got the ability to turn it on.
Speaker A:You got the ability to turn it off.
Speaker A:Here's the bottom line.
Speaker A:Every one of us, every one of us before Jesus Christ was in bondage to sin.
Speaker A:Every one of us, now that we are in Jesus Christ, we are free from the penalty of that sin.
Speaker A:And the Lord is working in us the process to overcome that sin.
Speaker A:Practically, we've talked about it multiple times.
Speaker A:You understand salvation from a little bit of a smart, not smart, smart, multiple scripture point of view.
Speaker A:Scriptures talk about salvation being past tense.
Speaker A:Scripture talks about salvation being present tense, and Scripture talks about salvation being future tense.
Speaker A:The only way that could happen is if.
Speaker A:Watch this.
Speaker A:Salvation is past tense, present tense, and future tense.
Speaker A:The only way it can happen is because that's what it says.
Speaker A:And so in that, we need to understand that from the past point of view, we are free from the penalty of sin.
Speaker A:Yay.
Speaker A:Currently we're going through what is called sanctification, where we're being delivered.
Speaker A:We're delivered from the power of sin, and we're learning in our own lives.
Speaker A:We don't have to live for sin.
Speaker A:And then eventually, when we're with the Lord forever and ever, we will be free from the presence of sin, and there won't be any evil, any bad, any yucky.
Speaker A:Okay, cool.
Speaker A:In the meantime, while the justification, while the penalty for sin is done, while the freedom is there, the sanctification process is the one where he makes you look like Jesus now that he's pronounced you to be like Jesus.
Speaker A:And that's the one you got to fight through.
Speaker A:That's the one that you have to go, you know what?
Speaker A:I'm free.
Speaker A:I just don't have to do that.
Speaker A:I don't have to.
Speaker A:That, therefore, becomes a responsibility, because the scripture says, stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery.
Speaker A:Which means that you can, but if you do, it'll be your choice.
Speaker A:The David Spoon experience.
