Episode Transcript
Welcome to the World Changers Church Gold Coast Podcast. Join us as we listen to today's message. You know, I've been talking to my wife the past couple days and we've been talking about, she's, you know, thank you for all your prayers and prayers for her family.
I really do appreciate all that. She's not here, she's in America right now. But I've been talking to her and she said, Pastor Tina, she was like, well, Kyle, I just... I'm missing everything, but I'm going to try and be back for Eli's birthday. And I said, honey, no matter when you come back, we're just going to be glad to have you.
When I said that, for some reason, I started thinking about various things when it comes to Christ. And no matter what is happening, whether it's early on time or late, I'm just glad to have Christ. Amen.
Amen. And I think about this Resurrection Sunday, about the 400 years in the Bible that they were looking and waiting for a savior, amen? I'm looking at the thousands of years and generations of the promise from Isaiah who promised a Messiah, a savior of the people.
And I'm looking at their worship. Man, they stomped Jericho down with their praise, amen? Amen?
They crossed rivers when there was no way. They're like slapping it with cloaks and boom, Joshua, there we go. Did it just like Moses. They opened up seas and they saw miracles, but sometimes they saw nothing and they still worshiped with all their energy. Because they knew something, they knew they have a God that is with them.
Amen? And as Jules has been painting this beautiful painting over here this morning, and maybe we'll have her come up at the end if there's enough time to tell us a little bit about it. But I'm going to tell you something.
When I see the face of Jesus, when I think on him, I do not see a disfigured man. I do not see him hanging on a cross. I do not see him with fiery eyes and white hair because he ain't there yet.
He's not coming back. You know what I see? Loving, caring eyes.
When I think of the Father, I have reverence for the Father. And sometimes I think I need to have more. I see knees and feet.
I hate to say it that way. I'm afraid to look up because he's just so awesome. But the afraid part is not because I'm afraid of him.
It's because I have reverence for what he gave so that I could be saved. If y'all ask for my son to save you, honey, go get a puppy because I ain't helping you. But he gave something that was most precious to him.
For God so loved the world. Y'all knew I was going to come out with John 3, 16. That he gave his only begotten son so that whoever believes on him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. And those people before the cross, they lived with their eyes on Jesus. And somehow after the cross, we live with our eyes on us.
Do it. Okay, you don't want to go. That was a little detour.
We're coming back. Amen. Somehow we've made it about the cross more than the resurrection.
The eggs more than the Holy Spirit. Amen. Oh, Lord.
Y'all are a hard crowd today. A lot of new folk in here. Tap the new people on the shoulder and say, it's okay.
He's not that mean. Amen. Amen.
He's not going to have you crying by the end of the service. We promise he's going to make you feel good because he has the love of Jesus on the inside. Amen.
But if you feel bad, need to repent, go ahead and do that. But it ain't because I was mean to you. Okay.
It's because God's grace is so good. It led you to repentance. Amen.
It is the goodness of God that leads men to repentance. How can you see what God gave and not go, Lord, I'm sorry for what I haven't, I need to receive this gift, amen? Because the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the cornerstone of our faith, not the death.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ was the cornerstone, amen? Symbolizing victory, come on, somebody, victory over death and sin, amen? You know, I was watching some cricket games the other day and I was, it's the most boring, sorry if y'all love cricket, most boringest thing I've ever watched in my life.
I like, and people just, every time something happens, they're like, woo! I'm like, man, my kids used to hit a wiffle ball better than that. Y'all cheering like they hitting the six.
I'm like, they hitting the two. I don't know what they doing. Sorry for y'all that love cricket.
But them people were cheering. I was watching people watching the NBA and sports and rugby. They're cheering for their team even when their team is losing.
Here's the thing about our team. We're always winning. Even when it looks like we're losing, we're always winning.
It's when people get caught up in themselves that they fail. I think if Saul... King Saul before David could have seen the cross and could have seen the resurrection. He would not have worried about what people thought of him.
Lord, save me from my sin before the people see it. He would have been like David. Lord, search me and try me and put in me the right heart and clean spirit.
And that question that he gave, that he answered for David, he promised to us. The moment he did it for David, he did it for all generations. And through that seed came Jesus.
Amen? Oh, this is good. I'm already excited.
I'm on point one. I'm just in like the first paragraph. This event in history assures every believer of eternal life, but also grants us profound freedom.
Amen? Amen. So I wanna look at this exploration of spiritual freedom today and liberty through the lens of the New Testament.
So let's look at freedom from sin. I don't know who's doing words, but I didn't give you any scriptures today, so do your best. We're gonna look at in a minute Romans 6, six through seven. When we talk about freedom from sin, we're talking about the ability to say no.
Amen? We're talking about sin and its consciousness is no longer a part of me. I have righteousness thinking. Amen?
The more I focus on sin, the more an alcoholic says, I don't want to drink anymore, the more they fail and drink. The more an addict says, I don't want to do drugs, the more they do them. The more an adulterer, the more of this, the more a liar, the more they think about the thing they don't want to do, they do it the more. but the more they think about what they're going to do, they leave other things behind.
When it comes to Christ, my God, I'm already excited. When it comes to Christ, we can leave former things behind and move on to new things because of him. Not our strength, but the grace granted to us that gives us the ability to profoundly do what he's called us to do.
Amen. So Paul, in this letter to Romans, asserts that through Jesus' resurrection, believers are liberated from the bondage of sin. Let's look at it.
We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. For when we died with Christ, we were set free from the power of sin.
This scripture emphasizes the power that empowers us to live free from the dominion of sin. Now when I sit in a car that has a vroom vroom engine, I'm scared of it. I think I'm more scared when JoJo drives, though.
I'm kidding, I love you. But when I sit in a car that has a powerful engine, it is not me that has the ability to go fast, it is the car's ability. And I have to work with it so that we don't crash.
Does that make sense? So when I was trying to explain Forgive me, Joe. To Joe, when we're driving, driving's more about feeling than it is seeing.
You gotta feel how the car moves, and you gotta go where the car goes, and you gotta feel what the car wants to do versus more than you. And so when you start giving it gas, you've opened it up to do something that was unavailable to you before, but now is available, so now you have to surrender to it. Grace has done the same thing.
It is so powerful. Jesus has given us the ability to have freedom from sin so that we can live a life of liberty. Let's look at 1 Corinthians 15, 17, where Paul stresses that Christ has been raised.
So, and if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins. That'll hit you in the gut. But guess what? Christ has been raised and you are not guilty of your sins.
Therefore, go and sin no more. Amen. Man, I've felt like the adulterous woman a hundred times.
I've got my hecklers and jecklers wanting to throw stones at me. And I've been brought before crowds. I've had my name drug through the mud.
I've had everything happen to me because of what I believe. And every time I come before Jesus, he looks at my accusers and said, who here is without sin? And then they throw down their stones.
And he looks at me and says, you know what? You've been forgiven. Go and sin no more.
Amen? I don't know how many times we've failed in life, but our failure is our ability to depend on him even more. Is this good?
Come on, somebody. Paul stresses that if Christ has not been raised, faith is futile and sin remains unforgiven. He has revised and more in-depth version of paragraph of freedom from sin.
Let's get some soundproofing up there. No, I'm kidding. You know what I love?
You know what I love? Is that we have kids upstairs. You know how many churches would love to have kids upstairs?
Have life in their church instead of being heaven's waiting room. Oh, did I say that out loud? I repent, Lord.
But Corinthians says, Paul stresses our freedom from sin. Through the resurrection of Christ, we believers have been set free from the shackles of sin. Amen?
Amen? Amen? Amen.
Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, believers have been set free. This pivotal concept is captured in Romans 6, 6 through 7, where Paul, in Romans 6, 6 through 7, described the believer's old self as having been crucified with him, signifying a decisive, amen, a decisive break from sin's control. The imaginary power of sin.
You know what the devil wants to make you believe? even through Christendom today. The devil wants you to believe today that every mistake you make is gonna follow you and your children.
Every mistake you made in the past is gonna catch up to you. The devil wants to remind you of who you were where Christ wants to remind you who you are. The law showed us the need for a savior, but grace showed you what a savior provides.
and how to live in that promise. And if we can focus on the promise, we can overcome the problem. Amen?
And where love is, it covers a multitude of sins. That doesn't mean we just go sinning freely. That means that we see that love, and we see how good he is to us, and we turn from sin and lead a life in the spirit.
Amen? Is this good? Amen?
I found that people live in such sin consciousness that they don't understand how free they are from sin. Romans 6, 6 through 7. Let's look at that.
I want to look at it again. Look at where it says, we know that our old sinful selves were crucified with so that sin might lose its power in our lives. There's a key point here.
Know. Look at this, look at this. We know.
I'm going to say it again until you get it. We know. We know. I'm going to say it one more time.
We know. that our old sinful selves were crucified. Until you know that your old sinful self has been crucified, you will continue to act like your old self.
Amen? It's when you accept that that old you has been crucified that you can begin to walk free and loose from its power in your lives. Well, I've accepted Jesus.
I know these things, but I still struggle with this. That means there is unredeemed areas in your thinking. There is unredeemed parts in your heart that you have not surrendered to Christ.
It does not take the power from the resurrection. It just means there's areas that you have not yielded yet. Grace is so powerful that it has given you such freedom that you've lived in that cage for so long, you don't know that the doors open.
You don't know that you can freely live. Leave, amen? Amen?
I'm gonna make myself feel old, but Otis in that show Mayberry with Andy Griffith, y'all don't know that, but there's this guy, Otis, that comes in every night that the sheriff leaves a jail cell open for him, and he opens it during the day, and the deputy goes, what are you doing? Oh, I'm just getting Otis' room ready. Otis comes in, town drunk, every night, comes in, don't have to worry about picking me up today, shuts the door.
They don't even lock the door. because there's no need to, he gets out the next day. I saw that and I see that some people are so casually living in who they think they are that they don't even know that the door is unlocked so that they can freely leave.
Amen? You have freedom and you need to live like it. Leave the old things behind, amen?
Is this good? All right, I'm gonna move on. Let's look at 1 Corinthians 15, 17.
Paul underscores the critical nature of the resurrection, inserting something here. 1 Corinthians 15, 17. And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless.
Now that looks like a rebuke. I'm looking at it again. I want you to see things twice today.
If Christ is not raised from your faith, your faith is futile and you're still guilty of your sins. Last scripture I said, we know. This scripture, like every scripture that says if, means that something important, if it has a comma, if, and if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you're still guilty of your sins.
The underscore is a cornerstone here of our faith. The cross is not the cornerstone. His birth is not the cornerstone. His resurrection is the cornerstone.
Amen? It is the very building block of what we live from. Amen?
And that's like people tell me all the time. They say, hey, you're Jewish. You used to be a rabbi.
You were trained rabbinically for two years. Why aren't you teaching us Judaism? Well, because that wasn't made for you.
That wasn't yours to follow. Paul said it to Peter, why would we cause people that were not meant to receive this to have it, and why are we causing people that had it to go back to it because then we make Christ's death in vain? Yeah, Lord Jesus.
Can I say something here that's very radical? The Bible is not Judaism to Christianity. The Bible is falling man to resurrection to return to God.
It is not a book of laws, rules, and regulations. It is a book of how we need God and the Savior and how he has profoundly delivered us from ourselves. Amen.
Amen. You don't need to become a Jew. You do not have to wear a yarmulke.
You don't have to get your tallit. You don't have to blow your shofar. And I can say all these things because I'm Jewish.
You do not have to have your little seat stangling. You don't have to have the block on your head. You don't have to have the bands on your arm. You don't have to have the corners on the side of your beard.
You know what you can have? Jesus in your heart and forever, eternally free from sin. That felt so good as a Jewish man to say hallelujah.
Ooh, hallelujah. Had to get that out. I think that's been locked up in there for years.
You know, I got kicked out of rabbinical because I wouldn't wear a yarmulke. My hair looked too good that day. Y'all think I'm playing.
That's a true story. Because I found that that was placed on us by Constantine, not God. That was a way of identifying us.
Men are not supposed to wear a covering. Women are. In the Old Testament, by the way.
I'm gonna let that settle for a second. All these traditions everybody celebrates may have come from man. Amen?
We need to know the love of Jesus to know how we should really act. Paul expands this freedom in Galatians 5 and 1. I can't be almost out of time.
I even made it through point one, praise the Lord. Paul expands this in Galatians 5, 1, where he proclaims, so Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free and don't get tied up again in the slavery of the law.
Here he urges believers to stand firm and not revert back to the yoke and bondage that sin represents. Now, I wanna explain that because we hear it so much, but everybody knows that a yoke is what you put on cattle or a donkey that's plowing a field. It's that thing, or a horse doing a carriage, right?
That's how you yoke them together. And when you yoke an oxen together, they are now pulling with their own strength what's behind them. The law shows us that we were doing it by our own strength and that we needed a savior.
And Paul is telling us that because of that freedom, we no longer need to burden ourselves with this salvation, but like it says in the Old Testament, withdraw from our salvation with joy. that we are free. Jesus took all the weight of the world on his shoulders so that we could overcome it.
Amen? Why would we go back to that burden? Amen?
Why would we? You know, sometimes I think people get in debates in their life. I get in debates with other pastors in a healthy way, not in an argument way, but Because we just need to be right.
We need to do something. It's so hard for us to just, you know when somebody wants to give you like $10,000, how many of you look at it, now some of you are like, I ain't gonna have a problem. But when somebody wants to give you a lot of money because you need help, or even if they made you food, somebody calls you up and you know you ain't got nothing in the pantry, and you're like, we're gonna cook you dinner tonight, and you, oh no, we're good. So hard for you to let somebody else take care of you You know, we took that into our salvation and we need the law because we need our suffering to make sense.
Do I need to say that again? We return to the law because we need our suffering to make sense. Amen.
Your suffering is a part of life. And as long as you're in this world, you're going to go through things, but it's through Christ you can overcome and break through those things. You're not promised a life without trial and tribulation, but you are promised a king that'll get you through and make a way of escape and give you a place to rest.
Amen? Amen? Man, I was raised by a pastor since 2007.
Y'all know, I, you know, uh-uh, no, we're gonna be a loud church. Australia, we're gonna be a loud church. We ain't gonna be happy clappy either.
Fruity roly polies, no. Amen, we gonna be happy for Jesus. Because we have freedom from the law.
I'm gonna land here and I'm not gonna pay attention to my watch. The resurrection signifies our new covenant where grace supersedes the law. Galatians 5 and 1 states it is for freedom in Christ that he has set us free.
Stand firm. Let's read the whole verse. Stand firm.
Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty by which Christ has made us free and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Amen. In the version I have, it says the yoke of slavery.
And there in the beginning, I believe that says it in NLT as well. Yoke. Colossians 2, 14 through 15 is where we're going next.
But this yoke refers to Mosaic law. Colossians 2, 14 through 15 illustrates how legal demands are nailed to the cross. Y'all don't know what I'm talking about.
I'm gonna read this and then we'll say what's in my heart. He canceled the record of charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. You don't know where I'm going, I promise you.
In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities and shamed, in verse 15, switch that for him, Jeremy. In this way, he disarmed spiritual rulers and authority. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross.
Y'all have no idea. In Jewish law, a man could come by and see a slave. And he'd say, which house is yours?
Now Paul said, I'm a bond servant to Christ. So a man comes by a house and he says, which house is yours? He then talks to the master of that slave and says, what is the price of their freedom?
He then pays that price and declares it on the door. Debt paid. Debt paid.
Y'all don't know where I'm going. Christ said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. I am the door in which every man comes to God.
Our debt has been nailed to the door to lock us free from the house and the chains we were in. I'm not done. Paul said, I am a bondservant to Christ.
That person that now has that freedom can now leave that house, those little chambers, and now has a whole world opened up to them. They can turn to that man that has given them freedom and say, I wish to serve you. But they do not serve from a place of slavery.
They serve from a place of victory. They can come and go as often as they like, and they serve that house and serve in that house because they want to. And they become a bondservant to their new friend that they call master.
Jesus said, you're my friend. And you are now free. And whoever is in Christ is free indeed.
Who Christ has set free is free indeed. He nailed your debt to the door, freed you from your former master, and now has given you a whole world. The only thing he's asking you to do is choose whether you want to serve him or not.
Now I want to ask you a question. The law tells us and what we have to do. But Colossians tells us that all spiritual rulers and authorities, which the devil is the ruler and the prince of the air, that his power's been nailed to the cross.
Our master, our former master, not our master, ooh, that just felt dirty. Our former master has been defeated. He had the power of death, hell, and the grave taken away from him, and all you gotta do is choose to walk in your freedom and not return back to the old house acting like a slave again. The bond servant would oftentimes pierce their ear, for those of you that used to rebuke people with earrings. The bond servant would pierce their ear to outwardly signify their freedom but also signify their service. So when they were walking around free, people would ask them, who's your master? Oh, I don't have a master but who I serve, his name, her name is this.
So when people see me walking around free, They say, what makes you so happy? Same question. What makes you able to do what you do?
Because my master's name, my friend's name, my Lord's name is Jesus. Can I tell you all about him? Can I tell you how good he is?
Can I tell you that he's freed me from sin and death? Can I tell you that he's turned my life around? He took me from the gutter to grace.
He raised me up from when I couldn't do my own thing. He took me from a thug. He took me from everything I used to be. He cleaned up my speech, my look, my life, and he set me on a course.
And here I am in Australia in places I thought I'd never be because I simply said, send me, Lord, I'll go. And he's taken me places and given me things and empowered me to do things not because of me, not because of my words, not And like a fighter, I don't hesitate when he tells me to throw a punch, because I don't like getting hit. Can I tell you something?
That when Christ is moving you to do something, you gotta act in freedom, not fear. When Christ is calling you out of where you were, you gotta say, I am free and I'm free indeed. I'm no longer an alcoholic.
I'm no longer a sinner. I'm no longer an adulterer. I'm no longer a liar.
I'm no longer, quit calling yourself these things. You don't identify with those things anymore. You have made those mistakes, but you're not that same mess.
Come on, somebody. Do you understand what I'm saying? Doesn't mean you ain't ever gonna slip up and say a cuss word here and there, you super saints.
If I was in your car as a bug in the corner, I'd probably hear things that your mama wouldn't want me to hear, amen? Oh no, not me. And if I could get in your thoughts about people, we're not perfect.
But what we are is following someone that is. And that freedom that we have, this resurrection in Christ makes us us free from Mosaic law. The resurrection ushers an era where grace rather than legalistic rules govern us.
You know, gravity's still gravity whether you believe in it or not. Okay? You try and do things that are out of God's plan, you're gonna fall.
You're prideful and you fall into that sin, you're gonna fall. The difference here is, is that you have Christ to pick you up. You don't have to make sacrifices.
You don't have to do anything. You don't have to pay penance. All you gotta do is go do your first works.
Lord, I'm sorry. Put in me a right heart and a right spirit. Help my mind, help my body, help my heart.
Ephesians 2 and 15 speaks of the abolishing of the law. Sorry, when I got this sermon off of sermoncentral.com, I didn't know it was gonna say all, no, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Chat GPT helped me today. He did this by ending, and no, he didn't.
I just want y'all to know that was a joke. He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. Let's read it in the King James for a second.
All right, having abolished in the flesh The enmity, even the law and commandments contained in ordinance to make in itself of twain one new man, so making peace. He abolished the war. Now let's go back to the NLT.
He abolished the war, the strife in between us and heaven. And he did this beautiful thing. He did this by ending the system of the law with its commandments and regulations.
He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from two groups. Well, I believe that we should worship on Saturday. Will you go ahead and worship on Saturday?
Ain't gonna change a thing. Well, I believe we should worship on Friday night. It's the Sabbath. You go right ahead, light your candles.
It's all good. Do it. Worship him.
I don't worship him on Sunday because it's law. I worship him on Sunday because we're accustomed to it. But can I tell you something? I worship him on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. And you may not see me worshiping.
I know you don't do that. I've seen you doing this and I've seen you do that. Okay, yeah, that's sweet.
But when I'm by myself, I'm worshiping God. My daily worship is not meant for you and for me and everybody else. this is meant for everybody else amen worship is not contained to a day it is a lifestyle and that is what the law has done for us i mean the freedom from the law is done for us it gave us the ability to worship every day amen so in conclusion the resurrection of jesus christ is not just a historical event it is the heart of our christian experience It guarantees freedom from sin and the law, ensures eternal life, and provides the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit.
This freedom underscores the joy and hope celebrated on this Easter Sunday, urging believers to live a life of victory and liberty Christ has secured. Pastor, you believe in eternal security? Well, if the blood of Jesus ain't strong enough to keep me, I shouldn't be following him.
But since he is, yes, I believe in it. Amen? If you want to find out what I believe, go to worldchangers.life and go to our beliefs and you'll find out what I believe.
And if you have more questions and you want to email me about what about this, what about that, I'm just going to say come sit in service for a while and we'll give you the answers to all those questions. Amen. Because people that are asking me questions about what I believe are usually wanting to tell me what they believe.
I just wish people would get more accustomed to living what they believe. And today on this resurrection Sunday, as you go out to all your events and you do all your things, can you represent Christ well today? Can you represent Christ in your homes?
Stop yelling at your dogs and your husbands too. And men, stop yelling at your wives. Start being good coworkers.
Stop stabbing everybody in the back. Let's be Christians instead of doing Christianity. Amen.
This is something that's so beautiful. So today, we thank you, Father. We thank you, Father, for all the goodness that you've done in our lives.
We close our eyes and bow our heads. Maybe you're here today and this loud, radical message has just, man, I just, If this has freed and unlocked areas in you, we're not taking numbers. I just want to know so I can pray for you.
If this message has done something to radically shift what you believe, can you just lift your hand? I'm not talking about salvation. I'm talking about never thought of that before.
Thank you. Thank you for the hands. Thank you for the hands.
Thank you for the hands. Thank you for the hands. I love how some of y'all peek to see if anybody's actually lifting their hands. Thank you for those that lift your hands.
Now, for those of you that today is your redemption, you've been struggling, and you just can't stop doing things, and you want to take the opportunity today and say, Lord, I'm no longer going to do it myself. I'm going to stop focusing on my failures. I'm going to focus on you.
If that's you today, can you lift your hand? Lift them quick. Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Last but not least, if you do not know the Lord Jesus Christ, and you'd like to receive him into your hearts today, to know that you know that you know that you're saved, can you lift your hand right where you are?
Good. Everyone knows Jesus are still deciding. So Lord, we thank you for this beautiful time we have before you.
I want to pray for those that are saying, Lord, I cannot. Can you just lay your hand on your neighbor real quick? Lay your hand on somebody in front of you, behind you. We're praying together today because Galatians 6, 6 says, if I see my brother struggle, I will encourage him and lift him up.
If I see my sister struggle, I will encourage them and lift them up. So Father, I thank you today that through the grace of God, through the faith that I have in him and the balance of those two things, I will see greater days ahead of me. And Lord, I have shortcomings. Lord, I have failures.
Lord, I have problems. But I give all those to you right now. And I know that it took me years, days, minutes to get here.
And I know that this moment is not gonna fix my environment, but I know this moment is gonna start a work of healing in me. And as I look ahead of the days before me, Lord, that may be hard and harder, I know that I now have freedom to walk away from, walk to a new me. I do not have to leave my marriage.
I do not have to leave my job. I do not have to leave my friends. No, I need this work because John said the quarrel starts in me.
Lord, search me and try me, O Lord. Search me. Put in me a clean heart and a right spirit.
Elevate my stature. I pray this for all of you. It's in Jesus' name I pray, and we all say amen.
Amen. You ain't clapping me. Come on, give the Lord a hand clap of praise.
Perfect timing with the kids. Come on, give the Lord a hand clap of praise. Amen.
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