You have supremacy over whatever you want to
do.
So if we take the word and we
put it together, that means that you have
the right and you have the choice, according
to freedom, to do what you want to
do with your life.
There's consequences for our freedom actions.
And the actual word freedom, according to Webster's,
means this.
The condition of being free of restraints.
Liberty of the person from slavery, detention or
oppression.
So when God created Adam, He gave Adam
freedom.
He gave him dominion over the entire earth
and he was free to do what he
wanted to do with that when he was
governing it.
He had free dominion.
But then we turn over to that leaf
of sin.
And when that happened, guess who Adam gave
that dominion to?
Satan.
When Adam disobeyed God, he willingly submitted himself
to the rule of Satan and to sin.
In one bite.
Just one.
Listen to me real quick.
Friend, it doesn't take you doing a lot
of sin to be bad.
Just one bite.
Just one taste.
And you're gone.
You're hooked.
That's it.
So Adam was no longer free.
He had no freedom.
The Bible says that we are all slaves
to sin.
So how in the world do you get
free and die?
Does the person in the casket worry about
what they're wearing?
Does the person in the casket care about
all the flowers that are around?
Do they care that they're going to miss
Monday night football?
What if they had tickets to the game
this Saturday?
Do they care about that any longer?
So what does that mean?
They're free because they're dead.
So what is true freedom?
True freedom is dying.
But in order to do that, you cannot
run away.
You have to run to death.
It's said that 94% of all people
that come to Jesus Christ, 94% backslide.
Is that God's problem?
Or is it how we present it?
There are a ton of noble men in
the church today.
We line up on the opposite side of
Satan's army and we look at it and
we say, You know what?
The odds are against us.
How in the world can we win this
war?
And they stand there and they say, Well,
we've got to compromise.
We have to compromise with the opposite army.
We have to compromise with the devil's side
of things so that we don't get hurt.
And I'm telling you tonight that if the
church would quit compromising, we would actually win
the war.
But we've got to be willing to exercise
our freedom and to die for it.
But now, having been freed from sin, and
now we are enslaved to God.
So here's the thing.
We run towards death.
We gain life.
Guess what, friend?
Every single person on this earth, whether you're
a Christian or a non-Christian, is a
slave to somebody.
If you are a Christian, you are enslaved
to Jesus Christ.
If you're not a Christian, guess who you're
a slave of?
You're a slave of the devil and the
selfish desires that run this world.
How in the world can Paul say, I've
given up everything and nothing that I've ever
had in this world is compared to knowing
Christ and the fellowship of sharing in His
suffering.
He was no longer enslaved to the sin
of this world.
But he was now a slave to God.
Because that death upon that cross paid the
sins for every single one of us.
And there's not anything that we cannot do
to pay that sin back, but to give
Jesus Christ our life.
Because He's worthy of it and He deserves
it.