SPEAKER_00: Well, good morning, Eastridge.
SPEAKER_00: It is really great to see you.
SPEAKER_00: Happy 4th of July weekend.
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's it's been a really great weekend for myself and my family.
SPEAKER_00: We uh we typically go to Hayward, Wisconsin, where my uh where my parents are, and uh and we're on a lake and it's it's it's very fun, but I don't sleep really well there.
SPEAKER_00: So last night I missed the fireworks that were on the lake there.
SPEAKER_00: However, they're on the on the third as well.
SPEAKER_00: So but I I come to you very rested, uh, which is a good thing.
SPEAKER_00: But also, you know, it's um as I and I actually left there this morning and came here today, and something that was really cool uh that I could see was that uh that I passed by all these little churches that were you know in rural Wisconsin and rural northern Wisconsin on the way here.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm just reminded of the unifying spirit that we have with those other churches, with each other.
SPEAKER_00: And something that we are continuously learning about is how we are unified in spirit with one another and those churches as well.
SPEAKER_00: So when they are also singing those praises this morning, they're all going up to heaven with ours, which is a really cool concept to think about when we're talking about the Holy Spirit today and where we've been the last few weeks.
SPEAKER_00: It's been it's been amazing talking about how the Holy Spirit dwells inside of us.
SPEAKER_00: And you know, we we we come back to this idea of of you know of freedom of what we're living in today and what the freedom that we have through the Holy Spirit, because uh freedom is not only an American theme, uh it is one of the central themes of the entire Bible.
SPEAKER_00: And it is, in fact, the anchor verse of this whole series is now the Lord is the spirit, and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
SPEAKER_00: And so that it's uh it's how we you know conclude every single thought that we have through this whole series.
SPEAKER_00: Um where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
SPEAKER_00: So today let's actually stop and ask this main question.
SPEAKER_00: What kind of freedom is the spirit even talking about?
SPEAKER_00: If we have this freedom, what is it?
SPEAKER_00: Here's the big idea the spirit sets us free.
SPEAKER_00: Not to do whatever we want, though.
SPEAKER_00: We have to understand that concept.
SPEAKER_00: I'll get into that in a little bit, but to finally become who God has made us to be.
SPEAKER_00: And I I love the Fourth of July.
SPEAKER_00: I love the fireworks, I love the uh the flags, I love the burgers, of course.
SPEAKER_00: And I, you know, um there's nothing more uh American uh than you know donuts as well, so make sure you have one of those as you as you leave.
SPEAKER_00: But the, you know, I'm grateful for the people who paid a price so that I could be here, so that I could experience that freedom as well.
SPEAKER_00: So that kind of freedom is a gift.
SPEAKER_00: And it's something that we should never take for granted.
SPEAKER_00: But I'll tell you something that I've learned is that you can live in the freest nation on the earth and still be a prisoner on the inside.
SPEAKER_00: That, you know, you can you can uh I've known this really personally, that there's been seasons in my life when on paper I was completely free.
SPEAKER_00: What where it says, you know, I have I have you know my birth certificate that says I'm here, I have my license that says I'm free.
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's but really when I when I want to go somewhere, I can do that, uh, I can do what I want, I can say what I want, yet on the inside, feeling like I'm in chains.
SPEAKER_00: Like something is bringing me down, chained to what other people have thought about me, chained to a fear that I just could not shake, uh, chained to a sin that I was promising to quit, but just kept on going back to, chained to some to you know, shame.
SPEAKER_00: Having that shame is a chain as well, uh, that you know, something that I couldn't undo.
SPEAKER_00: And here's the thing about those chains no election can really break them.
SPEAKER_00: You know, you can try and elect the greatest leader that we could ever could, and the chains that are inside of you are going to still be there.
SPEAKER_00: No law can touch them, no amount of national freedom can reach that chain that is bringing you down.
SPEAKER_00: Because the deepest prisons do not have bars, they're on the inside.
SPEAKER_00: And that is exactly the freedom the Spirit came to bring for us.
SPEAKER_00: You can be a free citizen and still be a prisoner on the inside.
SPEAKER_00: So let me ask you a question this morning.
SPEAKER_00: Are you free?
SPEAKER_00: And I don't mean on paper, you know, not as not as a citizen, I mean really, truly free.
SPEAKER_00: Because some of you are sitting here this morning free in a very external way.
SPEAKER_00: You're free to be here, you're free to leave, you're free to eat as many donuts as you want.
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, you know, and quietly carrying the chains that you know somebody else needs to take off of you.
SPEAKER_00: You're carrying those things.
SPEAKER_00: So maybe those chains are a habit that you can't stop.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe those chains are, you know, some anxieties that are just running your life.
SPEAKER_00: Not ruining your life, but running your life.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's exhausting to be on that treadmill of trying to earn everyone's approval, make sure you are friends with everyone, that everyone likes you, and you're trying to do that all the time.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's like that shame that I talked about from your past that still whispers at you at night.
SPEAKER_00: You're chained to that.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's the fear that if people really knew who you were, that they'd walk away.
SPEAKER_00: That's bondage.
SPEAKER_00: And here's the second thing that I want to really name.
SPEAKER_00: A lot of us have misunderstood what freedom even is.
SPEAKER_00: Um, our culture says freedom means no rules, no limits.
SPEAKER_00: You know, you can do whatever you want, nobody tells you what to do.
SPEAKER_00: I get to do whatever I feel free to do.
SPEAKER_00: But here's the strange thing.
SPEAKER_00: The people chasing that kind of freedom are often the hardest and end up being the most enslaved.
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's it's just a, you know, it's not a it's not a chain, it's just a different master.
SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, it's not really freedom.
SPEAKER_00: It's it's who is this freedom all about?
SPEAKER_00: Whose freedom?
SPEAKER_00: Who do you belong to?
SPEAKER_00: You need you need to ask that person whose freedom to say whatever they want, whatever they cut whatever costs them that relationship.
SPEAKER_00: It's it's out there.
SPEAKER_00: It's it's heartbreaking to know that they are chained to a beverage, that they're chained to a relationship, they're chained to a lifestyle.
SPEAKER_00: The world's version of freedom keeps making promises it cannot keep.
SPEAKER_00: The freedom to do whatever you want often becomes the chain that you cannot break.
SPEAKER_00: And that's where we are today.
SPEAKER_00: Standing in those chains.
SPEAKER_00: So let's see what the scriptures actually say about this freedom.
SPEAKER_00: Let's go to Romans chapter 8, verses 1 and 2.
SPEAKER_00: It says here.
SPEAKER_00: In my Bible.
SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
SPEAKER_00: There is, therefore, now no condemnation.
SPEAKER_00: We read this last week.
SPEAKER_00: There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
SPEAKER_00: Set you free.
SPEAKER_00: From what?
SPEAKER_00: From the law of sin and death.
SPEAKER_00: From the verdict that hangs over a guilty life.
SPEAKER_00: Picture a courtroom.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: The evidence is in.
SPEAKER_00: The charges are real.
SPEAKER_00: You are guilty.
SPEAKER_00: And you know it.
SPEAKER_00: And just as the gavel is about to fall, the judge stands up and announces that the sentence that has already been in front of you is already served.
SPEAKER_00: You don't have to serve it anymore.
SPEAKER_00: And the person who actually served that sentence for you is the judge's son.
SPEAKER_00: That's what Romans 8 is describing.
SPEAKER_00: No condemnation.
SPEAKER_00: Not because the charges weren't real, but because somebody has already served your sentence.
SPEAKER_00: Here's what so many people are carrying: a low, constant sense of guilt.
SPEAKER_00: A feeling that God is mostly disappointed in them.
SPEAKER_00: A sense that they're one mistake away from being completely rejected by the God of the universe, the God who created them.
SPEAKER_00: And the spirit that lives inside all of us, the spirit that we've been talking about the last few weeks, says, no.
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: There is no condemnation.
SPEAKER_00: The case is closed.
SPEAKER_00: The verdict is in you are free.
SPEAKER_00: You don't have to live under that cloud anymore.
SPEAKER_00: The spirit of life has set you free.
SPEAKER_00: The first freedom the spirit brings is freedom from the guilt that haunts you.
SPEAKER_00: So now we go to what Paul says in Galatians, which was where we were last week.
SPEAKER_00: Galatians 5 1 says this for freedom.
SPEAKER_00: Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
SPEAKER_00: A yoke of slavery.
SPEAKER_00: And a yoke is what you put on an ox to make it work.
SPEAKER_00: When you want an ox to do the work in the field, you put a yoke on it and it goes to work.
SPEAKER_00: So many of us are living the Christian life like exhausted oxen.
SPEAKER_00: Like trying to earn what we already have.
SPEAKER_00: Trying to prove ourselves to a God who already loves us.
SPEAKER_00: And believe me, when you're trying to do that, that is a lot of work.
SPEAKER_00: That is a lot of work to prove yourself.
SPEAKER_00: I met so many believers who are bone-tired from trying to serve Jesus, from trying to serve and earn what he has already given us for free.
SPEAKER_00: They pray, but it feels like you're just kind of clocking in.
SPEAKER_00: I just got to get this prayer off my list and I'll move on.
SPEAKER_00: I just have to pray this thing and then I'll be done.
SPEAKER_00: I'll be done praying.
SPEAKER_00: They serve, but it feels like they're just trying to prove something.
SPEAKER_00: They come to church to collect a spiritual paycheck and hope that it's enough.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, if I just show up to church, that'll be good enough.
SPEAKER_00: I don't need to do anything else.
SPEAKER_00: I don't need to talk to anybody.
SPEAKER_00: I'll grab a donut, but I'm not going to make eye contact with the person who's serving it to me.
SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm going to do all these things that are going to help me, and it's going to be all about me.
SPEAKER_00: And the spirit that is in you says, stop.
SPEAKER_00: You don't have to do that anymore.
SPEAKER_00: You don't have to live that way anymore.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus already did that.
SPEAKER_00: And when the spirit lives in you, you stop working for acceptance.
SPEAKER_00: And you start working from acceptance.
SPEAKER_00: Let me say that again.
SPEAKER_00: When the spirit lives in you, you stop working for acceptance and you start working from that acceptance.
SPEAKER_00: That's freedom.
SPEAKER_00: You're not a slave trying to earn wages, you're a child enjoying time spent with his father.
SPEAKER_00: Now this is where we have to be careful.
SPEAKER_00: Because the moment people hear freedom, like I said, some hear, great, I can do whatever I want.
SPEAKER_00: There's freedom in whatever I want to do.
SPEAKER_00: Paul saw that coming.
SPEAKER_00: In Galatians 5.13, it says this.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to hear this.
SPEAKER_00: Galatians 5.13.
SPEAKER_00: For you were called to freedom, brothers.
SPEAKER_00: Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
SPEAKER_00: Serve one another.
SPEAKER_00: Did you catch that?
SPEAKER_00: You were called to freedom.
SPEAKER_00: We are all called to freedom.
SPEAKER_00: If the Spirit is in you, you are called to live a free life.
SPEAKER_00: But don't use your freedom as a launch pad for sin.
SPEAKER_00: That says, you know what?
SPEAKER_00: I you know, I have this freedom in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: I can do whatever I want now, and I'm gonna go sin, and you know, it's just gonna be the way I live.
SPEAKER_00: It's not what we get to do.
SPEAKER_00: Here's the picture that I can't shake.
SPEAKER_00: Um a few months ago, actually, it was in I want to say November, um, I bought a fish that is still alive somehow.
SPEAKER_00: Um, and I use it as an illustration of what it's like to live out of water.
SPEAKER_00: Okay?
SPEAKER_00: And I said that that that fish needs to live in that water, otherwise it will die.
SPEAKER_00: And somehow it's still surviving at my house.
SPEAKER_00: But if you take that fish out of water, what's gonna happen?
SPEAKER_00: Kids, what's gonna happen if you take the fish out of the water?
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna die.
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
SPEAKER_00: It's going to die.
SPEAKER_00: Because true freedom is not about an absence of all limits.
SPEAKER_00: The true freedom is living the way you were designed to live.
SPEAKER_00: A fish is meant to live in the water.
SPEAKER_00: A train is free on the tracks.
SPEAKER_00: You can try, believe me, I've I know people who have you know try to make this work, to see a train that works without having tracks on it.
SPEAKER_00: It's really difficult.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't work.
SPEAKER_00: And you are made free to live the way God made us to live.
SPEAKER_00: In that freedom.
SPEAKER_00: Think about it.
SPEAKER_00: Some of us, some of the most miserable people you will ever meet have the fewest limits and the most options.
SPEAKER_00: And some of the most settled, joyful, free people you'll ever meet are living inside the good boundaries of a life completely surrendered to God.
SPEAKER_00: That is not a coincidence.
SPEAKER_00: We were built to run on certain tracks.
SPEAKER_00: And when we jump the tracks chasing freedom, we don't fly, we crash.
SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
SPEAKER_00: When when you see how we're uh how a train is supposed to stay on the tracks, to stay the course to get to its destination, if it goes off of those tracks, it crashes.
SPEAKER_00: It's the same for us.
SPEAKER_00: Sin promises freedom and delivers complete slavery.
SPEAKER_00: The Spirit asks us to give up something, so some of these so-called freedoms that we think we have and delivers actual life.
SPEAKER_00: Sin is not freedom dressed up.
SPEAKER_00: Real freedom is what sin is all has only been imitating.
SPEAKER_00: Meaning that that when we are sinning and we think that we are free, it's imitating what true freedom really is: living in the Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: And here is the destination.
SPEAKER_00: We are not just free from things, we are set free for something.
SPEAKER_00: Look at the end of that verse again.
SPEAKER_00: In Galatians 5.13, it says, through love, serve one another.
SPEAKER_00: The Spirit set you free so that you can finally love the way you were made to love.
SPEAKER_00: Free from having to protect yourself, you can serve.
SPEAKER_00: Free from having to prove yourself, you can give yourself.
SPEAKER_00: Free from beginning, being consumed with yourself, you can actually see other people.
SPEAKER_00: When you are so consumed with yourself, when you have that selfie, when you have that mirror in front of you, you can't see what other people need.
SPEAKER_00: There's freedom there.
SPEAKER_00: And it goes even further.
SPEAKER_00: Let's go back to that anchor verse of 2 Corinthians 3.18.
SPEAKER_00: And we all have with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another.
SPEAKER_00: For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: The Spirit sets us free so that we can be transformed.
SPEAKER_00: That is the freedom of heaven leaking into your life right now.
SPEAKER_00: The Spirit doesn't just set you free from your worst, he set you free for your best, becoming like Jesus.
SPEAKER_00: And before I go into this next part, uh I I my uh my ear just popped really crazy, okay?
SPEAKER_00: And I've been swimming with my kids and doing these other things, so um there was a distraction that was going on in my head.
SPEAKER_00: So whoever was praying for that distraction to end, thank you.
SPEAKER_00: I appreciate it.
SPEAKER_00: Um but uh but but here's the here's the real idea.
SPEAKER_00: The question that that matters the most.
SPEAKER_00: How do we get this freedom?
SPEAKER_00: This freedom that I've been talking about the last you know 20 minutes or so, how do we get this freedom?
SPEAKER_00: We have to start with the hard truth.
SPEAKER_00: You cannot free yourself.
SPEAKER_00: You can't.
SPEAKER_00: A prisoner cannot pardon himself, a slave cannot purchase his own freedom.
SPEAKER_00: And no matter how hard you try, you cannot break the chains of your own sin by just trying harder.
SPEAKER_00: Willpower has never once set a captive free.
SPEAKER_00: We needed someone to come from the outside and break in.
SPEAKER_00: And here is the most hopeful news the world has ever heard.
SPEAKER_00: God did not leave us in our chains.
SPEAKER_00: He came for us.
SPEAKER_00: Not after we cleaned ourselves up, not after we got our act together, while we were still slaves, still rebels, still face down in our own sin, he came to us.
SPEAKER_00: But God who shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
SPEAKER_00: And listen to how Jesus described his own mission.
SPEAKER_00: On the very first day he stood up to preach.
SPEAKER_00: He opened the scroll and read these words about himself.
SPEAKER_00: In Luke 4.18, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me.
SPEAKER_00: This is Jesus talking about himself now, because he has anointed me to proclaim the good news to the poor.
SPEAKER_00: He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.
SPEAKER_00: Do you hear that?
SPEAKER_00: Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, said his whole mission was to set prisoners free.
SPEAKER_00: This is not just a side project.
SPEAKER_00: This is the whole mission of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: And to do it, he walked straight toward a cross.
SPEAKER_00: Think about what happened there.
SPEAKER_00: The only true free man who ever lived himself became bound when they carried him to that cross.
SPEAKER_00: He was bound so that we could be loosed.
SPEAKER_00: He was condemned so that we could hear the words again, no condemnation before you.
SPEAKER_00: That is the word the Bible reaches for us to describe the cross.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus walked into the marketplace of our slavery.
SPEAKER_00: He paid the full price with his own blood.
SPEAKER_00: And he walked us out free.
SPEAKER_00: You were not freed on a technicality.
SPEAKER_00: You were bought at the highest price in the universe and set free.
SPEAKER_00: But the story does not end at the cross because three days later the tomb was empty, which is what we celebrate on Easter.
SPEAKER_00: Death itself, the final prison, the last chain on every human being who has ever lived was defeated.
SPEAKER_00: And here is what that means for you this morning.
SPEAKER_00: If Jesus walked out of his own grave, there is no chain in your life that he cannot break.
SPEAKER_00: There is no prison strong enough, no sin too deep, there is no habit too old, no person too far gone, not you, not ever.
SPEAKER_00: If Jesus walked out of his grave, there is no chain in your life that he cannot break.
SPEAKER_00: And now here is where the Holy Spirit comes in.
SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit who we've been talking about for weeks now.
SPEAKER_00: Because everything Jesus did, he did.
SPEAKER_00: 2,000 years ago on a hill outside of Jerusalem.
SPEAKER_00: So how does that freedom get from there all the way here today?
SPEAKER_00: There's only one answer.
SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Listen to what the promise says in the Bible.
SPEAKER_00: It says in Romans 8 11, if the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you.
SPEAKER_00: So I want to offer this up today.
SPEAKER_00: A response.
SPEAKER_00: A response to that good news.
SPEAKER_00: You know, if if if you know who Christ is, you are free, and you are free indeed.
SPEAKER_00: There is a joy that comes from being a freed person.
SPEAKER_00: You need to feel that.
SPEAKER_00: But also we need to do something else that helps us understand the depth of this death.
SPEAKER_00: How the Holy Spirit works.
SPEAKER_00: Why the Holy Spirit is here today is because we are to be set free.
SPEAKER_00: So let me bring this home.
SPEAKER_00: This weekend, we have celebrated that freedom has come at a great cost.
SPEAKER_00: We know that, and we we we have that etched in our mind now that 250 years ago that freedom was paid for.
SPEAKER_00: The freedom to live in this nation as free citizens.
SPEAKER_00: But 2,000 years ago, that looked a lot different.
SPEAKER_00: There's a greater cost that the Son gave for us through blood, through death, through resurrection.
SPEAKER_00: So the worship team is gonna come back up here.
SPEAKER_00: And, you know, I want you all to do something with me on this 4th of July weekend.
SPEAKER_00: This is this is kind of a different thing, but but I want you to really pay attention to what's going on here.
SPEAKER_00: That right where you are right now, okay, it's okay.
SPEAKER_00: The worship team is gonna play some music underneath here, but right now where you are, uh, you know, bow your heads and close your eyes, okay?
SPEAKER_00: Just bow your heads and close your eyes.
SPEAKER_00: And with with no one looking around, I want this conversation to be between just you and God.
SPEAKER_00: Because I know that some of you came here this morning carrying chains, that you were just so tired of carrying around.
SPEAKER_00: A guilt that you cannot shake, shame that you cannot outrun, a sin in your life that you keep going back to, a fear that runs your life.
SPEAKER_00: And this morning, maybe for the first time, you realize that you do not have to stay in that cell, you do not have to stay chained.
SPEAKER_00: Jesus already paid to set you free.
SPEAKER_00: His death purchased your true freedom.
SPEAKER_00: And it is a gift.
SPEAKER_00: You cannot earn it, you cannot buy it, you can only receive it.
SPEAKER_00: So with your heads down, your eyes closed still right now, here's what I want to offer you today.
SPEAKER_00: If you today are ready to stop trying to free yourself, and you're ready to turn from your sin, ready to trust Jesus and receive the gift of freedom that his death purchased, and to receive his spirit, who sets you free from the inside out, that I want to pray with you.
SPEAKER_00: And so that I can pray with you, I want to invite you to respond.
SPEAKER_00: With every head still bowed and every eye still closed, if that is the cry of your heart this morning, right where you are sitting, if you are ready to receive the freedom of Christ, or if you want to recommit yourself to that faith in freedom, just simply raise your hand.
SPEAKER_00: Just slip it up where I can see it.
SPEAKER_00: I see your hands.
SPEAKER_00: So keep them raised.
SPEAKER_00: Don't rush this moment.
SPEAKER_00: If this is still something that's that you're going through in your heart, in your mind.
SPEAKER_00: If this is still something that you want to commit to, just slowly raise your hand.
SPEAKER_00: Keep them up for just a moment.
SPEAKER_00: God sees you.
SPEAKER_00: And all of heaven is rejoicing over you right now.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
SPEAKER_00: You can put your hands down, you can open your eyes.
SPEAKER_00: Now, everyone who raised your hand, and anyone else who's who who is whose heart is ready to receive that, I'm gonna lead you in a simple prayer.
SPEAKER_00: And you don't have to get these words perfect.
SPEAKER_00: God is not listening for these perfect words, He is looking at your heart right now.
SPEAKER_00: So if you mean it, pray it with me this morning.
SPEAKER_00: In your heart right now.
SPEAKER_00: Say it in your heart, Jesus, I cannot free myself.
SPEAKER_00: I have sinned and I need you.
SPEAKER_00: I believe you died in my place and rose from the grave.
SPEAKER_00: I believe your death paid the full price for my freedom.
SPEAKER_00: Today I turn from my sin.
SPEAKER_00: Today I put my trust in you.
SPEAKER_00: I receive your gift of forgiveness and freedom.
SPEAKER_00: Fill me with your Holy Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Set me free and lead me for the rest of my life.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for making me your own.
SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: And if you prayed that prayer this morning and you meant it, hear me on the authority of God's word.
SPEAKER_00: The chains are off.
SPEAKER_00: You are forgiven.
SPEAKER_00: The Spirit of God now lives in you.
SPEAKER_00: You are free indeed.
SPEAKER_00: Please do not keep that a secret.
SPEAKER_00: Tell me or tell someone on our team today.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, if you, you know, we have those cards that are in the seat back in front of you.
SPEAKER_00: If you feel like you want to fill one of those out to let us know your commitment today, just let us know.
SPEAKER_00: We would love to talk with you.
SPEAKER_00: We would love nothing more than to celebrate with the people that are in heaven celebrating right now as well.
SPEAKER_00: And now, would you stand with me, church, as we go into more worship?
SPEAKER_00: Because everything we have said this morning comes down to one thing together.
SPEAKER_00: The freedom we could never win, Christ won it.
SPEAKER_00: The chains we could never break, he broke them.
SPEAKER_00: The life that we could never live, he now lives in us by his spirit.
SPEAKER_00: Not by strength, not by striving, not I, but Christ in me.