How The Truth Can Set You Free, Part 3

Log into this "intensified Capt. Charles Stanley. You may or may not feel part of your family history. But if you're a believer you'll hear about your true identity. In part three of the theories how the truth can set you free. Terms of John chapter 8 will just read a couple verses remembering that the Lord's been talking to some people who have begun to believe, and he always said in verse 31. Jesus therefore was saying to those Jews who had believed him.

If you abide in my word, then you are truly disciples of mine and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

And what it is that makes us free is abiding in the word of God. Now let me just to catch you up with where we are we talking about God setting us free.

That is setting us free of the bondage that shackles laws and imprisons us from becoming everything God wants us to be and accomplishing or achieving those things in life that God has set up for so this is where we are headed and we said now one of those truths that dump that sets us free and I believe there are three essential truth that sets us free. That is, having already been saved. One of those truths is our position in Christ Jesus.

So what is that you recall, the Bible says in verse remains chapter 12 that God through his Holy Spirit the moment when accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior. That is, we except in his death on the cross is sufficient adequate payment for our sin. The moment we accepted him as our Savior.

He baptized us where into Christ Jesus sealed us as a child of God, and forever we are in him that is, our position is that we are living in union with him.

He says abide in me and I and you so that we are living in a relationship of abiding in Christ. That is a relationship to which we have been placed by the Holy Spirit and you recall, as we examine that position. What that position call for the Bible says that we have become the sons of God that we are in the family of God. We are in the kingdom of God and he says not all that he says but will not begin to happen.

The Lord Jesus Christ who ascended the father.

He said being in him that we are likewise seated in the heaven is in Christ Jesus. God says that he placed every single one of us in Christ Jesus. The only way for anything or anybody to get to you is first of all, they gotta go through. They gotta go through the Lord. He says the angel of the Lord in camp with round about them that fear him, and he delivers them. If one of the problems. One of the burdens.

One of things that has harassed you all of your life is the feeling of insecurity. I just don't feel secure.

Don't feel secure in the job. Don't feel secure in the finances don't fit feel secure in my family don't feel secure relationships. Listen Allison curative) is based on one thing one thing only and nothing else. It is based not on what I have of who I am aware I am is based on relationship on a position of being in Christ Jesus. That's where our security is our security is found in relationship and not in our possessions or a position in life. So, my friend. The Scripture says that your position today is that you are in Christ Jesus, and he says he put you there, he sealed you there. He's put you in the heaven is and if God put you there brother you are Forever. Amen. Now what is the second fruit that you and I need to get a hold of and I may be on this truth a long time and that is the truth of who we are in Christ Jesus, we know where we are in him, but who are you in Christ Jesus.

If you recall when you grew up, and you were first saved in the as somebody told you what it meant to give your life to Christ and so you did just that and then they probably told you now you know you going to synapse you save in so you probably don't sit everyday but remember that God's agent your eternally secure and so one of these days you're gonna die and go to heaven. But until that time you going to have a journey it's going to be in the valleys and on the mountain peaks on the roller coaster out of the spiritual life and and so what you want to do is you'll be sure to memorize first jungle noncritical needed everyday if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

So most of us grew up believing and seeing ourselves just like we were taught, and that is on the center who's been saved by the grace of God and is not trust the Lord.

All through my life. One of these days I'm really looking up Don go to heaven but I will ask you question is that the attitude that God intends for his people. Look, if you will. In Corinthians 1st review chapter 1. Let me ask you this question. What is the church that Paul had the most trouble with the ball. The churches vilified Thessalonica church is wrong, you name it, which was the church of the most problems with the Corinthian church is on the they just about broke his heart.

But I want you to listen to what he said. Verse one Paul called as an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God and sauce the knees our brother to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus. What saints by what by calling with all who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that a lot of man-hours listen, where in all of his writings that he say to the sinners at Rome to the sinners in Galatia to the sinners at Philippi to the sinners and Thessalonica to the sinners and kind. He didn't say that.

Quantity: he call them saints is all that weight and holy, holy, holy. If you don't talk about sinless perfection on it is that's not what I said. I said that God addressed through the apostle Paul, the believers in that day, not as sinners but what saints everybody in the church has been saved is the same, but the folks who are outside of the Lord Jesus Christ and they are indeed sinners medicine saints to commit acts of sin, but because we commit acts of sin is no reason for us to see ourselves and our whole perspective in life is sinners my watch for the assure you. The Bible says is a man think it is hard what is so is he. So that there was a principal in a law and you can change this because it is a principal you and I are going to act the way we see ourselves.

You can change that you are where you are today because of what you thought all these years you act that way today as a result of the way you see yourself and if you change the way you see yourself, your actions are going to change. This is the amount of mind over matter we talking about a principal here, he says, is a man think if it is hard so is itself a man's actions are going to follow the pattern of the way he sees himself as I walk up to someone else and I see myself as inferior. I'm going to act in. If I see myself on my job is inadequate. I'm going to back off and be inadequate if I see myself as being rejected and unworthy and guilty because I don't deserve the good things that are coming to me on the include. I'm going to in spite of everything I do. I'm going to blow it somewhere along the way and fail because you see not.

Not believing the deserve to succeed.

I'm gonna make a mistake somewhere along the way we are the products of our thinking as a man think it in his heart, so is so if we are programmed to say I'm a sinner saved by grace and am going to send you know you go to sit everyday and I have some people at once in a while you can live one hour. That said, you'd be surprised. A functional raise their hand.

You know why they think. Oh my goodness, I raise my hand and be proud not sin. There's no way in the world. Nowhere in the world to win against that kind of again listen to God wants us to be free to be everything he wants us to be and I cannot be what God wants me to be. If I see myself less than what God sees me, because if I do I'm going to act less than what God wants me to do that is the Holy Spirit within us, who is our teacher and who must informers and instructors and empower us to be anything on to achieve anything God won't. But we have to deal with a person of who we are. He says called to be saints and I want to watch that word site that were in St. hockey us in the Greek is the same word for sanctification are holy. So we talk about saints sanctification. A holy holiness is the same original same route Greek word and is notice what he saying he says that we are saints that is a saint is one who, having accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Savior has been what sanctified, set apart unto God, for God every single believer is a saint because they have been sanctified that is set apart unto God and are in the process of being sanctified on the databases that is he is renewing us and conforming us to is like are the second thing I want us to notice here about who we are in Christ Jesus is found in second grade. In chapter 5 verse 17, 18, versus here in verse 17 he says therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature on new creation the old things passed away behold, new things have come in all these things are from God, who reconciled us unto himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. That's what he did to us. Visit watch this not counting there. What their trespasses against them, and he has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Listen what he do he put all about trespasses upon whom upon Christ having male. He says he nailed all of that to the cross with him and having mailed over to the cross.

Not accepting Jesus Christ as our Savior that freed us what you notice something of the 70 verse he says therefore if any person, man, a woman is in Christ.

That's our position. He is a new creation, limitary something interesting here when you were saved. What happened.

The Bible says that you gained a new spirit, the Holy Spirit of God came in the alive and brought the birth a newness of life within you but you can exchange bodies same old body something else you didn't exchange you didn't exchange your mind, your will, your emotion, your conscience are your consciousness. You can change any of that. All that was still there and what you want to be careful here.

We're talking about who we are in Christ Jesus. We are talking about being for even liberated.

Think about this. He says the truth will set you free.

The truth of your position is part of the truth.

The truth of who you are giving your sense of security. No longer feeling inferior but adequate and capable in the power of the Holy Spirit who is within you notice the day you were saved, something dramatic, drastic and eternally happen to you. You became a new creation in Christ Jesus.

But still deposited in the same old physical house.

This body still the same I will emotion conscious and consciousness so immediately God began to do something in your life. He began the work in your life of doing what a transformation. So something begins to happen. Listen in order for me to enjoy. In order for me to be able to express in order for me to be able to be calm and to achieve what God wants something must begin to happen and my thought processes.

If I am going to enjoy everything the guys provided in my relationship to Christ and that's why he says the truth will set you free. You can be free from condemnation, that is, you can be free to go to heaven. But if you are not free from these out of satanic harassments than what we can do is live say but what about half sorry and two thirds miserable and that's where a lot of Christians are God is one is living that way.

So what does he say says in Romans chapter 12 he says be not conformed shape in the mold of this present world would be what transform that is a transforming process goes on. You don't get transformed to be saved. Salvation is an act of God, in the twinkling of the moment you receive it by faith. You say that that moment but he says he predestinated is not to be say, but what to be conformed to the likeness of Christ that if he is in the process of conformity to the likeness of Christ what's being transformed. What is being conformed the likeness of Christ. I was spare that is absolutely brand-new created a new creation in Christ Jesus. But what's being transformed. What is this what is this renewing. He says don't be part of the world's mobile what the transformed by the renewing of your heart. The renewing of your mind.

All right now the renewing process. That's really what we're doing in this series we're talking about the renewing process and that is we need to begin to think about ourselves.

The way God sees us. If we don't those saved we will go through life harassed Burton down shackle down with attitudes about God is he is and if I can't believe that that I am accepted in the beloved line accepted in God I don't have to feel rejected. I don't have to feel guilty that you like to get the measure up. I gotta follow 15 principles not to get God's grace today if I can see myself accepted in the beloved.

On the basis of my relationship to him. I'm going to be free from some of that but until I do. I'm going to live under Satan satanic very ineffective satanic oppression and a lot of people going to the doctor need to get on the knees, find out who they are claimed by faith God's position. God's possession and God's person and them I want to tell you my friend.

That'll do something for you that no appeal will ever do because of your relationship to lie, that is the life eternal life of Jesus Christ, living within you know what he says in this passage back here on new creation. But what is new New Orleans out.

I'm not build outside.

I'm not even doing all my thinking because how many of us have been saved. And yet, the next day or the next week. Something just like we used to do.

Same old habits that habit patterns have been riveted to my mind the 2030 4050 years of living in sin so there's got to be a transforming experience. That's why he says don't let the world shape you into its mold but he says be transformed by the renewing of your mind. What did Jesus say he says if you abide in my word he should be my disciples, and the you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. What is it that Frazier three is a man on these things freeze a woman from these attitudes in these harassments.

This bondage is what the word of God.

You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. This is the true now how am I transform how lame free. He says by the renewing of your mind and listen the renewing process is the feasting, the absorption, the study the intake the perusing the concentration the meditation. The praying it back to God's upon the word of God.

Listen getting God's viewpoint about himself and about myself. Seeing myself in my position in him seeing who I am seeing what I possess it in and what happens then I begin to think like God thinks will I begin to think like I think presented that renews my mind asked a lot of people who been saved and back in the same old habits I so I know I'm safe but it just came right at Kate breakout can get release can't get liberty, can get free. You mean God who is all not enough to save you and sovereignly rule this world.

You mean he can't break you have a habit you know other feel the way that habit so strong that they know there say there in Christ Jesus bought man's not been renewed there some things that need to learn and he says that we are saints and that we are new creations but listen new creations in Christ Jesus and some of you set a long time and at times Norm say but I can't figure out what is why things are working on site, while not working because your attitude about God, yourselves, not right when you see is who you are and what you are in Christ Jesus. What else really makes a difference because your sense of insecurity is going to tumble the feeling of in the art is going to crumble all those things are going to dissipate and you going to begin to walk, listen, walk in the truth and here is the burden, the burden is that Satan is going to send you those same old feelings, unworthy, guilty, incapable in adequate insufficient insecure you feel it is, the less you sell right makes it it was what site says here's what God says and it all boils down to one or two things under him have to make a choice and my choice is ongoing have to believe the divine the facts of this book and resist and reject my feelings or I'm going to accept my feelings and settle for life far less than God Almighty has allotted to me and to you and us that they want to ask your question on the basis have I told you the truth. Amen. Who you are a saint in Christ novel until your little itsy-bitsy part of a saint in Jesus Christ, a new creation in him you are a brand-new person in him. But you see, if you've not been living new.

I want to tell you. He says the truth will set you free.

If you abide in my word, continue in my word, absorbent studied, keep on reading it. You see some people listen to someone top. That's it.

You can do that he says continue in my word you know what's happening. The renewing of the mind is going on.

God is changing your attitude about the way he sees you the things that are happening in your life and your actions are going to be different because your attitude is going to be different because you going to begin to walk, listen in faith on the basis of what God has said not what Satan has made you feel. And here's the simple choice had you rather be who God says you are. Are you willing to listen to Satan's lies and settle for less and becoming and achieving that Almighty is sovereign loving God has provided for you and me. That's the children's I pray my friend in Jesus name. You make the choice of resisting your theme and accepting the things thank you for listening to how the truth can set you free.

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