The Sermon Independence by David McGee
Jul 3, 2011
Independence (30:47)
Referenced Scriptures: 2 Timothy 2:19; Hebrews 2:12
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2 Timothy 2:19
19) However God‘s firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness."
Hebrews 2:12
12) saying, "I will declare your name to my brothers, In the midst of the congregation will I sing your praise."
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While I was there and what happens when you think of Independence Day. I think in the movie aliens with their attacking Washington DC to giving it the way that will be called Independence Day and I guide the enemy says I'm back to be blithe up into the space spaceship blows up later. What that okay I live. So forget that you enjoyed it and I know what kind of an essay is about quality dog with a billion just a little bit during the American Revolution, a legal separation of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain occurred on July second seventeen seventy six, when the second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that ended that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee in Virginia after voting for the independent Congress turned his attention to the Declaration of Independence a statement explaining their decision, which had been prepared by the committee of five anybody know the original signers of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, and I don't have the other one. I have always done with some of the principal author finally approved on what was of finally approve the money got any ideas they had visits tomorrow what what they would at least July four July fourth seventeen seventy six White House. However, the John Adams wrote his wife is missing up user John Adams Road is one while on high. He said the second day on April the second of July seventeen seventy six he was planning on this being on July second at the patient is that will be in the mall memorable African-American history. I have to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival in Opera. The commemorative as a day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty God to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shells, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires of elimination from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward and forevermore. So John Adams had the idea of what this Independence Day would would need Wells, historians, and this is always funny. And I think historians say that the league Declaration of Independence was actually on July second by. It was voted on July fourth, and that has become the that day, but Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. All were signers of the Declaration of Independence, and they all stated that they signed it on the on on July fourth, but most historians declare that assignees. This adoption didn't happen until August second seventeen seventy six dollars dislike this story is the disagree with the people who signed the paper and what we do independence. There is a national holiday. Well, since celebrated by picnics and barbecues by having one tomorrow. What time it were to publish a time that Cynthia shows up and we can show up I'm I'm I'm a book tomorrow. I'm open for two at least for now. Family celebrate independence by hosting nine attending picnics and all songs that go along with Independence Day Star-Spangled Banner. God bless America. America the beautiful, my country, jazz of the this is this land is your land Stars & Stripes forever, no as you listen to the ER fireworks more night you have all those symphonies going off in New York, and wherever and regionally, Yankee doodle Danley in the northern states in Dixie in the southern states in two thousand nine New York City at the largest fireworks this way in the country and ninety one. I guess at how many times about not twenty six close twenty two on a fireworks of you watched the, the New York City fireworks in two thousand nine. You saw twenty two on projectiles taking off well we celebrate the Fourth of July as our declaration of independence from Great Britain, but is there is a celebration of Christ's resurrection of our celebration of independence were God reading mankind from his fall. Mankind is no longer under the cheer any of said lot has found an established forgiveness independence from said is that we celebrate the victory of Jesus Christ and his work on the crop. We did that with communion that we celebrate the victory of Jesus Christ. This do in remembrance of me that he has bought broken body and shed blood, where the price that was paid for our salvation and our forgiveness. So each Sunday, we so the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the first man the week. It was on the first family that Jesus rose in the dad, and that the original charge began to hold and to celebrate their weekly services. His name. His name is Jesus Emmanuelle Lamb of God, and the science in your Redeemer King of Kings and Lord of lords. It is through him that we confess our sin in second Timothy, chapter two verse nineteen. It says the Lord knows those who are his, and everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness, Jesus Christ is his name, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God in all, as we look at the Scriptures and as we examine the life of Jesus Christ. It is it is that it is the fulfillment of all that was written in the Old Testament state. Jesus didn't we know that Jesus didn't just show up two thousand years ago and proclaimed that he was born of a virgin. It was written about the Messiah coming by the prophets of old, that he would invite in the in the book of Isaiah, then he would be born of a virgin and that a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and bear a son, his name shall be called Emmanuel, God with us. It was foretold that he would be born in Bethlehem. It was foretold the life and his death. What type of death he should die. All of these things were written about him in centuries before his coming, and he came and fulfilled those Scriptures, so whenever we confess that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. We see him as coming to fulfill the law of the Old Testament, the Lamb, the sacrificial system of the Old Testament is that type of relational experiencing God wants to have with Brenda comes from this forgiveness in his first chapter to give me chapter twelve verse two says, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith before the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God, the communion service that we just have spoke those very same thing Jesus said that Judaism remembrance of me. I will not drink of this cop until I do to new with you in my father 's kingdom in Haverstraw, says look at the Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith on the fourth of July seventeen seventy six, as our Declaration of Independence, a declaration that we would no longer be subject to Britain. Longer be subject to their taxes into their control and to their laws into their government. That declaration is feeling the declaration was followed by a war that the thirteen colonies finally wanted great great great cost. Our independence from sin was a great battle, God became man, the incarnation of Jesus Christ, the life of Jesus, from birth to death on the cross was a proclamation on the intent of God to break the power of sin over mankind to break the power of death upon the cross, Jesus descended into hell. It took the keys of death, hell and the grave. The roles of the dead and sealed the deal that all who would believe in him, and confession, one would find him to be their Savior that his blood shed upon the will remove inflamed them resent from their life as they are. Forgiveness is something that speaks about our past and our failures is forgiveness space about his grace in his mercy towards our future. His love and his compassion for us speak of his enduring presence with us. God has a plan God has a purpose. You see, when Jesus died on the cross is bloodshed that it would be the Lamb of God without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin states the Old Testament and we find that when Jesus came as the Lamb of God 's blood was shed, and as we we confess our sins to him, we find that that blood has its cleansing power that still reaches forward in time, some two thousand years ago that still reaches forward into time and remove such thing as sin and guilt on our lives. The writer to the Hebrews says Jesus to be the author and finisher of our faith. Jesus is not only the object of our faith is the object of our faith is the author of our faith. You not only is the object. He is the author. The Bible says to every one of us is given a measure of faith, but one who gives a tool that gives the less they were all given an element of faith to believe there is an is a gift from God again from God to believe and to believe and to understand in our belief in our understanding altogether. We don't check our brain at the door whenever we have faith in God we have an understanding of the Scriptures we have an understanding of what the teachings of Jesus Christ are about women understanding of what they need to awesome how they change our lives from the inside out. I was just the roof at the beginning of charge. I remember I remember I hear the now when she was cooking at the home plate is where subway is mounted for the building down. I remember seeing wrote in the back and going to visit her there and and she was cooking. It saw invited to come to church and of all the transitions that happen from those fifty years ago, Judith a young girl back to the pleasant fifty is that was a number of years ago that you know she was there could be no all Latin apologies come the churches involved in church all these years later, the impact of her life, not only on around her, but on her family and everyone else in how she is in here faithful all these years how that has made a difference in her life and life of our family and those around. It's important that we seem to know what our relationship with Jesus Christ 's it changes us. I remember I also remember people who reside in church and and and and on our member talking to them and they said while you now. I had all wanted in on this religion stuff brought their family and kids and and so on, and he said what you know I I don't really want to continue with this I I don't think churches for me and that individual 's life and ruin the business day and just a total mess and I think of the difference that Jesus Christ makes the difference in our relationship with Jesus Christ me is not a guilt trip. It's not this, not something that pushed upon us in the know, it's either this or now well it's this which is why the life of God given to our if an expectation is understanding that God has a collar purpose upon our life that God has a purpose for us that was from the beginning of time. God knew that we would be here now, and some have said that we held the predestination is that you have no choice is not true love from our perspective, we believe that God has an understanding writing novels. All knowledge is God 's. He knows you know the present. He knows the future to God. It is all knowledge, and he looks at us and we know the purpose for which we were created, and he knows the purpose for which our life why we are alive, and we cannot find that purpose without him, as we find the purpose that God has for us. We find fulfillment. We find fulfillment for our whole life, we find fulfillment of the life and the life of the people around us. They find it for their lives because God has a reason for us being here is the reason for us being alive, whether the doctor, a lawyer return missionary God has a reason for all of us and his purposes and discovering that the owner 's love for us and is is setting us free from the bondage is from the mistakes and the failures of our past that we look at our future, not from the mistakes of the past and not an end in the pie-in-the-sky dreams of something that why you know I'm a newbie all right when I hit the lottery it out like one guy said you have a retirement yesterday play the lottery every day. I thought it was funny at his retirement the chances of my blog when I get struck by lightning three times for that happened, but there that has out there. But anyhow, the idea is that God has a purpose for our lives, and that our forgiveness and the forgiveness is letting go that we learn from our past bypass does not bind us our sins, you are Cesar mistakes of our failures. What if we can allow them to begin to be taken away from us and that we can forgive ourselves. But not only do we forgive ourselves. We forgive those who inform us with forgiveness. Also, I'm willfully and intentionally done things against us. They are nonsense cells not only our failures. It is alternatively harmed us and we led all of those things. Why, because God has forgiven us, forgive us this day. Now give us this day our daily bread as we forgive dolls who trespass against us, forgive us as we forgive see the reason for that is that we liked out for Jim about letting go. We can't blame our past for our future. We can't blame our class for future, we must look at our. We must look at our life and allow them will love of God, in the presence of God, and the peace of God to work in our hearts and lives manipulation. Guilt is a manipulator, Jesus Christ loves us. He leaned his she believes us into our future and the word of God comes to teach us about the truth of life, and that this is about the truth that our eternal heaven and earth of my word will never pass away. It is the eternal truth of God 's word to anchor our sullen anger online in the midst of difficulties in the midst of a problem we celebrate the want of July. Our forefathers made a decision that has changed our lives they put their life on the line as the declaration of independence failed. They'd all been hung as traitors that all that hung as traitors. They signed their name. They signed their death warrant. Because had the time we had the thirteen colonies failed those guys would have been executed to put their life on the line that they know what you think the but they were willing to take that gamble. They were willing to make that decision because of what they knew was in front of them. You see, we know what's in front of us with an eternity in front of the we make a decision based upon our knowledge and understanding of forgiveness of love of right relationship with God, why relationship with people that that that having right relationships builds character, field glasses as all that we can make life choices to Jesus not only the object of our faith is the author of our faith. Jesus is the beginning, the professor and the worker of faith instills faith in us and how his faith, yet here he was eleven. One says, Faith comes by hearing the word of God, so whenever we read the Scriptures and we hear the Scriptures, and we hear them talking and we read them in for and then instills faith in us. It instills faith in us all that things can change things can be done for off even in the midst of difficulties, things can make a the joy that was set before him. Jesus endured the cross, the joy that was set before him. This is knowledge that you and I would really fly. He endured the cross a finish his eye. He is the author and finisher of our faith is that he is the one who fulfilled all of the scriptural promises. He is the one who fulfilled completely prophecies about this. I can fulfill them completely. So here's a finish our faith, the word made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld him and John anno Domini writes that it's like, and we just get that picture. You know, I have never one individual purchase sermon on it and I never, never grasp of the way that the presenation and we beheld him and in in in this. This I know I've said this before, but the idea is the BK. The word the is the same as I am okay the word be in the word became I am of the Old Testament B became that we be getting this is what it is saying John is saying it. God became flesh, and I held John is saying, God became flesh, and I held, and everything changed. From there, and whenever we read the Scriptures. Whenever we hear the Scriptures and sang the psalms and things like that. We are beholding God, beheld talking allowing God to cut costs we declare our independence from sin. We declare our separation, and soon we believe in Jesus. We believe in his work on the cross. Declare your intentions prepare your life to serve God our intention is that we will serve God. From this moment forward, that we will start off the rest of our lives to lay aside every weight could so easily would entangle us in the title. Our Christian walk, that would lay aside those things which trip us up in our and our relationship with Christ. No, our independence. Another great symbol of our national and they have an idea what another great symbol of our national independence is it to New York City, New York Harbor on liberty Island Statue of Liberty. Okay thank you very much. The Statue of Liberty has a colossal neoclassical sculpture I got that from the website on liberty Island in New York Harbor. Designed by Frederick 's last thing these branches by falling B a R T H O LBI or follow whenever a judge. It was dedicated on October twenty eighth eighteen eighty six. The statue is a gift to the United States and the people of France. It is a royal female figure three is representing limited areas, who bears a torch and a tablet invoking the law, upon which is inscribed upon the tablets of the Statue of Liberty I think I went up in the crown on underground reply) and I have an idea about the inscribed to date of American Declaration of Independence. Life for an eighty eight. This statue is a broken chain. The statue has become an icon of freedom for the United States. When we look at the Statue of Liberty. What we see we see what it stands for. Imagine in millions of immigrants that whenever they saw that lady in New York Harbor, what it meant to them, and finally arrived at freedom opportunity. When we look at the cross what the wasting the empty cross is a risen Savior, we see the picture of God 's love is sacrifice our freedom. And I thought another aspect when God looks at us, what does he see he sees his creation that he loves he doesn't see the failures that we made you see the possibilities of what we can become. Can we look through the eyes of God to look at our lives to see ourselves as people of opportunity and people potential, arriving at a place that God created us to be his God nowhere fast. Yes, when it is forgiven. It is never remember he chooses never to remember against us again. He knows our future God has a plan and a purpose for a lie cross we cannot question while Sandford, today's hourglass. We must live today to its fullest knowing that God will give us the opportunities on the string for today and for tomorrow. God sees how his world, or how his word will change our lives. God sees how his word will change our lives, our faith. Our faith will make a difference. You see, if you believe you can believe you can. You're right. But whenever we are looking at the word of God, we and we are looking at how that God will make a difference in our life and how that our faith in God 's love for us will change us from the inside out. As you look through the eyes of God at yourself. We look at the Scriptures we look at the promises of God, and how that God has prepared a place for us in this world that we are part of the body of Christ with a greater purpose than just taking caramelize. We have a greater purpose of serving the body of Christ. It will make a difference in this life and the life to come. We are on a greater higher calling than just declaring our independence from sin, just as our forefathers were of a higher calling than just finding independence for themselves and their immediate family. They found independence for us sold to Christ has saved us from our sin and declared our independence from said by his blood on the cross, and his broken body shed on the cross message of Jesus is different our culture and our world. He says the be willing to give when others say to live one hundred eight to help when others abuse giving up our own rights in order to serve others one day receive will one day receive everything that God has given to lots of Jesus for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, the canceling of seeing the defeating of evil. He became the mediator between God and man in the ever lives to make intercession for us. So Jesus is praying for us and what do you think he's trying to train that we these praying his word into our lives. What is his word, we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sin. I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength that is, I turn my life over to Christ all things work together for good to those who love him and are called according to his purpose. Jeremiah twenty nine eleven God has plans of the purpose of our life. We know that the promises are there and they keep coming, and they come with an expectation they come with an expectation of a the things can be changed in this line, and the life to come because God is at work in us and he gone, working in us can change us from the inside out. We become a new creation in Christ all things pass away, behold, all things become new. Where are my limitations. My limitations are in my faith, my limitations are, in my belief, the prayer, the prayer of Jesus, that we might know him as the prayer hall. I might know him and the power of his resurrection, we allow Jesus to forgive us. We allow his power to keep us we can be a Christian without his help. Allow his long to embrace us, making sure that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ independence. We are, we are free from Britain's tyranny blocks the cross of Jesus Christ. We are free from sin 's theory over our lives no longer held bondage is the grace and mercy and love lead us. Sin is addictive bondage whatever we find that in Christ we are setWhile I was there and what happens when you think of Independence Day. I think in the movie aliens with their attacking Washington DC to giving it the way that will be called Independence Day and I guide the enemy says I'm back to be blithe up into the space spaceship blows up later. What that okay I live. So forget that you enjoyed it and I know what kind of an essay is about quality dog with a billion just a little bit during the American Revolution, a legal separation of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain occurred on July second seventeen seventy six, when the second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that ended that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee in Virginia after voting for the independent Congress turned his attention to the Declaration of Independence a statement explaining their decision, which had been prepared by the committee of five anybody know the original signers of the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, and I don't have the other one. I have always done with some of the principal author finally approved on what was of finally approve the money got any ideas they had visits tomorrow what what they would at least July four July fourth seventeen seventy six White House. However, the John Adams wrote his wife is missing up user John Adams Road is one while on high. He said the second day on April the second of July seventeen seventy six he was planning on this being on July second at the patient is that will be in the mall memorable African-American history. I have to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival in Opera. The commemorative as a day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty God to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shells, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires of elimination from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward and forevermore. So John Adams had the idea of what this Independence Day would would need Wells, historians, and this is always funny. And I think historians say that the league Declaration of Independence was actually on July second by. It was voted on July fourth, and that has become the that day, but Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin. All were signers of the Declaration of Independence, and they all stated that they signed it on the on on July fourth, but most historians declare that assignees. This adoption didn't happen until August second seventeen seventy six dollars dislike this story is the disagree with the people who signed the paper and what we do independence. There is a national holiday. Well, since celebrated by picnics and barbecues by having one tomorrow. What time it were to publish a time that Cynthia shows up and we can show up I'm I'm I'm a book tomorrow. I'm open for two at least for now. Family celebrate independence by hosting nine attending picnics and all songs that go along with Independence Day Star-Spangled Banner. God bless America. America the beautiful, my country, jazz of the this is this land is your land Stars & Stripes forever, no as you listen to the ER fireworks more night you have all those symphonies going off in New York, and wherever and regionally, Yankee doodle Danley in the northern states in Dixie in the southern states in two thousand nine New York City at the largest fireworks this way in the country and ninety one. I guess at how many times about not twenty six close twenty two on a fireworks of you watched the, the New York City fireworks in two thousand nine. You saw twenty two on projectiles taking off well we celebrate the Fourth of July as our declaration of independence from Great Britain, but is there is a celebration of Christ's resurrection of our celebration of independence were God reading mankind from his fall. Mankind is no longer under the cheer any of said lot has found an established forgiveness independence from said is that we celebrate the victory of Jesus Christ and his work on the crop. We did that with communion that we celebrate the victory of Jesus Christ. This do in remembrance of me that he has bought broken body and shed blood, where the price that was paid for our salvation and our forgiveness. So each Sunday, we so the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the first man the week. It was on the first family that Jesus rose in the dad, and that the original charge began to hold and to celebrate their weekly services. His name. His name is Jesus Emmanuelle Lamb of God, and the science in your Redeemer King of Kings and Lord of lords. It is through him that we confess our sin in second Timothy, chapter two verse nineteen. It says the Lord knows those who are his, and everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness, Jesus Christ is his name, Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God in all, as we look at the Scriptures and as we examine the life of Jesus Christ. It is it is that it is the fulfillment of all that was written in the Old Testament state. Jesus didn't we know that Jesus didn't just show up two thousand years ago and proclaimed that he was born of a virgin. It was written about the Messiah coming by the prophets of old, that he would invite in the in the book of Isaiah, then he would be born of a virgin and that a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and bear a son, his name shall be called Emmanuel, God with us. It was foretold that he would be born in Bethlehem. It was foretold the life and his death. What type of death he should die. All of these things were written about him in centuries before his coming, and he came and fulfilled those Scriptures, so whenever we confess that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. We see him as coming to fulfill the law of the Old Testament, the Lamb, the sacrificial system of the Old Testament is that type of relational experiencing God wants to have with Brenda comes from this forgiveness in his first chapter to give me chapter twelve verse two says, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith before the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God, the communion service that we just have spoke those very same thing Jesus said that Judaism remembrance of me. I will not drink of this cop until I do to new with you in my father 's kingdom in Haverstraw, says look at the Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith on the fourth of July seventeen seventy six, as our Declaration of Independence, a declaration that we would no longer be subject to Britain. Longer be subject to their taxes into their control and to their laws into their government. That declaration is feeling the declaration was followed by a war that the thirteen colonies finally wanted great great great cost. Our independence from sin was a great battle, God became man, the incarnation of Jesus Christ, the life of Jesus, from birth to death on the cross was a proclamation on the intent of God to break the power of sin over mankind to break the power of death upon the cross, Jesus descended into hell. It took the keys of death, hell and the grave. The roles of the dead and sealed the deal that all who would believe in him, and confession, one would find him to be their Savior that his blood shed upon the will remove inflamed them resent from their life as they are. Forgiveness is something that speaks about our past and our failures is forgiveness space about his grace in his mercy towards our future. His love and his compassion for us speak of his enduring presence with us. God has a plan God has a purpose. You see, when Jesus died on the cross is bloodshed that it would be the Lamb of God without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin states the Old Testament and we find that when Jesus came as the Lamb of God 's blood was shed, and as we we confess our sins to him, we find that that blood has its cleansing power that still reaches forward in time, some two thousand years ago that still reaches forward into time and remove such thing as sin and guilt on our lives. The writer to the Hebrews says Jesus to be the author and finisher of our faith. Jesus is not only the object of our faith is the object of our faith is the author of our faith. You not only is the object. He is the author. The Bible says to every one of us is given a measure of faith, but one who gives a tool that gives the less they were all given an element of faith to believe there is an is a gift from God again from God to believe and to believe and to understand in our belief in our understanding altogether. We don't check our brain at the door whenever we have faith in God we have an understanding of the Scriptures we have an understanding of what the teachings of Jesus Christ are about women understanding of what they need to awesome how they change our lives from the inside out. I was just the roof at the beginning of charge. I remember I remember I hear the now when she was cooking at the home plate is where subway is mounted for the building down. I remember seeing wrote in the back and going to visit her there and and she was cooking. It saw invited to come to church and of all the transitions that happen from those fifty years ago, Judith a young girl back to the pleasant fifty is that was a number of years ago that you know she was there could be no all Latin apologies come the churches involved in church all these years later, the impact of her life, not only on around her, but on her family and everyone else in how she is in here faithful all these years how that has made a difference in her life and life of our family and those around. It's important that we seem to know what our relationship with Jesus Christ 's it changes us. I remember I also remember people who reside in church and and and and on our member talking to them and they said while you now. I had all wanted in on this religion stuff brought their family and kids and and so on, and he said what you know I I don't really want to continue with this I I don't think churches for me and that individual 's life and ruin the business day and just a total mess and I think of the difference that Jesus Christ makes the difference in our relationship with Jesus Christ me is not a guilt trip. It's not this, not something that pushed upon us in the know, it's either this or now well it's this which is why the life of God given to our if an expectation is understanding that God has a collar purpose upon our life that God has a purpose for us that was from the beginning of time. God knew that we would be here now, and some have said that we held the predestination is that you have no choice is not true love from our perspective, we believe that God has an understanding writing novels. All knowledge is God 's. He knows you know the present. He knows the future to God. It is all knowledge, and he looks at us and we know the purpose for which we were created, and he knows the purpose for which our life why we are alive, and we cannot find that purpose without him, as we find the purpose that God has for us. We find fulfillment. We find fulfillment for our whole life, we find fulfillment of the life and the life of the people around us. They find it for their lives because God has a reason for us being here is the reason for us being alive, whether the doctor, a lawyer return missionary God has a reason for all of us and his purposes and discovering that the owner 's love for us and is is setting us free from the bondage is from the mistakes and the failures of our past that we look at our future, not from the mistakes of the past and not an end in the pie-in-the-sky dreams of something that why you know I'm a newbie all right when I hit the lottery it out like one guy said you have a retirement yesterday play the lottery every day. I thought it was funny at his retirement the chances of my blog when I get struck by lightning three times for that happened, but there that has out there. But anyhow, the idea is that God has a purpose for our lives, and that our forgiveness and the forgiveness is letting go that we learn from our past bypass does not bind us our sins, you are Cesar mistakes of our failures. What if we can allow them to begin to be taken away from us and that we can forgive ourselves. But not only do we forgive ourselves. We forgive those who inform us with forgiveness. Also, I'm willfully and intentionally done things against us. They are nonsense cells not only our failures. It is alternatively harmed us and we led all of those things. Why, because God has forgiven us, forgive us this day. Now give us this day our daily bread as we forgive dolls who trespass against us, forgive us as we forgive see the reason for that is that we liked out for Jim about letting go. We can't blame our past for our future. We can't blame our class for future, we must look at our. We must look at our life and allow them will love of God, in the presence of God, and the peace of God to work in our hearts and lives manipulation. Guilt is a manipulator, Jesus Christ loves us. He leaned his she believes us into our future and the word of God comes to teach us about the truth of life, and that this is about the truth that our eternal heaven and earth of my word will never pass away. It is the eternal truth of God 's word to anchor our sullen anger online in the midst of difficulties in the midst of a problem we celebrate the want of July. Our forefathers made a decision that has changed our lives they put their life on the line as the declaration of independence failed. They'd all been hung as traitors that all that hung as traitors. They signed their name. They signed their death warrant. Because had the time we had the thirteen colonies failed those guys would have been executed to put their life on the line that they know what you think the but they were willing to take that gamble. They were willing to make that decision because of what they knew was in front of them. You see, we know what's in front of us with an eternity in front of the we make a decision based upon our knowledge and understanding of forgiveness of love of right relationship with God, why relationship with people that that that having right relationships builds character, field glasses as all that we can make life choices to Jesus not only the object of our faith is the author of our faith. Jesus is the beginning, the professor and the worker of faith instills faith in us and how his faith, yet here he was eleven. One says, Faith comes by hearing the word of God, so whenever we read the Scriptures and we hear the Scriptures, and we hear them talking and we read them in for and then instills faith in us. It instills faith in us all that things can change things can be done for off even in the midst of difficulties, things can make a the joy that was set before him. Jesus endured the cross, the joy that was set before him. This is knowledge that you and I would really fly. He endured the cross a finish his eye. He is the author and finisher of our faith is that he is the one who fulfilled all of the scriptural promises. He is the one who fulfilled completely prophecies about this. I can fulfill them completely. So here's a finish our faith, the word made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld him and John anno Domini writes that it's like, and we just get that picture. You know, I have never one individual purchase sermon on it and I never, never grasp of the way that the presenation and we beheld him and in in in this. This I know I've said this before, but the idea is the BK. The word the is the same as I am okay the word be in the word became I am of the Old Testament B became that we be getting this is what it is saying John is saying it. God became flesh, and I held John is saying, God became flesh, and I held, and everything changed. From there, and whenever we read the Scriptures. Whenever we hear the Scriptures and sang the psalms and things like that. We are beholding God, beheld talking allowing God to cut costs we declare our independence from sin. We declare our separation, and soon we believe in Jesus. We believe in his work on the cross. Declare your intentions prepare your life to serve God our intention is that we will serve God. From this moment forward, that we will start off the rest of our lives to lay aside every weight could so easily would entangle us in the title. Our Christian walk, that would lay aside those things which trip us up in our and our relationship with Christ. No, our independence. Another great symbol of our national and they have an idea what another great symbol of our national independence is it to New York City, New York Harbor on liberty Island Statue of Liberty. Okay thank you very much. The Statue of Liberty has a colossal neoclassical sculpture I got that from the website on liberty Island in New York Harbor. Designed by Frederick 's last thing these branches by falling B a R T H O LBI or follow whenever a judge. It was dedicated on October twenty eighth eighteen eighty six. The statue is a gift to the United States and the people of France. It is a royal female figure three is representing limited areas, who bears a torch and a tablet invoking the law, upon which is inscribed upon the tablets of the Statue of Liberty I think I went up in the crown on underground reply) and I have an idea about the inscribed to date of American Declaration of Independence. Life for an eighty eight. This statue is a broken chain. The statue has become an icon of freedom for the United States. When we look at the Statue of Liberty. What we see we see what it stands for. Imagine in millions of immigrants that whenever they saw that lady in New York Harbor, what it meant to them, and finally arrived at freedom opportunity. When we look at the cross what the wasting the empty cross is a risen Savior, we see the picture of God 's love is sacrifice our freedom. And I thought another aspect when God looks at us, what does he see he sees his creation that he loves he doesn't see the failures that we made you see the possibilities of what we can become. Can we look through the eyes of God to look at our lives to see ourselves as people of opportunity and people potential, arriving at a place that God created us to be his God nowhere fast. Yes, when it is forgiven. It is never remember he chooses never to remember against us again. He knows our future God has a plan and a purpose for a lie cross we cannot question while Sandford, today's hourglass. We must live today to its fullest knowing that God will give us the opportunities on the string for today and for tomorrow. God sees how his world, or how his word will change our lives. God sees how his word will change our lives, our faith. Our faith will make a difference. You see, if you believe you can believe you can. You're right. But whenever we are looking at the word of God, we and we are looking at how that God will make a difference in our life and how that our faith in God 's love for us will change us from the inside out. As you look through the eyes of God at yourself. We look at the Scriptures we look at the promises of God, and how that God has prepared a place for us in this world that we are part of the body of Christ with a greater purpose than just taking caramelize. We have a greater purpose of serving the body of Christ. It will make a difference in this life and the life to come. We are on a greater higher calling than just declaring our independence from sin, just as our forefathers were of a higher calling than just finding independence for themselves and their immediate family. They found independence for us sold to Christ has saved us from our sin and declared our independence from said by his blood on the cross, and his broken body shed on the cross message of Jesus is different our culture and our world. He says the be willing to give when others say to live one hundred eight to help when others abuse giving up our own rights in order to serve others one day receive will one day receive everything that God has given to lots of Jesus for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, the canceling of seeing the defeating of evil. He became the mediator between God and man in the ever lives to make intercession for us. So Jesus is praying for us and what do you think he's trying to train that we these praying his word into our lives. What is his word, we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sin. I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength that is, I turn my life over to Christ all things work together for good to those who love him and are called according to his purpose. Jeremiah twenty nine eleven God has plans of the purpose of our life. We know that the promises are there and they keep coming, and they come with an expectation they come with an expectation of a the things can be changed in this line, and the life to come because God is at work in us and he gone, working in us can change us from the inside out. We become a new creation in Christ all things pass away, behold, all things become new. Where are my limitations. My limitations are in my faith, my limitations are, in my belief, the prayer, the prayer of Jesus, that we might know him as the prayer hall. I might know him and the power of his resurrection, we allow Jesus to forgive us. We allow his power to keep us we can be a Christian without his help. Allow his long to embrace us, making sure that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ independence. We are, we are free from Britain's tyranny blocks the cross of Jesus Christ. We are free from sin 's theory over our lives no longer held bondage is the grace and mercy and love lead us. Sin is addictive bondage whatever we find that in Christ we are set