Christ's Sacrifice: The Path to Spiritual Freedom

1. "Our ancestors, like Reverend Nat Turner, understood this concept. They understood that in their fight for freedom, people had to make great sacrifices, sometimes, giving their own lives. They literally poured out their blood on the soil that we stand on today, enjoying the freedoms that we enjoy today. Now, here's the amazing part. Here's the awesome part. Just as our ancestors' sacrifices led to freedom on earth, the Bible tells us Jesus, who willingly gave up his life, and shed his blood on the cross. This was like a bright light breaking through the darkness of storms, offering us forgiveness for our sins, and freedom from the burdens that weigh us down." [28:56] (57 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "For centuries, sin has been weaponized when the blood of Christ is the weapon for sin. We have so many preachers online and in person of sin, and not the gift of God, which is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. As if we are trying to shame people into coming to Christ, or scare people into coming to Christ, or to guilt people into coming to Christ, as if we are trying to convince people ourselves into coming to Christ, and it's not working. Everything that we are doing right now is not working. It's leading people away from Christ." [29:48] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "We as a church are aligning ourselves to the unfaithful and unforgiveness of the world. We leave people hopeless. We leave people thinking that there is nowhere else that they fit in but the casket. But we have to remember in Ephesians 2 and 12, it says, remember that you were at that time separated from Christ and excluded from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. That literally means that without there is no promise. And if we keep making people feel like there is no other hope but them, it is a stain on the church and not themselves." [31:34] (52 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "We don't have the right to shame people for them being people. You have to give permission to be themselves in order to heal themselves. And if we're constantly allowing people to fake the funk, be Halloween 24 seven, mask their lives, then we are not healing them. We are just playing church and bringing in membership and they wind up leaving. They wind up leaving. They're coming in one way, going out the other way because there's no healing involved. There's only conviction and the conviction that they're have is the conviction that we give them with judgment and the more judgment they feel, the less often they're going to come in." [33:31] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "Christ is the final sacrifice. In other words, that all those other things that y'all were doing before, all those things we had to continuously do to be saved, we had to continuously sacrifice. We had to continuously sacrifice. We had to continuously go into the holy place. We had to continuously do that. And guess what? We had to continuously bring out these priests who were dying in the holy of holies because their heart wasn't right. So they had to be pulled out because they didn't know whether or not they would be able to live or not. Thinking at the time, I'm saying Christ is the, he is the final sacrifice." [40:03] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6. "If you accepted Christ as your personal savior, then your debt has been paid. And every day you have to accept the fact that he has done that. But you don't have to go through the police, the holy. You don't have to offer him the rule. You just do like he told Abraham. He said, hey, Abraham, there's a ram in the bush. Jesus is our ramp in the bush. He's already provided for it. You don't have to keep trying to provide something that's already been. And I'm not going to stay in the front of you in the back of on TV, on Zoom, wherever I am and persecute something that's already been fought. All I can do is say, no matter what you're going through, Christ has paid the debt." [43:14] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7. "In other words, when we say that we are saved, we are saying we are saved from the penalty of sin, meaning that we don't have to, we don't have to go through hell, we can go with Christ. You're saved from the second part of what's going to happen. You're saved from having to deal with a debt that's already been paid. That's why it's so important to accept Christ as your personal savior and not people around you as your personal savior, because all they're going to do is give you more time on earth. They can't give you eternal life, and that's why it's so important as Christians to make sure that we are promoting the gift of God and not the wages of sin." [42:04] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8. "We give Satan so much credit and so much glory and so much promise that we do God. We talk. We got our stuff online sometimes. I see preachers up there and they have a whole 15 minutes on just sin. And it's like, why are you talking about something? There's already been paid for why are you talking already been paid is done, stop offering on things that are done. If you accepted Christ as your personal savior, then your debt has been paid." [43:14] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


9. "You do know people that you will live eternally regardless. OK, you will live eternally. It won't be ours and it won't be in heaven if you don't accept Christ. You're going to open up your eyes and you're going to see judgment. We are saved from judgment. We are saved from that because Christ is already paid the debt. You're not just saved from sin. You're saved from judgment. I'm saying Christ has already done it. He's already said, well done. My goodness, favorite servant. And that's why, because what is my good and faithful servant? He doesn't say woman. He doesn't say man. He calls you a servant because he sees you as you and not by the norms that we put on each other." [45:16] (51 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


10. "We need to make sure that we understand who Christ And then it takes the It's going to take the blood for whatever you got to do. And we have we have gone through everything as people of color. And we're going to continue to fight. But as far as heaven, that has already been paid for. Amen. And we thank God for knowing that it's his blood. It's cleansed us." [45:16] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)