Free For Real | We Interrupt The Regularly Scheduled Program To Bring You This Important Message

Let me ask you something this morning. What if god didn't keep you alive just so you could stay stuck? What if mercy preserved you so that freedom can transform you? What if what if that was the case? Because some of us, we survived the fire. But let's be honest, we still smell like smoke. Some of us escape the trap, but we still have a captive mindset. We still have our thinking like captives. And the holy ghost pressed me this week. And he says, don't just celebrate that they made it. Make sure they're free. [00:04:03] (72 seconds)  #NotJustSurvival

Because you can be alive and still be bound. You can be gifted and still be trapped. You can be in church and still in cycles. And I come to let you know today that Jesus didn't die for your survival. He died for your freedom. I'm a go ahead and just get right to it because I ain't got a whole lot of time this morning. My first point is simply this, you can be saved and still be stuck. You can be saved and still stuck. Let me give you some context about John chapter eight. [00:05:15] (38 seconds)  #SavedButStuck

Because at the wall, prayer feels dry, the bible doesn't feel alive, ministry doesn't feel fulfilling, God feels silent, some things sometimes it's triggered by crisis, Sometime it's triggered by burnout, and sometime it's triggered by the pain that you never processed. And the most powerful insight is this. The wall exposes Lord, help me today. The wall exposes what religious activity was hiding. The wall exposes your unhealed trauma, Your unhealed or your family patterns. The wall exposes your anxiety. The wall exposes your shame. The wall exposes your unprocessed grief. Things that we learned how to serve over, but we never learned how to heal through. [00:13:29] (66 seconds)  #WallExposesTruth

Meaning, bondage, watch this, isn't always external. It's habitual. It's, you know, it's a cycle. It's internal. And you can attend church and still be attached to chains. Deliverance from Egypt doesn't automatically remove Egypt from you. Y'all know the old saying, you can take a boy out the ghetto, but you can't take the come on, somebody. It was an internal bondage. Freedom is not proximity to Jesus. It's actually surrendering to Jesus. [00:07:40] (44 seconds)  #FreedomIsSurrender

This phone charger still has power. Y'all ain't saying nothing. Okay, pastor. Can I talk to you? It still has power even though it's twisted. And if we're honest about ourselves today, that's how some believers are. You're saved. Y'all ain't saying nothing. You're anointed. You're gifted. But you guess what? You're still twisted and tangled up into some patterns that still have not been delivered yet. [00:08:54] (41 seconds)  #UntanglePatterns

See, the enemy the enemy doesn't need you evil. He just needs you to be secretive. Lord, I feel like preaching this morning. You don't need to be evil. He said, I got that. I just need you to be secretive. I just need you to be going through some things privately and don't tell nobody. But the word of God, there's a verse for that. So look at your neighbor and say, there's a verse for that. [00:18:06] (39 seconds)  #StopTheSecrets

And what the critical journey does is it maps stages that people go through in their spiritual development. Now just stay with me for a moment. I promise I'm I'm I'm I'm gonna get to it, but I but I wanna just unpack some things because when this when a friend of mine showed this to me, I was just literally blown away. Blown away. And what they discovered is something that should make all of us, like, literally lean in this morning. Let me show you. Spiritual growth is not a straight line upward. In fact, many believers plateau. They get stuck. [00:11:02] (43 seconds)  #SpiritualGrowthJourney

But the devil got you twisted and thinking, you just oh, just keep that to yourself. And we've been conditioned even in our culture. Y'all ain't y'all ain't y'all ain't y'all ain't gonna like me this morning. We've been conditioned even in our culture What goes on in this house, y'all ain't saying nothing. Stays in this house. Don't be don't be talking and airing out the family business. Well, if the family business is toxic and I can't go to nobody else in the family about the family business, guess what? My Bible trumps the family history. My Bible trumps what's going on inside this household because I wanna be free. [00:20:19] (53 seconds)  #BibleOverFamily