The Gospel According to Freedom Part 4

When the onlookers and the world tells you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth and tell the whole world, no, you move. Here's my charge to you today. Join the resistance. Stop being a reaction to what was done with you and start to be in a response to what Christ is doing in you. It means looking at the trauma that tries to pull your strings, the jealousy that tries to make you small, or the anger that tries to make you a monster and tell those impulses, no, you move. I am led by the spirit. [01:11:31] (40 seconds)  #JoinTheResistance

But he understand that the most radical thing you can do when a world tries to manipulate you into hate is to respond with a love that forgives. That's not a passive choice. That's spiritual resistance. Resistance comes in asking the spirit to carry you through the pain of a depleted connection and a broken heart. And instead of it engulfing your emotions in x rated searches on the screens, that's resistance. Resistance is letting the spirit hold you with compassion instead of giving you the temporary pleasure of a numbing drunkenness. [01:09:20] (45 seconds)  #ForgiveNotRetaliate

The spirit is the resistance against your knee jerk reactions when the world tries to program you for rage, the spirit provides a different code. It offers a true north that isn't dependent upon how people treat you. Being led by the spirit means you have a new master. You aren't just a mutant reacting to a sentinel world. You are a son and daughter of the living God, walking in peace in a world that didn't give you that peace and cannot take it away from you. [00:58:52] (45 seconds)  #LedByTheSpirit

That's the only purpose of the sentinels, and the sentinels are the manifestation of a system that says, you are a threat because of your DNA or or who you are. Paul is saying in Galatians that sin is like an internal sentinel. It's a system that just encourages to think and act in a certain way. It's a program running in the background of your soul. When someone insults you, the program says, retaliate. Hate. [00:56:14] (33 seconds)  #BreakTheSentinels

Despite all that was taking place across America, by all the tears and the worries and the pains, this man called for hope. He called for hope in his dream of an America that he envisioned that was not yet, but he believed that could happen. MLK junior was calling for people not to fight back against systems with vengeance and violence, but to stand in solidarity with compassion and power. Because freedom isn't the power to do what you want. It's the power to refuse to be manipulated by your impulses. [00:46:01] (44 seconds)  #HopeOverRage

But I have good news for you today because there will be a final issue to this part of the story when Jesus comes. And when Jesus comes and the cloud splits, there's no more issues like this that are gonna be coming out. A new series will begin. A new series which will detail the struggles of what happened of how love ended up winning in the end because Christ is going to eradicate sin. Everything, these vices that Paul has lifted, results of the pains that we throw ourselves into, we will tell old stories of how we got over the mountain because Christ will bring an ultimate resolution. [01:19:33] (49 seconds)  #UltimateResolutionInChrist

Christ provides an absolute resolution to this sin filled story, and it doesn't end with the cross, folks. Because the cross is just this message that he declares that that death is not the most powerful thing that can crush humanity because we know a God who can defeat death. That's just the start of things. The episodes continue over and over. It feels like 4,000 issues. That's what it feels like. [01:19:00] (33 seconds)  #ResurrectionContinues

But I wanna put to you today that I really want to try and reframe this list for you today. This is it's kind of inaccurate just to leave it as it's a judgment and an identification of bad people. I I want to try and put it to you today to try and offer some depth that this isn't a list purely about sinful choices, but this list is evidence of trauma reactions. Reactions. These aren't just labels for villains. They are evidence of how hurt people respond when they are puppeteered by their weaknesses of their own trauma and pain. [01:03:30] (52 seconds)  #TraumaReactionsNotLabels