The Pound Down to Pass Over: MORE Freedom. The Flight Deck 3-26-2026

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See folks, the war is on. The real danger is if you just remain in the palace. We are not obsessed here with war, but we are all in for freedom. God was speaking to me this morning in terms of so much of his church is just doing a David. The David chose to stay in the city of glory rather than follow the glory out into the field. When that happens, we start looking for distractions and we will find them because the enemy will provide them. Wherever there are burdens, bondage, and ownership by the enemy, the fight is required. The war breaks out, battles ensue, and freedom is won. [00:53:15] (66 seconds)  #fightforfreedom Download clip

Bottom line is this, more freedom requires more battle. You are made free by the complete grace of God. Right? You will get more free by the grace of God. But unlike the first being freed, which you had no part in other than just sitting there like an amoeba because he chose you. Right? I mean, it's just the way it is. Nobody can say, I chose God. No. I you came because I your father drew you. I chose you. You didn't choose me and appointed you. So that part's just that's just you're in. [00:10:09] (32 seconds)  #graceandfreedom Download clip

Let's just stop right there. Your I am is committed to your freedom so much more than you are because he sees the end. He knows the glorious manifestation. He's put his glory, a fragment of your glory get this because I this part how I pray. He has put a fragment of your glory in you that is unique in all of earth and all of time. Never before, never again. And he is positively, insanely zealous and jealous for that glory, and he will not share it with another. And he will not share it with another. So part of the process of greater freedom is that glory gets more and more and more revealed. [00:19:05] (64 seconds)  #gloryrevealed Download clip

The more free I am from all the old stuff and the fear and everything else, the more just his glory is there. Because he put it in. It's not me trying to I don't need to I've tried to manufacture my own glory. Yuck. So here what he's saying to you now, I am, so therefore, I will burst your burdens, break your bondage, and buy you back. That's the connection. That's a translation of what he says there to Israel. I'm gonna bust your burden off. I'm gonna break your bondage and buy you back. Is that a good thing? [00:20:08] (49 seconds)  #breakbondage Download clip

where is our stability? And what about us personally? What does God hammer down? Now, sometimes it's even a healthy body, folks, or it's a healthy relationship, or it's a stable family, or this, that, and the other thing. And God just I've seen so many people that are looking to those as a form of a God. Okay? As an idol. All of these gods, all of these strongholds are exposed to show they cannot save, cannot give peace, cannot provide what is needed, and the pound down is on. I mean, I think we're in a time now where it's it's I don't think we've had so many things being pounded on and being just seen as unstable. [00:49:31] (54 seconds)  #falsesecurityexposed Download clip

So there's this time to plant, there's a time to nurture it, there's a time for harvest, and then there's a time you need to land let the land rest. Right? Part of the problem, I love this story, part of the problem they had in in Russia for so many years in the Soviet Union, everything was dictated by Moscow. Russia has 12 different time zones. Okay? And not only that, they have different thermal kind of conditions and everything else, but you could not plant until Moscow said to plant, and you couldn't harvest until Moscow said to harvest. And it didn't matter if it was too dry or too wet or when everything, and so there would be constant loss of crops and everything, but they were sticking to the plan. [00:12:48] (42 seconds)  #alignwithseasons Download clip

And not only that, they have different thermal kind of conditions and everything else, but you could not plant until Moscow said to plant, and you couldn't harvest until Moscow said to harvest. And it didn't matter if it was too dry or too wet or when everything, and so there would be constant loss of crops and everything, but they were sticking to the plan. They were not aligning to the seasons. Right? Because some other authority said, this is the way you have to do it. I'm sorry, but that does sound awful like a lot that we can't can do in the church. you'll get blessed in that season. Yes or no? Okay. Now, I feel there's another application to this and that is marriage. [00:13:11] (44 seconds)  #misalignedauthority Download clip

So the question is really gonna be where is our confidence? Do we really one thing to say you trust God, it's another when you actually have to. Right? I use this with the guys. I can say I have faith that seat will hold me. But you don't know if I really believe that until they put my keister in it. Sorry. I gotta tell the joke. Right? You know the one about the guy with the wheelbarrow over the tight rope over the Niagara? Where he's he's got a he's got a wheelbarrow, he's walked over it and stuff, and and and the crowd's cheering him on, everything. He gets over there. He goes, oh, it's great. He says, I'm gonna go back with a wheelbarrow. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Puts a wheelbarrow. He says, no. Do you think I could do it? Oh, yeah. We know you can do it. We know you can do it. Are you sure I'm not? I'm a little scared. No. We know you can do it. He goes, okay. Who's getting in? [00:50:25] (58 seconds)  #testedfaith Download clip

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