Why You Keep Choosing the Wrong Things | True Freedom vs False Freedom

We have Barabbas here who deserved death, and we have an innocent man of Jesus who is the lamb that took the place of the guilty. So, again, who was Barabbas? Barabbas is me. Barabbas is you. We are the ones who deserve death. We are the criminals. We were the sinners, but Jesus stepped in, and he took our place as the holy lamb of god. So, guys, every day, I want you to remember this. We're tempted to choose Barabbas. We just remember Jesus took our place. So why are we trying to take it back? [00:33:08] (47 seconds)  #JesusTookMyPlace

We gotta realize that the Jews in the crowd were right about one thing that, yes, Jesus Christ is a disruptor. But we have to understand he comes to disrupt the plan of the enemy over our lives. He comes to disrupt the patterns that keeps us lost. He comes to disrupt the influence of the world that keeps us bound, and he comes to give us his freedom. Because we need to understand what true freedom really is. True freedom, guys, is a life that does not lead to more bondage. It's that simple. [00:29:03] (33 seconds)  #JesusDisruptsChains

See, false freedom is doing what we want, but yet feeling the later consequences of more bondage. But true freedom in Christ, there's no bondage associated with them. There's no chains. There's no hidden chains as we go down. This is the freedom that Christ wants us to experience if we're going to move forward in him, and it's here for us today. Guys, choosing true freedom leads to true life, but we gotta choose it. We gotta choose it. This is why Paul writes in Galatians five one. [00:29:36] (30 seconds)  #ChooseTrueFreedomNow

He died so we can experience his freedom, so we can be saved from the punishment of our sins. Let's not take that. Let's not try to take that place back. There's nothing that we can do to overturn what he's done. But what we do is when we choose Barabbas, we do experience it, the destruction of sin that happens in his life, that happens in our bodies, that happens in our relationships. Let's not choose but let's choose the true freedom of Christ. So can I ask you, what does it look like in your life when you choose Barabbas? [00:34:01] (34 seconds)  #FreedomBoughtOnTheCross

See, false freedom is the ability to choose what feels right in the moment, but leads to destruction. See, the truth is all sin leads to bondage. Right? We become wrapped in it. We become slaves to it. It hurts us. It hurts others. It leads to bondage, and this is what we get when we choose Barabbas. When we choose our sin, when we choose to please our bodies instead of pleasing Christ. So, again, I ask you what Jesus do you choose. [00:25:23] (35 seconds)  #SinBecomesBondage

So very simply, church, I want us to think about this. That whenever we choose to glorify our flesh, we choose Barabbas. We're choosing to set free the old sinful nature that's that's deep in within us from our our life before Christ, and we're also choosing to subdue the new life that Christ has given us. Think about that. Something we don't think about when we decide to make decisions to to indulge that desire, to do that thing, we're choosing Barabbas. [00:21:17] (39 seconds)  #GlorifyFleshChooseBarabbas

You know what? They the people couldn't possibly knew what they were saying when they made that statement because they were absolutely right. His blood was on them, and it is on us, but not to place guilt over us. But his blood is on us to cover us with his grace. His blood is on us to point us to freedom, to purchase us the freedom. That's the grace we get with Christ. That each day you get to choose him. That's the grace that was bought by the cross of Calvary that every day, even if you didn't choose him yesterday, even if you've been choosing wrong for twenty years, today, you get to choose the true freedom of Christ because his blood is indeed on us. [00:35:54] (45 seconds)  #HisBloodCoversUs

So once again, we have this option. We have this menu in front of us, and there's only two options in this menu. Which one do you choose? One leads to lie death, but the other leads to life. One brings guilt and shame, but the other brings eternal joy. One is the son of the father, our past, our hurts, our trauma, but the other is the son of the father and brings new life and freedom. Choose Jesus. Choose Jesus. Choose Jesus. This day, every day when we wake up in our choices and all we do and and how we prioritize our life, choose Jesus not just with our mouths, but with our actions. [00:36:40] (36 seconds)  #ChooseJesusWithActions