Freedom in Christ

As part of the Pastor’s Choice series, Joshua Gruber invites us to reconsider one of the most celebrated and misunderstood words in our culture: freedom. Coming just after July 4th, he points beyond national independence to the deeper liberty every soul needs—freedom that is found only in dependence on Jesus Christ.

Joshua begins with a personal and honest testimony of growing up around church, slowly drifting from God, and becoming bound by sin “one link at a time.” What began as subtle compromise eventually became a life marked by emptiness, repeated cycles of sin and regret, and a growing awareness that he could not free himself. Yet even in those dark moments, God’s conviction came not as crushing shame but as pursuing mercy: “Joshua, when are you coming home?” Like the prodigal son, his story reminds us that God does not abandon His children, even when they run.

From there, Joshua opens Galatians 5 and explains Paul’s urgent defense of the true gospel. The Galatian believers were being pressured to add works of the law to faith in Christ, but Paul makes clear that justification comes by grace alone through faith alone. Righteousness is declared by God, not earned by human effort. Legalism may look religious, but it becomes a heavy yoke Christ already broke. If you have ever felt trapped trying to prove you belong to God, Galatians 5:1 offers a liberating reminder: “For freedom Christ has set us free.”

Joshua also warns that Christian freedom is not a license to sin. Galatians 5:13 calls believers not to use freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, because the flesh always promises liberty but produces slavery. Sin dressed up as personal rights, indulgence, or self-expression still leads to bondage. True freedom is not doing whatever feels good; it is being empowered by the Spirit to do what is good, to love God, serve others, and walk in obedience to Christ.

Finally, Joshua addresses the chain of condemnation. Romans 8:1 declares that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. The enemy accuses, but Christ has already borne the punishment. For anyone weighed down by past failure, trapped in performance, or praying for a prodigal to come home, this message offers hope: whom the Son sets free is free indeed. Watch or listen and be reminded that Jesus still breaks chains.

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Transcript

Freedom Beyond Independence Day

Joshua Gruber 0:02

Waves at me. Everybody got all their fingers. We're good. Didn't go too crazy yesterday, July 4th, right? That's awesome. How how incredible how awesome it is. We get to celebrate our independence as Americans, but even more importantly, we get to celebrate our dependence as Christians, right? Our dependency on Jesus Christ. We have to depend on the Lord if we're going to make it through this life. Amen? Amen. So I would be remiss if we didn't talk about freedom today. Right? Coming off of the 250th birthday of the United States, we're going to talk about freedom, but not just any old freedom. We're talking about freedom in Christ. Freedom in Christ, because true freedom is only found in Christ. Well, like Pastor said, obviously, I am not one of those guys that you saw on the screen. For those of you that don't know me, my name is Joshua Gruber. And I am truly honored and truly grateful for this privilege to Pastor Tyler and our elder team to be able to share with you this morning. We have an incredible pastoral team. Do we not here? Can we just give some credit where credit's due, please? Yeah. Yep. These men are absolutely incredible. They are godly men. And I'm so, so thankful to them and ultimately our Lord Jesus Christ for this

Prayer For Chains To Break

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opportunity. Before I go any further, I would like to pray. Lord Heavenly Father, Jesus, I thank you. I thank you, God. I thank you that because of your blood, we are free. Because of you, Jesus, we can walk in freedom. We don't have to be bound by our sin. We can walk in true freedom because of you and what you did on that cross. So, Lord, we give you all the praise and all the glory. I pray that you would open our ears, open our hearts this morning, that we would hear exactly what it is you want us to hear from your word, Jesus. We pray for chains to be broken in this place in Jesus' name. We pray for freedom in Jesus' name. God, I love you. I love you, Lord. In your mighty name we pray, and everybody said, Amen.

Testimony Of Subtle Spiritual Drift

Joshua Gruber 2:34

So before we dive in to the word this morning, I want to give you just a brief portion of my testimony, just so you can get to know me a little bit better before, like I said, before we dive in. I was born in a Christian home with Christian parents. I knew the Lord at a very young age. I can honestly say that I had a relationship with the Lord starting out very young. But as I grew older, I uh I started to walk away. I started to walk away from the Lord, and it started very subtly. I saw some hypocrisy in the church, if you will. Um and I let the enemy just let that sink in, and I festered on that, and I festered on that. It started really subtle, it started really slow because how many of you know the enemy doesn't come after you with these big heavy chains to tie you up. No, he comes at you one link at a time. That's how he likes to come at us very subtly. And that's how it started with me. I saw some inconsistencies with people in the church. I knew them and I saw them outside of church, and the way they lived and what they were saying on Sunday didn't add up. And so I found that as an excuse to start living that way myself. So as I grew older, I started to get further and further away from my walk with Christ and deeper and deeper into sin. Deeper and deeper into sin. And before I knew it, I was completely bound. I was so deep in sin. I didn't care about the gospel. I didn't care about my walk with Christ. All I cared about was pleasing my flesh. And I lived that way for a while. But I'll tell you this: even in my darkest moments, even amongst the sin, the muck that I was in, I still remember very clearly God in his grace and in his mercy showing his love to me through conviction. There would be nights, I kid you not, I'd be driving home after the party was over and everybody went their own ways. I would drive, I was in my truck all by myself and I'd have to pull over. And all of a sudden I would just, I'd feel just this weight on me. But it was a it was a good thing. Even though I was literally just coming out of sin, I felt it, I felt good over this weight. And I would just start weeping. And in my heart, I could almost audibly hear the Lord saying, Joshua, when are you coming home? Son, when is enough enough? When are you coming home? Very much like the prodigal son. I walked away. God never walked away from me, though. He kept his hand on me my whole life, even though I was sinful, even though I was running from him. He pursued me in those moments, and I would weep. I would turn on a worship song. I'd repent. I'd stop living that life for a few days or so. And then I was right back in it. It was this ongoing cycle of sin, repenting, sin. It was just this ongoing thing. Till finally, again, God in his goodness and his grace woke me up. I realized that the life I was living was not sustainable. It wasn't good. I was going nowhere fast. I was going nowhere fast. And I didn't know what else to do. I'd stopped going to church at this time. So the only thing that I could do was call up the one pastor that I knew in my life. He's known me since I was a little kid. Call him Uncle Marvin. I called up Uncle Marvin. I said, man, you know me. You know what's going on. I said, if I'm gonna change, I have to get out of this town and I gotta get around Christian people. Because I grew up in a small town. I forgot to mention that. I grew up in a small town of Okeechobee, Florida. If you've never heard of Okeechobee, I don't blame you. That's fine. There's some good people there. But I called him up and I said, listen, I have to get out of this town and I have to get around Christian people.

Discipleship That Broke The Bondage

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And he said, Well, have you heard of Master's Commission? I never heard of this before in my life. It was a discipleship Bible school program that was exactly what I needed in the time that I needed it. So I ended up there, ended up in Fort Myers, Florida. Ended up in Fort Myers, Master's Commission, and it was there that God wrecked me. I mean, He wrecked me. All that sin, all that bondage that I had accumulated, it was, it didn't take long that God said, we're gonna start breaking those chains. And it was the big stuff that came first, right? It was the drinking, it was the drugs, it was the promiscuity, it was those things that started to fall off first. And then as I furthered my walk with him, he started fine-tuning me, right? That's what he does. Even now, he's fine-tuning us, right? And now it was it was pride, it was bitterness, it was unforgiveness. He was starting to show things to me that that these gotta go. These gotta go. You see that thing that you're holding on to? Yeah, I died for that. You don't need to hold on to it anymore. Amen. And it was liberating. It was liberating. It was, I was at that school for three years. It was where the Lord set me free. It was there I felt the call into pastoral leadership. It was also there where I met my beautiful wife. Yeah, amen. That's after Jesus, he is the greatest thing that happened, right? Come on. So it was there that I felt the call. When we were in that school, we traveled a lot. We did a lot of um like dance and drama and things like that. We traveled all over the United States. And we landed in Knoxville a lot during my three years at this school. We landed in Knoxville a lot. And it all the other states, all the other cities that I went to in my travels, I never felt like I felt when I was in Knoxville, Tennessee. There was just a poll. There was just a poll, and I can't explain it. I mean, it was the Lord, but I couldn't understand it. And so anytime we were here, I felt like this is where I was supposed to be. Well, I went back and finished up school. I graduated and I got into my first ministry position. I was a youth pastor for Uncle Marvin at his church in Jupiter, Florida. I was a youth pastor there for three years, and it was there that God really just really started to show me and teach me and continued to grow me. During that time, it just the call to Knoxville kept getting stronger and stronger. And we knew that at some point we were gonna leave. Well, the Lord said, All right, let's

A Faith Step To Knoxville

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do this. And so my wife and I, excuse me, my pregnant wife and our eight-month-year-old baby, eight-month-year-old, eight-month-old baby. That didn't make sense. She was pregnant and we had one already. Said, now's the time. So we stepped out in faith. We didn't have family here, didn't have a job, lined up, no connections. It was a pure step out in faith, like, God, I trust you that this is what you've called us to do, so we're gonna do it. He called us to start a house church, and so we did. We did. Right before that, I think it's important to note that we were having dinner with some family friends of ours, of my parents also. They've known me since I was little. They used to live in Knoxville, and we were telling them we were moving up there to start a church, and they said, Oh, that's awesome! That's great. Hey, if you have any downtime, you should check out this church called Trinity Community Church. And I was just like, Yeah, sure, maybe, but I know I'm going up there for a purpose. I don't plan to get tied in anywhere, but thank you. Well, planning a church takes a little bit of time. There was about a six-month gap from the time we moved up here to Knoxville to when we actually started the house church. And so we didn't want to just be stagnant and do nothing. We did. We checked out some other churches in Knoxville, and then we ended up here. And right when we walked through those doors, man, it was just like electric. We could feel the presence of the Lord. I mean, everybody was just so welcoming, so loving. And it was hard. It was hard. I mean, every single one of the pastors came up to us at some point, introduced themselves, like, I want to take you out for lunch. We should hook up. And I'm like, no, no, no, no. I'm here for a reason. I can't get tied in here, but thank you. You know, and so we kept everyone at kind of an arm's length. Um, but it was hard. It was hard. So we we stepped out and we we then started our house church, and it was awesome. We had about five or six families that joined us throughout a three-year stretch. And about towards the end of that three years, my wife and I began to pray and fast, and we felt like it was time to lay it down because life was getting heavy. Life was getting heavy. And I found myself teaching and preaching from an like an empty well, and it wasn't good for anybody. It wasn't good for me, it wasn't good for the people there, and so we prayed and fasted, and we felt like it was time to lay it down. And God confirmed that in other ways. Some of the families got jobs out of state, all these other things. And so we laid it down at the Lord's feet. But even though we stopped doing house church, we didn't want to stop church altogether. And both my wife and I at separate times could not get this place out of our mind. You remember that that church we went, what was it called again? I don't even remember. Some community thing. We both thought the same thing at separate times. Like, you know what? In our process of trying to find where God wants us, let's just go start there. Let's just start there. So we did. We walked in those doors about four years ago this summer. We haven't left. It's been awesome. Now, I just I want to tell you all this again, just so you could get to know me just a little bit better. But also, the main takeaway from that testimony is the part that I walked away and I got really bound. I got really bound in sin. But because of God and his goodness and his grace, it was him and him alone that set me free. And that's the takeaway here. That's the takeaway

Galatians 5 And The True Gospel

Joshua Gruber 13:42

here. So I'm gonna move right into the word this morning. Again, the title for this morning's message is Freedom in Christ. Freedom in Christ. And we're gonna be going through Galatians chapter 5, verses 1 through, I believe 18. Yes. 18. And if you've got your Bibles, go ahead and turn there. It's gonna be on the screen behind me. But while you're turning, I want to give a little bit of context of what's going on in this letter. Paul wrote this letter. If you didn't already know that, he wrote this letter to the churches in Galatia. These were the Galatians were fairly new believers at this time. Paul had established some churches there. But there were people that were opposing the gospel, the true gospel. The gospel that Paul was preaching, that justification came through faith alone. Well, there was a group of Jews that were coming in and confusing the Galatians and telling them preaching a false gospel. They were teaching them a false gospel. They were teaching that it was works-based, that righteousness could be found through works, not faith. And even more so, it was just a gross, perverted, twisted message that they were. And so Paul is combating this in the letter of Galatians to the Galatians, right? He's combating this, and he he does it very well. He does it very well. For freedom, Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look, I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again that every man who accepts circumcision, that he is obligated to keep the whole law. I'm gonna pause really quick. So he's saying, if you're gonna take this one part of the law, you better be prepared to follow the whole thing. If you're gonna use just one part of it, get ready because you have to abide by the whole thing. And guess what? That's heavy. That's real heavy. That's too heavy for any man to bear on his own, right? Pick him back up. Verse five. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. Only faith working through love. Verse 7 You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? Paul's saying, drop some names. Who was it? Tell me, I want to know who it was. He's getting he's getting feisty here. Who hindered you from the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view. And the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is. But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case, the offense of the cross has been removed. I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves. That's serious. You see what I mean? He's not, he took the gloves off here, just straight up. He's like, okay, first of all, who is it? Point them out. Secondly, I wish, like, give me their man card. They don't even deserve to be called a man anymore because they're preaching a gospel that isn't true. Right? That's how we should be when we hear a gospel that isn't true. Anyways, we're gonna keep going. Verse 13 for you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another, for the whole law is fulfilled in one word. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. We'll read the rest later. I'm gonna stop there.

Three Traps That Rebind Believers

Joshua Gruber 18:30

We're gonna go through three main points this morning. Three main points in which us as believers still tend to get caught up in bondage. I believe out of these three points come everything else that get us caught up in bondage. But Christ came to set

Freedom From Legalism

Joshua Gruber 18:50

us free, right? The first point is freedom from legalism. Freedom from legalism. Galatians 5:1. For freedom, Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. The yoke of slavery Paul is referring to here is exactly that legalism. It was the law. It was the law. The law in which the Jews were teaching was burdensome. It was heavy. It was works-based. You had to do all of these things in order to be righteous or be declared righteous. And that's not true. We are not justified by works. We are justified by faith in Christ. Righteousness is declared, it is not earned. This word justified comes obviously from justification, the doctrine of justification, which is the theme all throughout Galatians that Paul is trying to get into their head. You are declared righteous by God because of faith in Jesus Christ. By grace, by grace alone, through faith alone, we're declared righteous. But again, I can't stress it enough. It's not your grace. It's not even your faith. It's the grace that he gives us by the faith that he gives us. It's from him, it's for him, it is to him. And it's our faith in his son that God looks at you and looks at me and says, You're justified. You're free. You are free. I believe it's it's so important as Christians, we have to understand the doctrine of justification because without it, we can't walk in freedom. Without understanding this doctrine of justification, we cannot walk in freedom. Let me tell you something here. I'm gonna I'm gonna quote Charles Spurgeon really quick. The moment a man truly trusts his God, he is justified. What does that mean? It means it happens at salvation. It's not an extra step, it's not anything crazy that you gotta start doing. It happens at salvation. The moment you put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ, you're justified. That quick, that moment, it happens like that. Makes you wonder why we still walk around with all these burdens. Christ set us free. Right?

Freedom From Sin By The Spirit

Joshua Gruber 21:48

Point number two freedom from sin. Freedom from sin. We got freedom from legalism, freedom from sin. Verse 13 do not use your freedom as an Opportunity for the flesh. Do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh that sounds very much like what the world does today. Doesn't it? We do so many things. The world does so many things that are gross and perverted and messed up, all under the guise of liberty, rights, freedom. We all know a woman can kill an unborn child in her stomach under the guise of woman's rights. You can marry whoever you want to marry, sleep with whoever you want to sleep with. Even the same gender under rights, gay rights. This is a sick, twisted perversion of what freedom truly is. Freedom is not a license to sin. Jesus did not die on the cross for your freedom to sin. He died that you would be free from sin. He died that you would be free from sin. Freedom without discipline leads to bondage. The very things we use to celebrate our freedom, if gone unchecked, irresponsibly, they turn into the very things that bind us. Sure, you're free to drink, but if you drink too much, you're a slave to the drink and you become an alcoholic. Sure, you're free to spend your money however you want on whatever you want, but if you spend too much and you get yourself into debt, you're a slave to the lender. You're free to indulge and sleep with whoever you want to sleep with. But now you're bound by brokenness, bound by sin. And Christ came to set the captives free. Christ died so that we would be set free from these things. The flesh promises freedom but produces slavery. That's when we're walking in our flesh, church. That's the result of walking in our flesh as opposed to walking in the spirit, because walking in the spirit promises freedom. Galatians 5, 16 through 18. But I say, walk by the spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the spirit, and the desires of the spirit are against the flesh. For these are opposed to each other to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. That's the ticket right there, church. That's the key to freedom. Walking in the spirit, living a life in the spirit. When you come to faith in Jesus Christ, the old you is gone. It's dead. It's been crucified with Christ. Scripture tells us that, and we get a new clothing. His righteousness. And that's how we walk in the spirit. Amen? So we have been freed. As believers, we have been freed from this from the penalty of sin. That's salvation. We are being freed from the power of sin. That's sanctification. That's the process. That looks like sin has this grip that's so tight. When we come to Jesus, that grip starts to loosen. It starts to get a little less, a little less. That's the process of sanctification. That's the fine-tuning I was talking about earlier. The further we go in Christ, number one, the more we realize we need him. And number two, he starts to fine-tune us. That's sanctification. And then finally, one day we will be free from the very presence of sin. That's called glorification. Amen. Yeah, that's something to get excited about. Can you imagine one day we will be free from the very presence of sin? I can't even imagine that right now. Even as believers, even it doesn't matter if you've been a Christian for a hundred years or one year. We will always be struggling with this. Because we're still in this flesh. We will always be struggling. Our struggles look different. They should look different as a maturing Christian. You shouldn't be dealing with the same exact things necessarily. And yours look different than mine. But regardless, we're still gonna have to deal with it until that glorious day when we stand in front of our Creator, God and King. And he says, Well done, my good and faithful. And we get that glorified body. No more sickness, no more sin. How amazing. Amen. You guys with me? In John chapter 8, verse 36, Jesus says himself, if the sun sets you free, you are free indeed. If the sun sets you free, has the sun set you free? I'll tell you, if you have faith in Jesus Christ, he absolutely has. He has set you free. You are free. Indeed, the third and final point this morning, freedom from condemnation.

Freedom From Condemnation

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We've got freedom from legalism, the law, freedom from sin. Now, freedom from condemnation. Again, out of these three things, I believe all sin and bondage comes out of these three things. And these are the easiest ways as Christians, we still get bound. And if you weren't necessarily born in a legalistic home or dealt with that, I know everybody deals with sin because the Bible says all have sinned and fallen short, right? So we all have been in that camp. And same thing for this one. At some point or another, we've dealt with condemnation. Romans 8:1 says, There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Amen. Amen. Condemnation keeps us bound. Condemnation keeps us in chains. Condemnation is beating ourselves up, or letting the enemy beat us up over things that Christ already took the beating for. I'm gonna say that again. Condemnation is beating ourselves up, or letting the enemy beat us up over things Christ already took the beating for. Christ paid the penalty. We all accumulated a debt that we could not pay back. Christ stepped in and said, I'll take that. I'll take that bill and I'll cover the tip too. He did it. He did it. Christ sets us free. It's Satan that is the accuser of the brethren, it's the enemy of our soul. Satan is the accuser. Christ came to set us free. And if you're struggling in this camp today, Christians, if you struggle with condemnation, repent and rest in the fact that Christ has set you free. That because of his blood, because of what he did, we can now walk in freedom. Amen. Freedom is not doing whatever feels good. Walking in freedom is actually doing good. The world says freedom looks like doing whatever feels good. Do whatever feels good. Your feelings are misguiding. If you go based off your feelings, you're gonna feel your way right into the ground. It's not about doing what feels good, it's about doing good. What is doing good? Living by the Spirit, serving one another in love, walking in obedience to Christ. Again, we find that in Galatians 5.13. Through love, serve one another. Through love, serve one another. Getting towards the end here. If um Zach or somebody could jump on the keys, that'd be awesome. The main takeaway here this morning is true freedom is not the freedom to sin, but it's the freedom from sin. Jesus did not die on that cross for a license for you to sin. It's not about just saying a quick prayer. Say, well, I know I'm going to heaven, so I can live like hell till I get there. No. No, that's not what it's about at all. It's about walking out this freedom. It's about living in the freedom that Christ gave us so that we can then go to a lost and bound and dying world and help set them free. Because we know the ticket. We have the key. We have the answer. His name is Jesus Christ. He set us free from legalism. He sets us free from sin. He sets us free from condemnation. So that we can therefore love him, love others, serve others, and walk in his spirit. Amen. I don't know what you're going through this morning. I don't know out of these three things what it is, if it's all three of them. Maybe you're sitting there, you're like, you don't know me. You don't know what I deal with. You don't know my past. I don't have to. God does. And he has the power to save. Only he has the power to save. Only he has the power to set you free. It's by his blood. Has nothing to do with you. But everything to do with him. So I don't know what's got you bound this morning. But I do know that there's freedom in Jesus' name. And Christians, He's called us to walk in freedom. What would that look like if we truly walked in the freedom that Christ has provided for us? What would our worship look like? What would every day look like if we walked in true freedom in Jesus Christ? It's funny because this can kind of be a heavy topic, but it's supposed to be liberating. Don't let the enemy get in there right now. Don't let them get in there. Don't let condemnation slip in even now. You are free in Jesus' name. Whom the Son sets free is free indeed. Do you believe it? Would you stand? I'm gonna close this out with a prayer. And then if the prayer team could make their way to the front, and if there's anybody in here, like Pastor said earlier, before we took communion, if you haven't taken that step and put your faith and put your trust in Jesus, he's knocking on that door. He wants you to be co-heir to the throne. He's called you to be a son and a daughter of the Most High. If you haven't taken that step, I want to encourage you to do it today. If you're watching online, you can do it right there in your living room. There's nothing necessarily magical about this building. You could do it right where you're at. God will meet you right there. Because that's how much he loves you. That's how much he cares about you. He doesn't leave you there. He'll meet you there, but he's not gonna leave you there. Like he met me in my muck. And he pulled me out. His goodness and his grace, he pulled me out. He can do it for you. He can do it for me, he can do it for you. I almost forgot

Hope For Prodigals Through Prayer

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something. For those of you that are dealing with prodigals, one crucial part of my testimony that I almost forgot. Years later, I was talking to my parents about this. I was talking to them about my past and growing up and things. I was confessing some things. Be careful how you do that with your parents. Use wisdom there. But my parents weren't dumb. They knew what was going on. They knew what was going on. I thought they were dumb. I thought I was outsmarting them. Nah. Y'all hear me, your parents aren't dumb, okay? They know what's going on. But my mom told me years later, Joshua, those nights that you were out late and you weren't coming home, the Lord would wake me up and I would pray for you. Part of my testimony is a praying mother and a praying father. For those of you with a prodigal in your life, don't stop praying. Don't stop praying. He hears you. He hears you. And guess what? He loves that prodigal more than you do. He's bringing them home. When I would hear the voice of the Lord in those moments, son, when are you coming home? I can't confirm it, but I almost feel like that was when my mom was praying. I can't confirm that, but I really feel like it is. It was those because it happened multiple times. She said, I always prayed for you. Mothers, fathers, don't stop praying.

Invitation And Closing Prayer

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Heavenly Father, God, we just thank you. We give you all the glory and all the praise and all the honor right now. We declare freedom in Jesus' name. We declare freedom in Jesus' name. Break those chains, Lord. Break those chains by the power of your blood, your precious blood that you poured out, Jesus, willingly for my sins, for our sins. Lord, help us as we walk with you, that we would become stronger, that we would walk in the freedom that you have provided. Lord, that we would show others the freedom that we have in you to help set them free in Jesus' name. We thank you for what you're doing here, Lord. Continue it. Lord, we do lift up prodigals right now. For those that have walked away from you, we pray they would answer the call to come back right now. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Lord, we love you and we thank you. All this is for you and to you. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Church.