What Overcomes You Makes You a Slave: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:02 The total time that God planned for Israel to come out of Egypt to the promised land was 2. Years so back when Joseph became second in command he was put in second in command by Pharaoh Joseph brought his family uh from a land they brought his father Jacob who is Israel and his brothers and they all lived in the land of Goshen in Egypt they forgot about Joseph and all the Egypt now has the Israelites as their slaves.

▶ 0:35 But the plan was to bring them out of Egypt to the promised land uh in two years okay so when we think about our lives we don’t need to take forever our whole lifetime to be delivered from Satan and sin you know God’s not on a forever plan okay he wants to do things quickly in your life God wants to uh bring you out of all that in a short period of time Exodus chapter 1:13 the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor they made their lives bitter with hard bondage in mortar and brick and all manner of service in the field Deuteronomy 5:15 you were a slave in Egypt and I redeemed you and brought you out so I’m just reiterating here what I already said but the children of Israel were slaves they were under in in bondage to the Egyptians.

▶ 1:39 And Christ in John 8:34 in red letters uh he said most assuredly I say to you whoever commits sin is a slave of sin so when we go from thinking the about sin to actually committing the sin right there’s a process in your mind it’s in your mind and you go from in your mind to uh you know the next thing is coveting you’re you’re pl you’re you’re this thing is growing and you’re not stopping it and then pretty soon it what comes out and it’s you’ve committed it now and Christ is saying if you commit that sin you are a slave or under under bondage to that sin a slave does not abide in the house forever but a son abides. Forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free you will be free indeed so Christ is mentioning saying hey your sin is going to make you a slave and you’re not going to be able to abide in my house in my kingdom.

▶ 2:44 Forever unless you what come to the Son and the Son is going to what set you free not just so you can be in heaven forever but he’s going to set you free from sin now. Today on earth in your lifetime it’s important to remember it’s the Son who sets you free it’s not God’s tools worship prayer and praise and fasting doesn’t set you free who sets you free Jesus sets you free now we use what God has made these tools coming in singing worshiping praying fasting putting your his word in us that all is what God uses to bring you to who Jesus Christ who what sets you free so it’s important that all what you’re doing brings you to.

▶ 3:46 Christ it’s not what you’re doing that saves you it’s Christ that saves you be careful that we do not give credit to ourselves the credit goes to. Christ we we do not cast out demons Jesus does we don’t save people from their sin who does Jesus. Does Peter reminds us in chapter 2:18 they allure through the lust of the flesh through lewdness while they promise them liberty they themselves are slaves of corruption for by them by by whom a person is overcome by him also he is brought into bondage the world wants you to think and wants to promise you that this is freedom when you go out in the world it looks like freedom you can go on the advertisement the advertisement will come all over oh this is freedom we’re having fun.

▶ 4:40 Sinning this is a great thing come on go just pay the money so we can get your money get addicted so we can really get your money they don’t care about you they don’t care about your life. They promise you freedom and fun. But you turn into a slave a slave to sin and God can help us overcome we don’t want to be in bondage that’s what this is talking about Israel they are enslaved and we can be enslaved as Christians in our lives they they believed in God they would pray to God and we’ve got to believe and we got to pray to God but somewhere we’ve got to get God to bring us out of that slavery.