(Clip) The Only True Freedom That God Gives by the Holy Spirit — Thaddeus Barnum

The Holy Spirit as the Giver of Life

And creed. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and Son he is worshipped together and glorified and he has spoken through the prophets.

Oh, we said it with our lips. Maybe there were some people who believed it with their minds, but can you imagine what it would be like to be transformed by the same power of God, the Holy Spirit, who is the giver of life.

Experiencing God in the Present

That's all I want to know today. I can't do my job. I can't do anything, anything at all in the work that I do unless we come to the grounds of this question. Is God something that's supposed to be in our minds?

Doctrine only from the past of what he's done and something that happens to us when we die, when we go into the great glories to come. But what have we got here and now? That's the question I've got. This relationship with which we have now today.

Freedom Through Christ

Listen to what the Bible says. For freedom, Christ, set us free. Is that true for you? Is it true for me? Is that freedom real? Is it freedom tangible? And that's why we say the Holy Spirit is the Lord giver of life.

The Spirit of Life Frees Us from Sin and Death

Why? Because it is the Spirit of the Lord. Romans 8 verse 2. For the law of the Spirit of life, the Holy Spirit of life has set us free from the law of sin and death. Has he done that? There's no Pentecostals here, I can tell that already.

His job is to set us free today. Listen to the words of 2nd Corinthians chapter 3 verse 17. Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. All of our country is celebrating freedom and liberty today.

Worldly Freedom and the Bondage of Addiction

Is it a freedom and liberty come from God? That's what I want to know today. We're going to use the word, we're going to send fireworks into the sky. Our country is going to drink itself silly over the next couple of days.

Already has. To celebrate this freedom, my friends, they know nothing of freedom until they come to the one who sets us free. That's the story. That's the way it's always been. Until we come under obedience unto the Lord and follow in his path, we shall not know this freedom.

The devil comes to give us a taste of a freedom that doesn't last. Makes us feel these great highs and then we come crashing down in the lows, in depressions and bondages, held in captivity to addictions of drugs and of sex and of money and of power.

God's Promise of Eternal Life

And then he's got us. We call that freedom. It is not freedom. There's a freedom that comes from heaven, that our Savior has come. Listen to how the Bible says it. From the beginning of time, from before the times began, before the ages began, our Father has commanded eternal life.

That's his promise. That's his purpose for your life.