Bill Johnson talks about the importance of letting go of regret, bitterness, and jealousy. Christ died for our freedom, but holding onto regret, bitterness, and jealousy keeps us married to the past. How do you celebrate another person’s breakthrough when it is the very thing you’ve been contending for yourself? Bitterness and jealousy can seem reasonable, but we are called to reason from a Heavenly perspective. The enemy fears our freedom, because he knows the power of the sons and daughters of God walking in freedom and unity as the body of Christ. We can only experience true freedom when we let go of our past. Subscribe for weekly videos: https://bit.ly/bjmYoutube
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Scripture References: Matthew 20 James 3: 13 Galatians 5 2 Corinthians 10: 4 Romans 8: 19-22 Ephesians 4: 27 Philippians 4: 8 Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on December 9, 2018. Bill Johnson is a fifth-generation pastor with a rich heritage in the Holy Spirit. He is senior leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California, and is passionate about seeing Revival and God’s Kingdom established and revealed in the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations. Bill’s teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven, hosting the Presence, and the renewed mind has helped thousands around the world to step into their true identity in Christ, God given purpose, and walk in a supernatural lifestyle displaying both purity and power. #BillJohnson #BethelChurch #Regret #Freedom
the context is freedom and there’s no
Freedom where there’s jealousy there’s
no Freedom where there’s bitterness
bitterness jealousy and
regret all are addicted to the past they
all have a similar effect on the soul
the enemy fears your
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freedom Chris and Kathy have been such a
huge part of our life that’s just the
statement of this of the century we
actually lived together for a season in
Weaverville while their home was being
built and it was just such a privilege
when Benny and I moved to Weaverville um
Chris oh Kathy they were not in the
leadership at all of the church Chris
was recovering from a nervous breakdown
uh there were a bunch of other leaders
the dairy berries and who are here why
why don’t you wave your hand there Bill
and Judy I Chris probably wouldn’t be
alive without these two um they really
had such profound impact on all of us
but I know especially Chris um they they
weren’t a part of a leadership team by
any means but Chris just had this
passion to learn and a passion to serve
he would stop by the house constantly on
the way home from work asking if there
was something he could do I finally just
decided I have to make stuff up I have
to I have to just I have to look for
some odd job to give this guy to do
because he he pesters me in a right way
you know in a Godly way just to serve
and uh and that hunger to learn and to
serve has just marked their lives to
this day and I’m I’m so I’m so thankful
I just I can’t imagine life without
these two they’ve had such impact on me
and my kids I at at work in Weaverville
if if I was having a rough time I would
just schedule lunch with Chris because
it was almost guaranteed he was having a
rougher time
and we we would we would sit down to
lunch at the Mustard Seed we’d sit down
for lunch and he’d tell me what was
going on in the in the gas station that
day or the auto shop or something and we
would laugh and laugh laugh I’d go back
to the office thinking man I’ve got it
good I’ve just I’ve got it good uh and
this would happen over and I mean this
is 17 years of this stuff you know I
remember one day coming uh having lunch
with him and thought I had just heard
the altimate if you can imagine he owns
a gas station and there’s a car parked
against the wall it’s been there for
several days waiting for the time for it
to be repaired and it had been dropped
off and I don’t know how long two or
three days it had been there and it’s
been there for all that time with no
problem well he happens to have a
customer who has his car there to be
worked on who doesn’t really like Chris
but Chris is the best at what he does
nobody else in the area could fix it so
he brought the car to Chris so they’re
standing there talking about the job
that needs to be done and they look over
and this car that’s been there for like
three days it just starts backing out of
the stall and they look at and the and
the customer says to Chris I don’t think
there’s anyone driving at and Chris of
course it’s like it’s SP it for days so
one of his guys is moving it and they
look and he says I don’t think anybody’s
in that car and they watch the car back
down the driveway nobody in it it’s been
there for days back down the driveway
and then turn left and go up the
highway no nobody’s in it and then turn
left again and come back up the driveway
and run into this customer’s
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car and and the customer said I I would
had I not seen it for myself I never
would have believed you so I would go
have lunch just to get laughter relief
because certainly he had experienced
something worse than I did and uh and it
was it was fun we are just really
indebted and we uh want to just say
thanks all week long to you and honor
you guys and thank you so much 20 years
it’s wonderful bless them again would
you thank you
yeah so thankful for
you um I’ve got about an hourong message
that we’re going to do in 36 minutes so
listen fast because I can’t go an hour
but uh grab your Bibles open to the Book
of Matthew the 20th chapter and I’m
going to abbreviate some things honestly
I I uh I talked a couple weeks ago about
the subject of bitterness nice Christmas
message uh and
I’m Merry Christmas by the way I’ll I’ll
I’ll reinter that phrase now and then
just to remind you that I know what
season it is all right um I I spoke on a
subject of bitterness a couple weeks ago
as um the defiling factor in Hebrews
there’s this warning about bitterness
and there’s this Jesus taught and said
basically this you are forgiven as you
forgive so you set the standard for how
you are forgiven in your life and so the
issue of bitterness is so uh destructive
in a person’s life and I have I’ve been
wrestling with this uh as a theme for a
season and have felt that this would be
the the right time even though it’s
awkward because of the holidays so just
warn all your friends don’t come back
during Christmas yeah I’m kidding um I
want to do the second half of that today
and talk to you a bit about jealousy
jealousy in many ways is the mother of
of bitterness and uh learning to deal
with these issues of the heart is uh is
Paramount now bitterness is uh is so
destructive it’s somebody once said
bitterness is like drinking poison
hoping it will have an effect on the
other person person and it’s the
opposite it destroys the internal world
of an individual and uh what I’ve
noticed through pastoral care for the
last 45 years is that there are three
areas that seem to invite and accelerate
demonic activity in a person’s life and
those three areas are sexual
perversion any repeated activity I mean
do you understand that sins start as Sin
of the Flesh and then they move into a
sin that is
spiritual uh where they become
demonically inspired and uh regulated
it’s true even witchcraft is mentioned
as a sin of the
Flesh in Galatians 5 witchcraft you
would think that would start off
absolutely demonic it doesn’t because
witch witchcraft by nature is
manipulation and control and many
parents use manipulation and
control to raise kids not knowing
they’re actually partnering with the
spirit of Witchcraft politicians do it
all the time and so do pastors and
leaders the issue of manipulation and
control is the is the seedbed for the
spirit of Witchcraft that eventually
becomes this demonically controlling and
empowered uh activity in a person’s life
all right same thing with sexual sin
sexual perversion I’ve watched through
the years as people have come under this
demonic activity in their life through
repeated
uh sexual sin the second one would be uh
drug abuse but especially there’s
something about hallucinogenics that
open a person up to the spirit world
where they become a pawn into to the
Demonic realm and the third is
bitterness the two most uh scary people
I’ve ever known and as a pastor you work
with a lot of people sometimes off the
streets especially Weaverville we were
right on on on the main uh Main Street
people would just literally would just
pass by and knock on the door and ask
for help the two scariest people I ever
met their issue was actually bitterness
they had other issues going on in their
life but they were so possessed and
tormented by the spirit of bitterness
that uh it was it was frightening uh and
and they both actually ended up in
they’re in prison for life uh for murder
because bitterness is murder in diapers
it is undeveloped murder and that’s what
it is and the enemy’s attempt is always
to get you to destroy somebody else and
destroy yourself in the process so Merry
Christmas by way just interject that now
and then to let you know I know what
season it is all right now let’s move
on what I’m going to do with this story
I I really want to come back to this
when I can take a good period of time it
might be like a Sunday night where I can
take an actual full hour um but I’m
going to take a story in Matthew 20 and
I’m just going to abbreviate it for you
and read the conclusion this is the
story it’s about a landowner and
servants and he hires people uh from the
city Square he would go down to the city
square and he would find people that
needed jobs and he needed help on his
Ranch on his farm so he’d go down to the
city Square he’d get some people and he
would hire them and it was a 12 day uh
12-h hour work day and so he would hire
these folks for Denarius they would come
to work for him he went back down I
forget now after I think uh the third
hour of the day so there’s nine hours
left of the work day and he found some
more people that needed work went back
to the ranch he went back after 6 hours
Etc and finally the 11th Hour of the day
there’s only one more hour to work he
goes back down to the city square and he
finds people that still are needing work
and he needs help on the ranch so he
gets them takes them back to the ranch
and at the end of the day he pays them
and so they’re lining up for pay and uh
if you remember the verse uh the last
shall be verse the first shall be last
this is actually one of the contexts in
which which that phrase was used so what
he did is he brought those who had who
were hired at the end of the day he had
actually only worked an hour and he paid
them a Daenerys where everybody else in
line thought well this is awesome the
landowner the boss is being generous
he’s giving them one Diner let’s just
call it $100 gives them $100 for their
work that day and everyone else is
thinking oh this is awesome because now
we’re going to get more and when he gets
down the line and he pays the people
that had worked for 12 hours he gives
them $100 the same as everyone else and
they’re angry about it they’re upset and
angry because they were paid uh the same
as the guy who only worked an hour and
listen to this concluding verse it’s in
verse uh 15 of Matthew 20 uh fact let’s
let’s uh let’s go back to verse 14 take
what is yours and go your way I wish to
give to this last man the same as you is
it not lawful for me to do what I wish
with my own things
or is your eye evil because I am good
catch that last phrase is your eye evil
because I am
good here’s the bottom line every one of
us are in this story either as the
favored one or as the friend of the
favored one and the role will change
there will be moments where the
spotlight is on you and you get what you
know you do not deserve you will be
honored and blessed in a way that you
never could have worked for it’s called
Grace there will be other times where
your friend gets the very thing you
prayed for the very thing you fasted for
I don’t know why it works this way but
it seems that the person who has three
cars is always the one that drives into
the grocery store as the 1 millionth
customer and they win a fourth car and
the person who needs the car doesn’t
have a car and is not the 1 millionth
customer don’t make me explain that
because I don’t understand it but I just
know resource attracts resource favor
attracts
favor and there are moments in our lives
where we are the one that are Cho are
selected Chosen and we’re the one giving
the $100 for one hour work instead of 12
everybody in this room has those moments
it’s called Grace it’s the way the
kingdom works but the kingdom also works
this way where the guy next to you gets
the very thing you prayed for and here’s
the question is your eye evil because he
is good let’s put it another way
because of the corruption in your own
heart do you see the goodness of God
displayed on another person in a wrong
way has it distorted your perception of
divine favor somewhere
else the real lesson the real invitation
of the Lord is for us to learn to
celebrate the breakthroughs the favor
that is shown to another person Proverbs
says if I don’t know how to handle
another person person’s possession I
cannot be entrusted with my own so let’s
just take this as the possession of
favor if I cannot celebrate the favor
that is put upon Dan if I can’t rejoice
in that Grace that just rests on him
where he is this uh amazing highly
favored by everybody I know if I can’t
celebrate that that rests on his life
then I am not
qualified I don’t know if qualified is
the right word but I’ll use it I am not
qualified to have this same measure of
favor on my life why because I’ll
pervert and distort it if I cannot use
somebody else’s possession well I can’t
be entrusted with my own in the
practical sense it’s the car you
rent people who rent cars treat them
much much worse than if that car were
their own personal car and what it does
is in the Unseen realm it restricts the
measure and level of personal promotion
because we have chosen to abuse what is
not our
therefore restricting oursel from future
promotion and so another person’s favor
is to be celebrated and there are times
where the Lord will actually plant
somebody in your life and they will
receive the thing you’ve achd for you
maybe have fasted and prayed for it
you’ve had prophecies about it you’ve
cried out to God you’ve done all this
stuff for maybe for years and then they
come in you know
you you’ve been praying for 20 years for
this they come in and six months later
they got it and there is a it’s called a
test and the test is is to see how can I
manage my heart when somebody else
receives easily what I’ve labored for
and that’s the story here is your eye
evil because he is good because this is
what happens is when things are not
right here I will distort the circum
ances of another person’s life and I
will twist it for my favor for my uh to
to where I’m the winner in the argument
I’m the winner and what jealousy does is
jealousy uh jealousy moves to read other
people’s motives to bring accusation in
the heart maybe never out loud but
jealousy let me put it this way both
jealousy and bitterness are
reasonable the there are
reasons right you talk to some I
remember wanting to pray for somebody I
and I could sense something I them I
said do you need to forgive anyone and a
response was you don’t realize what they
did for me in other words I have a
reason my reasoning says this is a
legitimate response to what was done to
me that
reasoning is carnal
reasoning it is unrenewed mind reasoning
it is not not biblical
reasoning biblical reasoning works from
the cross towards a
situation biblical reasoning works from
the Redemptive work of Jesus towards any
broken situation that you and I are
involved in jealousy causes a enables a
person perverts a perspective in a
person’s heart to where they read
motives wrong motives into another
another person’s heart the way that you
walk in forgiveness is stay away from
thinking you ever know somebody else’s
motives it is forbidden territory it’s
it’s no trespassing you I do not have a
right to go and say well they they did
this because of I don’t have the right
to ever do that because the Bible says I
can’t even know my own
heart what’s scary to me is there are
people who are confessing Christ that
don’t read this
word this is a knife that cuts and it
cuts to expose this thought is from God
this thought is not how does a person
live with ample discernment to recognize
when we are going into something that is
forbidden and no trespassing and trying
to figure out the motives of another
person so the scripture says I don’t
even know my own heart how can I know
yours well the Lord showed me no he
didn’t show you because he’s a better
Steward than
that he’s not going to reveal the heart
to another person that’s going to make
them
bitter there is someone who will show
you their
heart but it’s not our
Lord look at this passage in in
James in James chapter 3 there’s this
um uh very sobering uh portion of
scripture by the way merry Christmas to
all of you glad you’re here our Bethal
TV audience around the world we’re glad
you’re watching Merry
Christmas I have not
forgotten James chapter 3 verse 13 who
is wise in understanding among you let
him show by Good Conduct that his work
works are done in the meekness of
wisdom but if you have bitter envy and
self-seeking in your heart that’s
self-promotion in your hearts do not
boast and lie against the truth this
wisdom does not descend from above but
is Earthly sensual and demonic here’s
what you’ve got to see bitterness and
jealousy is
wisdom that’s what it says this wisdom
is not from
above that’s why those who are steeped
in bitterness and
jealousy consider themselves to be
right
Discerning
accurate bitterness and jealousy
masquerades as the need for justice it
masquerades under the need for
justice and for that reason it’s
biblically called wisdom it’s just
wisdom that comes from the Demonic
realm the Battleground for every one of
us the biggest Battleground we face is
the mind it is our it’s our thought
world and uh Perhaps Perhaps a day I
don’t know maybe in the next year
sometime we can take two or three weeks
just to work on this one theme this one
idea if if you could imagine uh second
Corin thians 10 talks about the pulling
down strongholds and strongholds exist
in thought patterns it it’s a real
abstract picture and idea but the
concept is very real and very biblical
so imagine this uh an old in the old
days the big castles those castles were
places where where the king and his
family could hide out if there was an
assault the soldiers could could regroup
there and and and recover their strength
and replenish themselves it was a place
of safety a
stronghold so imagine now this Castle is
built out of these large stones and
these stones are the illegitimate
thoughts and Concepts that the enemy
raises up to us against other people or
against our identity our destiny
whatever they are every one of these
stones and whenever I embrace an illegal
thought let’s say it’s against an
individual let’s just stick with the
theme of bitterness resentment if I
entertain a thought that accuses
somebody that’s in my life what I’ve
done is I put a stone there now that
stone is not a hiding place for the
Demonic but if I keep building on it
pretty soon I have a castle in my
thinking a way of wrong thinking in
which the Demonic hides and you say well
Christians can’t be that influenced by
demons I that’s just not true it’s not
true it’s why Paul had such a strong
warning in Ephesians 4 don’t give place
to the devil in other words you could
don’t don’t do it those kinds of that
way of thinking so when you when you
find that you’ve been you’ve been under
delusion about bitterness or resentment
uh uh jealousy those kinds of things it
means that repentance is needed it means
very
specific confession of sin it’s not oh
God forgive me I had a bad attitude or
God I I just have it like like this
person forgive me deal with the lies and
the best antidote for lies is truth find
what God says about a person this is
kind of an awkward story and I I don’t
know if it it it might make sense to you
it it uh it happened to me several years
ago I was I was going through one of the
Christian magazines and and U and it was
conference after conference and and I I
what what I’ve learned to do is I’ve
learned to uh if if I know something
about somebody or I question the
Integrity of somebody that is very
famous I I don’t sit there and become
bitter and accus I just turn the page
quick it’s it’s just how I avoid the
issue I just go yeah I I don’t need to
have an opinion about this person it’s
my that’s my but what I saw was is I saw
that I I was
actually I was I was succeeding in
resisting the spirit of
accusation but I was not succeeding in
and feeling God’s heart for
them the opposite of love is not hate
it’s
indifference and I was choosing
indifference as the
solution for whatever I would question
about this individual all right and so I
went when I saw what was happening I
went back through the I I literally did
I went through the magazine I turned
page after page I’d see this conference
and I would stare at the pictures of the
people until I could feel God’s heart
for them and then I turn the page again
and I look at the picture go oh God this
person’s so highly favored for a reason
I know they paid a price that I’ll never
know about but you favored them because
that and I turned the page and something
began to become activated in me what you
don’t want to do is you you don’t want
to
embrace um that whole
nonsense of knowing somebody else’s
heart and it’s a huge trap once you once
you’ve succeeded there we have to move
into a place where we become we become
we give people the benefit of the
doubt it’s it’s a really big part of
life for me is I I see this happen I
hear this happen you know the more we
travel the more we rub shoulders with
amazing people all over the planet but
occasionally we run into a rascal or two
I know it’s hard to believe but it
actually happens there’s actually at
least two Rascals out there the the
Chris knows one know the other that’s
that’s
weird and and to give people the benefit
of the doubt my dad had this saying
that’s honestly one of the most
important phrases I have ever heard in
my
life he would tell us if you wash
another person’s feet you’ll find out
why they walk the way they
do I spent time with some folks that are
real
Rascals and then I get in and I wash
their
feet and I find out what kind of Life
they’ve had I find out that they’ve
never had anybody stand with them I find
out all this stuff by just spiritually
if you if you get figuratively get the
the metaphor of just serving that person
washing their feet so to speak all of a
sudden I find out oh this is why they
limp this is why they limp I if I had
that in my past I would limp too of
course I’d want to be healed I’d want to
be delivered but at least I understand
it does that does that make sense to you
there’s something about stepping in into
a place of serving and loving people
that you question the third thing that I
would say is uh is so uh is so critical
is is put the heart of forgiveness put
the favor that you’re trying to extend
to that individual as much as it’s
possible put it into an
action
Behavior has to be measurable through
action again the passage quote I quote
often if I say I love God whom I can’t
see and I hate my brother who I can see
I’m a liar why because I don’t have the
right to claim an invisible reality that
cannot be demonstrated in my behavior in
the natural it has to be verifiable on
how I treat the people around me so here
we’ve got this we’ve got this issue of
jealousy we’ve got this this thing that
really becomes the seedbed the
atmosphere for bitterness to actually
take over a person’s life so this issue
of jealousy is called according to
scripture jealousy This Bitter Envy is
actually reasonable from the Demonic
realm so if it makes sense to you guess
where you’re thinking
from you’re seeing through the situation
through the enemy eyes it’s the only
reason it is
reasonable that’s where this has to
matter we come before God we drop to our
knees we say God I see this I I’m
convinced I’m right and I know I’m not
because it’s contrary to your word and
we come clean with the Lord and we we
stay there and it may be a repeated
situation I remember a situation I had
years ago where my goodness I must have
forgiven the person a hundred times a
day literally
a hundred times a day it was I was just
being bombarded in my mind and I would I
would it was such a fight at work I
would stop I I I I wasn’t able to
function normally I was being so
bombarded my mind my thinking my
emotions but I I stuck with it I make
the Declaration I say no I have forgiven
this person I refuse to think evil of
that person I will not accuse so and so
before the Lord they are servant of the
Lord they are not my servant I bless
them and then just work to serve that
individual put put the Forgiveness into
some sort of an action so you didn’t win
the car you needed your friend who has
three cars now has four buy him a tank
of gas do something put it into a
practical action because we all need
fruit that gives evidence for what’s
happening in the Unseen inside of us we
need fruit we need yes of course you can
fake it but fake it until you get it
F can tell us real do do the right thing
until it becomes your nature to do the
right thing jealousy kills people and
I’m saying this to you today because I
have
sensed that we are in another wave
another season another wave of
promotions and promotions are wonderful
but they never happen to everybody at
once one of you is going to be the guy
that worked for an hour and you you get
the wages for 12
hours and you’re going to have to deal
with the fact that everybody around
you if they operate in ungodly wisdom
are trying to discern what you did to
have that kind of favor how did you
manipulate the
situation you never have to apologize or
explain the Lord’s
blessing when you have favor live with
the favor don’t be
apologetic
I’ve I’ve gotten in a car of a friend of
mine before and he had uh it’s a
beautiful car he picked me up at the
hotel we’re going to a meeting and soon
as I sat down I began to apologize for
having such a nice car and I know how
awkward he felt i’ I have felt the same
I you know people say well you don’t
deserve that no it’s true I but I I
don’t I also don’t deserve a Les lesser
car yeah actually I don’t deserve one at
all I don’t deserve a
bicycle if I got what I deserved I’d be
walking everywhere I went you know
that’s that’s the bottom line so
everything you do have is by Grace so
the point is is he felt this need to
apologize and explain well the church
took an offering they bought me this car
it was wonderful I I was thankful for
him but I felt bad for him at the same
time that he was walking through the
motions of what I had walked through
before you never have to apologize for
the blessing of the Lord so in this
season of promotion some of you are
going to be the one with the wages of a
day’s work for one hour and others of
you it’s going to be your friend and
you’re going to be the one that works so
hard for
minimum and it will be your assignment
to learn how to move into a place where
jealousy has no voice in your heart no
voice in your head no voice truth is
what dismantles these blocks that create
strongholds that the enemy functions and
operates out of it’s Revelation truth
there are times where you know
Philippians 4 talks about thinking on
these things thinking things that are
knowable and right and truthful and and
faithful and all all these all these
things are in this list in in
Philippians 4:8 he says think on these
things and I have I have had times where
my mind is being bombarded about a
certain individual that has done me
wrong or whatever and uh and I I go to
that verse and I say all right whatever
is true God what is there that is
absolutely true about that person that I
am obviously missing to dwell on on this
and I will look for things I’ll ask God
I will pray for things God show me what
it is that you’ve done see same thing
looking at the favor you know uh uh feel
looking to feel the favor of God on that
individual on the page I remember
several years back I was in a I was in a
conference big conference and I was on
the front row I was one of the speakers
and and there was this gal right on the
other side of the barrier uh that was
just making all kinds of noise and doing
all kinds of unusual things and
but I thankfully I’ve gone through this
about a thousand other times so I knew
not to be accusing in my mind you need
to Rejoice with me I did not
sin I just I just want you to know I
succeeded I did not have a bad attitude
but it sure was
annoying and then Heidi comes over she
stands Heidi Baker’s there she stands
next to me she isn’t this wonderful and
I
yeah it
is and then she mentioned yeah I said
she uh was a prostitute for 30 some
years and now she’s free and all of a
sudden all that noise this seems so
awkward seems so
reasonable yeah she’s free that’s right
you can have the microphone you know
demonstrate what Liberty looks like to
the rest of us that have just become too
accustomed to
[Applause]
Freedom the Christmas verse Merry
Christmas by the
way
the the Christmas verse that’s been on
my mind
since a week or so last week or so has
been in Romans 8 where it says all
creation groans and travails for the
revealing of the Sons and Daughters of
God why would they be interceding for
that because they’ve already seen it
once they were here when the Son of God
was
manifest creation itself cooperated to
point to this Messiah Jesus the star in
in the sky revealed the nature and the
source of this one who was sent from
heaven but now
today creation itself
groans praise for if you will the
revelation of the children of
God the context is freedom and there’s
no Freedom where there’s jealousy
there’s no Freedom where there’s
bitterness there’s no Freedom see do you
know what free uh uh bitterness jealousy
and
regret all are addicted to the
past they all have a similar effect on
the soul of a person have a similar
effect on the emotional condition the
mental condition and I’ll tell you what
the enemy fears and and and I don’t
think I can say this strong enough he
fears your
freedom because in our freedom there is
such a creative expression of what God
is wanting to do in the earth that we
reveal him through our Liberty through
our freedom through our creative
expression there’s very strong biblical
basis for this this concept of Freedom
that The Artisans were the the ones that
God raised up in the last days with
creative expression to war against the
four beasts that the horns that war
against the Saints the whole point was
God’s solution for restriction bondage
resentment bitterness all this stuff was
a people that were free and the result
of their freedom was that they
creatively represented him in the earth
to where all of creation itself steps
into a liberty because the people of God
are free and the people of God are free
when we deal with the issues of jealousy
and bitterness regret all these things
that link us to things that are already
under the blood good we’ve been invited
we’ve been commanded to step into this
Liberty because creation itself Longs
for the accurate representation of who
he is through our
freedom the greatest Freedom that
anybody could ever
experience is the freedom that a person
receives when they surrender their
life to the only one who has the right
to run my life and that’s Jesus the
Christ the King the Lord the master he
has the right to run it and that he
chooses to C- labor with us he forgives
us and he becomes the loving expression
of a father he becomes the one who
tutors and mentors and cares for and
brings us into layer after layer of
Liberty and freedom and that Liberty and
freedom is available for everyone who’s
watching on bethl TV everybody who’s in
this room anyone in any overflow room
that freedom is
available and I want to do just one
thing I want to just ask the question is
there anyone here today that would just
say Bill I don’t want to leave the
building until I know that I’ve been
forgiven by God himself that I’ve been
brought into his family that I can
finally be a true disciple a follower of
Jesus if there’s anybody in the room in
that condition you’d say Bill I don’t
want to leave until I know that that’s
settled I want you just to put a hand up
in the air right over here yep anybody
else put your hand up
high Y there another another one over
here wonderful welcome welcome welcome
it’s beautiful beautiful anybody else
just wave it if I don’t see it sometimes
sometimes it’s hard to see all right
this is wonderful and we celebrate this
um it’s the greatest Miracle of all that
a person can be changed
in a moment forgiven of sin given the
actual nature of Christ filled with the
holy spirit that raised Jesus from the
dead that’s about to happen in these
people’s lives I want to ask you to
stand and I want to ask Ministry team
people to quickly come to the front and
we’re going to pray together I want to
ask these two to raise your hands if you
would do yourself and me a favor come
right over here to the people in front
of this Banner right here right over
here to my left right here just come
down and uh and they will serve you they
will minister to you they will pray with
you
now I want you just to hold your hands
in front of you I want to just this kind
of just represents our we’re holding on
to our life here so hold it before the
Lord I want to pray father I ask that
you would give such an unusual anointing
and Grace to this church family to not
be bound by
yesterday to be free from every
trace of
jealousy every trace of resentment every
trace of regret that true Liberty would
be demonstrated in the life of this
family I ask this in Jesus name in Jesus
mighty name amen