Covenant Life Church

In Luke 4:18-19, Jesus makes it clear that it’s His will for you to be saved, healed and set free. As we begin or continue to walk on the path to freedom, we have to remember that it’s God’s will for us to be free and to be healed of our emotional pain and mental strongholds that have clouded our judgment for so long. This week, we will examine the four words that Jesus used to get free from His soul pain and how the same words can bring freedom and healing for us.

The Bible tells us that Jesus felt overwhelming pain in His soul the night before He was to be crucified. He felt it, but He was not bound by it. He used the resources and took the steps we discussed in previous weeks, but it was four words that finally set Him free: Your Will Be Done. When He said those words and settled it in His heart, His soul was settled, His mind was clear, and the plan of God was in full motion.

This week, we’re continuing to look at the specific steps that we must take to push through our soul pain toward the freedom that awaits us. We talked about the first step — Embrace the Pain — last week, and now, we’re going to talk about the second step: Reject the Shame. According to Matthew 26, Jesus said that His soul was “overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” but He knew that dying for our sins on the cross was God’s plan and would not allow anything or anyone to shame Him out of following the path to freedom.

Shame may be the number one obstacle to our freedom, but if we’re going to reject the shame, we need to understand some things about it first. We recently learned that all our chains are rooted in our own sin or other people’s sin against us, and as we examine the very first sin in human history and see how fast shame shows up in Genesis, we will learn some valuable lessons about how we can resist the enemy’s attempts at shame, guilt and condemnation that so often keep us in chains.

Who or what is driving your life? Is it fear? Pain? Revenge? Desperation? Rage? Addiction? Past abuse? Whatever or whomever is driving determines the course, the speed and the destination, and as we learned last week, if you are not submitting to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in your daily decisions, you need to stop and switch seats because at least one area of your life is out of control.

We’ve spent some time examining the resources that will help us get free, but if we’re going to walk the path of freedom, what steps should we take? This week, we’re looking at the first step toward freedom: Embrace the Pain. In Matthew, we read about Jesus overcoming soul-crushing grief to accomplish God’s will, and if we want to do the same and experience the freedom that is waiting for us on the other side, we must have the courage to embrace the pain of healing.

For the last several weeks, we have been going through a series called The Path to Freedom. We know that Jesus lived on the earth and died on the cross to set us free, but far too many of us — maybe all of us in at least one area — are still living in bondage. If we are ever going to experience the freedom that Jesus died to provide, we’re going to have to join Him on this path to freedom.

Over the past two weeks, we’ve been talking about the specific resources that Jesus gives us to help us get free, and in today’s message, we’re going to talk about the third resource: the Holy Spirit. Only by surrendering to and relying on the Holy Spirit can we discover the truth, power and self-control that we need to trust God as we navigate this life of faith.

Welcome to the Head of Household broadcast with Pastor Nelson Robertson. Today we'll begin our discussion on the power of Submission.

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The ministry of Jesus is the same ministry of the Word of God, and that is to set people free from sin, from sickness, from soul wounds, from chains, from slavery — free from anything and everything that holds us down.

Jesus literally died to set us free. Then, He gave us His Word as a resource to help us get free. Why are so many of us still walking around in chains? It’s time to get set free, and one of the resources Jesus gave us is His Word, which is The Gospel of Freedom.

Welcome to the Head of Household broadcast with Pastor Nelson Robertson. Today we'll begin our discussion on the power of Submission.

Head of Household is brought to you by Watering the Seed Ministries in corporation with Kingdom Rock Studios.

This week, we’re continuing to talk about the path to freedom, getting free from our bad habits and addictions, hurts and pain, chains and challenges. Anything that keeps you stuck in an action, attitude or feeling is an area where you need freedom, but how does that happen in a practical way?

Christians in the American church often fall prey to the mindset of rugged individualism, but if we look closely at the ministry of Jesus, we’ll see that He was almost never alone. Every now and then, He would sneak away and pray by Himself, but other than that, everything He did, said and experienced was in community. There’s no way around it; we need each other on this path to freedom.

Galatians 5:1 tells us that Jesus died to set us free, but it doesn’t just say that He did it; it tells us why He did it. He didn’t just save us because we were slaves to our sin. He did it because He wanted us to be free. In other words, He didn’t just set us free FROM something; He is setting us free TO something.

The freedom that Jesus offers is the absolute best for us. When we get free from the things that are holding us down, it loosens us up to experience all that He has for us. This week, we’re going to look at the areas of our lives in which we need freedom — the things we do, say, think and feel — to help us become a soul set free.

Even though the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, it was not until 1783 that all of the British soldiers were off American soil. This is because freedom isn’t simply declared; it’s won. The freedom that Jesus offers is manifested in our lives as we allow Him to change us. He unlocks the chains, but we have to step out of them.

By studying the story of Israel following the exodus from Egypt, we’ll learn that becoming more like Jesus and walking closer to the freedom that He offers will bring us face-to-face with giants of our own. Like Caleb and Joshua, though, we’ll discover something that the other 10 spies did not know: freedom is worth the fight.