"What is Freedom?": Preached by John Hagee, Cornerstone Church - Sermon Notes By AJSktrgl *

• Freedom...What is freedom?

• A bird in the cage may think it’s free. How free are you really?

• No such thing as absolute freedom.

• Oceans do not have freedom…oceans are controlled by the hand of God.

• Men don’t have freedom…hemmed in by men.

• We’re forced to live w/ each other. In the past if you didn’t like where you were living (In the United States, hundreds of years ago) you moved to a different piece of land and called it “Smithville, Greenville, or whatever to suit what you wanted, but now, there is no place to move to be isolated from others to start your own town. No matter where you move to, you encounter the same type of problems.

• Unfortunately, the Church of Jesus Christ is not doing a very good job of loving neighbors as yourself. Churches are divided by racism, fighting over doctrine, etc.

• When you open the bible you read about the blood bought church, not about rich/poor believers, but the triumphant church.

• We measure other books by the Bible, not the other way around.

• If you’re rich and you show up to Church in an Armani suit, you better treat the poor person next to you like a prince/princess, because she/he is your sister/brother in Christ.

• Why do you want freedom? If it means absence from authority, you don’t know what freedom is. If you use God’s name in vain, you are going straight to hell. What good is freedom if all you are going to do is criticize other people; you are doing Satan’s work. No benefit of freedom of speech if all you do is gossip. Power of life and death is in the tongue, you can crucify others (especially their character) by your tongue. You will be condemned or justified by what you say.

• Any wrong choices you make are done on purpose. You don’t become a drug addict or addicted to pornography without choice. You are what you are because of the choices you make.

• There is a high price for freedom from fidelity (freedom to Divorce, such as Divorces due to “irreconcilable differences”). The price is that the children suffer, and etc.

• How the United Stated has defined freedom: The United States has endorsed laziness and called it welfare. We have polluted the air with pornography and profanity and called it freedom of speech. We have tolerated the killing of children through abortion and called this freedom.

• Whoever is in a position within the Government needs to do whatever they can to make a difference. As stated in scriptures, when 2 or 3 of you come together, God shows up.

Matthew 18:19-20 (New American Standard Bible)

19"Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, ^(A)it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven.

20"For where two or three have gathered together in My name, ^(B)I am there in their midst." [biblegateway.com]

• Through the power of the Word of God I am free from the past, condemnation, etc.

• Freedom never comes to the expense of your conscience (True freedom will never violate your conscience). Conscience is a God given instrument of discernment. God give you the ability to discern right from wrong through your conscience. Reason and intellect will justify what conscience can do.

• You are never free until you voluntarily are mastered by the One greater than yourself. If you don’t do this, you will be miserable. Take up your cross and follow Jesus.

• Through love, become servants to one another. You are not free until you are servant to God the Father. There is no Freedom except the will of God. All other Freedom is an illusion.

* I apologize for the lack of opening scriptures as I missed this portion of the sermon.