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