Ep. 371 - The Idol of Freedom

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🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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True freedom is often misunderstood as the ability to do whatever we desire. Still, Ray, E.Z., Mark, and Oscar examine how Scripture defines freedom as living to glorify God and walking in righteousness. The guys explain that the idol of freedom emerges when something good is taken too far, causing people to violate God’s commands in pursuit of their own desires. They emphasize that without Christ, humans are enslaved to sin, passions, and self-righteousness, and that true liberty comes throu...

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0:00.0	I was thinking of what it says in second, Peter, by whom a person is overcome by him, he is brought
0:06.2	into bondage. You know, it's that which masters us to do what we shouldn't be doing,
0:16.4	that becomes our master. You know, and I love the analogy you shared, Oscar, freedom is is having the
0:23.5	ability to function as you were designed to function. Like it's not freedom for an eagle to be digging
0:31.8	ditches in the ground. Like freedom for an eagle is to soar with the wings it's been given, you know?
0:37.0	For us as God's people,
0:38.7	our freedom is to function in righteousness. I remember as a new believer, I was, you know,
0:45.9	working at our family's gas station. And I was a new believer. Before I got saved, I was enslaved
0:52.6	in, you know, immorality and sexual sin. And so I'm a new
0:56.9	believer and I'm, you know, getting my bearings. And I remember one day in particular, I met the gas
1:01.5	station. It's in Huntington Beach, right? Girls are coming in and bikinis all the time. And I was
1:06.2	struggling, I was struggling with lust. And I remember a distinct moment where that term popped into my mind, which is a biblical
1:17.0	one, and it was simply this, I no longer have to do that.
1:22.9	Right.
1:23.7	I no longer.
1:24.5	And it was like this final, like freedom, because without Christ, I'm bound. Like, all I know is. And it was like this, this final, like freedom because without Christ, I'm bound.
1:29.5	Like, all I know is my sinful nature. I don't have the new nature, the Galatians 5, right, 16 through 26 dynamic, the spirit and the flesh battling.
1:37.0	All I had was a flesh. And I served sin, willfully, joyfully, gladly. Now I no longer had to do that, which was destructive for me.
1:52.2	Welcome to the Try Not to Laugh segment, where we try not to laugh at what?
1:59.3	Dad jokes.
2:04.4	Oh, this is a try to laugh segment for me. All right, here we go. Try not to laugh at what dad jokes oh this is a try to laugh segment for me all right here we go try not to laugh i think we can do it i really think we can i agree i'm determined okay here we go at the
2:10.7	airport my friend suggested we just suck sorry i'm sorry, I'm starting.
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