And that's where we'll be first and then you can also open your Bibles to Matthew chapter 18.

We're going to look at a lot of scripture today as you're used to from Pastor Robert.

But I want to talk to you today a little bit about freedom.

In the body of Christ, there's a lot of misunderstanding in my estimation a lot of twisted thinking

when it comes to the area of bondage and freedom.

And the reason for that really is quite simple.

The reason for that is because people become consumed with bondage. They become consumed with what they're being freed from.

And I want to tell you that in the heart of God there is for you a plan not to just free you from something

but to free you to become something. That's what's in God's heart for you. A lot of people that I've ministered to down through the years, it seems

as though their approach to God is this, that if they're ever able to stop drinking beer and

stop looking at pornography, that that is the sum total

of what Jesus died on the cross to give them. It's as though their thinking is

they may have never become anything at all like Jesus

But if they arrive at the pearly gates and there's not

sufficient evidence found to keep them out that that's really all they're living for.

And I want to tell you that in the heart of God, there is for you exponentially far more than that.

That God has in mind for you something that's so great that if he were to open it to your eyes today,

it would frighten you.

That's how big it is. That's how wonderful it is.

God brought you to Gateway Church, not just for you to receive, but for you to give back.

And there are gifts inside your heart

that have yet to be expressed and revealed.

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