Free From What?
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever gotten in trouble because of poor choices you’ve made? How did you get out of trouble and make it right? As we start our new series, More Than Conquerors, JP teaches through Romans 8:1-4, showing us where true freedom comes from.
1) We are free from punishment
2) We are free from the law
3) We are free to live in Christ
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to the Harris Creek podcast. If you'd like more information about our church, |
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| 0:13.9 | I was in Waco, round one, went to college here, TSTC, the Harvard of the South, as they call it. |
| 0:19.8 | And I ran with some Baylor fraternity guys. I was not |
| 0:23.8 | walking with the Lord, okay? Not walking with the Lord. And so on this particular evening, I'm not |
| 0:30.7 | 21 of age, but we've been partying. That is Christianese for drinking. And so we go, and I know, I don't know how, you know, it's a different opener than most |
| 0:41.6 | pastors this morning, but it's the truth. |
| 0:44.6 | And so we go to Sterling Apartments, which I think are still there, kind of around the |
| 0:49.4 | Farrell Center, and just some guy friends and I, and we're hanging out, we're in the hot tub, and |
| 0:57.5 | and Baylor Police comes. And they pull us out of our little swim session there. And they |
| 1:06.8 | separate us, the officers separate us, and he hands me a breathalyzer and says, I want you |
| 1:14.9 | to blow in this. Nice enough, officer. I said, well, do I have to? To which he said, no, you |
| 1:24.2 | don't have to. And I was like, well, that's good news because I don't want to. And I was like, no, I'm good. I don't think I want to. When I said no, I declined the breath |
| 1:34.3 | Leiser. He put me in handcuffs and put me in the back of the police car. And I didn't see that |
| 1:41.5 | coming. And so now we are driving to the Highway 6 jail. |
| 1:48.6 | And yeah, yeah. |
| 1:50.7 | And I just got to tell you, like, this was a really terrible outcome. |
| 1:55.6 | Like, this was quite a mess that I had made. |
| 1:58.6 | Okay, I just want to remind you, in case you're a guest, not walking with the Lord at this time, |
| 2:02.6 | didn't know Jesus. |
| 2:03.8 | When I didn't know Jesus, I did a lot of things that people who don't know Jesus did. |
| 2:08.9 | This was one of them. |
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