Freed | Lies - Tim Brown

Church of the City New York

COTC NYC

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This Sunday, Pastor Tim continued our FREED series with a teaching on freedom from lies, drawing from John 8:31–47. He opened with a confession that many of us could relate to: New York has trained us to believe that freedom is always one system away, and if we are not careful, that same restless optimization spills into our spiritual lives too. Pastor Tim argued that the problem is not that we haven't tried hard enough. It's that beneath every sin pattern is a lie we have been carrying so long it feels inseparable from who we are, and no amount of effort will ever reach it. Jesus does not come to help us manage that lie. He comes to replace it with something stronger: Himself, the truth that became a person, who walks up to the lie that has been running your life and extinguishes it. The condition He places on that freedom is not more effort but abiding, remaining in His word long enough for the truth to do its deep work underneath.

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0:00.0	If you will remain standing for the reading of God's Word, we are going to be in John
0:06.4	chapter 8, verse 31 through 47. We're reading from the NIV, but whatever translation you have
0:15.3	is fine. So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in Him, if you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
0:23.7	and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.
0:27.3	They answered him, we are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone.
0:33.5	How is it that you say you will become free?
0:36.8	Jesus answered them, truly,, truly I say to you,
0:39.2	everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever. The sun
0:45.2	remains forever. So if the sun sets you free, you will be free indeed. I know that you are
0:51.7	offspring of Abraham, yet you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you.
0:57.2	I speak of what I have seen with my father, and you do what you have heard from your father.
1:04.2	They answered him, Abraham is our father.
1:07.0	Jesus said to them, if you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did.
1:12.9	But you now seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I have heard from God.
1:19.0	This is not what Abraham did. You are doing the works of your father did.
1:24.3	They said to him, we were not born of sexual immorality. We have one father, even God.
1:32.1	Jesus said to them, if God were your father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here.
1:39.8	I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot
1:47.7	bear to hear my word. You are of your father, the devil, and your will is to do your father's
1:55.2	desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him.
2:02.0	When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
2:07.7	But because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me.
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