FREED | Oppression - Sam Gibson

Church of the City New York

COTC NYC

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This Sunday, Pastor Sam Gibson concluded our FREED series with a teaching on freedom from spiritual oppression. Teaching from Colossians 1 and 2, he argued that how we understand spiritual warfare depends on how we understand the Gospel. The Gospel is not only the message that our sins can be forgiven. It is also the announcement that Jesus is King. The powers of darkness have been defeated, His kingdom has arrived, and believers now live under His authority.

In the teaching, Pastor Sam offered practical guidance for navigating spiritual opposition. One of the enemy's great aims is to steal our song—our wonder, our confidence, our worship. Yet throughout Scripture, God's people continue singing in prisons, in exile, and in suffering. Their songs are acts of remembrance, resistance, and hope, and we can live with that same posture today.

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0:00.0	You can remain standing for the reading of the teaching text today.
0:06.6	We are in the book of Colossians this morning.
0:13.2	This is Colossians 1, 13 to 20, and Colossians 2, to 15 he has delivered us from the dominion of darkness
0:27.7	and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved son in whom we have redemption the forgiveness
0:35.1	of sins he is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
0:40.8	of all creation. For by him, all things were created in heaven and on earth. Visible and
0:49.4	invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities all things were created through him and for him
0:59.7	he is before all things and in him all things hold together and he is the head of the body the church
1:10.2	he is the beginning the first body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from among
1:14.0	the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him, all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.
1:23.4	And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace
1:32.2	by the blood of his cross. And you who were dead in your trespasses, in the uncircumcision of your flesh,
1:41.0	God made alive together with Him, having forgiven us of all of our trespasses by canceling
1:48.4	the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to
1:55.9	the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame by triumphing over them in him.
2:05.3	This is the word of the Lord.
2:08.2	You may be seated.
2:13.2	Good morning, everybody.
2:15.3	I'm going to welcome you to church this morning again.
2:17.4	Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.
2:20.5	If we haven't met before, my name is Sam.
2:22.6	I'm one of the executive pastors here today.
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