Freed | Sin - Sam Gibson
Church of the City New York
COTC NYC
4.8 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This Sunday, Pastor Sam continued our FREED series with a teaching on freedom from sin, drawing from 1 John 1:5–10, 2:1–2. He opened by naming what sin actually does to us: it separates, stains, sensitizes, steals, and spreads. The heart of the message, though, was not diagnosis. It was invitation. Through the lens of both guilt-innocence and honor-shame frameworks, Pastor Sam showed that Jesus doesn't just declare us innocent; He restores the relationship. Through the practice of honest, specific, and confident confession, we can walk out of the shadows and into the freedom that is already our inheritance in Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | If you would remain standing for the reading of our teaching text. |
| 0:04.5 | Tonight's text comes from 1 John, chapter 1 verses 5 to 10, and chapter 2 verses 1 to 2. |
| 0:12.8 | It says, this is the message we have heard from him and proclaimed to you, |
| 0:19.4 | that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. |
| 0:23.5 | If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice |
| 0:27.9 | the truth. But if we walk in light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another |
| 0:32.8 | and the blood of Jesus, his son, cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, |
| 0:39.9 | and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins |
| 0:46.1 | and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, |
| 0:52.5 | and his word is not in us. My little children, |
| 0:56.2 | I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an |
| 1:01.6 | advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, |
| 1:07.2 | not only, not ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. |
| 1:12.6 | This is the word of the Lord. |
| 1:15.3 | Good evening, folks. |
| 1:17.8 | If I have not had the chance to meet you before, my name is Sam. |
| 1:21.1 | I have the honor and privilege of getting to be an executive pastor here at Church of the City. |
| 1:26.6 | And if you can't tell from that teaching text tonight, |
| 1:29.3 | we're going to have some fun at church. Before we do that, just want to highlight Pastor John |
| 1:34.5 | mentioned this past week in the service. We host our citywide prayer gathering this past Thursday night |
| 1:39.9 | in Queens with Wellspring. Some of you guys made the trip overseas to be a part of that. |
| 1:45.7 | And just want to lift up and thank you guys for being a part and believing in being a praying church |
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