The Elusive Nature of Freedom

Mosaic - Erwin McManus

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt stifled by God’s instruction? In ‘The Elusive Nature of Freedom,’ Pastor Erwin McManus delivers unparalleled insight to help you unwrap the intentions behind God’s commands.

Pastor Erwin centers his message around Psalm 119:32, where the Psalmist ran with freedom in the direction of God’s commands. Pastor Erwin reminds us that a healthy relationship with God results in an ease with following God’s commands. Only when we think God is stealing from us do we run away from his instruction in our lives.

God’s instruction for our lives is meant to lead us to a life filled with freedom. Pastor Erwin gives us a powerful reminder that God’s commands don’t limit us - they liberate us! When we are focused on pleasing God with our lives, even the opinion of others doesn’t have an overwhelming pull on us anymore. We can live on the road to freedom as we move forward within God’s instruction.

If you’ve been wanting to embrace freedom in your life and walk on the path God has for you, this message is for you!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Erwin Raphael McManus. I'm the lead pastor of Mosaic. Welcome to our podcast.
0:14.0	Thank you for joining us today. I hope this talk inspires you, encourages you, and transforms you,
0:19.7	and that this is just the beginning of a conversation between you and Jesus. Enjoy the message.
0:25.2	I've been thinking a lot about the elusive nature of freedom. We live at a time in history where
0:32.7	we're probably unquestionably the most free people that human history has ever known. I mean,
0:38.8	we live in a nation, in a state, in the city, in a community that's free. We have freedom of speech
0:45.5	and freedom of choice and freedom to choose our careers and to choose our our husbands and wives
0:52.0	to choose our our futures and and even with all the other constraints that are around us and
0:58.4	and those things that make us feel more limited in our choices. I think most of us sort of breathe that
1:03.6	we're essentially free and and yet even in this freedom, I think most of us have this overwhelming
1:11.6	sense that we're not free and then when you add faith, when you add a relationship with God and
1:17.7	you hear all the language of do's and don'ts, it seems almost as if that freedom becomes more
1:22.8	difficult to experience, more more difficult to realize and and there's this one particular
1:29.0	versus one particular Psalm that David writes that has always just struck me in in regards to
1:38.0	God's commands and to the experience of freedom. It's in Psalm 119 verse 32. David says this,
1:46.1	I run in the path of your commands for you have set my heart free. Now that statement for me stands
1:53.5	out because it brings together two concepts in the same phrase that seem to almost be mutual
2:00.8	exclusive commands and freedom. I can understand that there are commands and there are things that
2:07.9	you have to do or require you will obligated to do and then I can understand that you are free,
2:12.8	that you have freedom, that you have choice, that you can run wild, but the idea of having commands
2:17.8	and having freedom and having them somehow in this unique interplay where they compliment each other,
2:23.0	that doesn't make any sense to me. And yet David says, I run in the path of your commands
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