I don't know what you need to be free from, but whatever it is, freedom is staring you right in the face.

Dr. Tony Evans says there's no need to be enslaved by detrimental thoughts or emotions anymore.

I know somebody who's been doing the authorized and anointed with supernatural power to set Captain's free.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oaklef Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas and president of the Urban Alternative.

The good news of the gospel is that freedom is free. So why aren't more of us experiencing it?

Well, Dr. Evans will have the answer today in a special message taken from Luke 4. Let's join him.

In the harbor of New York City, stands a lady inscribed on lady liberty as you so well know of these words.

Give me your tired and your poor.

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teaming shores.

Santa Vs the homeless tempest toss to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

On lady liberties crown our seven spikes. Reflecting seven seas and seven continents where the invitation stands open to all to come to freedom.

At the base of lady liberty is a chain that has been broken.

She stands there in the harbor of New York to represent what this nation was to be founded upon and the nature of how it operates.

She's called lady liberty because she stands for freedom. Freedom is not something that belongs to a country or nation.

Freedom is something that God offered in the Garden of Eden. From every tree of the garden you may freely eat.

We have defined freedom as release from illegitimate bondage so that you can now experience becoming what you are created and redeem to be.

We have tried to explain that the freest people in the world ought to be Christians.

Paul has made it clear in one of our previous discussions that it was for freedom. Christ has set you free.

He set you free to be free. He didn't set you free to stay in bondage.

And yet many of us today find ourselves bound. Personal bondages known as addictions, the biblical phrase for strongholds, things that are holding us hostage and keeping us from being what we know God wants us to be.

I'm not talking about the person who doesn't care now. I'm not talking about the person who's in rebellion.

I'm talking about the person who really wants to be free. They want to leave where they are and get the way they're supposed to go.

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