What is Real Freedom? | The Kirk Cameron Show Ep 13

The Kirk Cameron Show

Kirk Cameron

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 776 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

What does true freedom look like—and can you have good morals without God? In this episode of The Kirk Cameron Show, Kirk kicks off Monday with a powerful devotional on why true liberty comes not from living without rules, but from joyful submission to God. Learn how individualism leads to emptiness, and how grace rescues us from ourselves. Then, Kirk dives into audience questions on: Who should we pray to—Jesus, the Father, or the Holy Spirit? Do you need to join a church to get into heaven? Can people be good without believing in God? What really saves us: grace or religious tradition? To learn more about the sponsor of today’s show and what our family currently uses for our healthcare check out Christian Healthcare Ministries by visiting https://hubs.ly/Q02vWQGy0 Editing and production services provided by thepodcastupload.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, good morning. Happy Monday. I hope you had a great weekend. Welcome to the Kirk Cameron Show. This is Monday morning devotional. I always like to start off my morning with my three favorite things, the Word of God, a favorite devotional, and a little help in a cup. So today, here's the thought. Grace, that is the undeserved kindness of God,
0:29.3	is the only thing that can set you free from the non-satisfying claustrophobia and the self-imposed prison of individualism
0:34.9	and allow you to enjoy the fulfilling freedom and satisfaction of loving and serving God.
0:42.5	A lot of people think that freedom and liberty is about doing whatever you want, no rules.
0:46.8	I don't have to follow somebody else's rules, and that leads to bondage.
0:51.0	That's just the way the world that God made actually affects us when we think that we can be the God of our own world.
0:58.7	We'll come up with our own Ten Commandments.
1:00.5	We don't have to follow gods.
1:02.6	That path always leads to a ditch, to a dumpster fire.
1:06.9	If you have the attitude of it's what I want, I want it and how I want it, that is going to
1:14.1	lead you into a prison from which you'll never get out and it will leave you lonely, miserable,
1:22.2	and angry. So when God calls you and me to obey his commands and follow his ways, he's not robbing us of liberty.
1:33.1	He's actually leading us to the only place where we can possibly find it.
1:37.6	At the end of the day, you and I need God to rescue us from us.
1:43.5	We are our own worst enemy. To understand this, we've first got to
1:47.2	understand what the scriptures tell us about our very nature and the nature of the world. We're fallen,
1:51.5	we're broken, and so is the world around us. And trying to live a life independent of God is like
1:57.9	trying to drive a beautiful boat on the freeway. It could be a gorgeous boat,
2:05.1	beautifully designed, filled with all kinds of great equipment. But if you try to drive it on a highway,
2:13.2	you're going to get nowhere fast and destroy the boat. It wasn't made for that.
2:24.1	And you and I were not made to be individualistic and independent from God. We were made for joyful, submissive obedience to his commands.
2:30.3	Think of your life right now. I can think of mine.
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