Freedom Week 1 2017

[@auntmemeintennessee8033]

I was a “miserable Christian” for years, always thinking I was never doing enough, thinking God was ready to punish me for every little mistake I made. I had no joy in my “church” life, but thought I was a “good” person, even though I judged others harshly, and criticized myself constantly. This lesson just clarified for me exactly how my relationship with God has changed (and continues to change, always learning). I now view him as a loving, merciful, caring Heavenly Father, who loves me a thousand times more than my own Earthly Father did (and that was a lot, because I had a wonderful father). There is freedom in this approach. The Tree of Life! You are right. Too many people “brand” and “market” God in the absolute wrong way. He wants to help us better our lives, with his loving guidance, and he loves us even when we sin. Satan is the one who constantly reminds us that we messed up, and who tries to make us feel insecure and unworthy, but God loves us unconditionally. I see now what the scripture means: if you know God and recognize that you are his beloved child, you will want to spread that love and joy to other people, as well. God IS love.😍 This lesson has really helped me. Excellent! Thank you.

[@debbiebramwell]

Well said. Thank you for sharing. It's a year later. I hope your your relationship with God has grown! 😍

[@ALA3079]

I related so deeply to your story. I was raised Pentecostal and have been "backslidden" first years with no desire to go back to religion. I'm now joining this journey and hopeful that my outlook with change ❤️

[@backpackgrizzly]

Love this … god bless you

[@auntmemeintennessee8033]

@@backpackgrizzly God bless you, too!🤗

[@tonychampagne4575]

I've been through freedom twice what a blessing it was changed my life totally

[@Natural_Nuturer]

God bless you sir for this transformative truth.

[@tiffanysteen1845]

I’m coleading a freedom group this upcoming semester and went thru in the spring! It’s amazing how this has became a national life changing group

[@TheNewSettlers]

I keep coming back to this video when I'm in need of clarification towards the Father's first message.

[@MsJazima]

❤ so grateful for God's grace and mercy. Looking forward to studying with my group.

[@whitneypotts6058]

Psalm 30:5 New King James Version 5 For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.

[@angelacunningham8176]

This training makes My Soul Happy

[@whitneypotts6058]

1 John 4:18 New Living Translation 18 Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love.

[@abrookedavis]

So excited to be doing this bible study in my small group!

[@gingernewman6821]

Now doing the Freedom Work Book

[@sandrabenavides8772]

Where did you get the Freedom Work Book? I would like to get one myself

[@RitaLynn444]

Blessed to be introduced to this with our small group with Pastor Metzgar at Life City Church in Perryville MD.✨💯🙏

[@chanaturner4118]

My second time doing the FREEDOM study. 3 years ago and it already feels different. Looking forward to this 12 weeks ahead.

[@terithompson4703]

Thank you Danny for this set of weeks

[@natarielletv]

This was amazing and so thought-provoking! Thank you!

[@johnnypattonjr8967]

Yeah we are taking this course in Freedom this year

[@cajunbayouvlogs5308]

Thanks for sharing a new why of how God works

[@cassieswailes7007]

I took this course in prison

[@debbiebramwell]

It was so good! I love that you got to experience this in prison! Praise God!

[@rickvillyard1985]

Amen. Thankful that you were exposed to it.

[@nuufoualo5934]

This is so amazing man. Thank you

[@nataliefromnormandya1135]

So excited to be starting this study!

[@kaheaisaac1]

How did it go?

[@seawoodstoked8392]

Am i the only one who thinks this guy looks like jimmy fallon?

[@suzannebidniuk2987]

HA! FINALLY 👍👍👍He sounds like him and has his mannerisms and dry joke delivery!!! Thank you so much, everyone else thought I was crazy 😜

[@RitaLynn444]

Scott Norwood haha agree 😆

[@luigiprovencher]

Yes! Lol It's probably because they have some similar aspects in their birth charts.

[@lilprncezz]

Oh my gosh, I literally thought about this the entire first time I watched it! I had to watch it again because I was too focused on figuring out if he was related to Jimmy Fallin! Nice to know I wasn’t alone in this! 🤣

[@mariakungulio5180]

Great study!!! Love it..

[@deannaosborne543]

Headed to Freedom Conference ❤️

[@yolipd200]

This is amazing

[@nothanks8305]

Quarantine Bible Study :)

[@debbiebramwell]

Praise God!

[@alessandraclaire3086]

How can I purchase a workbook?

[@guillerminaviera3067]

Love the idea of learning this

[@hisnewlife3543]

I am thinking about doing this course, but I feel that I am more broken than your average Christian. More abuse, more suffering, all alone in the world. I am not sure this is going to help.

[@dellynr]

No one is too broken for our Lord and savior!! Matthew 5:3-12

[@marvelousmayden7386]

Love it!

[@envisto1892]

Where i can buy the book?

[@whitneypotts6058]

Everything that you do do out of love

[@sandrabenavides8772]

Someone knows where to get the Freedom Work Book? I live in Houston, TX

[@spiritualbabe1785]

Did you find one?

[@jessebrennan7130]

Amen!

[@ericavega7896]

Can someone please share this Pastor’s name?

[@hart2hart872]

Pastor Chris Hodges

[@whitneypotts6058]

I Want to have an inmate relationship with you 💞 Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit wants to have an inmate relationship with us

[@faridahhaa9017]

❤

[@dawnsearock1682]

Can anyone please direct me to the complete series? I was just given the workbook and need the videos as well. Tia😊

[@dawnsearock1682]

Thank you so very much. Merry Christmas 🎄

[@rowdyrx6109]

Dawn Searock It’s a wonderful study. We are on week 10. God bless

[@1943frances]

Good

[@SaintMattchoo]

Woot!

[@richardwilson9085]

I really don’t understand his premise on this sermon

[@michaelancona1120]

He is basically expounding on John 1:17: “For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” The law represents “performance based” Christianity. What I have to “do” to gain God’s acceptance. Jesus came to give us the gospel of Grace.” Which is, we are accepted based on what Jesus did for us. The first approach will lead to condemnation, the latter will lead to life and peace.

[@Crisol85]

@@michaelancona1120 awesome explanation. Tky

[@michaelancona1120]

@@Crisol85 you are welcome!

[@garyavery4603]

This video corresponds with the first week of a small group curriculum called Freedom.

[@melessalee620]

I think he is saying that when we fall to thoughts of self-condemnation we are falling under a human (or Satanic) standard. This would considered eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This is the wrong tree. The church needs to reaffirm that we are eating from the tree of life. That is, at the end of the day, we trust that the good we have done was the will of the Father and we acknowledge also our faults that He is willing to forgive us. This way we live our lives in peace and experience more enjoyment in a daily walk with him. Hope that Helps!

[@cecilcharlesofficial]

Yes, our falling into mistake and sin is because 'we believed something wrong,' but this is where the Calvinists got it right: because we don't choose what to believe. Be honest: when you sin, sure you have a desire to, and sure you 'succumb' to it that in the moment, but you're not choosing to have the desire, and you're not choosing, in that moment, to be weak. Rather, you THINK you're in control, and so you try instead to JUSTIFY your negative thoughts and behaviors, because "they're you, and you're in control. You wouldn't be choosing habits if they were bad, right?" Except that's what life is: you watching yourself make mistakes, not just innocently, but because you're selfish and scared, and so is everyone else. And don't worry, I'm not selling relativism. I'm saying the solution (some real 'change of heart,' some awakening) isn't up to you. It's what's required to change, yes. But it's not up to you. Because you don't choose your thoughts. Nor do you choose your feelings. Even if you could, you'd be choosing based on a feeling of "I want that one and not the other one." Except that feeling is just another unchosen thought/feeling. You may have free will, but what that free will is, isn't up to you. Furthermore, while faith is the answer, you can't choose to have it. Just like you can't say "I love you," and magically love the person in front of you, you can't will yourself to have faith. Whether you think faith = "believing that Jesus was God's son and that he died on a cross, etc" or simply that faith = "complete trust in God" (to me it's the latter, but it doesn't matter)... either way, you can't MAKE yourself believe. You can't MAKE yourself trust. And in seeing this you might begin to simply watch what you think and feel and begin to pay attention to the SENSATION the emotions make in your body. Anxiety is actually tiny clenched tissues all over your body. In your chest, your neck, behind your eyes, your back. Realize that you can't will them away, either. But something happens when you decide to use your mind just to 'look' at them. To accept that they're there, and to accept that you don't like them. To feel what they feel like. To say "I'm all tense. What does that actually feel like," instead of "I'm all tense and who's to blame?" or "I'm all tense and how can I feel better (where's the avoidance/pleasure/alcohol/drugs)?" When you realize you're not in control, and also you learn to pay attention to your body and 'feel' (and thereby accept the sensation of) these ever-passing emotions, you watch yourself relax, and start to move and act and speak with a grace you never knew you had. You'll snap out of it, too, and that's ok. But just keep looking right at the sensation of your body (the anxiety that normally would drive you mad), and see how you change when you teach yourself to feel. Each moment you can remember to, just find the least comfortable thing in your body and look at it. Again, not the 'emotion' of the situation (you know why you're upset - you don't have to tell yourself the story for the thousandth time). Rather, just go find the clench, the tension, the discomfort in your body and put your mind right on it. Hold it there for 30 second. Maybe five minutes. Watch what happens.

[@cecilcharlesofficial]

"Obeying out of delight" comes naturally in those moments when you realize you're completely not in control. You've ALWAYS been that way, but in the moments you remember you feel grace. Jesus's whole point about "If you're still lusting but not acting on it, you haven't changed" is him explaining that changing is a CHANGE of your mind, of what you want, of what appeals to you. And again, it may only happen for a moment, if ever. But admit that it's not up to you - if you feel any given desire. And if you can admit that, then you can stop justifying said desires you know to be wrong, and maybe, just maybe, you'll feel a real change, at last, of what you want. You have to admit you're not in control. God's not 'in control,' either - in the sense of a 'plan,' and only because maybe he made a plan, but what his mind told him to make wasn't up to him. Again, because 'to choose' is to act on a feeling inside that is unchosen. So trust God, but even if you don't, admit there's no control. And you'll feel God soon enough.

[@cecilcharlesofficial]

And the idea that when you're saved you 'obey' is correct, but kind of backward. Being saved is seeing that life is obeyance. Nothing happens apart from God's will. You are God's will. Including your faults. Including the fact that YOUR FAULTS ARE FAULTS. This is not relativism. This is admitting that none of this is 'up to you' because you don't choose your will. Hence, obeyance is all there is. And whether you see that or not IS ALSO GOD'S WILL.

[@borisstavropoli4355]

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[@IKLDURKAT]

Notice how he blasphemes God in the beginning of this video. He also states “well it’s in the Bible” and never quotes the verse citation. His application of Genesis 3 is heretical. We need to preach the Gospel not these watered down sermons based on someone’s agenda.

[@nicolepoudrier9431]

He does too quote scripture.“ I don’t know what you’re talking about. I lead this class and show this video so you are way off. Pastor Chris is amazing. people need to learn all about the Bible not just the good things. You obviously don’t have a personal relationship with the Lord and I’m sorry for that.