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THE WAY TO FREEDOM

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THE WAY TO FREEDOM

Finding Freedom - Part 1 | February 5, 2023

Gabe Kolstad | @gabekolstad

15 I don’t really understand myself, for I want to do what is right, but I don’t do it. Instead, I do what I hate.... 18 And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t.    -Romans 7:15, 18 (NLT)

THE PROBLEM: PLAYING GOD

In your great pride you claim, ‘I am a god! I sit on a divine throne in the heart of the sea.’ But you are only a man and not a god, though you boast that you are a god.    -Ezekiel 28:2 (NLT)

THE SOLUTION: ADMITTING

God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.    -Matthew 5:3 (NLT)

I ADMIT that I’m powerless to control my tendency 

to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable.

1. ADMIT I need HELP

God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.    -James 4:6b (NLT)

2. Ask GOD for help

We felt we were doomed to die and saw how powerless we were to help ourselves; but that was good, for then we put everything into the hands of God, who alone could save us, for he can even raise the dead.    -2 Corinthians 1:9 (LB)


3. ACCEPT help from OTHERS

9 Two can accomplish more than twice as much as one, for the results can be much better. 10 If one falls, the other pulls him up; but if a man falls when he is alone, he’s in trouble.   

-Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (LB)


Admit your faults to one another and pray for each other so that you may be healed.    -James 5:16a (LB)

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