Sermons on Individual Freedom:

Freedom Child Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 19, 2015

Why would God send Moses as a baby? He's supposed to be a "deliverer"... and it's going to take 80 years to grow into the job! Why did God do it that way?

I read the true story of a Sunday School for 4-year-olds'. Most of the children were known to the teacher, but this Sunday a little boy showed up without any identification. The teacher managed to get his first name, but couldn't find out his last name. "Brian, what's your daddy's name?" she ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Freedom With Restraint

Contributed by Jeffrey Sims on May 26, 2018

This is a sermon for Memorial day that is about the freedom we are given by our faith in Jesus. It also touches on the fact that we only have true freedom if we are restrained by The Holy Spirit

America, Land of the Free, Home of the brave. We live in a country that is founded on freedom, many brave men died to help us obtain the freedoms that we have today. All we have to do is look around and we see symbols of that freedom everywhere, The Statue of Liberty, Lady Freedom, The Liberty ...read more

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Freedom (Galatians)

Contributed by Laura Martin on Jun 30, 2020

A walk through the book of Galatians. Are you living free – and not as a slave to the law or to sin?

I think freedom is one of the deepest longings of the human heart. Wars have been fought, songs have been sung, philosophies developed – all for the cause of freedom. So it should not surprise us that when Jesus entered into human history — some of his earliest public words in a synagogue came from ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 5:1

Freedom's Gospel Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Sep 22, 2016

If you want to be free from your sin, don't believe in a different, distorted or damned gospel. Believe in the divine Gospel that Jesus sets the believer free!

Several years ago (December 2008), I had the opportunity to go to Belarus to teach church multiplication to young Belarussians getting ready to plant churches in various parts of the country. I had about a hundred pages of notes for the students, so I looked into translating them into Russian. ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 1:6-12

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Freedom's Influence Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Sep 27, 2016

If you want to influence others to follow Jesus, commune with Him and let Him change you from the inside out.

Once upon a time, a man walked into a little mom-and-pop grocery store and asked, “Do you sell salt?” “Ha!” said Pop the proprietor. “Do we sell salt! Just look!” And Pop showed the customer one entire wall of shelves stocked with nothing but salt – Morton ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 1:11-24

Denomination: Evangelical Free

True Freedom Series

Contributed by Ken Henson on Sep 28, 2016

What Paul describes here definitely applies to us. Jesus has taken many captives, literally, He lead captivity captive.

7 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 8 This is why it says: “When he ascended on high, he took many captives and gave gifts to his people.” 9 (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 4:7-9

Denomination: *other

Freedom's Threats Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Oct 5, 2016

If we're going to enjoy our freedom in Christ, we must come together FOR the truth of the Gospel and work together IN the truth of the Gospel.

An Arab chief tells a story of a spy who was captured and then sentenced to death by a general in the Persian army. This general had the strange custom of giving condemned criminals a choice between the firing squad and the big, black door. As the moment for execution drew near, the spy was brought ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 2:1-10

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Freedom's Power Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Oct 12, 2016

If you want to be a better person, don't depend on a list; depend on the Lord.

A couple of years ago (2014), Lowe's produced a commercial that shows a proud do-it-yourselfer installing a new ceiling fan in his family's living room. Take a look (show Lowe’s Commercial, Ceiling Fan, 2014) After he proudly gives the fan one last little turn, climbs off the aluminum ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 2:11-21

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Freedom's Spirit Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Oct 20, 2016

Start, finish and continue your life with the Spirit by faith.

On February 10, 2013, a fire broke out in an engine room of the Carnival cruise ship, Triumph. The fire knocked out the ship's power, leaving the vessel drifting in the Gulf of Mexico and more than 4,200 passengers and crew in limbo. The lost power made it impossible to operate the flush toilets, ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 3:1-5, Galatians 3:1-26

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Freedom Is Not Free

Contributed by Anthony Zibolski on Aug 9, 2019

The Bible has a lot to say about spiritual freedom and spiritual bondage.

Freedom is not Free Selective verses Introduction- As we celebrate our countries 243rd year of independence, we must understand that freedom is not free, it cost someone something for us to be free. We must also understand that not all people want to be free, some want to be in bondage because ...read more

Scripture: John 8:36, Romans 12:1-2, 1 Corinthians 6:12

Denomination: Nazarene

Freedom In Christ! Series

Contributed by Shaila Touchton on Oct 5, 2019

Freedom in Christ means it’s not a freedom to do whatever or however we wish rather, we are free from sin so that we may obey God (Romans 6:17-19).

The children of the devil live to please themselves instead of choosing a lifestyle that is pleasing to God. God wants us to pursue holiness. He wants us to live the Holy Spirit filled life. True Christian believer who has truly come to know Christ will be free from sin, they will be holy, in ...read more

Scripture: Colossians 2:8, Galatians 5:1

The Truest Freedom

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Jun 23, 2019

We are set free - to the truest kind of liberty.

THE TRUEST FREEDOM. Galatians 5:1; Galatians 5:13-25. Paul established the contrast between bondage and freedom by the use of an allegory concerning Hagar and Sarah, and their respective sons (Galatians 4:22). When we are born into this world, we are born into bondage to the corruption of ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 5:1, Galatians 5:13-25

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Freedom's Fruit Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Feb 8, 2017

Defeat the flesh by depending on the Spirit: live by the Spirit and so conquer the desires of the flesh; be led by the Spirit and so conquer the deeds of the flesh; and walk with the Spirit and so enjoy the death of the flesh.

Jo Guerrero’s five-year-old daughter, Barbara, had disobeyed her mother and had been sent to her room. After a few minutes, Jo (the mom) went in to talk with her about what she had done. Teary-eyed, the little girl asked, “Why do we do wrong things, Mommy?” Jo replied, “Sometimes the devil tells ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 5:16-26

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Freedom's Harvest Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Feb 23, 2017

The best use of your money is to share, gain and share some more, so that the Kingdom of God can be expanded around the world.

Deron Smith of Springfield, Missouri, is one of many believers around the world who observes Lent, which starts this Wednesday. Not too long ago, he and his wife sat at the dinner table with their three daughters, ages 6, 8, and 11, and attempted to explain what Lent was all about. As part of ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 6:6-10

Denomination: Evangelical Free

Freedom's Cross Series

Contributed by C. Philip Green on Mar 1, 2017

If you want to be free from the pressure to perform and impress others, don’t seek to impress others with yourself. Instead, just be impressed with what Christ has done for you on the cross.

Once upon a time an old man and his son were on their way to market. The old man was leading a donkey and the boy was walking behind when they went through the first village. There, the people called the old man a fool for not riding the donkey, so he climbed up on the animal’s back. In the second ...read more

Scripture: Galatians 6:11-18

Denomination: Evangelical Free