Sunday Service (2)

Sunday Service: Freedom Breakthrough

(08-21-2022) Sis. Precy Cabigting

=Freedom Breakthrough=

*Acts 16:16-24
"16 Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling.
17 This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God, who are telling you the way to be saved."
18 She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so troubled that he turned around and said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!" At that moment the spirit left her.
19 When the owners of the slave girl realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.
20 They brought them before the magistrates and said, "These men are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar
21 by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice."
22 The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten.
23 After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully.
24 Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

Prison Comes in Many Forms:
1. Literal Prison
2. Bedridden
3. Wrong relationship
4. Vices
5. Pessimism
6. Debts
7. Dead-ends

*Acts 16:25-32
"25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
26 Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody's chains came loose.
27 The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped.
28 But Paul shouted, "Don't harm yourself! We are all here!"

•We are not set free to escape.

29 The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas.
30 He then brought them out and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

"What Must I Do to be Saved?"

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1 They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved--you and your household."
32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house.

•You were set free to share salvation.

33 At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were baptized.
34 The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God--he and his whole family.

How can one experience Freedom Breakthrough?
1. Fan your Faith
*Luke 17:5
"5 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"

2. Rebound from Negativity
*Isaiah 43:18-19
"18 "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.

3. Engage in Worship
*Psalm 95:1-2
"1 Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.

4. Entitled yourself a "Child of God"
*John 1:12-13
"12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God--
13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

5. Dare to be Different
*Romans 12:2
"2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.

6. Override timidity
*2 Timothy 1:7
"7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

7. Move out of your Shell
*Psalm 119:45
"45 I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts.

*2 Corinthians 3:17
"17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

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"Even when it hurts, I'll praise you."
"Make your worship count. Make your worship be heard."