Date of Sermon Delivery : 14. 11. 2021

Place of sermon Delivery : Delhi, India

Sunday Worship Service

Speaker : Ramesh

Title - Deliverance and Freedom

Bible - Luke 4:18-19

18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”  

Good morning everyone.

I hope things are well with you and you are enjoying a blessed life.

Even if you are not I believe that you are hopeful in Christ and you have peace of God.

If we are bitter and depressed this is the sign that we are not trusting the Lord as much as we should.

Last week was good and tiring at the same time.

I was busy with the work a lot and did not get much of a breather lately.

Today's sermon is about Deliverance and Freedom. 

What does this mean to you? 

What comes to your mind when you think of freedom and deliverance?

For me, both have the same meaning. 

We have seen in our previous sermons that how God created man and how he is fallen. 

How now the man is sinful and how we have hope. 

Main Body:

Let us clarify who needs deliverance and who needs freedom?

if you have been extremely hurt, betrayed, divorced, and cannot seem to forgive. 

if you are fighting a disease

If you are angry and depressed for no reason at all 

If you hate everything and everyone around you

If you know me you could tell I am very afraid of ghost and their stories. 

I don't like to watch movies for fun nor do I like to engage in that kind of conversation. 

Because I was afraid. 

From childhood, these things have haunted me. 

If I watch anything I am not able to sleep for days. 

This is common with kids, but this was not only when I was a kid but when I grew old. 

The fear always overtook me. 

I am not sure when and how God took away my fear of these things. 

I am not brave enough still to go to the forest in the middle of the night but anyway I am brave enough to go to the washroom and any part of my house in darkness. 

 

 This is progress and I did nothing for this this is all because I know God is above every other power in this world. 

I would call this the plan of God that last week only I had to face some other issue.

I was happy and doing my regular work and I saw a text and I was furious. 

At that time I was able to see that how I need the holy spirit in my life and not give in to the things around me. 

This happens with me all the time, things around me make me angry. 

This time when this happened I was kind of able to control it. 

Or I should say God controlled me to lash out and spoil my whole evening.

However my whole evening was spoiled and my mood was off, but I was self-aware that I need to work on something. 

God showed me what I lack and asked me to improve this lashing out is not helpful in my case. 

I need to trust God and God's timing. 

I need to rest my case in the hands of God. 

This time when I was blamed for something I did not do. I was not angry but was made aware of my flaws.

This is the deliverance from God.

God is working in me and I know that you are not here on the stage otherwise you could share much more than I am doing right now. 

Let's see the Bible:

 In Galatians 1:3-4, Paul writes: “Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.”

The problem people face may not be as drastic as I face. 

a. Pressures of life: Family strife, marriage problems, difficulty in parenting, poor

interpersonal relationships.

b. Pressures of finances: Living expenses, home loans, funds for children’s education,

funds for retirement, and medical emergencies.

c. Pressures from work: Stiff competition in the society, heavy workload, risk of

unemployment, etc.

d. Pressures of time: Fast pace of life, lots of anxiety, and always feeling like there is not

enough time and imbalance in the use of time.

e. Pressures of sicknesses: Although the average life expectancy has increased,

illnesses abound and people are suffering.

f. Pressures from bad habits: Unbelievers are trapped and unable to break free from

the bondages in their personality, temper, bad habits, vices, and greed, etc

These things are something we all have faced or are facing each day. 

These things are not a problem but the outcome of these things are. 

We tend not to win over them but surrender to these problems. 

Let me ask you if you have faced these things. 

If yes how does this make you feel? 

Were you feeling low and saying that you are no hero. 

Or saying that apna time ayega just feeling encouraged but nothing changes. 

Do you feel sorry for yourself or it is difficult for you to take out time for the things that are important for you. 

Let me tell you we all have failed and we keep on failing. 

But we only fail and we say we have failed when we don't trust the holy spirit. 

I was in mess before the preparation of my marriage because there were things I was not able to do. 

And there was a lot of pressure but I was reminded that I have Jesus at my side and I gave it all to God. 

When God came into the picture things changed, I am happy and not at all burdened.

Yes, I still need to do things but because I have God I am not worried. 

Anything that I am not able to do I give it to God. I and God are like a team.

Because you and I have prayed for my marriage, everything God sorted.

 Because I have asked for help from God, he listened to my prayers. 

 Because we prayed we are being healed.  

 

 

This is not something like others tells us to do and we do and then we are blessed. 

This happens only when we receive the gospel and believe that God will do. 

Paul was able to bear so much pain and suffering because he had assurance that God is there with Him. 

We can only take so much of this world if we know God. 

But Holy Spirit is with us we could face this world and all the problems in it with so much ease. 

Conclusion:

God's plan was not only to save us to give us eternal life. 

He wants us that we may taste the real peace and joy in Him. 

but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.  - John 4:14

Jesus came so that we may be free from the bondages. 

There is nothing that God cannot do. 

No power can overpower God. 

If you are under slavery be free in the name of Christ. 

If you are under stress be free in the name of Christ. 

If you are sick be free in the name of Christ. 

This is the power of the Holy Spirit. 

God is God who brings us out of our misery. He is the one who breaks all the chains and brings comfort to all who mourn.

I want that as a Church when we pray for personal prayers. 

Don't pray for your usual stuff. 

Ask especially the Holy Spirit and feel the freedom. 

Feel the chains being breaking, feel the forgiveness. 

Feel the real joy of God. 

Let us go to the Lord and pray: 

God let us fill us with your Spirit now. 

We want to taste you, we want to take you living water. 

Let us feel you and make us free. Jesus is our guide. 

Let your Spirit overpower us and let us feel again the glimpse of your glory. 

Amen