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[493.54 --> 494.22] or in the neighborhood
[494.22 --> 494.46] and said,
[494.52 --> 494.86] hey, like,
[494.90 --> 496.00] what do you think freedom is?
[496.04 --> 497.28] What does it mean to be free?
[497.84 --> 498.60] What would you say?
[503.36 --> 504.16] I'm guessing,
[504.54 --> 505.28] most Canadians,
[505.36 --> 506.22] and maybe Christians too,
[507.06 --> 508.26] their first default
[508.26 --> 509.22] when we think of freedom
[509.22 --> 511.08] is freedom from having to do
[511.08 --> 512.94] what someone else tells us.
[513.50 --> 514.50] Is that what's going through your mind?
[515.72 --> 516.68] At least two of us,
[516.72 --> 517.20] one of us.
[518.56 --> 519.02] Those of us,
[519.08 --> 520.00] I'm not saying it now.
[520.40 --> 521.52] Or freedom to sort of
[521.52 --> 522.84] do whatever we want to do,
[522.90 --> 523.06] right?
[523.10 --> 523.72] You have a feeling,
[523.84 --> 524.36] you have a desire,
[524.46 --> 524.90] you have an ambition,
[525.02 --> 526.32] you get to do what you want to do.
[526.38 --> 526.86] You're free.
[527.34 --> 528.60] I think that's the shorthand
[528.60 --> 529.54] Canadian definition
[529.54 --> 530.52] of freedom.
[531.42 --> 532.54] But now I want to ask,
[533.02 --> 533.66] is that
[533.66 --> 535.34] actually freedom?
[536.82 --> 537.98] And it seems to me,
[538.16 --> 539.22] you could disagree with me,
[539.30 --> 540.36] but that definition of freedom
[540.36 --> 541.96] leads to a whole mountain of pain
[541.96 --> 543.20] because what we do with freedom
[543.20 --> 545.32] is exactly what Paul's concerned about.
[545.32 --> 547.72] you're free to go back
[547.72 --> 550.50] to the old sinful nature,
[550.88 --> 553.36] to gratify all the old desires
[553.36 --> 554.30] of the sinful flesh.
[554.66 --> 555.64] And I think many of us,
[555.70 --> 556.22] if we're honest,
[556.36 --> 557.90] we know what I'm about to say
[557.90 --> 559.34] too well in our own experience.
[560.80 --> 561.52] In Canada,
[561.60 --> 562.66] you're free to watch
[562.66 --> 563.38] whatever you want.
[564.30 --> 565.42] You can eat whatever you want.
[565.60 --> 566.66] You can drink whatever you want.
[566.72 --> 568.20] You can sleep with whoever you want.
[568.44 --> 569.74] You can do with your money
[569.74 --> 571.12] and time whatever you want.
[571.22 --> 572.08] Very few people
[572.08 --> 573.92] are breathing down your neck
[573.92 --> 575.10] telling you how you need to do
[575.10 --> 576.68] all these different dimensions of life.
[577.28 --> 578.34] And it just so happens
[578.34 --> 579.60] that in Canada,
[579.72 --> 582.28] we have incredible amounts of anxiety.
[583.50 --> 584.82] Many of us have trails
[584.82 --> 586.04] of broken relationships
[586.04 --> 588.44] and broken trust in our lives.
[589.14 --> 590.94] Many of us have unhealthy ways
[590.94 --> 592.14] we've treated our body
[592.14 --> 593.98] and we live with crushing levels of debt.
[594.06 --> 595.42] I mean, I just read about this this week,
[595.66 --> 596.74] how so many Canadians
[596.74 --> 597.68] have deep anxiety
[597.68 --> 599.12] just about money,
[599.86 --> 601.56] even though we're free to do with it
[601.56 --> 602.40] whatever we want.
[602.40 --> 604.52] Canadian freedom
[604.52 --> 606.94] looks a lot like what Paul is saying.
[607.04 --> 608.02] Do not use your freedom
[608.02 --> 610.90] to indulge in the old self,
[611.72 --> 613.38] the desires of the flesh.
[613.44 --> 614.54] And what he's saying to the church is,
[614.88 --> 617.02] church, you've been freed from that.
[617.46 --> 619.34] You don't have to go back to that anymore
[619.34 --> 621.12] because of what Jesus has accomplished.
[621.28 --> 622.22] This is a very powerful point.
[622.46 --> 623.84] You've been rescued from
[623.84 --> 625.38] the need to go back
[625.38 --> 627.32] to that old way of life.
[628.48 --> 629.70] And I want to read for you a quote.
[629.70 --> 632.38] This comes from a fellow named William Barclay
[632.38 --> 634.14] and he says it very well.
[634.24 --> 634.44] He says,
[634.52 --> 637.20] Christians are not men and women
[637.20 --> 639.44] who have become free to sin,
[640.18 --> 642.30] but people who, by the grace of God,
[642.34 --> 645.32] have become free not to sin.
[645.98 --> 646.82] You hear what he's saying there?
[647.30 --> 648.76] You've been freed from the need
[648.76 --> 651.82] to go back to old enslaving habits,
[652.60 --> 654.40] to old enslaving things
[654.40 --> 655.50] that are taking hold of you,
[655.62 --> 656.42] giving you shame,