Free to Obey God
Richard Roberts – Fifth of five parts The next lesson I want to share with you from the story of the Prodigal Son is this: You can never be free until you are voluntarily mastered by someone greater than you and that Someone can only be God. I do not find any examples in the […]
Free to Follow Your Conscience
Richard Roberts – Fourth of five parts Another message in the story of the Prodigal Son is this: Freedom is never free at the expense of your conscience. To some people a clear conscience is merely a poor memory. Many people won’t listen to their conscience. But let me give you a Bible-based definition of […]
Free to Make a Choice
Richard Roberts – Third of five parts The story of the Prodigal Son also shows us this great principal: You are never free from your choices. Each of us must make choices in life and then live with those choices. There’s no such thing as “not deciding.” In not deciding, we are deciding! The story […]
Free to Love One Another
Richard Roberts – Second of five parts The story of the Prodigal Son in the Bible has four great truths in it that I want to share with you. The first is this: You are never free enough to escape community. If I hurt you, I hurt myself. Why? Because as Christians, we are forever […]
Truly Free!
Richard Roberts – First of five parts Yesterday, in America, we celebrated Independence Day, and the subject of freedom is on many of our minds. This is perhaps the main time of the year when we as Americans remind ourselves of what it means to be free. The Bible has this to say about freedom: […]
Under God
Richard Roberts As he signed the law to include the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance on June 14, 1954, President Dwight D, Eisenhower said, “From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim… the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.” Some time later, during his […]
“Forgiveness”…Your Path to Freedom
Lindsay Roberts In Numbers 12 the Lord tells us what we should do when people do us wrong. Verse 1 says that Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman he had married. Now frankly, it was none of their business who Moses married, and they even went so far as to […]
A Preferred Position
From the archives of Oral Roberts – Second of two parts Under the new covenant in Christ, we’re in the preferred position of being joint-heirs with him. This gives us: The covenant right to complete deliverance: “I thirst (John 19:28).” The excruciating pain Christ suffered defies our imagination. He suffered so that we might be […]
The New Covenant
From the archives of Oral Roberts – One of two parts Jesus cut a new covenant for you and me through the shedding of His blood on the Cross. In doing this, He gave us powerful covenant rights to meet our most basic needs: The covenant right to perfect forgiveness: “Father, forgive them; for they […]
Rise Above Hard Times
From the archives of Oral Roberts I believe that if there is another name for life, it’s trouble… it’s loneliness… it’s sickness and pain… it’s depression… it’s financial need… it’s fear and anxiety. But, if there is another name for Jesus Christ, it’s hope… it’s faith. It’s power to change things in your life. It’s […]