The document discusses freedom from control by enemies through examples of the American Revolution and spiritual warfare. It summarizes acts by the British that oppressed American colonists and compares this to how Satan tries to control people. It encourages resisting Satan's influence by submitting to God and not giving Satan a foothold, quoting passages from the Bible on this topic.

2. Freedom!! Romans 6:7-8

3. Introduction I want us today to briefly look at an example from the American Revolution and apply it to our Christian lives. Then, I want us to consider our own spiritual liberation from our enemy. How important is it, that we are free?

4. American Revolution

5. American Revolution The British controlled the Colonies in the New World and they began to become more forceful as the colonists began to seek independence.

6. Intolerable Acts The British finally came up with what came to be called the Intolerable or Coercive Acts.

7. Intolerable Acts Impartial Administration of Justice Act, which allowed the royal governor of a colony to move trials to other colonies or to England if he feared that juries wouldn't judge a case fairly Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act made all law officers subject to appointment by the royal governor and banned all town meetings that didn't have approval of the royal governor

8. Intolerable Acts Boston Port Act, which closed the port of Boston until the price of the dumped tea was recovered, moved the capital of Massachusetts to Salem. Quartering Act, which allowed royal troops to stay in houses or empty buildings if barracks were not available.

9. The Colonists Were Fed Up

10. Constitution

11. Spiritual Warfare (Eph. 6:12)

12. Will We Be Free from Satan’s Control? Romans 6:7-8; Romans 5:8-9 We have no reason to return to bondage to Satan. Stop letting him ruin our lives! Ephesians 4:27, “Give no place to the devil.” James 4:7, “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”

13. James 4:7 “Resist” has a “military connotation, and was frequently used of those who placed themselves in battle array against an enemy and held their ground.” “All is at stake in the effort; and the issues are life and death.” “There can be no armistice, no terms of amnesty.”

14. Stand Strong – No Matter What