This sermon I gave at my old church. It is about waking up from tradition and putting the Word of God into practice. It brings a spiritual aspect to word/work based churches.

1. Moving in the Spirit
From slave to servant to son, and beyond...

2. Who am I?
• Who am I and what am I doing here?
• Jason Kichline and my wife Jaime, and good
friend Brandon Parsons
• Springfield is truly our home church
just like my parents house will always “home”
• But home is where you lay your head,
and Fountain of Life is our new home church

3. Why am I here?
• Jackie asked if I’d play worship... you bet!
• She asked if I’d speak I said I’d pray about it...
• I went into my prayer closet in the bathroom,
prayed in the shower.
• God answered about fifteen minutes later
when I was driving to work!
• Take the message you have learned in this
place back to your home church

4. Perhaps I can...
• About a week ago Jackie e-mailed and clarified...
Thanked me for agreeing to lead worship!
• I prayed some more about this because that
truly scared me.
• God told me to say this “Perhaps I can carry the
anointing of God”
• I continued to pray and God brought Brandon!
• God reassured that I should speak...

5. What we’re covering...
• We are all moving that he whoabegan a goodjourney
“...being confident of this,
through spiritual
work in
you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Phillipians 1:6
• What is a spirit of slavery? servitude? sonship?
• Where are you heading?
• How does God want us to respond?
• Where the spirit of the Lord is,
there is freedom!

6. What do I mean by “spirit”?
• The word “spirit” has many meanings,
let’s use the right one!
• Not a ghost or apparition!
• Not a spiritual word!
• Not beer, wine or liquor!
• It’s a “sticky” state of belief, gut reaction,
persistence of character, not just an emotion
• It is given to you by God through
circumstance and willingness!

7. Adjusting your spirit
• “Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation and
grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.”
Psalms 51:10-12 - New International Version

8. Adjusting your spirit
• “Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
and uphold me by Your generous spirit.”
New King James Version
• “Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation
and uphold me with thy free spirit.”
King James Version

9. Breaking it down...
• Steadfast
You don't cut and run... you stay the course.
Faithful to playing worship because of our belief that it
empowers the people of God and because God can
move when the hearts of His people are...
• Willing
You want to do the will of God because you believe
He will carry it through to a successful completion.
You are open to His guidance because you know
He is indeed...

10. Breaking it down...
• Generous
God wants to lavish us with gifts and glory because
we are meant to be heirs of His Kingdom which
brings us...
• Freedom
You can be yourself without fear or doubt.
We are no longer slaves to the chains that bind us!
Instead we can take control of the situation and give
God the glory!

11. The spirit of a slave
• Responsive reading - Romans 7:14-25
• We are slaves to sin
• We are slaves to the law
• We are slaves to ourselves
• What are the chains in your life that keep
you from walking in Christ?

12. The spirit of a servant
• The Great Banquet - Luke 14:15-24
• The servant is faithful and does the will of
the Master
• Most of us are faithful servants who
fill the house of the Lord
• But the servant doesn’t get
to go to the banquet!

13. The workers are few...
• It is not a badplentiful, but the workers are few”
“The harvest is
thing to be the servant
- Matthew 9:37
• God is calling you to something greater
• The Mennonite church is the Lord’s hands
MDS trips, Camp Men-O-Lan, construction,
community involvement and missions

14. The spirit of a son
• Joint heirs in Christ - Romans 8:12-17
• We are not step children
• We are more than conquerers
• We have inherited the Kingdom of God
• We have dominion over this world
and our circumstances

15. From a slave to a son
• The prodigal son - Luke 15:11-24
• Prodigal means extravagant in one’s
expenditures, why is the son “prodigal”?
• He was an heir, then a slave, then a
servant and finally, a son.
• Grace is our justification - Titus 3:5-7

16. Dress the part
• Robe - the symbol of kingly royalty
• Ring - the covenant of eternal faithfulness
• Sandals - the actions of leadership
Taking sandals off is a common theme in the
Bible, but what does putting them on mean?
Egyptian culture used “under the sandals”
as to be subject to someone.

17. From point A to point B
• Psalms 51:10-12 holds the secret!
• Realize you can’t make yourself “clean”
• Develop a steadfast spirit
• Get in the presence of God through worship
• Remember your salvation through testimony
• Have a willingness to do the work of God

18. The challenge
• Are you a slave and want freedom?
• Are you a servant and want an inheritance?
• “Perhaps I can carry the anointing of God”
• Prayer