The Most Beautiful Girl in the World Part 2 – Freedom in Christ

I’ll tell you folks something. I said that you cannot build a church on anything but Christ. I want to tell you this story because it’s very important to me, and it’ll probably be around in my storytelling for a long time. A few days ago, a young man called me, really upset. He had read some of my books, and he said he was a church planter, and he also remained local, and I said You can’t do that. I said that because if you remain local, you become part of the crisis. You are part of the problem, and there’s no way it can be resolved. You planted a church and stayed there. But then I said to him, “All right, if you’re a church planter, please tell me what it is you first preach to a group of Christians.” And he said, “I’ll tell you what I preach to them. It’s what they need. I tell them that they have got to die to themselves.” And they have to, what were his words? Get rid of their old nature, and they’ve got to die to themselves, and die to their flesh. That’s what it was. And die to their flesh.

And my gray hair turned grayer where my false teeth fell out, false teeth, my fingernails fell. Well, why don’t you teach them all 613 of those commandments while you’re at it, and listen to the words of Simon Peter and Paul? They both said it, and those laws that were placed upon us, which we could never obey, why would we put them on the Gentiles?

Now, brothers and sisters, the church of Jesus, I said it, didn’t I? I did fail. Um, I failed. She is founded on Him. And she is founded on an encounter with Him and a revelation of Him, and I mean a divine revelation which only the Holy Spirit can give. I want you to know what I do when I work with a group of Christians. I deliver them from all law.

Now, let me do it here. Here it comes. Are you ready? You do not have to obey any more laws. No more commandments. None. No, you don’t have to pray. You don’t have to read your Bible, you don’t have to go to church, you don’t have to obey any, you are free. Let me tell you something, my dear brothers. The little girl, this beautiful, wonderful girl whom I want you to meet, would tell you, “He set me free from every one of those commandments and told me I didn’t have to obey them.” And then you know what else He did? He freed me from all the Christian commandments, too. And I am free from them, I’m free from everything.

I can go break laws, I can go get drunk, I can go steal, I can go kill. No buts, there is no but to that. There is no shoe that drops after that, if you put a shoe after that. But Gene, if you preach that kind of a Gospel, I’ll tell you something. If you preach my gospel, the gospel I’m used to preaching, and the results thereof, all I do is see people fall in love with Jesus Christ. That’s all I see. Because you know something, you are so tired of obeying all the threats that we Baptist preachers threw at you. And I’ll tell you, brothers, what’s wrong with this world is that Christians don’t love God like they ought to. And I’ll tell you, brothers, what’s wrong with this world is we don’t pray like we ought to. I tell you, brothers, we don’t go to church like we used to. Things aren’t like they used to be.  And then there’s President Clinton, you don’t give enough, and you don’t read your Bible enough.

You know something? You’re tired of that. And you’re a little girl in the land of Galatia, and you’re up to here with that.  And your Lord, out of love, came to you because He was madly in love with you, and He set you free from everything. But Gene, what if I kill somebody? If you kill somebody, the governments of this world will put you in jail and they will punish you for your crime. And if you steal, the governments of this world are going to catch you and put you in jail. You’re still free in His eyes from all law, and there is no shoe that drops after that. And if you want to call me a heretic, it’s because you don’t know anything about the book of Galatians.

You are absolutely, well, don’t just sit there, say, “Praise God.” But Gene… no, you won’t. No, you will not. Why will you not? I don’t know why you will not. I don’t want to study that part, no, you won’t. But I’ll tell you what, if you can see Him and you touch Him and you embrace Him, you’re going to get hit with love, an experiential love, and it’s going to redound and it will come back to Him, and it will come back to you. You’re that girl. I don’t know if you understand this, you’re that girl. You have been set free. And you are that girl; you have been led out of slavery. All law is slavery.

When you read the book of Galatians and you start trying to find that girl, the letter was written to that girl, you’re going to be reading along there, and you’re going to find out that there is a woman who is enslaved and she is in fact an illegitimate half breed, and she is, enslaved. And hold on to your hats and remember  what you’re hunting for when you go through Galatians, please, saints. What are you looking for? All right. You’re looking for that which is eternal, and you’re looking for that girl. And what are you going to discover specifically? I just told you, you’re reading along, and you found out that there’s a woman and she’s enslaved because she’s obeying 613 laws and a bunch of other stuff, and then what do you discover? You discover who that girl is.

You discover that she really was born from above. And you discover that you are that girl and that you are the mother of all who are free. That girl can stand here and say, “I am your mother. I am the mother of all of you.” A moment ago, she was a Jewish maiden listening to a man out in the wilderness. Now, she is, and she hasn’t changed. There’s no progression here. She was that at that time. She always has been. She always will be. This girl is your mother. Mother of whom? Mother of those who are free from all things.

Now, wait a minute. She’s from above, and she’s that girl. Now, if the Lord can just get a hold of your head and show you what that means, then being free from everything in this universe isn’t such a big deal after all. Now, when we get back into this room tomorrow morning, and you may stay up late tonight, you may get up early in the morning, but you’ve got to do this. I want you to go through at least the first, well, I want you to go through the first three chapters and find that girl, and I want you to set her free and let her talk. And you’re not going to say this girl is or she is. You open that book and let her say, “I.” You hear me? Are you listening? And let her talk and let her say “I” let it be her, not you, you hear me? This is important. I told you that I’ve had a difficult time preparing this message. I’ve had to turn my head around.

Don’t you think that what you just heard was simple or easy to get a hold of? It might have come across as simple, but we don’t ever do this. Let this girl talk. I was crucified with Christ, but I’m alive. But no, I’m not. Christ is the only one alive. Will you say I’m alive? Actually, I’m simply an extension of His faith. The life I live, I live by His faith. It is no longer I but Christ.

You discover just how glorious this girl is. She has been delivered from circumcision. She has been delivered from the Jewish ways and the way of thinking. She has been delivered from Moses. This girl has been delivered from Moses. You have not yet been delivered from Moses. While you are being delivered from Moses, would you also please be…