This Sunday we celebrate Pentecost—the Church’s birthday and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. In today’s world, “freedom” gets tossed around as doing whatever we please, rejecting authority, even discarding moral boundaries. But when Paul declares that “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Cor 3:17), he isn’t talking about license—he’s pointing to the Gospel’s true liberty.

In this message, you’ll discover:

• How Isaiah 61 lays the foundation for Spirit-empowered freedom—freedom from poverty, mourning, and bondage, and freedom for healing, hope, and mission.

• The way Jesus inaugurated that Isaiah promise in his ministry—bringing good news to the poor, binding up the brokenhearted, and lifting every yoke.

• What it looks like today to live under the Spirit’s liberating reign—calling us both to embrace God’s grace and to step into the work of justice and compassion.

Jump in at the time that speaks to you: 0:00 Introduction & Pentecost Context 2:15 Defining True “Freedom” in Scripture 5:40 Isaiah 61: The Spirit’s Mission of Liberation 9:30 Jesus as the Fulfillment of Isaiah’s Promise 13:50 Living in Spirit-Empowered Freedom Today 17:20 Prayer & Invitation

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Scripture: Isaiah 55:1-13

Series: Isaiah: A New Understanding of Everything

Preacher: Jerry Cisar

Isaiah 55 ends with a breathtaking promise: the mountains and hills will burst into song, the trees of the field will clap their hands, and thornbushes will be replaced with flourishing trees.

It’s more than poetry. It’s a vision of restoration—of a world healed and renewed. But it all begins with a question: Why do we spend our lives chasing what doesn’t satisfy?

This week, we’ll explore how Isaiah invites us into a better way—a way that doesn’t require money or status, but does require surrender. God calls us to forsake our ways, exchange our thoughts for His, and feast on what truly gives life.

This isn’t just about personal change. It’s about a kind of transformation that spills out into the world—where joy and peace lead the way, and even creation itself begins to respond. When God’s people live by God’s wisdom, signs of Eden reappear.

Join us as we continue our series Isaiah: A New Understanding of Everything and discover how lives shaped by God’s values become living proof of His everlasting promise.

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When we imagine fixing what’s wrong with the world, we often think of power, force, or control. But in Isaiah 53, God reveals a shocking alternative: a suffering servant who absorbs our rebellion, not by retaliation, but by love.

In this message, we explore how God’s solution to humanity’s deepest problem is shocking, atoning, transforming, and expanding. This is not the salvation we expect—but it is the salvation that truly satisfies. Through the wisdom of the cross, we see justice and mercy meet in a way that changes everything.

🎧 Listen in to discover how the servant’s wounds become our healing, and how his way becomes our way.

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