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Joel discusses Acts 16, emphasizing that true freedom is found in the presence of the Spirit, not in circumstances.

This week Joel walked us through Acts 16, where Paul and Silas sing in a Philippian jail cell, and showed us that real freedom is not a circumstance to arrange but a person to receive. Tracing 2 Corinthians 3:17 through the story, he reminded us that freedom is the Spirit's presence, found not where the chains are absent but wherever the Lord is, even in the dark. The slave girl set free, the prisoners who stayed put, and the jailer who ended the night washing wounds and setting a table all p...

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