The Yoke You're Carrying
About this episode
The episode discusses the struggles of three individuals and how they found freedom from their burdens through faith.
Three very different people. A World War II prisoner of war who survived 47 days adrift in the Pacific, came home a hero, and still couldn't get free from the rage and bitterness that were destroying his life from the inside. A man who came in for counseling about his anger and discovered a subconscious pattern he hadn't even known was there — one he'd been carrying since childhood, driving behavior he couldn't explain. A woman who spent nine years in a relationship searching for something that never quite filled the emptiness, and found herself drawn — slowly, reluctantly, skeptically — toward something she didn't expect to find. Three generations. Three completely different struggles. And every one of them found freedom. The pattern is the same: something has a yoke around your neck — an addiction, an attitude, a wound, an expectation, a pattern you can't explain — and it steals the freedom that Jesus paid a very high price for you to have. Galatians 5 says it plainly: it is for freedom that Christ has set you free. That's not sentiment. It's a declaration that what he came to do is break whatever is on your neck. But that freedom is never free. Something is required. Support…
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