🕊️ Freedom from ALL Your Troubles
“Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” — Psalm 34:19 (NKJV)
🎨 Highlight key: 🟩 = grace / apart-from-works truth · 🟨 = the precious gift · bold = key terms
🐑 The Lord Is My Shepherd — I Lack Nothing
End result: zero troubles. Lack = any sickness, pain, poverty, or sorrow. When He is your shepherd, declare: I have no lack — even when circumstances disagree. Faith speaks what you do not yet see (Hebrews 11:1). Let the sick call “I am healthy”; let the poor call “I am rich.” 🗣️✨
🌑 When darkness surrounds you, say what God said: “Let there be light.” As far as you can see — that is how far He gives (Genesis).
👴 Abraham — Against All Hope, He Believed
Dead bodies, age 99 — yet Isaac came. He called Sarah princess and himself father of many before evidence. Four beliefs from Romans 4 that speed blessing:
- ⚖️ Righteousness apart from law — not his performance (Romans 4:13)
- 🩸 Sins forgiven → blessed (Romans 4:7–8, Psalm 32)
- 💉 Sin not imputed — righteousness imputed like a syringe into you
- 📖 He knew the gospel — stars told Christ’s story (Genesis 15:5–6); “El Shaddai” at 99 = all mighty, zero of me
“…being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.” — Romans 4:21 (NKJV)
🔁 Hear Again and Again
Israel heard once and stalled 40 years; Abraham rehearsed the gospel whenever he saw stars. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing, and hearing the word of Christ. Ten minutes daily — same message, deeper roots, faster breakthrough. Faith speaks while you listen. 🎧
📖 Scripture from the Slides (Every Verse)
Every verse from the sermon slides, with highlights — orange default, green key themes, gold emphasis.
📖 Freedom from ALL Your Troubles — Slide Scriptures (NKJV)
Foundation
Romans 3:21 (NKJV)
But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets;
2 Corinthians 3:17 (NIV)
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
Psalm 34:19 (NIV)
The righteous person may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all;
Proverbs 12:21 (NIV)
No harm overtakes the righteous, but the wicked have their fill of trouble.
Romans 3:21 (NKJV)
But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets;
Matthew 17:5 (NKJV)
While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!”
Acts 10:44 (NKJV)
While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word.
Romans 5:19 (NKJV)
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
1. Separated from Christ
Galatians 5:4
You are separated from Christ, you who are trying to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
Colossians 2:14 (NKJV)
having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.
2. Fallen from Grace
Romans 5:17 (NKJV)
For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
Galatians 5:4
You are separated from Christ, you who are trying to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
3. Cursed
Galatians 3:10 (NKJV)
For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”
Galatians 1:8,9 (NKJV)
But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
4. Ministers Death
2 Corinthians 3:7 (NKJV)
But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,
2 Corinthians 3:6 (NKJV)
who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the law kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Apart from the law
Romans 3:21 (NKJV)
But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets;
Romans 4:13 (NKJV)
For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
Romans 3:28 (NKJV)
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
Galatians 2:16 (NKJV)
knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
Can I mix Both His Righteousness and the Law(Self Righteousness)?
Slide note
Peter was mixing the messages from Moses, Elijah, and Jesus; that’s why the Heavenly Father was against him. ⚠️
Revelation 3:15 (NKJV)
I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot.
Matthew 9:17 (NKJV)
Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break; the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
Matthew 9:16 (NKJV)
No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse.
Romans 7:3-4 (NKJV)
So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
Witnessed by the Law and the Prophets
Luke 9:30–31 (NKJV)
And behold, two men talked with Him, who were Moses and Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of His decease which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
Romans 2 – Message of Law, Prophets vs Jesus
Romans 2:13 (NKJV)
(for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;
Romans 2:6 (NKJV)
who “will render to each one according to his deeds“:
Romans 2:8 (NKJV)
but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—indignation and wrath,
Psalm 103:10 (NKJV)
He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor punished us according to our iniquities.
Psalm 103:8–9 (NKJV)
The Lord is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever.
So Can’t we learn from Old Testament?
Luke 24:27 (NKJV)
And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
Disciples Failed Again
Luke 9:54 (NKJV)
And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?”
Matthew 17:25–26 (NKJV)
He said, “Yes.” And when he had come into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take customs or taxes, from their sons or from strangers?” Peter said to Him, “From strangers.” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free.”
What is written in your hearts?
Romans 2:15 (NKJV)
who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)
Romans 2:29 (NKJV)
but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.
While Peter was still speaking
Acts 10:43,44 (NIV)
All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name. While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit came on all who heard the message.
🎯 The Takeaway
Freedom from all troubles: shepherd-life with no lack, Abraham’s four convictions, and relentless hearing of the gospel. At 99 Abraham stopped merging his effort with God’s — then blessing came instantly. It’s 100% Him. 🙌
🎧 Based on a Sunday message on freedom from all troubles through Abraham’s faith. If it strengthened you, share it with someone who needs zero-lack living today. 💛