Playlist: Slave Mentality (topic)
Growing Into Liberty
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughThe Israelites were freed after around four hundred years in Egypt, about one half of that time in bondage. Their heart was not unshackled. Heart means mind, the place of residence in their character and attitudes. They shed the chains that bound hand and feet, but the mental shackles remained. They maintained their traditional …
Freedom, Liberty, and Bondage
Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)The Israelites were not free of their slave mentality after leaving Egypt. They still thought like slaves and kept feeding their minds with gripes while actively rebelling to the extent that they yearned to go back to the bondage they had yearned to come out of just a short time before. The problem was in their mind and the way …
Freedom's Dark Underbelly
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Billions of people on earth think they are free yet remain enslaved to their own desires, to the dictates of this world, and to the influence of Satan who broadcasts anti-God attitudes. They do not make true choices but are swept along by thought …
Freedom and Unleavened Bread
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughChristian freedom has nothing to do with location or circumstance but how we think. By imbibing on God's Word, we will incrementally displace our carnality.
What Is the Work of God Now? (Part Three)
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughTo preach to the world and ignore a disintegrating flock is like a husband and wife paying attention to other people while the family is falling apart.
The Spirit of Bondage
Sermon by Martin G. CollinsGod did not give us a spirit of fear or bondage. Faith is the antidote to a spirit of slavish cowardice and timidity, the opposite of boldness from the Holy Spirit.
Learning the Right Things (Part One)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)The harmful things people learn thoroughly in their youth will sabotage any helpful steps to correct this earlier enslaving conditioning.
What's Your Attitude?
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughThe Scriptures reveal that attitude or disposition constitutes the critical difference between pleasing God and incurring God's wrath.
Unleavened Bread and Hope
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughAfter we purge the corruption from our lives, we must replace it with the anti-leaven of truth and sincerity, or our last state will be worse than the first.