Truth Produces Freedom Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jonah Smith
Podcast exploring the scriptures, the freedom truth produces, our new identities in Christ, and exploring all things of Gospel Life, and us being transformed and renewed back into God’s image and destiny for us on Earth
Season 2: Episode 26 – Filthy Rags (Isaiah 64)
In episode 26 of Season 2, we examine the Isaiah 64 passage that people twist and poorly use to claim that our righteousness (Even when being transformed in Christ and living in Him, through Him, and in obedience to Him) is still considered as filthy rags to God. That our best day in Him and through Him, is still a filthy rag to Him. This is foolish. This passage is not about the righteousness in Christ that we now get to live out. It is about false righteousness, self made righteousness...that is apart from Christ. Jesus said we can do nothing apart from Him, but we bear much fruit in Him. And in this episode we thoroughly untwist this teaching false teaching about Isaiah 64.
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Season 2: Episode 25 – James 3:2
In episode 25 of Season 2, we examine James 3:2, and the verse people rip out of context to preach sin identity and slavery. We are free from sin! And by looking at everything else James says in this letter and understanding the context properly we, see that James preaches freedom from sin just like all of theNew Testament prophets, apostles, and teachers do.
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Season 2: Episode 24 – Peter’s Sin
In episode 24 of Season 2, we examine the passage about the sin of Peter that Paul rebuked. We discuss how foolishly people point at this passage to keep an identity of sin and to preach that we are slaves to sin and cannot be free. So we look at it thoroughly and with proper perspective to untwist the foolish teachings people enforce and foolishly use this story about Peter and Paul to preach.
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Season 2: Episode 23-24 – The Lies About 1 John 1:8 (Part 3)
In this double episode (Episodes 23-24) of Season 2, we continue our study of 1 John as we untwist the lies that people claim about 1 John 1:8. We look at several portions of scripture throughout all of 1 John and see how much the book as a whole makes these ridiculous claims about this verse look absolutely foolish. The reason for giving such attention to this and untwisting this destructive lie, is to unveil the truth that has made us free from sin.
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Season 2: Episode 21 – The Lies About 1 John 1:8 (Part 2)
In episode 21 of Season 2, we continue our deep dive in 1 John untwist the lies people tell about 1 John 1:8. We dig deep into the book of 1 John, and look at our freedom from sin and our victory in Christ. Jesus cleansed us from all sin so we could live cleansed. We who truly know Him: keep His commandments.
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Season 2: Episode 20 – The Lies About 1 John 1:8 (Part 1)
In episode 20 of Season 2, we begin our deep dive into another passage of scripture and untwist the lies from hell about it. We dig deep into the book of 1 John, and look at our freedom from sin and victory over sin through Christ. Jesus cleansed us from all unrighteousness so that we can live out the fruit of righteousness which is holiness.
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Season 2: Episode 18-19 – The Teaching That Accords With Godliness
In this double episode (Episodes 18-19) of Season 2, we tie up some final things that relate to our study of Romans 6-8 and the overall topic of the season. We touch on some other passages in Romans 9 and 10. And then go deep into the sobering truth of 1 Timothy 6 about the sound words of Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, and how people that are against it and don't agree with that truth; Paul says this type of person is "puffed up with conceit and understands nothing". Not believing in our true freedom from sin is understanding nothing.
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Season 2: Episode 17 - Truly Righteous In This Lifetime
In episode 17 of Season 2, we examine a few scriptures that so greatly align with the truths of Romans 6, and we look at the truth about how we are truly transformed and are righteous in this lifetime, and are not pretend righteous. Jesus died to sin so that we would die to sin and live for righteousness. Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are filled with righteousness and are satisfied by its goodness, purity, and truth.
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Season 2: Episode 16 – Complete Victory
In episode 16 of Season 2, we discuss more in depth about our overwhelming and complete victory that we have in Christ and go some more scriptures to help us tie up the teachings that we walked through and learned in Romans 6-8.
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Season 2: Episode 15 – It Is for Freedom
In episode 15 of Season 2, we discuss more in depth about our freedom from sin and many scriptures that help us tie up the overall concept and teachings of Romans 6-8 that we have been untwisting.
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Season 2: Episode 14 – Life in the Spirit (Romans 8)
In episode 14 of Season 2, we breakdown the verses in Romans 8 that we haven’t yet, and look at the freedom and victory that we have over the flesh and over sin as believers in Christ who are fully empowered by Christ to live by the Spirit.
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Season 2: Episode 13 – The Law of the Spirit of Life
In episode 13 of Season 2, we examine how the law of the spirit of life set us free from the law of sin and death. We overview the mesmerizing amount of times that Paul declares that we are free, dead to sin, the old man dead etc. And we continue to break off the false identities from ourselves, and discuss the truth about Romans 7 and Paul’s freedom from sin.
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Season 2: Episode 12 – The Man Delivered By Jesus
In episode 12 of Season 2, we examine how Paul answers his own question because he is telling a story, a story of salvation and the born again experience. We finish up Romans 7 and follow along as it seamlessly flows into Romans 8 and Paul declares the beautiful truth that Jesus is the answer and the one that delivered us from our body of death! And he teaches that we are free from the law of sin and death and that the old marriage of living trapped under law and sin (as he portrays in Romans 7) has been broken. We are no longer those controlled by the sinful nature or those living under the flesh. We now walk according to the Spirit. The body of death and marriage to the law type of life that Paul talks about is in direct contrast to everything that surrounds it. This is intentional because Paul is telling a story, he is telling a testimony of salvation. It is about how we can do nothing apart from Christ and we bore fruit for death, but in Christ we bear much fruit, we bear fruit to God.
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Season 2: Episode 11 – Who Will Deliver Me?
In episode 11 of Season 2, we discuss in greater depth the truth about how Romans 7 is about the old man that Paul used to be when he was under the law. We also study some relative scripture that people also often twist and clarify our new identities in Christ. And we get to the end of Paul’s story in Romans 7 as that old man asked the final question “Who will deliver me from this body of death?”
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Season 2: Episode 10 – The Old Self That Was Crucified
In episode 10 of Season 2, thoroughly studying Romans 7 and understanding its clear meaning within its full context, we can see how Paul is vividly describing the old man that was crucified with Christ and what it is like to life as a pharisee trying to follow the law without Christ and without grace that empowers righteous living.
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Season 2: Episode 9 – Living Under the Law in Slavery to Sin
In episode 9 of Season 2, we study how Paul is precisely describing the brokenness and horrible experience of living under the law as a slave to sin, instead of under grace as a slave to righteousness. Having no grace and no power to obey. He describes in great detail what it was like to live apart from Christ and being able to do nothing.
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Season 2: Episode 8 – Paul, Before He Knew Christ
In episode 8 of Season 2, we thoroughly examine the text and other writings of Paul to clearly see how in Romans 7 (When Paul says the things that he says) he is talking about his old self when he was a pharisee and before he was born again into Christ Jesus. Paul was not a slave to sin or an idolater. Far from it!
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Season 2: Episode 7 - The Marriage to the Law
In episode 7 of Season 2, we begin our descent into Romans 7 and the things that Paul lays out very precisely before the section that people so often twist. Paul talks about how we were married to the law and we were bound by sin. And he says that we also died to that which once held us captive and now we are married to Christ. We used to bear fruit for death, but now we bear fruit to God.
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Season 2: Episode 6 – Slaves of Righteousness
In episode 6 of Season 2, we finish up Romans 6 and the beauty that it teaches us about how we are no longer slaves to sin but are now slaves of righteousness. And that righteousness leads to true sanctification. And how we are to present our members to righteousness, and never present them to sin. We are never to see ourselves for sin. The wages of sin is death, shameful, and empty. The wages which Christ worked and accomplished, and that He freelygives to us are sanctification and eternal life.
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Season 2: Episode 5 – Reckon Yourselves Indeed Dead to Sin and Alive UntoGod
In episode 5 of Season 2, we continue in Romans 6 and the glorious truth about how we are already free from sin and dead to sin, and how God’s word precisely tells us that we are to see ourselves and reckon ourselves as dead to sin and align our thinking with the what is already true, the truth that we are in fact already dead to sin. We are under grace, and because we are under grace, sin has no dominion over us and has no right to reign in our mortal bodies. We are made to temples of the Holy Spirit, and those who walk in holiness because we are temples of the holy one.
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Season 2: Episode 4 – Dead to Sin
In episode 4 of Season 2, we are finally diving deep into Romans 6, and about the present and glorious reality of how when we were baptized into Christ and we were born again: we truly died with Christ, and resurrected with Christ. His death and resurrection was also our death and resurrection. We have an old self and an old identity that as crucified with Him, and we are truly dead to sin. And we have a new self and new identity that was resurrected with Him. We died to sin with Christ, and we rise and live for righteousness with Christ.
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Season 2: Episode 2-3 – Scripture Context and Words Like “Therefore”
In this double episode, I talk about a very important and crucial subject about how important it is to understand the context of scripture. I share my heart deeply on these things, so that we are fully aware of these important matters to give us proper perspective before we dive headfirst into Romans 6-8 and the scriptures that people so often twist.
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Season 2: Episode 1 - Kicking Off Season 2 and a New Series: UntwistingScriptures
The podcast is back! Season 2! And with a new series about the scripture passages that people most often twist which always brings destruction. We are going to dig deep and examine thoroughly and shed light on the scriptures people twist that are producing destruction, and instead, untwist them and see the truth that makes us free! The first passage will be Romans 6-8, which we will be studying and walking through with much detailed attention in the weeks to come.
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In this special episode, I tell one of my most cherished testimonies from my evangelism missions. This is the story about a homeless man in Chicago named William, and the miraculous unfolding of what God did! This is the Gospel of the Kingdom in action, and the fruit that truth produces in the life of a believer.
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Episode 12 - Ephesians 4:29-5:2: Gospel Love. In this episode, we continue our journey in Ephesians 4 and see where it leads. Beautiful passage about our call to imitate God and live out His likeness that we were made in. Also touches on sereral great things: repentance, not letting any unwholesome things proceed from our mouths but only things that edify, not grieving the Holy Spirit by living less than our design and calling, putting away all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, slander, and malice, and instead truly forgiving others with the forgiveness God has given us. And walking in the Gospel Love of Christ that is selfless and lays down its life, and our call to live our life as a sacrifice and fragrant aroma to God.
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In this episode, I do something new and I simply pick a random passage and jump right in and see where it leads us. And this one leads us into exploring the subjects of our new selves in Christ and the holiness of the truth.
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In episode 10, I start to wrap up the subjects we've been digging into as I dive more into the realities of obedience and God's grace that empowers and transforms. And this time around I examine the reality that grace is given to make us fully able to walk in obedience to commandments, and to go and sin no more.
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In Episode 9 Grace That Transforms, we continue on our journey that we've been on and focus in on Gods grace and how scipture shows us that Gods grace transforms us and empowers us to walk in His Commandments. Grace absolutely never enables or allows sin, grace empowers righteousness and walking in the truth.
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Continuing on with our journey, in episode 8 we explore what the bible says about walking in the footprints of Jesus and our calling of freedom that we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to walk in.
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In episode 7, we continue on the journey we began in the last episodes. And in this one, we dive into the scriptures and the reality that the bible says that being cleansed of our past sins produces the qualities of Christ and holiness is the fruit of righteousness. We are free indeed!
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In episodes 4-5, I dove deep into the subject of forgiveness being our foundation, grace being what empowers righteousness, our identity of righteousness being established, and that identity being what produces the fruit of holiness. In episode 6, I continue building further and expanding more upon these things. And I dig into the truth found in scripture about how God's commandments are not burdensome at all, but in reality, are liberation.
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In episode 5 of the podcast, I begin to build upon the foundation of forgiveness that I laid out in the last episode. I dig into the biblical meanings of both grace, and righteousness and how important they are. Grace is divine empowerment, and it empowers righteous living. Righteousness is being made right with God with no separation, and righteousness also means what is right according to God's standard (It is the opposite of sin). I dive deep into these subjects and how because of the foundation of forgiveness and being freed from the prison of sin, God's grace is given to empower us and to give us an identity of righteousness, and with that identity of righteousness intact, it produces the fruit of holiness. Good trees produce good fruit. And Jesus has made his followers into good trees. We must believe the identity that God has given us, and we must only define ourselves by Him and His words.
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In this episode, I dig into the subject of our core foundation as believers and the power that changes us: His wonderful and beautiful forgiveness! His grace that changes us.
In episode 3, I expand more on Peter's words about Paul and how people twist Paul's words and all the scriptures to their own destruction. And I share my thoughts on how people completely ignore the crystal clear, black and white scriptures and don't believe them.
In this second his episode I begin digging into the passage about the truth that makes us free, and what that Greek word for "truth" in the bible really means. I begin to get into kingdom reality, heaven's reality.
Also, in this episode I now have better audio recording so the podcast will sound much better from here on out.