King’s Table Conference

The Christian life is fundamentally a journey from being spiritually bound to experiencing complete freedom and total transformation through Jesus Christ. This liberation is not achieved through human effort, religious rituals, or prayer as a sedative, but solely by knowing and believing the truth of God’s Word and embracing a new identity as a saint, not a sinner. The ultimate purpose of this freedom is to equip believers as warriors of truth who pursue intimacy with God above all else, ensuring they are prepared for the coming judgment and the urgency of global evangelism.

1. Unlocking Freedom: The Power of Truth and Identity

True freedom is maintained by continuous focus on God’s truth, which establishes the believer’s new identity in Christ, conquering the lies of religion and the enemy.

A. The Supremacy of Truth Over Effort

Jesus declared that knowing the truth sets one free, and this truth has the power to keep, set, and maintain freedom.

• No Freedom in Performance: Nobody can lay hands on a person for them to get free. Freedom is not found in hard work, striving, or religious performance, which are methods learned from sports and worldly systems. Attempting to fix issues through self-effort (“I’m not going to do it anymore”) is ineffective and leads to burnout.
• Religion’s Lie: Religion teaches that freedom is impossible until heaven, suggesting “death’s your savior and Jesus is not”. Religion also falsely labels saved individuals as “sinners”. The truth is that a saved sinner moves to a new category: saint.
• The Problem of the Soul: While the spirit is made brand new and “wall-to-wall Holy Ghost,” the soul (mind, will, emotions) remains “turmoil and trashed” by life. If the mind is not fixed, the believer cannot step into their potential and will live a “half-hearted Christianity”.

B. The Transformation of Identity

God paid a price for the believer to be completely transformed by grace, ensuring the person who got saved looks nothing like the person sitting in the seat now.

• Righteousness and Value: Righteousness is the key to unlocking the believer’s potential. The price paid for the believer was the blood of Jesus, which determines their immense value to God—a price that cost heaven everything.
• New Creation: When one says “yes” to Jesus, old things pass away, and all things become new. God not only forgave sins but removed them “as far as the east is from the west,” meaning He forgot them and will never bring them up again.
• The Goal of Righteousness: Believers must consider themselves dead to sin and alive to God. The call is to be diligent, presenting oneself approved to God, “rightly dividing the word of truth” [50, 52, 53, 59, 98, Conversation History].

2. Intimacy as the Non-Negotiable Foundation

The immediate destination and primary goal of the Christian life is an intimate relationship with the Father. Without this foundation, the believer is constantly vulnerable to offense, hurt, and idolatry.

A. The Love of the Father

True relationship begins when a person realizes that God, like an earthly father adopting high-risk children, chose them unconditionally because of His love.

• Unearned Love: There is nothing a person can do to earn God’s love or to make Him prouder. This knowledge eliminates the need for external validation, performance, or man’s approval.
• Eternal Life is Knowing God: Eternal life is defined as knowing God and Jesus Christ, not merely knowing about them. Jesus did not die just to get us to heaven, but so we could have an intimate relationship with the Father.

B. The Danger of Idolatry and Carnality

Anything that gets in the place of the love of the Father becomes an idol and must be crushed.

• Replacements for God: People replace intimacy with distractions like porn, alcohol, drugs, football, sports, and Facebook. Seeking “likes” on social media is “useless” and pointless when one knows how loved they are by God.
• The Enemy’s Strategy: Every trial, tribulation, and situation is personally designed by hell to take the believer out of relationship and intimacy.
• Gossip and Slander: Speaking evil of another believer, gossiping, and slandering are forms of judgment that God condemns. Giving someone the “wrong lens” to view another person is a sin for which one will be judged.

3. Radical Surrender and the Soldier’s Commitment

Following Jesus is an intensive military enlistment, requiring total surrender and absolute commitment.

A. Signing Up to Die

When a believer gives their life to God, they literally “sign up to die”. The reason people complain, gossip, and slander is that they are “dead” and need to die to self.

• Suffering as Privilege: Suffering is a mandate, a part of the gospel, and a privilege granted for Christ’s name’s sake.
• The Cross Daily: The ultimate denial is refusing self-preservation, selfish ambition, and personal feelings. The only right a Christian has is the right to be like Jesus.
• No Entanglements: A soldier of Christ must avoid entanglement in the affairs of civilian life, prioritizing the war they are in [53, Conversation History].

B. The Need for Conviction and Repentance

The mind must be transformed by the renewal process (Romans 12:2). The only place to be is waking up every morning with the thought: “Thank you”.

• Godly Sorrow: Godly sorrow leads to repentance, which involves wishing one never did the sin and turning away from it.
• Correction and Purity: Hidden sin, such as lust and porn addiction, is seen by God, who judges the secrets done in private. Correction is painful but necessary for spiritual growth and maturity.
• Righteous Judgment: Believers are commanded to judge their own conduct by the standards of God’s Word [46, 69, 70, Conversation History]. The fear of the Lord should motivate us to condemn anything that violates our conscience.