Brad Cooper, Lead Pastor of Culture + Direction at NewSpring Church, a multisite megachurch in the Carolinas, introduces a worship event celebrating Juneteenth 2021.

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HYKENG PAUL: My name is Hykeng. This is my brother, my pastor and my friend Brad Cooper. And we're just excited to welcome you to "Freedom: A Celebration Of Juneteenth." And we believe that God has some amazing things in store for us tonight.

What we want for you to know is that the theme of the night comes from Galatians 5:1 where it says that "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free." And we're grateful for that and we're gonna worship him for that. So as an ordinary family, a part of NewSpring Church, we're gonna do this together as one big family.

BRAD COOPER: Yeah. So welcome. We're so pumped that you're here with us, and you know, the great thing about freedom, the freedom that Jesus bought us, is that that freedom is really an answer to his prayer.

He said [in Matthew 6:10] when we pray, pray like this. Pray: "God, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." And Juneteenth is a manifestation of that kingdom coming.

When men and women get to walk in freedom here because of what Christ has purchased for us in the unseen realm, it's a powerful thing. So we've been looking forward to tonight. And I want to fix our eyes, that's the freedom we've come from, but I want to fix our eyes on the freedom we're going to be marching into for all eternity. We get this from Revelation 7:9. Around here we call it the Revelation 7:9-

TOGETHER: Finish line.

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