The United States is all about “FREEDOM!” Over 200 years ago people came to this land to find “FREEDOM!” To find “FREEDOM” from “TYRANNY”, “FREEDOM” from “BONDAGE”, “FREEDOM” from “RELIGIOUS BONDAGE”, “FREEDOM” for “FREE SPEECH”, “FREEDOM” to “WORSHIP” as they see fit & as “GOD LEADS THEM!” & “FREEDOM” to be “WHO GOD WANTS THEM TO BE!”
Men & Women have died to find “FREEDOM!” Millions are looking for “FREEDOM” through “SELF GRATIFICATION, FALSE RELIGION, GOVERNMENT, MIND EXPANSION, SEXUAL GRATIFICATION, HOLLYWOOD, ENTERTAINMENT, ALCOHOL & DRUGS!”
The only real “FREEDOM” was paid at the “CROSS!” We find our real “FREEDOM” at the “CROSS” in “JESUS CHRIST ALONE!”
“FREEDOM IS ALL ABOUT LIFE!”
Jesus said in John 10:10...
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.”
What does “FREEDOM” look like when you find it! It is Joy Unspeakable, It is Full of Glory, It Happiness, It is Moving! It is Liberating! It is Unbinding!
You were “CREATED” for “FREEDOM!” You were “CHOSEN” for “FREEDOM!” You were “LIBERATED” for “FREEDOM!”
Galatians 5:1 tells us...
“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”
This is telling us to be “FREE” and to “STAY FREE!”
We stay “FREE” in our “RELATIONSHIP!”
Proverbs 18:24
"A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
Jesus is all about “RELATIONSHIP!” Folks, there is something inherently wrong with “RELIGION!” I know that may shock you but it’s true! Would you be surprised to know that God didn’t create “RELIGION?” That’s right, man created “RELIGION!”
Please know that “RELIGION” isn’t wrong within itself for all that “RELIGION” is, is man’s way of finding God! Therein lies the problem!
But man’s way is always fraught with “FALSEHOODS & ERROR!” So much of “RELIGION” is lacking “TRUE RELATIONSHIP!”
Jesus is all about “RELATIONSHIP!” Without “RELATIONSHIP, TRUE RELATIONSHIP” Religion is “HOLLOW & UNFULFILLING” at best!
If your “RELATIONSHIP” is lacking in Jesus then you’ll never truly know what “FREEDOM” is all about!
We stay “FREE” by understanding the “WORD OF GOD!”
Young People of our nation need to know what “FREEDOM” means!
FREEDOM in “KNOWING!”
John 8:32 tells us...
“and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
FREEDOM in “KEEPING!”
I John 2:5
“But whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him”
FREEDOM in “DOING!”
Numbers 15:40 “So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.”
The “DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE” is the single most & greatest “EMANCIPATION DOCUMENT” man ever wrote!
But, the “WORD OF GOD” is the single most & greatest “EMANCIPATION DOCUMENT” in all history!
The “WORD OF GOD” does what the “DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE” could not do! The “DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE” could not set the heart of man free!
The “WORD OF GOD” does set the heart & soul of man “FREE!”
We stay “FREE” by “ADHERENCE!”
Adhering to “PRINCIPLES” that lead & apply to the “FUTURE” & beyond time itself!
What is happening to our nation today is the "LACK OF ADHERENCE” to the “CONSTITUTION!" It’s not the ignorance of the Constitution it is the “IGNORING” of its “PRINCIPALS, PROMISES & PRIZES!”
To know “FREEDOM” one must “PRACTICE FREEDOM!”
The “PRACTICE FREEDOM” has a “COST” and is not “FREE!” One of the great lessons of life is that which you “PAY FOR” has “GREAT VALUE!”
The “PRACTICE OF FREEDOM” is a “COST” in and of itself! It is a “SELF-DETERMINATION” whose “PRIZE” is “FREEDOM!”
The greatest “PRACTICE OF FREEDOM” is the adherence to the “GREATEST DOCUMENT OF FREEDOM!” That is the “WORD OF GOD!”
Exodus 15:26
“If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”
I Timothy 6:11
“ But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.!”.... Fight the Good Fight of Faith
In closing!
How “FREE” are you this morning! Is your “FREEDOM” wrapped up in a “MAN-MADE” document alone or is your “FREEDOM” first and foremost founded in “GOD’S CONCEPT OF FREEDOM!
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