What does #liberty mean to you? #Freedom? #Rights? #Immunity? As a child of four, I remember my father and my mothers’ three brothers were all in the armed forces fighting for me in WWll. (that’s what mother said) I would hear FDR talking over the radio and feel afraid for my loved ones surrounded with bullets and bombs. So many lives were lost; however, all of my family came home – even Uncle Gerald received a silver star at the age of 23. In 1940’s, I felt our entire country was working together to stop the Nazi takeover. Then a shift came from the rebellious 1960s forward with free love, peaceniks, riots, marches, drugs, and hate speech which were all done under the banner of rights! Confusing? Let’s turn to God’s Word – the Bible for Truth and clarity. “When you turn to the Lord the veil shall be taken away . Now the Lord is that Spirit: and WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS LIBERTY.” llCor.3:16,17 Now that is the first Truth we need to acknowledge – liberty is with the Spirit of the Lord! “We are troubled on every side yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair. We have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us”llCor.4:6,7 “Stand fast in the LIBERTY wherewith CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE. YOU HAVE BEEN CALLED UNTO LIBERTY (FREEDOM); ONLY DO NOT USE FREEDOM (RIGHTS) INTO AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FLESH, BUT THROUGH LOVE SERVE ONE ANOTHER” Gal.5:1,13 Are you seeing God’s Liberty – we are free to serve and love others! You say, “What’s in it for me?” Let me tell you …James1:25 “One who LOOKS INTENTLY AT THE PERFECT LAW, THE LAW OF LIBERTY and ABIDES BY IT, not having become a forgetful hearer, but an effectual doer this MAN SHALL BE BLESSED IN WHAT HE DOES.”
THE LIVING GOD – LIBERTY
