LIBERTY
Brother James, OIC
Jas 2:12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
The greatest thing you can ask for in this life is freedom. Freedom from oppression, freedom from prejudice….freedom. America and a few other countries allow freedom for their citizens, grants them liberty in almost every area of their lives. Yet there is a country and citizenship that gives more freedom than anyone could ever find in this lost and dying world and that country is the Kingdom of God. Its Liberty stands alone as the greatest freedom ever given.
It is an elect group that God in His foreknowledge has chosen to grow to know and accept and attain to this freedom that He has given so liberally in Christ. In fact it is so much freedom that it surpasses mortal understanding and can only be grasped as you obtain the mind of Christ. And it comes to those who forsake all to follow Him.
To many today relish the worlds falsely proclaimed freedoms. They miss out on a vein of Truth so rich in life it transforms its hearers into new creations that though they are still housed in their mortal bodies are now living eternal beings that then become the sons and daughters of God.
There is a decision that one must make before coming to this glorious liberty and that is the decision to forsake the worlds fallen false solutions.
2Co 6:14-18 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Sadly there are people in the world violently opposed to the true liberty for mankind that can only be attained to in Christ and sadder still the largest part of what the world sees as Church and Christianity is fighting just as hard against the freedom given in Christ.
2Pe 2:19-22 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
To be a Son or Daughter of God is the only real liberty is the freedom that is given in Gods Promises and it is only through the True Christ Jesus that one can arrive at that level of maturity whereby God is their God and you are made free from the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pe 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
