{"id":16314,"date":"2018-08-12T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T13:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/?p=16314"},"modified":"2021-10-13T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T17:30:06","slug":"the-fight-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/the-fight-for-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fight for Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Freedom, A God-given right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We were born to be free.\u00a0 Freedom is a God-given, not a government-given right, and is sacred in the eyes of God.\u00a0 Freedom is expressed in our ability to choose.\u00a0 However, in the Garden of Eden the serpent (Satan in disguise) came along to deceive Eve to use her freedom of choice to put all mankind under the bondage of sin.\u00a0 After that fateful decision, all mankind lost a great portion of their freedom and became slaves of sin.<\/p>\n

However, nearly 4,000 years later a Deliverer came.\u00a0 His name is Jesus.\u00a0 He came to lift the curse of bondage by making a choice <\/em>to sacrifice Himself to restore freedom for all mankind.\u00a0 A freedom that restores mankind to exercise their pure right to choose.<\/p>\n

Since then Satan has not given up his desire to deceive people to use the freedom of choice to bring them back into the bondage of\u00a0 sin.\u00a0 The devil’s schemes are many.<\/p>\n

Religion is his primary scheme.\u00a0 Religion has the form of godliness but is void of the power and presence of God Himself.\u00a0 Religion is man-made, under the supervision of the devil.\u00a0 It brings people under the bondage of man-made laws and regulations.\u00a0 It keeps people from trusting God and encourages self-trust and self-reliance.\u00a0 It encourages self-righteousness which can never please God.\u00a0 I have been under such bondage and it is cruel.<\/p>\n

How many times have you heard people say, to justify themselves, \u201cI go to church.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI put money in the offering plate.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m a good person.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI have daily devotions.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cI help people.\u201d\u00a0 Their confidence is in what they do FOR God and not in God Himself.\u00a0 The difference is subtle and the bondage it brings is very real.\u00a0 Any person who says, \u201cI have<\/em> to\u201d is NOT free!<\/p>\n

Satan also uses earthy governments to bring people under bondage.\u00a0 Some governments are overtly freedom-taking.\u00a0 They tell people what to do, where to work, what god to worship (if any), what to eat and so-forth.\u00a0 Other governments covertly take freedom without the people knowing it.\u00a0 The United States, under modern democratic leadership, is such an example.\u00a0 They overtax its citizens, create regulations and laws that strip away freedoms, but they do it in such a way that the undiscerning acquiesce.\u00a0 \u00a0The welfare system is used for such a deception as are things like homeland security.\u00a0 Preaching the \u201cgospel\u201d of security in exchange for freedom is a fear tactic to get people to surrender their God-given freedom for security.\u00a0 Benjamin Franklin once said, \u201cThose who give up liberty for security deserve neither.\u201d\u00a0 I agree!<\/p>\n

Another scheme is political-correctness.\u00a0 Political-correctness is a direct assault on free speech.\u00a0 If you express your opinion or belief in a way that disagrees with the PC crowd, your speech is considered hate speech!\u00a0 If you speak against homosexuality, you\u2019re labeled a homophobe.\u00a0 If you speak against Islam, you\u2019re Islamophobic.\u00a0 If you speak out against abortion you are attacking a woman\u2019s right to choose and deemed a hater of woman\u2019s rights.\u00a0 If you curse the name of Jesus, that\u2019s fine, but it you preach the good news of Jesus you\u2019re a religious fanatic whose mouth must be stopped.\u00a0 If you speak the truth in any way you are attacked, slandered, discredited or threatened.\u00a0 This is all for the purpose of stopping the truth and keeping people under bondage.<\/p>\n

The freedom that Jesus restored on the cross is under attack and we must fight to maintain our freedoms.\u00a0 If our freedoms are taken away, spiritual or physical, we will be extremely limited in our ability to serve God and others.\u00a0 Satan knows that, and he will do whatever he can to deceive people to give up their freedoms, including uneducated or undereducated Christians.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let that be you!\u00a0 Be SURE to exercise your freedom to VOTE! Under NO circumstance should you refrain from voting!\u00a0 And for God\u2019s sake and yours, don\u2019t vote political lines, vote freedom!<\/p>\n

Jesus said that the truth will make you free (John 8:32).\u00a0 Nothing else has the power to set us free.\u00a0 Jesus also said that, \u201cI am the truth (John 14:6).\u201d\u00a0 When we rely on Jesus, the Word of God, we will live in absolute freedom and be able to discern freedom from bondage-producing schemes.\u00a0 Proverbs says, \u201cEvil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand everything (28:5).\u201d\u00a0 This is true.\u00a0 A person who trusts God and is led by the Spirit of God is personally guided into all truth and is taught the things that are coming (John 16:13).\u00a0 Based on this information they make freedom-promoting choices to maintain the glorious freedom Jesus died to give us.<\/p>\n

Truth-seekers and freedom-lovers must not sit back and let the devil continue to deceive people.\u00a0 We must learn to speak out against all that is not of God and preach the true gospel of good news and deliverance.\u00a0 The devil will try to shut our mouth, but we must pray like the early church who was under attack to keep silent concerning the truth.\u00a0 They prayed, \u201cAnd now Lord, behold their threatenings; and grant unto your servants, that with all boldness they may speak your word (Acts 4:29).\u201d\u00a0 We cannot back down, we cannot relent, but we must to faithful to protect our freedom and speak boldly as we ought to speak (Ephesians 6:20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you speak the truth in any way you are attacked, slandered, discredited or threatened all for the purpose of stopping the truth and keeping people under the bondage of deception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[494,1,202],"tags":[738,739,515,372,734,735,740,736,737],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendoutyourroots.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}