Happy 4th; Enjoy Your Freedom

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What a privilege we have in the U.S. to be able to share the Gospel with others and worship our Heavenly Father according to God’s Word.  We are truly blessed. 

 

If you have read much of church history or secular history, you know that the normal experience for God’s people has been one of persecution and limitation.  Even to this day a large portion of our world limits and persecutes those who follow the Bible according to conscience.  We must continue to pray for our brothers and sisters who do not enjoy similar freedoms.

 

Let us also commit to praying for the Lord to protect our freedom and ask for grace to use our freedoms for His Kingdom as long as we have them.  It is not easy to sense that our door of religious freedom is one that many would love to close.  In many spheres of our culture, they have closed this door nearly shut.  And although we know we can worship and serve the Lord in freedom and under constraint, we should pray and work while it is yet day.

 

On this note, it was great to see last week’s Supreme Court decision for Wheaton and Hobby Lobby.  Click here for further information on the decision (Al Mohler).

 

What is even a much deeper joy and privilege is the freedom that every believer has in deliverance from sin’s penalty and sin’s power.  That is the freedom that is guaranteed every believer no matter which century or country they hold their citizenship.  Our true citizenship is in heaven (Phil 3:20), and in Jesus our spiritual freedom from sin’s chains will never vanish because it does not depend on the whims of a changing public opinion, but on the eternal promises of God.  Praise God for His indescribable gift!

 

“Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.  For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh” (Romans 8:1-3).

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