Free In Christ

“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” – Galatians 5:1

In his book “A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future”, Os Guinness writes:

“In 1843, a 21-year-old Massachusetts scholar was doing research on the American Revolution and what led up to it. Among those he interviewed was Captain Levi Preston, a Yankee who was 70 years his senior and had fought at both Lexington and Concord. “Captain Preston,” the young man began, “what made you go to the Concord Fight on April 19, 1775?” “What did I go for?” The old soldier, every bit his ninety-one years, was very bowed, so he raised himself to his full height, taken aback that anyone should ask a question about anything so obvious. The young man tried again. “Yes, my histories tell me that you men of the Revolution took up arms against `intolerable oppressions.’ What were they?” “Oppressions? I didn’t feel them.” “What, you were not oppressed by the Stamp Act?” “I never saw one of those stamps,” Captain Preston replied. “I certainly never paid a penny for them.” “Well, what about the tea tax?” “Tea tax? I never drank a drop of the stuff,” the old veteran replied. “The boys threw it all overboard.” “Then I suppose you had been reading Harrington, or Sidney and Locke about the eternal principles of liberty?” “Never heard of ’em,” Captain Preston said. “We read only the Bible, the Catechism, Watts’s Psalms and Hymns and the Almanac.” “Well then, what was the matter? And what did you mean in going to the fight?” “Young man,” Captain Preston stated firmly, “what we meant in going for those Redcoats was this: We always had been free, and we meant to to be free always. They didn’t mean we should.”

True freedom is found in Jesus Christ.

“We find freedom when we find God; we lose it when we lose Him.” – Paul E. Scherrer

“Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.” – 1 Peter 2:16