Liberty Truth Freedom Free Choice
“…choose you this day whom ye will serve… …but as for me and my
house, we will serve the LORD.”. Joshua 24:15
“So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever. And I will walk at
liberty: for I seek thy precepts. I will speak of thy testimonies also
before kings, and will not be ashamed…
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein,
he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be
blessed in his deed… If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well… But if ye have
respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as
transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty…
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of
liberty…
Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good…
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man…
Ye are our epistle written in our hearts… …with the Spirit of the
living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart…
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
liberty…
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage… I am the LORD thy
God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage.”
Psalms 119:44-46; James 1:25; 2:8-12; Romans 7:12,22; 2 Corinthians
3:2-3,17;
Galatians 5:1; Exodus 20:2.
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians
4:13
When we see religious leaders, politicians, individuals undermining the
law of God we must ask the question, which ones do they not like?
Is it ok to steal, kill, bear false witness, lie, commit adultery, neglect
the old and weak, covet the things that don’t belong to us? Sounds like it
would lead to a violent world. How about if all those who profess to
believe the Bible and the God of the Bible, even put their hand on the
Bible when sworn into office, if they now tell us the reasoning the use for
trampling on the law of God. I’ve heard many say “you don’t have to keep
that old law of God, it’s done away with, we have Jesus now”.
Do they want all the above things to go on in society? Would it be ok to
kill babies, destroy children with sexual immorality, lie, cheat, and all
the rest of the last six of the Ten Commandments. In doing those things we
also are denying the God of the first table of the law of God, we throw in
His face all His love as revealed to us in the very first commandment where
He tells of His delivering us from the bondage and consequences of living
contrary to the last six of the Ten Commandments.
The first Commandment explains how He delivered His people out of bondage by the sacrifice of an innocent lamb. This represented Jesus Christ, the true Lamb of God who delivers us from sin, represented by Egypt the land of bondage that they were delivered from so many years ago. A type of the bondage of sin we are all in. His son, the Lamb of God gave His life that
we may live and be changed into His likeness: “Hereby perceive we the love
of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our
lives for the brethren.” 1 John 3:16 Instead of laying our lives down we
are bent on taking the lives of the innocent.
God help us, and He will: “Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be
joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable
fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby… …with my
spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the
earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.” Hebrews
12:11; Isaiah 26:9. WWI, WWII still bent on rebellion, now once again, the
verge of WWIII, is it necessary or can we turn? The Lord’s arsenal is much bigger than our airplanes and tanks: “If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people…” 2 Chronicles 7:13
We are compelled to love God when we realize He died for us while we were in bondage. He tells us “If you love me, keep my commandments.” John 14:15. His commandments set us free from all the side effects of sin; bloodshed, heartache, death, etc.
All ten, James says if we break one we break all. James 2:8-12. Verse 8
directs us to our neighbor, how are we treating the weak among us? The
babies, the old, the poor, the weak? Jesus warned us of the seriousness of
these things. I’m adamant today about the dangers we are facing. We would be blind if we cannot see the situation in the world for what it is… dangerous! God gave us signs to watch for, we see them today. When societies willfully break the law of God and boast of it, there is going to be judgments. The Bible warns of the consequences of turning our backs on God and His Ten Commandments.
I shudder to think what is ahead, I hold the professed religious leaders
responsible for much of the lawlessness we are witnessing today. When
Jeremiah warned the people they replied: “As for the word that thou hast
spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth…” 44:16-17 “Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law… Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law…”
Jesus said, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which
is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not
prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy
name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” Zephaniah 3:4; Malachi 2:9; Matthew 7:21-23
This Sabbath we are going to be praying fervently that the Lord will do
something to stop the killing of babies, the human trafficking, the abuse
of the vulnerable among us and the wanton disregard for human suffering by certain people in high places.
Let us all repent and prepare for the coming war, not just between nations
but the war for the souls of men, women and children. “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of
strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that
exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity
every thought to the obedience of Christ…” 2 Corinthians 10:3-5
I’m so thankful for certain leaders of nations that will stand true to
principle though the heavens fall. May God bless them and keep them their
people and their nation. God bless you, stay strong in the Lord Jesus
Christ.
Gerry Mahn May 1,2020