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Real Liberty
Pastor Scott
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
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"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?"
(Romans 6:16)
We want to talk about real liberty. When we look at what the Scriptures have to say about liberty, very few speak about secular or temporal behavior. The liberty that we have been graced with--the liberty that's available to every one of us, the only liberty that a human being can experience--is experienced when we solely and fully trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, Savior and Lord. The only way to be free is to become a voluntary slave. For to whom you submit your members to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey (Rom. 6:16).
The devil tries to sell us a bill of goods. We find ourselves warring on a daily basis with two voices speaking to us. One voice says, "This is the way; walk in it." The other voice comes and says, "You're special; you have rights. You should be able to guide your own life and nobody should tell you what to do." As Satan tells you what your rights are and how to be free, you can believe the father of lies and be free to serve him; or you can believe the Father of lights, the wisdom that comes from above, and be free to serve Him. But man will never know absolute freedom. He is a slave to Satan or a slave to God. It is that simple. That will help us to understand what kingdom we operate in by the decisions we're making.
Every decision that you make does not originate in you; it originates in Satan or God. Every thought originates in the kingdom of darkness or the kingdom of light. Every course you take is determined by the kingdom of darkness or the kingdom of light. You are not in control of your life--period. We don't like to hear that, especially as Americans. We like to think we are individualists with certain rights. We know that these are fundamental truths, but practically we don't live like it. We seem to think that we have original thoughts. Beloved, there is no new thing under the sun, good or bad. No man has ever had an original thought; they're all fed from the kingdom of darkness or the kingdom of light. When we begin to take man off the throne that humanists have placed him on, and put him back into that position of total dependence upon God, we finally made him free.