True freedom in Jesus Christ versus the self-deception of freedom and the difference in life
The only true freedom is in Jesus Christ as new creature. You are as a new creature free from all other constraints than God’s will. You may be seduced to think that applies to all: God rules all things all the time –so everything is subject to God’s will at all times.
So you may be seduced to think that the freedom from all other things than the knowledge of God in Jesus Christ and the fear of God is at best a mental widget with no substantive change in you as a being. But that is not so.
Take the case of money: Most people are deceived they are individually free from money, it is only the idea of the power of money in the other person’s mind that binds them to the necessity of money. The spirits in people in who are so deceived that they are free say themselves as non-creating speech things like “I understand. Money–bad. Lack of money–good.” and chuckle to themselves over the simplicity of those in Christ who are monetarily poor. They also say themselves as non-creating speech things like; “I’m with you. I personally don’t like money. If we could get everybody to walk away from money –all at the same time– then that would be a great thing. But tell them that!” People who try to force that on others are fascists, communist and socialists: free everything –by which they don’t mean “free from lies and the effect of lies” –they mean “free from the notion of money!” and so their good intentions end in death every time; they think the will of man will be “free-er” minus the notion of money.
To be a slave to the whims of your own perception of what is in the other persons mind and heart is slavery. Period. It is not freedom. There is no such thing as “free for yourself but not-free from that old notion if that idea/spirit persists in other people’s mind.” Serving the lie for the other guy is still a lie with the effect of lies.
Observe true freedom:
Daniel 3:14-18 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them, Is it of purpose, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, that ye serve not my god, nor worship the golden image that I have set up? Now if ye be ready at the time that ye hear the sound of the cornet, pipe, lute, sambuca, psaltery, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, well : but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast that same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace: and who is the God that shall deliver you out of my hands? Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter. If it be so , our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thy hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image that thou hast set up.
A political and military ruler set up an idol to represent an ‘X’ that supposedly given him power and in his megalomaniac/demonic mind, had by extension given the people the ‘blessing’ of his being absolute ruler and dictator. So in his mind, it wasn’t fit or right that he should be thankful to this “X” in private but that all should bow to what was in his mind and heart in public.
Notice that all did excepting only those granted freedom by God in Jesus Christ from what imprisoned other’s minds. Only the three did not bow. They did not bow at all, much less while saying “I really know there is nothing to it, but for the sake of other people’s emotions I’ll act as if I actually believe what they are saying is true.” They did not bow while inwardly chuckling at the monstrous evil the ‘other people’ were committing or while trying to figure out how to be pious in the new religion to out-pious others in private or public. They did not bow –at all.
So we see that true obedience to God in Jesus Christ is freedom from all things except God’s will. It is to be free from all things excepting a righteous fear of God come what may and particularly to be free from what other people think or feel. We also see that the fire reserved for evil-doers had no effect on their bodies. This is a type for us to understand: we cannot burn in the lake of fire reserved for those who hate Jesus Christ as He actually Is publicly or privately. That freedom has actual physical , substantive effects in addition to the manifestation of those effects in public as public obedience to God in Jesus Christ while not bowing to what is actually or assumed to be in the other person’s mind or emotional set in any given instant.
True freedom is then manifested in public behavior. It is not and never has been “something you do in private but not something you do in public.” The deception that you are free from the obvious deceptions in other’s minds while you publicly act as if you believed those deceptions is a lie you are told by demons who are not you and are not your inner friend.
Those that speak to you saying “Jesus, Jesus!” are liars who promote the lie of free will and all its wickedness. While they say “anybody who says “Jesus! Jesus!”" is automatically a Christian, it is not so. They seek to portray you as immoral and liars by corrupting the laws to permit every abomination while they falsely portray themselves with their media contacts as more moral than you and thus “fit to rule”. See the wickedness they have already wrought –which they seek to build on to do more. They have refused to keep the laws we already have and then blame Christianity and capitalism for the results of their own wickedness. They have done this while portraying themselves as the only souls who understand politics and simultaneously telling Christians through their false prophet contacts that “true Christians need to stay out of politics, law enforcement and the military”.
Matthew 7:15-21 But beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but within are ravening wolves. By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs? So every good tree produces good fruits, but the worthless tree produces bad fruits. A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a worthless tree produce good fruits. Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. By their fruits then surely ye shall know them. Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen
Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it. 2 Kings 18:25
Anti-Christ tried the lie that God had sent him to conqueor Jerusalem through the Assyrians. But God says to the worshipers of demons who hate Jesus Christ and Israel: "But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, And thy raging against me." 2 Kings 19:27