44. FREEDOM      --page 349--

         Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free (2Cor.3:17; Jn.8:32).

         1. Thank You Lord for the freedom You've given us & the unity You've given us & the liberty You've given us & the joy You've given us & the happiness to enjoy life to the full!
         2. Eternal vigilance--the price of freedom!
         3. Liberty is wrong when it hinders a weaker one.
         4. Thank God for sex & beauty & music & happiness & love! Thank God we're free to enjoy it all!
         5. We are only bound by God's Law of Love & this gives us a lot of freedom, but in another way it is the most binding law of all!--You've got to love everybody, which is one of the hardest things of all to do!
         6. Those who forge chains for others are themselves the slaves of bigotry!
         7. "Four walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage!" You can be in prison
anywhere if your heart & spirit are not free but are bound by Satan's chains, but you can be free even behind iron bars if your heart & spirit have been set free by Jesus.
         8. Our character is shown by what we would do if every restraint were removed.
         9. I'd rather have too much freedom than not enough!
         10. The Devil's people
preach freedom but they don't have it!
         11. The price of absolute total security is the sacrifice of liberty & freedom!--The price of liberty & freedom is the sacrifice of security!
         12. The Lord in some ways sets us free, but in other ways He binds us & ties us to Himself.
         13. We're love slaves, the best kind of slavery in the World!--We never want to be free to do anything but serve Jesus forever for love!
         14. Communism, Marxism, Leninism, Socialism, Americanism or any other kind of ism might be able to overcome the World with guns & bullets & propaganda of the mind, but only God can change heart! Only His truth can bring freedom!
         15. Each new blast of the power of God and His Words has broken the chains that bound you, shattered the locks of your prison doors, destroyed the walls that surrounded you and set you free.
         16. True Christianity is not a restriction but a release.
         17. I believe in freedom & I practice it too!
         18. Freedom is our business & it's free!
         19. Let's sing a song for Quixote!
         Let's sing a song for the free!
         Lets' sing a song though we're dotey!
         For we're bound for Eternity!
         20. We have been liberated from the narrow confines of carnal human limitations into the glorious freedoms of the realms of the reality of His Spirit!
         21. Each age or generation of the Church has taken another step toward freedom from the harsh restrictions of the law to the total freedom of love through the grace of God!
         22. If your freedom is used wisely, you'll be given more. But if it is used foolishly and dangerously, it may be taken away from you.
         23. Have you got enough love to be trusted with enough liberty to live life to the full?
         24. Will you use your liberty to heal and help, or harm and hinder? The answer is up to you.
         25. If you are strong enough in spirit and filled with His Love, you can be trusted with His liberty.
         26. My delight is to please the Lord, so the Lord lets me do as I please!
         27. Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
         28. We must be willing to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.
         29. The cause of freedom is the cause of God.
         30. Freedom is best seen through prison bars.
         31. If you can't speak the truth, then you don't have freedom!
         32. Don't turn liberty into license to do as you please unless it's what the Lord pleases. You can do as you please only if it's what the Lord pleases.
         33. Only sinful man had to be clothed!--Only sin brought the need to hide reality! Salvation sets us free from the curse of clothing & the shame of nakedness! We're as free as Adam & Eve in the garden before they ever sinned! If you're not, you're not saved!
         34. Freedom costs something. It usually entails sacrifice & hard work & a real battle to stay free.
         35. The right to do right is worth the fight!
         36. The big lie cannot tolerate the truth, & they that are bound bitterly resent the freedom of the free.
         37. We live in a World that's full of laws against freedom, so although God has given us freedom ourselves, we cannot be totally free because we live in a World that's not free.
         38. The Devil is the author of the System, the god of this World. He is the author of their whole System & they have laws which are against freedom, so watch out you don't violate their laws, at least not where they can catch you.
         39. The greatest danger is safety & security in the valley, because then you lose that freedom & liberty of the mountain.
         40. Oh the Spirit, it's the Spirit!
         Yes that's the life for me!
         In the Spirit, by the Spirit,
         You can live a life that's free!
         41. We are free, free, free! Thank God!--Free to do His Will & free to follow Him whithersoever He leadeth!--To abandon the boundaries of man for the boundless abundance of God!

         (See also No.0, 57, 286, 302C, 335A, 647, 648, 1017, 1253.)

         42.
PSA.116:16b Thou hast loosed my bonds.
         43.
PSA.119:45 And I will walk at liberty: for I seek Thy precepts.
         44.
JOH.8:31,32 If ye continue in My Word, then are ye My disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
         45.
JOH.8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
         46.
ROM.8:1-5 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His Own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
         47.
1CO.8:9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
         48.
1CO.8:12 But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
         49.
1CO.10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
         50.
GAL.5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
         51.
GAL.5:13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.


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