Over the past several years I have attended many Freedom Rallies. These were protests against the rapid introduction of a slew of changes to laws in Australia and other Western countries under the guise of protecting us from an ‘attack on our democracy’.
It all seemed to start with the fake COVID-19 pandemic, but in fact, it was planned long before. The COVID era government diktats often were in defiance of our well-established Constitutional freedoms, but they said it was an ‘Emergency’ which meant the suspension of normal civil laws, and introduction of new regulations, which were blindly accepted.
Since 2020 we watched a progressive roll out of more and more authoritarian laws, and a roll back of the freedoms we once took for granted. The latest being a law to curb freedom of speech. This is one freedom we have enjoyed in the West for many decades but it may soon be a distant memory.
Does the concept of freedom/liberty — political freedom/liberty as distinct from spiritual freedom/liberty — exist in Christ’s New World Order?
In the following I examine the freedom or liberty we are guaranteed in the New Testament scriptures.
There are several Greek words used in the New Testament that are translated into English as ‘liberty’ and ‘freedom’. I list them here with some example(s) of their use.
- a removal.
- (figuratively) a pardon, a release (from guilt and penalty).
18 The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty [to pardon] them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luke 4:18-19 AKJV
The Greek word used here relates to a release from custody or pardon from the guilt of a crime. The following Greek word also has a very similar meaning.
ἀπολύω apoluo (a-po-lï ’-ō) v.
- to release fully.
- (literally) to release, dismiss.
- (reflexively) to depart.
- (figuratively) to let die, to pardon.
- (maritally) to divorce.
32 Then said Agrippa to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar.
Acts 26:32 AKJV
23 You know the brother, Timothy, having been freed, with whom if he comes quickly, I will see you.
Hebrew 13:23 KJ3
This is the type of liberty or freedom that most in the West believe they have in a society under the rule of law. But 2,000 years ago that was not the case. Slavery was common. People sold themselves into a form of debt slavery when they couldn’t repay what they owed.
In reality in our modern society we live under a similar situation. A mortgage is a ‘death contract’ and people mortgage their lives in servitude for 40 plus years saving for their retirement under the illusion that when they retire they will finally be free. Wages are controlled just at the level of sufficiency for most to keep them from questioning the political class. They are too busy making ends meet to engage in any political activity. It has only been the educated well-off class that had time to overthrow their ruling regimes.
Now the following Greek word is quite different.
ἐλευθερία eleutheria (e-lev-the-riy’-a) n.
freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or ceremonial).
- unrestrained (to go at pleasure).
- (as a citizen) not a slave (whether freeborn or set free (emancipated)).
- (genitive case) exempt (from obligation or liability)
The freedom expressed here can be legitimate or licentious, it can go either way. It reminds me of the libertarians.
This Greek word is the closest we have to political freedom, individual sovereignty. Note 2. ‘not a slave’. And slavery was common in the period of the early church. To be legally free, emancipated is the meaning here, but that was not taken as a given. Rome was the ruling power and Roman citizenship was earned, for example by service in the military, or granted by rulers, or by heroic deeds, or, like the Apostle Paul, by birth.
The Apostle Paul applied this word to salvation and deliverance from corruption in our mortal bodies.
20 For the creation [original formation] was not willingly subjected to vanity, but through the One subjecting it, on hope; 21 that also the creation will be freed from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Romans 8:20-21 KJ3
This freedom is a deliverance from the bondage the whole creation, including us, has been subject to since the Fall of Adam. We look forward to the day when the whole creation is delivered from this bondage but it is not through political activity.
Christ on the cross contractually secured this freedom for us, but it will not be put into final effect until the New Heaven and the New Earth are established. By one man, Adam, sin entered the world, and as offspring of Adam we all inherited his sin-cursed nature. By the last Adam, Jesus Christ, we are delivered from that curse.
By faith we have it now. We are free spiritually, but the creation with all its creatures are still subject to the Curse brought on the world through Adam and Eve’s rebellion against the Lord God.
This freedom and liberty is under the God’s moral law. For example,
39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 7:39 AKJV
This is understood in the context of our freedom from the Law when we are married to Christ.
3 So then if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. 4 Why, my brothers, you also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit to God.
Romans 7:3-4 AKJV
This freedom is moral freedom, free from the requirements of the Law. But in NT times a person was not set legally free from slavery just because they became a follower of Christ.
13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same veil not taken away in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ. 15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is on their heart [i.e. of the unbelieving Jews]. 16 Nevertheless when it [the heart] shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
2 Corinthian 3:13-17 AKJV
The veil is lifted from our hearts so that we can see in the spirit. Only then can we even see that we have this liberty in Christ. This is the true liberty we have in Christ. By His sacrifice we are delivered from hellfire. It is spiritual and cannot be taken from us. It is eternal.
4 And that because of false brothers unawares brought in, who came in privately to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Galatians 2:4 AKJV
1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Galatians 5:1 AKJV
13 For, brothers, you have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Galatians 5:13 AKJV
25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James 1:25 AKJV
12 So speak you, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
James 2:12 AKJV
15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
1 Peter 2:15-16 AKJV
18 For speaking great swollen-over words of vanity, by the lusts of the flesh, by unbridled lusts, they allure the ones indeed escaping, the ones walking in error,
19 promising to them freedom, though themselves being slaves of corruption; for by whom anyone has been overcome, even to this one he has been enslaved.2 Peter 2:18-19 KJ3
This liberty in Christ also comes with great responsibility. It requires we live in obedience to Christ’s commandments, that is, through His love we are to love our fellow man. That means that we do him no harm. That is through both our words and our deeds.
Another word translated as ‘liberty’ comes from the Geek word meaning ‘authority, privilege, permission, or the right to do something’.
ἐξουσία exousia (e-xou-siy’-a) n.
- authority, privilege, permission, the right to do something.
- (subjectively) force, capacity, competency, freedom.
- (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate, superhuman, potentate, token of control), delegated influence.
This is definitely a concept in the modern freedom movement. It is expressed in the scriptures thus.
9 But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your’s become a stumbling block to them that are weak.
1 Corinthians 8:9 AKJV
More responsibility is required. No man is an island and offences will happen. We are admonished to not use our liberty to cause another to stumble. This type of liberty is not universally applied. It is to be used carefully. It is not a right but a privilege.
The Lord Jesus Christ’s Great Reset in your life is achieved by trusting Him. He is the only way. On the other hand WEF chairman Klaus Schwab’s Great Reset is to take away all your freedoms including your private property and send you into slavery. He said ‘you will own nothing’, which means the large mega-corporations, which are currently enslaving the world, will own it all, even your soul if you give it to them.
Australian senator Malcolm Roberts wrote:
“The plan of the Great Reset is that you will die with nothing.”
“Klaus Schwab’s ‘life by subscription’ is really serfdom. It’s slavery.” “Billionaire, globalist corporations will own everything—homes, factories, farms, cars, furniture—and everyday citizens will rent what they need, if their social credit score allows.”
So even if the Satanic oligarchs get that far with their Great Reset do not fear anything they can do.
Before you accepted Christ into your life you were a dead man walking. Or maybe you were like Lazarus, who had been dead 4 days when the Lord came to him and called a dead body to life. We were all spiritually dead, spiritually in bondage to sin and death. We were imprisoned by sin. Only through Christ were we delivered from death.
24 Truly, truly, I say to you, If the grain of wheat falling into the earth does not die, it remains alone. But if it die, it bears much fruit. 25 The one loving his life will lose it, and the one hating his life in this world will keep it to everlasting life. 26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will also be. And if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
John 12:24-26 KJ3
Freedom in Christ is not merely a political or economic concept, but a spiritual reality that believers can experience through their relationship with Jesus Christ. It is a freedom from the power of sin, the penalty of sin, and the bondage of Satan in your life. True freedom is experienced through repentance and faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ, His Great Reset.
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