A STRUGGLE FOR
FREEDOM

INTRODUCTION

A struggle for freedom is of a continuous nature due to those seeking power, control, and domination as an ultimate goal.  Thank God for those who boldly cling to freedom enjoyed and are willing to fight for it.

Such a struggle may appear as little David facing the giant Goliath; but David was not alone in his challenge to Goliath, he said: You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield; but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, who you have defied (1 Samuel 17:45).

A Struggle for Freedom
Hand of Deliverance

A struggle for freedom was facing Israel; due to the challenge of Goliath on behalf of the Philistines, who said: Choose you a man among you, and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall you (Israel) be our servants, and serve us (1 Samuel 17:8-9).

David having experienced God’s previous deliverance said to King Saul (who questioned his ability to go up against the giant): Your servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock; and I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it (the lamb) out of his mouth, and when he rose up against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.

Your servant slew both the lion, and the bear; and this Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God (1 Samuel 17:34-36).  David’s confidence after having witnessed God's deliverance; he was certain that He would do so again.

Undermining God's Word

It was noted that it is impossible to enslave mentally or socially a Bible-reading people. The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom (Horace Greenly).  Our institutions of freedom will not survive unless they are constantly replenished by the faith that gave them birth (John Foster Dulles).  It is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand (John Adams).

A struggle for freedom is weakened when a nation allows the precepts of God’s Word to be undermined; as the case of Adam and Eve, in the Garden of Eden, through the serpent, a tool of Satan.  The freedom they once enjoyed dissipated when they partook of what was forbidden by God (Genesis 3:16-20).

Rising Up of Evil

A rising up of evil has engulfed many nations; rising its ugly head, with a struggle for freedom necessary.  Once such adversary is Marxism and Socialism, cousins of Communism, seeking to destroy freedom by discrediting the family as an institution; control of the schools as tools for promotion of their agenda.

Breaking down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography in books, magazines, motion pictures, and TV; promote homosexuality as moral, natural, and healthy; infiltrate the press, gain control of key positions in government, radio, TV, and motion pictures; infiltrate the churches and replace Biblical instruction with a progressive social gospel.

Allowing Ungodly to Reign

Many are experiencing an attack on basic freedoms; however, a struggle for freedom is not a lost cause; if one realizes who their source of help is. David, as previously mentioned, knew who would be with him as he faced the giant; his heart and life embracing the same God we look to today. When one begins to distance themselves from God, allowing ungodliness to reign, it spells disaster.

God gave a recipe towards deliverance of any nation who has walked away from His provision of grace and protection.  If my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves (a sign of repentance), and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14). Upon its application God’s umbrella of provision will be restored; a struggle for freedom victorious.

Uprooting of Moral Teachings

Lenin, Founder of the Soviet Union said, give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have planted will never be uprooted.  There is an endeavor to uproot children from the moral teachings of the past; with teachings adverse to democracy being offered to capture the minds of the youth as Lenin suggested.

A struggle for freedom is a battle to offset a trend that is becoming deeply rooted in our educational system today, including our universities.  Thank God for those who are in opposition to such a trend; but again it is as little David facing the giant.  We must never forget who was on David’s side and brought a tremendous victory that day against the slavery of the Philistines that would have taken place had God not intervened.

God's Miraculous Intervention

In a similar case God’s miraculously intervention was in Israel’s bondage to the Egyptians.  God spoke to Moses, His instrument of deliverance: Say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burden (slavery) of the Egyptians, and I will rid you of their bondage, and I will redeem (deliver) you with a stretched out arm (mighty power), and with great judgments (upon the Egyptians).

I will make you to me a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, which brings you from under the burdens (slavery) of the Egyptians (Exodus 6:6-7).  What a testimony of God’s ability to deliver His people; no matter the bondage imposed on them.

Freedom in the Name
of Jesus

God, through His Son the Lord Jesus Christ, is still setting people free. The Apostle Luke revealed that he (Jesus) came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up; and, as his custom (habit) was he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read; and there was delivered to him the book of the prophet Isaiah.  And when he had opened the book, he found the place where is written; the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the people.

He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted; to preach deliverance to the captives (those in bondage), and recovering of sight to the blind (spiritually and physically), to set at liberty them that are bruised (oppressed) (Luke 4:17-18).  Jesus was reading from Isaiah 61:1-2; then after finishing stated: This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears (hearing) (Luke 4:21).

He is still fulfilling those words declared that day; as the Son of God, with all authority and power given by His Father, God himself.  A struggle for freedom can be won when looking to the right source (Jesus) who came to set the captive free.

God's Protection and 
Provision

There are nations today who once enjoyed blessings from on High, God’s provision and protection, but have allowed themselves to become entangled in the ungodliness of this world; even making laws and rulings to accommodate ungodliness, rather than adhere to God’s Unadulterated (Pure) Word that condemns such practices.

Nations in this category have diminished in their standing in the world; due to the fact that God cannot honor them as before, His shield of protection lowered rather than strengthened.

Stand Fast in Liberty

A struggle for freedom is unattainable without recognition of the one through whom freedom is attained.  Apostle John recorded the words of Jesus: If the Son (the Lord Jesus Christ) therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed (John 3:36).  The Apostle Paul wrote: Stand fast thereof in the liberty (freedom) wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage (Galatians 5:11).

Freedom often hinges on words spoken being just as powerful as when originally spoken: Daniel Webster wrote: If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end. 

If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.  A struggle for freedom often hinges on words of the past bring just as powerful as when originally spoken.

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