Warren Wiersbe (Back to the Bible)..."to be free to do what one wants is the worst bondage"
Mr. Wiersbe @ 'Back to the Bible'
In your Nov. 8 radio (WCHP) message I heard you speak that the Lord Jesus Christ , through His Spirit of Truth, Righteousness, and Love, gives freedom from the bondage, the blindness, the veil which condemned man to the judgement of death. You also said that this freedom is not like the freedom in which man claims to be free to do what one wants (i.e. his will, free will).
Jesus Christ has freed us, those that repent and serve Him, from the condemnation of death through His sacrifice and payment for our debts of sin, thus making us indebted to Him as permanent slaves to do His Will, to do the Will of His Father (as per Apostle Paul).
This freedom is not so as to do our own will but instead to serve the Will of the One Creator.
This given freedom from our Master therefore gives us license (which can only be given by an authority) to do only that which is defined to be ‘good’ in the eyes of the One Creator Father.
Therefore, this freedom is not the ‘freedom’ that man desires but a bondage to do the good Will of the One and Only God.
But man desires another freedom...a taken freedom….a freedom in which you said he desires to be free to do that which he wants.
Mr. Wiersbe, you did not extrapolate the full identity of this freedom….why not?...the only thing you did say, in passing, was that this freedom to do one’s own will (what one wants) was the “worst bondage”.
What is then this “freedom” which you say is the “worst bondage”?
Based on your brief description that this freedom consists of ‘one doing what one wants’, you are by your definition implicitly referring (however with a clouded restraint?) to the belief in freedom of rights, freedom of religions, freedom of speech, freedom of self-happiness, freedom of sexual lifestyle, freedom of maximizing self-gain, etc.
...Are you not therefore saying that “freedom of rights” is the “worst bondage”?
...Are you not therefore saying that the belief in “freedom of rights” is against the Lord Jesus Christ?
...Are you not therefore saying that the belief in “religious liberty” ( which dictates that it is right, a right, to be free to worship ANY god) is against the Lord Jesus Christ?
Mr. Wiersbe, perhaps you did not clearly and completely identify this “worst bondage freedom” because you prefer to keep the truth veiled for love of this freedom to do what is right, one's rights, in one's own eyes.
Very soon, the Lord Jesus Christ will return, as a thief (suddenly, unexpected, unwanted), to rule the earth in obedience and power as the One King according to the Will of the One and Only Creator and NOT according to man’s first love for his freedom, for his desire to serve and magnify oneself (XES).
….and man will weep and clench his teeth in anger for 'his freedom' will be no more.
...and many will say to Him “Lord, Lord”, have we not preached in your name?...but He will say I do not know you.
1 Comments:
John, is it not God our Creator who made us free? Free to love him or not free to obey him or not? So why are you against freedom? Why do you accuse godly men of being deceitful? Who is the father of accusation? Who is the father of decet? John if you are a Christian you need to ask yourself who are you listening to? It is not the voice of God.
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