True Freedom
by Craig Manners
2016
Young people around the West are under pressure. Many of them are being tossed to and fro by many new movements of emptiness, all offering much but delivering mostly slavery and, well, emptiness.
The phrase "tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine" comes from Ephesians 4:14, which basically warns against being easily led astray by the myriad crafty teachings of men motivated to cause you loss under the guise of offering you ultimate good.
"Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming." (Ephesians 4:14)
We all need to aim toward stability, being well grounded in what we believe and why, and we should grow in that understanding to avoid being misled by deceitful scheming.
This metaphor well describes the dangers to all of us of being and remaining like children, vulnerable to the whims of different movements, causes and the cunning of those who want to deceive us.
Billions of people around the world devote their time, energy and resources to causes and movements, to beliefs and schemes of men. As Augustine famously observed, "The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in thee."
Mankind is designed to worship its Creator. That is just how we are made, and this doesn't depend on whether you want that, acknowledge that or rebel against that. It just is.
When we do not do so, we tend naturally to try to replace this emptiness this restlessness, with other causes. Hence our seemingly fickle nature in blowing with the wind and being easily led astray from cause to cause.
This article doesn't intend to explore the various causes that humans follow, but to look into one cause I believe is common to all human beings, the pursuit of and desire for freedom.
In this it will in no way be exhaustive but will hopefully help some to skip the pain of following the lost causes, and instead find their rest in Jesus.
We naturally want freedom. I think that is a God given desire, because we are made in His image and are worthy of liberty, respect and dignity, which is all depleted if you are a slave to sin, or to other people and their lost causes.
Stealing your freedom is a major objective of the whims and deceits of cunning and crafty people. Individual tyrants and the ones behind the totalitarian movements old and new. They want to enslave you.
An initial task is to define freedom, because the deceitful ones will have very cunningly devised definitions so as to deceive people into giving it up, often without even being aware of this.
Two big and globally successful schemes by deceitful and cunning men aiming to remove our freedoms are Islam (Muhammed) and Communism (Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Engels).
There are others, like what I will call the "we are deceived and confused about everything and will fall for anything," the alphabet movement promoting sexual depravity and indoctrinating children.
This movement is mostly aimed at Western nations only. You won't find it in Russia or China or other communist countries. This implies that it was devised by cunning and scheming nations or movements outside of the West, most likely Communist Russia and China.
This is the one with the ridiculous number of letters in its name and the unoriginal colours in its flag.
Why was it created by totalitarians? Because it is cleverly designed to confuse and subjugate the masses. Why do I think it was devised by Communists? Because they do not allow it anywhere near their own people. They know it is a nation destroying, and subjugating scheme.
These two main movements pose an imminent threat to Western nations, who are fast asleep, and the other one is basically their mutually beneficial "useful idiots" to undermine the foundations of the West, thereby weakening them to make them ripe for easy takeover, possibly without the need for ammunition.
Freedom is a very good thing. It historically has led to human flourishing, creativity, ingenuity, initiative, inventions and the advance of humanity.
It is foundational to the success of Western Civilization, which in many ways has been an anomaly in history, because of this focus on true freedom, as guided by its Judeo/Christian foundations.
Freedom is not a given. It requires constant defending, and this can be costly.
People have always fought for freedom, in wars, in politics. Many of our forefathers died fighting for our freedom, and we should be very grateful for the freedom we have in Australia.
Being grateful means actively defending our freedoms, in part to honor their past sacrifices, but also to preserve it for future generations. We have a noble obligation and duty.
But the freedom the modern secular world, especially the developed countries we know as, “The West”, are increasingly desperately clambering for today is not the sort of freedom worth fighting for.
In fact, it is a type of non-freedom, it is a lie, a deception. It is really slavery dressed up as freedom.
You see, slavery itself is often deceptive. No one willingly enters into slavery, do they? So, to enslave requires either force or deception.
People have always had causes to fight for. Some are worthy and worth fighting for, like abolishing slavery or apartheid, or genocide, or abortion.
This latter one is interesting because the world has just become completely immune to the horror of this. Killing millions of unborn human babies has been completely normalized! How did we get here? May God forgive us.
Others are dressed up as “human rights,” or “civil rights,” and promoted as just and worthy causes to fight for, but they are really nothing of the sort.
A current case in point is the way the West especially have fallen for the lie that destroying the vital institutions of traditional marriage and the family is a just cause worth fighting for. But is it really? Have we thought this through?
Is destroying a foundational reality upon which the whole of human history has been built a good thing? Or have people just been completely hoodwinked?
Does this, combined with its wider, colourful movement, and its associated abortion promoting branch, show that it is potentially too late for us?
With the use of the mass media, TV sitcoms, movies, popular music and YouTube video clips, the Marxist movement (I here align all the seemingly separate movements currently undermining the West into this one movement, the Marxist movement which has been at war with the West since around the 1920s) are trying to force themselves onto our society and destroy the foundations which have made us free and strong.
Sadly, they seem to be succeeding and have put our true freedom in Australia and the West under immediate threat.
Nearly every aspect of this modern attack on the West is designed to undermine our foundations. To destroy marriage, family, having children.
Feminism is turning men and women against each other. Women seem to think they need to compete with men, rather than complement them. This in turn destroys marriages, families, communities, national birth rates.
We thought we had won the Cold War when the Berlin Wall fell in1989, but alas the Communists/Marxists just changed methods.
They knew they couldn't outspend us, so they let us believe it was over and then set about infiltrating, undermining and destroying the West from within.
This is known in one form as the Long March Through the Institutions. They have been patient, persistent and purposeful. And highly successful!
Freedom and truth require defending by every generation. Our current generation is unfortunately increasingly at risk of becoming over-run by this great deception.
I maintain a high degree of optimism however, that these young people will actually see through the deceptions and become the generation from which we might just have a chance at rebuilding.
With God's help this is where the hope will come from. I do not hold out much hope for my own generation, as we seem so deeply asleep and deluded.
As our forefathers had to go to war to defend our freedom, so too will this currently younger generation, but thankfully, hopefully, in a different type of warfare, not so much with guns but with words, God’s Word in particular.
A big part of the turnaround will come from them seeing the emptiness. The barren landscape produced by these Marxist inspired movements. The lack of joy, purpose, satisfaction.
With the help of the only movement worth truly following, Christianity, this may spark a return to following Jesus, returning to church, the Bible, getting married, having children, raising families. The things we were designed to do and which give us such purpose, satisfaction and joy.
Getting back to defining freedom. A big part of the problem for our generation is that the word “freedom” has become widely misunderstood and misused. The majority culture of our day understands freedom to mean the freedom to do whatever an individual wants, basically without restraint.
A big part of some prominent worldviews such as Libertarians, as I understand them, are based somewhat on this premise that as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, we should be free to do what we like.
But who decides what might hurt someone else? And what about the harm done to the person under this delusion.
Divorce, smoking, drugs, promoting alcohol or addictive behavior to young people, such as through glamorizing smoking. Committing adultery. Using prostitutes. Promiscuity. Aborting a human. Lying. Stealing. Deceiving. Affirming confused men wearing dresses. Women "marrying" women. 2 + 2 = 5.
All these bring harm and all impact children possibly over multiple generations.
The one crucial ingredient lacking in all these movements, is God. It is from God that morality comes. The virtue required to create true freedom. Without this there is only forms of slavery.
Hence, I would state that the reason Western Civilization has been so successful, and stands out so much in human history, is because it has its foundation built on the God of the Bible, the Judeo/Christian faith, work ethic, morality, virtues.
"Liberty cannot be established without morality." Alexis de Tocqueville
If you remove God from the foundation, it will not work.
The United States Constitution for example, can be used as a foundational document but it won't work if you remove God from it.
Some may say this document is not a Christian document and doesn't overtly mention God. However, the founders, the writers of the Constitution were mostly Christians, and Christianity, and the God of the Bible, and the teachings of the Bible are all very much at the heart of this document. That is why it has worked so well.
You will notice the big human deceptions aimed at enslaving the masses, all either remove God or seek to replace God with something that man can control.
In fact, they all in reality are at war with God. It is one reason Islam and Communism and Rainbowism all hate Jewish people and Christian people, the people of this God.
Islamism was invented by a man in the seventh century AD, (the 600s) to elevate himself and dominate militarily. It is a remarkably successful political ideology, and military strategy which spreads rapidly and, because it accommodates no opposition, it mostly maintains the ground it conquers and continues spreading.
They have a god at the center of Islam, but it is not the God of the Bible.
Communism is more overtly at war with God. They have attempted to replace God altogether with the State.
Rainbowism, you will notice, is very much at war with God. This hatred will only grow and become uglier. The God of the Bible makes it very clear that what they are all about is sinful and wrong, in fact some of the words used are: “detestable” (Lev. 18:22), “unnatural” and “shameful” (Rom. 1:27).
It is set apart as exceptionally bad as far as sins go. A reason it is not just like any other sin is because it is sexual sin which is particularly grievous in God’s sight (1 Cor. 6:18-20).
In warring against God's foundations, they are warring against reality itself.
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” -Jesus Christ.
Radical Feminism, really probably a branch of Rainbowism, likewise will need to ramp up their war on God and the Bible, which makes it clear that,
"A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love, and holiness with propriety." (1 Timothy 2:11-15)
There is context around this which I won't go into, but you can see why the feminists do not like the Bible!
Unfortunately, our politicians, mostly the ones who do not know God or read the Bible, seem to have been hoodwinked into the big Marxist deceptions, and so we are reaping what has been sown.
And yes, people are suffering as a result. Mental sickness is real. Sadly, as usual, it is the children who are hurt the most.
Defeat in a battle can sometimes come down to such a small, seemingly simple or harmless thing such as an advancing army running out of water or petrol, or a small mosquito spreading malaria among the troops in a tropical jungle, or a lie spread with intent to destroy, or a word used in the wrong way.
Unrestrained freedom is actually a form of slavery. True freedom requires virtue and there is no virtue in unrestrained sexual immorality, or in harming other human beings, no matter how young or how old, or in making it easy for drug dealers, or dealers in porn or other sexual forms of enslavement, or gambling, smoking, alcohol, to enslave our nation's children, the weak or the poor.
In June 1978, speaking at Harvard University, Soviet freedom fighter and winner of a Nobel Prize in literature, Russian Alexander Solzhenitsyn, not only argued against the worldview which had enslaved his own country through Communism, but he prophetically assessed a major flaw and deception in the prevailing worldview being embraced by the West. He said that a “destructive and irresponsible freedom had been granted boundless space.” This is even more so today.
The West has exchanged belief in unchanging truth, and a proper understanding of true freedom, for basically an anything goes version of freedom, which in reality is slavery calling itself freedom.
It is a ruthless, deceptive, legalism restraining true freedom and enslaving those who thought they were fighting for freedom.
Encouraging and affirming a man to wear a dress, or to play in women's sports, or to use the women's restrooms, basically just encourages slavery, the opposite of true freedom.
Importantly, it is not loving. It is not being a good friend. It hurts that man, women, children, society.
You cannot tell yourself lies and expect your mind to be healthy. Who will pay the mental health treatment costs? All of us!
The main area that the irresponsible adults, who are promoting these self-centered, damaging movements are inflicting major damage, is on children. No one seems to be thinking about our society’s children.
Freedom to kill, destroy and damage our society through the selfish demands of bullies, and the resulting harm to children and our communities, is no freedom at all.
When a supposedly responsible politician expends time, energy and taxpayer funded resources promoting something like amending a law to try to make unnatural, unhealthy sexual acts normal, they are not being considerate of the damage they are causing our children.
They are in fact planting ideas in children's minds. This is effectively child abuse, sexual grooming, a crime in Australia, yet no one is being arrested.
It is creepy. It is depraved. It is propaganda designed to enslave a generation of Australian children. Why are adults even discussing these things with children? Why are they being taught in schools to children? These adults are sick, they are evil, they are sexually perverted.
One has to ask what is their motive?
Where are the responsible adults?
Parents have been bullied into silence. They have been convinced that "maybe we are wrong". No, you are not wrong to protect your children from pedophiles. From Marxists. You MUST protect them, because no one else will.
Children discuss it in playgrounds and are influenced by our leaders to try it or to let diseased and demented homosexual pedophiles do it to them.
It is difficult enough for children and especially teenagers to grow up, but to have to deal with this sort of thing is child abuse inflicted by supposedly responsible adults. Teachers. Youth leaders. Church leaders. Politicians. Social workers. Medical professionals. Media personalities. Sporting personalities. Musicians. They are all in on it. WHY?
As with adults in our society who, with good conscience, oppose changing the definition of marriage to appease the homosexual bullies, it is the same with children across Australia, they are all being discriminated against, bullied and blacklisted for wanting to keep traditional marriage as it is, between a man and a women for life for the raising of children for the good of children and society.
I would like to encourage you to grow in your ability to see through the lies of these movements. Question them. Look at their consequences. Filter the wisdom of the world through God’s trustworthy and unchanging word, the Bible. Make a choice about who you would rather trust, God or man.
Be smart and discerning. See the truth through the fog of deception which saturates our society’s TV shows, newspapers, Hollywood movies, YouTube music videos, news programs, social media and politics.
Think through what they are promoting. Work out these false worldviews until you see the bad fruit they produce and compare them with the good fruit which is produced from a life of following God’s ways and trusting Jesus.
Not all things are good for you. Many will try to enslave you in different ways. Don’t fall for the lies that these people will tell you, such as, “You won’t know until you try it,” or “Try it you might like it”, or, "You are born that way."
Drug dealers and the sexually immoral will say these things to try to get you addicted, to enslave you. These are just different ways of saying what was said to Eve in the garden when she was tempted to eat the forbidden fruit, remember, “Did God really say that”.
The slave makers plant seeds of doubt and will try to lead you astray. Don’t believe it, stick to God’s ways.
Those who will make you addicts and enslave you to things which destroy rather than bring life, satisfaction, happiness and fulfilment, will call you through the media, through friends, through a YouTube music video, at university, on a public bus, or through a contact on social media.
They will try to get you to do things which will enslave you, things like trying cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, pornography, sexually immoral acts, and maybe later on to think that adultery, or divorce is an easy solution to some marriage difficulties, or that an abortion will somehow be beneficial.
But please resist them and look at what they produce: AIDS, STDs, mental illness, depression, sickness, regret, torment, suicide, devastated parents and siblings, broken relationships, broken families and homes, destroyed careers, poverty, high community burdens, increased taxes on hard working citizens to pay the health costs.
See them for the empty lies they are. Turn away from them and do not look back.
Freedom is not being able to do what we want, it is living according to the authority structures put in place by our Creator, for our good, and by us knowing and loving God as we do so.
It is ultimately foolish to say, “There is no God, and therefore I will live however I want, and no-one will tell me what to do, I will do it my way, ruled by no authority apart from my own desires!”
This is not freedom. It will lead to chaos for such a person and all around them.
Imagine driving on a freeway at peak traffic hour if there were no recognized authority or if everyone was just rebelling against the road rules.
Or a train going off the tracks which act as its authority structure to restrain its direction for the good of those on board and those around the tracks!
In the same way we are to obey the authorities placed over us, such as parents, teachers and the government (but only as far as they uphold God’s ways).
A very wise man named Paul, who lived two thousand years ago, said, "For you, dear friends, have been called to live in freedom, not freedom to satisfy your sinful nature, but freedom to serve one another in love." (Gal.5:13).
The battle is one of ideas, of worldviews, it is one of trusting God or man, of defending God’s truth against the father of lies, the great deceiver we know as Satan.
The battle is ultimately the same one started in the Garden of Eden, where Satan deceived Eve by planting a seed of doubt and enticing Eve to disobey God.
Adam and Eve lost their freedom that day as a consequence, and all mankind has suffered ever since. The battle between freedom and slavery, between truth and deception has been raging ever since.
However, the great news is that Jesus has overcome the world. He has secured the final victory, ensuring freedom cannot ultimately be taken from those who are on His side. Those still enslaved mock at this, while those set free rejoice.
Seek Him and trust Him and you will be free indeed.
All of us have been affected or damaged in one way or another by wrong living, by following the wrong path, doing the wrong things, succumbing to the temptations which come to all of us, being deceived to elevate the bad as if it is good, the dangerous as if it were safe, and having to endure the fruit of such living, the costly consequences of our rebellion.
Fear not!
There is great news in the powerful truth that Jesus has paid the price for wrong living, He has taken it all upon Himself and offers true freedom to all who call on His name.
Not just freedom, but removal of burdens, regrets, spiritual healing, forgiveness, fixed relationships and abundant true life both here and now and beyond into eternity.
To learn more about Jesus and His gift of true life click here.
We have been reconciled to our Creator through God himself in the form of Jesus Christ taking on Himself the punishment justly due for our sins (our mistakes, brokenness, rebellion, and disobedience to the way he made us to live, the whole lot). Only God could pay the price for our freedom, and this is what He has done.
Yet the battle rages on for a time, as Satan thrashes around in his death throws trying to cause maximum damage on his way out.
As Revelation 19:19-20 makes clear, Satan, the beast, and the kings of the earth who gather together to make war against Jesus, will be defeated and captured.
These earthly powers, I think we can say, include not just anti-God governments, and legislators, but the powerful forces of modernity such as the entertainment industry, the mainstream media, militant lobby groups, ISIS (and the other forms of Islam), Marxists, and all the other dark forces gathering now to make war against Jesus.
They all shake their fists at God and try to push him away and out of their lives. Of course they cannot succeed, and true freedom will only be found for those on Jesus side.
The length of time given to these powers to inflict their suffering on the earth only reflects Jesus amazing mercy, in that by delaying their inevitable final defeat and judgement he is giving those who are his, more time to turn from the empty façade, the thin veneer of falseness of this world, to come to him and find true life.
There is nothing new under the sun, so what we see happening today is not new and we certainly do not need to be worried to death about it, as we know that Jesus has ultimately defeated Satan, and that while he is still thrashing around in his death throws, he will ultimately meet his end.
Human history has had many periods of darkness imposed on it, such as, just in relatively recent history, Nazism, Communism, Apartheid, ISIS, the current attempt to destroy the traditional family and marriage (the foundational structures of a free world), and the mass murder of millions of babies in the womb in the West (where is the baby's “freedom”?).
These have and will all be brought to an end. Therefore, while we need to speak up against such deceptions, such threats to true freedom, and while we need to actively try to defeat them, we do not need to live in fear. They will be overcome.
But we do still need to live through this world, and so we need to be aware of what is going on. You will need to be on guard, as unfortunately, you are growing up in an era where the battle against true freedom by these militant anti-freedom movements is at its fiercest, perhaps even since the time of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19).
In fact, the speed with which these armies are gathering to make war against Jesus is staggering, and the gates of the West itself are on the verge of being breached.
These movements are deceivers of the highest order. They proclaim loudly and boldly that they are fighting for freedom, but the so-called “freedoms” which they are proposing and trying to force on us, through legislation, and bullying by and through the media, include things such as:
The types of so-called freedoms being demanded by these movements, and some political parties, include abhorrent things such as the “freedom” to have sex with animals.
And of course, why not, after all if you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.
These so-called freedoms are really nothing of the sort. They are a deception designed to lead people into slavery. Just look at the fruit of such things, they do not lead to good things, they lead to slavery, to death, despair, destruction, sadness, brokenness, mental sickness, depression and suicide. That is not the fruit of real freedom. But it is the fruit the enslavers are working to achieve.
One of the quickest ways for Satan to win is to destroy the foundations of a free society: belief in the creation account of Genesis, the traditional family, true marriage, and to enslave people in their millions through addictions to drugs, pornography, sex, computer games, social media, and entertainment.
These are some of the major weapons being used by the armies of men as they gather to make war against Jesus.
Many of these so-called lifestyles of choice, are defended by their proponents as “not hurting anyone else so why can’t I do it.” That of course is another deception.
Our whole society pays the price for increased health care costs due to the increase in sexually transmitted diseases, which are rampant in homosexual communities, not to mention the millions of children left fatherless and motherless because of the spread of AIDS in those communities.
Then there is the increasing occurrence of drug addicts clogging up our ambulances and emergency departments at hospitals because of drug use related issues, not to mention the drain on our health care system from the massive increase in abortions, mental health issues, depression and suicides. We all pay for this. The consequences of living against God’s ways is always bad and always costly.
The main area that these irresponsible adults, who are promoting these damaging movements, are inflicting major damage is on children. No one seems to be thinking about our society’s children.
Freedom to kill, destroy and damage our society through the selfish demands of these bullies, and the resulting harm to children and our communities, is no freedom at all.
When a supposedly responsible politician expends time, energy and resources promoting something like amending a law to make it normal for a man to marry another man, they are not being considerate of the damage they are causing our children.
There is only one true freedom and that is the freedom one gets from putting their trust in Jesus, having their sins forgiven, their guilt and shame removed, being freed from slavery to sin and this fallen world, receiving eternal life, and living this earthly life according to God’s ways not mans.
“God has made everyone as they are for a reason, and He does not make mistakes. People often get so concerned with the way they look that they fail to understand that God can use them just the way they are. God has a purpose for each of us, and it’s our duty to fund out what His purposes are and then to fulfil them” Dobson, (153, Adolescence).
Don’t get side-tracked by the things that this passing world values such as looks or money. Your value is not found in these things, your value is beyond measure because you are made by God in His image, it does not matter what you look like.
I would like to encourage you to seek freedom from such concerns, to seek freedom from being a slave to how you look, how much money you have, whether your house is better than your friends. Seek first God’s kingdom and He will take care of everything you need and more. He is a generous God.
Be generous with your life, with your time, with your resources. God is the One who can replenish whatever you expend and He wants you to do certain things with your time and resources, so find out what they are.
Read God’s word to hear what they are. It is not rocket science and we do not need to wait for a billboard with a special message from God. He has revealed He has a heart for people, He loves people, so we should love people. Yes, even Nazis, Communists, atheists, the lost, the weak, the poor, the confused.
All things are doable, but not all things are good for you. Don’t fall for the lie that these movements will tell you, such as “You won’t know until you try it,” or “Try it you might like it”. These are just different ways of saying what Satan said to Eve in the garden when he tempted her to eat the forbidden fruit, remember, he said to her, “Did God really say that”. He plants seeds of doubt and tries to lead us astray. Don’t believe it, stick to God’s ways.
I would like to encourage you to grow in your ability to see through the lies of these movements. Question them. Look at their fruit. Filter the wisdom of the world through God’s trustworthy and unchanging word, the Bible. Make a choice about who you would rather trust, God or man.
I want for you to be smart and discerning. To see the truth through the fog of deception which saturates our society’s TV shows, newspapers, Hollywood movies, YouTube music videos, news programs, social media and politics.
Think through what they are promoting. Work out these false worldviews until you see the bad fruit they produce and compare them with the good fruit which is produced from a life of following God’s ways and trusting Jesus.
Satan will call you through the media, through friends, through a YouTube music video, at university, on a public bus, or through a contact on social media, to do things which will enslave you, things like trying drugs, alcohol, pornography, sexually immoral acts, and maybe later on to think that divorce is an easy solution to some marriage difficulties, or that an abortion will be beneficial.
But please resist them and look at the fruit that they produce. AIDS, STDs, mental illness, depression, sickness, suicide, devastated parents and siblings, broken relationships, broken families and homes, destroyed careers, poverty, high community burdens, increased taxes on hard working citizens.
See them for the empty lies they are. Turn away from them and do not look back.
One of the greatest needs of our day is for God to raise up great statesmen and women, leaders with civil courage, a love for God and a proper knowledge and understanding of God’s unchanging truth and word in the Bible, who can stand up for truth and freedom and restrain the spread of worldviews which are enslaving our children.
In speaking to you today I wholeheartedly pray that God will raise up many such statesmen from among you.
Seek first God’s kingdom and live God’s way and all you need will be given to you. True freedom is trusting, knowing and following Jesus Christ. This is the best way.
by Craig Manners
2016
Young people around the West are under pressure. Many of them are being tossed to and fro by many new movements of emptiness, all offering much but delivering mostly slavery and, well, emptiness.
The phrase "tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine" comes from Ephesians 4:14, which basically warns against being easily led astray by the myriad crafty teachings of men motivated to cause you loss under the guise of offering you ultimate good.
"Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming." (Ephesians 4:14)
We all need to aim toward stability, being well grounded in what we believe and why, and we should grow in that understanding to avoid being misled by deceitful scheming.
This metaphor well describes the dangers to all of us of being and remaining like children, vulnerable to the whims of different movements, causes and the cunning of those who want to deceive us.
Billions of people around the world devote their time, energy and resources to causes and movements, to beliefs and schemes of men. As Augustine famously observed, "The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in thee."
Mankind is designed to worship its Creator. That is just how we are made, and this doesn't depend on whether you want that, acknowledge that or rebel against that. It just is.
When we do not do so, we tend naturally to try to replace this emptiness this restlessness, with other causes. Hence our seemingly fickle nature in blowing with the wind and being easily led astray from cause to cause.
This article doesn't intend to explore the various causes that humans follow, but to look into one cause I believe is common to all human beings, the pursuit of and desire for freedom.
In this it will in no way be exhaustive but will hopefully help some to skip the pain of following the lost causes, and instead find their rest in Jesus.
We naturally want freedom. I think that is a God given desire, because we are made in His image and are worthy of liberty, respect and dignity, which is all depleted if you are a slave to sin, or to other people and their lost causes.
Stealing your freedom is a major objective of the whims and deceits of cunning and crafty people. Individual tyrants and the ones behind the totalitarian movements old and new. They want to enslave you.
An initial task is to define freedom, because the deceitful ones will have very cunningly devised definitions so as to deceive people into giving it up, often without even being aware of this.
Two big and globally successful schemes by deceitful and cunning men aiming to remove our freedoms are Islam (Muhammed) and Communism (Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Engels).
There are others, like what I will call the "we are deceived and confused about everything and will fall for anything," the alphabet movement promoting sexual depravity and indoctrinating children.
This movement is mostly aimed at Western nations only. You won't find it in Russia or China or other communist countries. This implies that it was devised by cunning and scheming nations or movements outside of the West, most likely Communist Russia and China.
This is the one with the ridiculous number of letters in its name and the unoriginal colours in its flag.
Why was it created by totalitarians? Because it is cleverly designed to confuse and subjugate the masses. Why do I think it was devised by Communists? Because they do not allow it anywhere near their own people. They know it is a nation destroying, and subjugating scheme.
These two main movements pose an imminent threat to Western nations, who are fast asleep, and the other one is basically their mutually beneficial "useful idiots" to undermine the foundations of the West, thereby weakening them to make them ripe for easy takeover, possibly without the need for ammunition.
Freedom is a very good thing. It historically has led to human flourishing, creativity, ingenuity, initiative, inventions and the advance of humanity.
It is foundational to the success of Western Civilization, which in many ways has been an anomaly in history, because of this focus on true freedom, as guided by its Judeo/Christian foundations.
Freedom is not a given. It requires constant defending, and this can be costly.
People have always fought for freedom, in wars, in politics. Many of our forefathers died fighting for our freedom, and we should be very grateful for the freedom we have in Australia.
Being grateful means actively defending our freedoms, in part to honor their past sacrifices, but also to preserve it for future generations. We have a noble obligation and duty.
But the freedom the modern secular world, especially the developed countries we know as, “The West”, are increasingly desperately clambering for today is not the sort of freedom worth fighting for.
In fact, it is a type of non-freedom, it is a lie, a deception. It is really slavery dressed up as freedom.
You see, slavery itself is often deceptive. No one willingly enters into slavery, do they? So, to enslave requires either force or deception.
People have always had causes to fight for. Some are worthy and worth fighting for, like abolishing slavery or apartheid, or genocide, or abortion.
This latter one is interesting because the world has just become completely immune to the horror of this. Killing millions of unborn human babies has been completely normalized! How did we get here? May God forgive us.
Others are dressed up as “human rights,” or “civil rights,” and promoted as just and worthy causes to fight for, but they are really nothing of the sort.
A current case in point is the way the West especially have fallen for the lie that destroying the vital institutions of traditional marriage and the family is a just cause worth fighting for. But is it really? Have we thought this through?
Is destroying a foundational reality upon which the whole of human history has been built a good thing? Or have people just been completely hoodwinked?
Does this, combined with its wider, colourful movement, and its associated abortion promoting branch, show that it is potentially too late for us?
With the use of the mass media, TV sitcoms, movies, popular music and YouTube video clips, the Marxist movement (I here align all the seemingly separate movements currently undermining the West into this one movement, the Marxist movement which has been at war with the West since around the 1920s) are trying to force themselves onto our society and destroy the foundations which have made us free and strong.
Sadly, they seem to be succeeding and have put our true freedom in Australia and the West under immediate threat.
Nearly every aspect of this modern attack on the West is designed to undermine our foundations. To destroy marriage, family, having children.
Feminism is turning men and women against each other. Women seem to think they need to compete with men, rather than complement them. This in turn destroys marriages, families, communities, national birth rates.
We thought we had won the Cold War when the Berlin Wall fell in1989, but alas the Communists/Marxists just changed methods.
They knew they couldn't outspend us, so they let us believe it was over and then set about infiltrating, undermining and destroying the West from within.
This is known in one form as the Long March Through the Institutions. They have been patient, persistent and purposeful. And highly successful!
Freedom and truth require defending by every generation. Our current generation is unfortunately increasingly at risk of becoming over-run by this great deception.
I maintain a high degree of optimism however, that these young people will actually see through the deceptions and become the generation from which we might just have a chance at rebuilding.
With God's help this is where the hope will come from. I do not hold out much hope for my own generation, as we seem so deeply asleep and deluded.
As our forefathers had to go to war to defend our freedom, so too will this currently younger generation, but thankfully, hopefully, in a different type of warfare, not so much with guns but with words, God’s Word in particular.
A big part of the turnaround will come from them seeing the emptiness. The barren landscape produced by these Marxist inspired movements. The lack of joy, purpose, satisfaction.
With the help of the only movement worth truly following, Christianity, this may spark a return to following Jesus, returning to church, the Bible, getting married, having children, raising families. The things we were designed to do and which give us such purpose, satisfaction and joy.
Getting back to defining freedom. A big part of the problem for our generation is that the word “freedom” has become widely misunderstood and misused. The majority culture of our day understands freedom to mean the freedom to do whatever an individual wants, basically without restraint.
A big part of some prominent worldviews such as Libertarians, as I understand them, are based somewhat on this premise that as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, we should be free to do what we like.
But who decides what might hurt someone else? And what about the harm done to the person under this delusion.
Divorce, smoking, drugs, promoting alcohol or addictive behavior to young people, such as through glamorizing smoking. Committing adultery. Using prostitutes. Promiscuity. Aborting a human. Lying. Stealing. Deceiving. Affirming confused men wearing dresses. Women "marrying" women. 2 + 2 = 5.
All these bring harm and all impact children possibly over multiple generations.
The one crucial ingredient lacking in all these movements, is God. It is from God that morality comes. The virtue required to create true freedom. Without this there is only forms of slavery.
Hence, I would state that the reason Western Civilization has been so successful, and stands out so much in human history, is because it has its foundation built on the God of the Bible, the Judeo/Christian faith, work ethic, morality, virtues.
"Liberty cannot be established without morality." Alexis de Tocqueville
If you remove God from the foundation, it will not work.
The United States Constitution for example, can be used as a foundational document but it won't work if you remove God from it.
Some may say this document is not a Christian document and doesn't overtly mention God. However, the founders, the writers of the Constitution were mostly Christians, and Christianity, and the God of the Bible, and the teachings of the Bible are all very much at the heart of this document. That is why it has worked so well.
You will notice the big human deceptions aimed at enslaving the masses, all either remove God or seek to replace God with something that man can control.
In fact, they all in reality are at war with God. It is one reason Islam and Communism and Rainbowism all hate Jewish people and Christian people, the people of this God.
Islamism was invented by a man in the seventh century AD, (the 600s) to elevate himself and dominate militarily. It is a remarkably successful political ideology, and military strategy which spreads rapidly and, because it accommodates no opposition, it mostly maintains the ground it conquers and continues spreading.
They have a god at the center of Islam, but it is not the God of the Bible.
Communism is more overtly at war with God. They have attempted to replace God altogether with the State.
Rainbowism, you will notice, is very much at war with God. This hatred will only grow and become uglier. The God of the Bible makes it very clear that what they are all about is sinful and wrong, in fact some of the words used are: “detestable” (Lev. 18:22), “unnatural” and “shameful” (Rom. 1:27).
It is set apart as exceptionally bad as far as sins go. A reason it is not just like any other sin is because it is sexual sin which is particularly grievous in God’s sight (1 Cor. 6:18-20).
In warring against God's foundations, they are warring against reality itself.
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” -Jesus Christ.
Radical Feminism, really probably a branch of Rainbowism, likewise will need to ramp up their war on God and the Bible, which makes it clear that,
"A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love, and holiness with propriety." (1 Timothy 2:11-15)
There is context around this which I won't go into, but you can see why the feminists do not like the Bible!
Unfortunately, our politicians, mostly the ones who do not know God or read the Bible, seem to have been hoodwinked into the big Marxist deceptions, and so we are reaping what has been sown.
And yes, people are suffering as a result. Mental sickness is real. Sadly, as usual, it is the children who are hurt the most.
Defeat in a battle can sometimes come down to such a small, seemingly simple or harmless thing such as an advancing army running out of water or petrol, or a small mosquito spreading malaria among the troops in a tropical jungle, or a lie spread with intent to destroy, or a word used in the wrong way.
Unrestrained freedom is actually a form of slavery. True freedom requires virtue and there is no virtue in unrestrained sexual immorality, or in harming other human beings, no matter how young or how old, or in making it easy for drug dealers, or dealers in porn or other sexual forms of enslavement, or gambling, smoking, alcohol, to enslave our nation's children, the weak or the poor.
In June 1978, speaking at Harvard University, Soviet freedom fighter and winner of a Nobel Prize in literature, Russian Alexander Solzhenitsyn, not only argued against the worldview which had enslaved his own country through Communism, but he prophetically assessed a major flaw and deception in the prevailing worldview being embraced by the West. He said that a “destructive and irresponsible freedom had been granted boundless space.” This is even more so today.
The West has exchanged belief in unchanging truth, and a proper understanding of true freedom, for basically an anything goes version of freedom, which in reality is slavery calling itself freedom.
It is a ruthless, deceptive, legalism restraining true freedom and enslaving those who thought they were fighting for freedom.
Encouraging and affirming a man to wear a dress, or to play in women's sports, or to use the women's restrooms, basically just encourages slavery, the opposite of true freedom.
Importantly, it is not loving. It is not being a good friend. It hurts that man, women, children, society.
You cannot tell yourself lies and expect your mind to be healthy. Who will pay the mental health treatment costs? All of us!
The main area that the irresponsible adults, who are promoting these self-centered, damaging movements are inflicting major damage, is on children. No one seems to be thinking about our society’s children.
Freedom to kill, destroy and damage our society through the selfish demands of bullies, and the resulting harm to children and our communities, is no freedom at all.
When a supposedly responsible politician expends time, energy and taxpayer funded resources promoting something like amending a law to try to make unnatural, unhealthy sexual acts normal, they are not being considerate of the damage they are causing our children.
They are in fact planting ideas in children's minds. This is effectively child abuse, sexual grooming, a crime in Australia, yet no one is being arrested.
It is creepy. It is depraved. It is propaganda designed to enslave a generation of Australian children. Why are adults even discussing these things with children? Why are they being taught in schools to children? These adults are sick, they are evil, they are sexually perverted.
One has to ask what is their motive?
Where are the responsible adults?
Parents have been bullied into silence. They have been convinced that "maybe we are wrong". No, you are not wrong to protect your children from pedophiles. From Marxists. You MUST protect them, because no one else will.
Children discuss it in playgrounds and are influenced by our leaders to try it or to let diseased and demented homosexual pedophiles do it to them.
It is difficult enough for children and especially teenagers to grow up, but to have to deal with this sort of thing is child abuse inflicted by supposedly responsible adults. Teachers. Youth leaders. Church leaders. Politicians. Social workers. Medical professionals. Media personalities. Sporting personalities. Musicians. They are all in on it. WHY?
As with adults in our society who, with good conscience, oppose changing the definition of marriage to appease the homosexual bullies, it is the same with children across Australia, they are all being discriminated against, bullied and blacklisted for wanting to keep traditional marriage as it is, between a man and a women for life for the raising of children for the good of children and society.
I would like to encourage you to grow in your ability to see through the lies of these movements. Question them. Look at their consequences. Filter the wisdom of the world through God’s trustworthy and unchanging word, the Bible. Make a choice about who you would rather trust, God or man.
Be smart and discerning. See the truth through the fog of deception which saturates our society’s TV shows, newspapers, Hollywood movies, YouTube music videos, news programs, social media and politics.
Think through what they are promoting. Work out these false worldviews until you see the bad fruit they produce and compare them with the good fruit which is produced from a life of following God’s ways and trusting Jesus.
Not all things are good for you. Many will try to enslave you in different ways. Don’t fall for the lies that these people will tell you, such as, “You won’t know until you try it,” or “Try it you might like it”, or, "You are born that way."
Drug dealers and the sexually immoral will say these things to try to get you addicted, to enslave you. These are just different ways of saying what was said to Eve in the garden when she was tempted to eat the forbidden fruit, remember, “Did God really say that”.
The slave makers plant seeds of doubt and will try to lead you astray. Don’t believe it, stick to God’s ways.
Those who will make you addicts and enslave you to things which destroy rather than bring life, satisfaction, happiness and fulfilment, will call you through the media, through friends, through a YouTube music video, at university, on a public bus, or through a contact on social media.
They will try to get you to do things which will enslave you, things like trying cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, pornography, sexually immoral acts, and maybe later on to think that adultery, or divorce is an easy solution to some marriage difficulties, or that an abortion will somehow be beneficial.
But please resist them and look at what they produce: AIDS, STDs, mental illness, depression, sickness, regret, torment, suicide, devastated parents and siblings, broken relationships, broken families and homes, destroyed careers, poverty, high community burdens, increased taxes on hard working citizens to pay the health costs.
See them for the empty lies they are. Turn away from them and do not look back.
Freedom is not being able to do what we want, it is living according to the authority structures put in place by our Creator, for our good, and by us knowing and loving God as we do so.
It is ultimately foolish to say, “There is no God, and therefore I will live however I want, and no-one will tell me what to do, I will do it my way, ruled by no authority apart from my own desires!”
This is not freedom. It will lead to chaos for such a person and all around them.
Imagine driving on a freeway at peak traffic hour if there were no recognized authority or if everyone was just rebelling against the road rules.
Or a train going off the tracks which act as its authority structure to restrain its direction for the good of those on board and those around the tracks!
In the same way we are to obey the authorities placed over us, such as parents, teachers and the government (but only as far as they uphold God’s ways).
A very wise man named Paul, who lived two thousand years ago, said, "For you, dear friends, have been called to live in freedom, not freedom to satisfy your sinful nature, but freedom to serve one another in love." (Gal.5:13).
The battle is one of ideas, of worldviews, it is one of trusting God or man, of defending God’s truth against the father of lies, the great deceiver we know as Satan.
The battle is ultimately the same one started in the Garden of Eden, where Satan deceived Eve by planting a seed of doubt and enticing Eve to disobey God.
Adam and Eve lost their freedom that day as a consequence, and all mankind has suffered ever since. The battle between freedom and slavery, between truth and deception has been raging ever since.
However, the great news is that Jesus has overcome the world. He has secured the final victory, ensuring freedom cannot ultimately be taken from those who are on His side. Those still enslaved mock at this, while those set free rejoice.
Seek Him and trust Him and you will be free indeed.
All of us have been affected or damaged in one way or another by wrong living, by following the wrong path, doing the wrong things, succumbing to the temptations which come to all of us, being deceived to elevate the bad as if it is good, the dangerous as if it were safe, and having to endure the fruit of such living, the costly consequences of our rebellion.
Fear not!
There is great news in the powerful truth that Jesus has paid the price for wrong living, He has taken it all upon Himself and offers true freedom to all who call on His name.
Not just freedom, but removal of burdens, regrets, spiritual healing, forgiveness, fixed relationships and abundant true life both here and now and beyond into eternity.
To learn more about Jesus and His gift of true life click here.
We have been reconciled to our Creator through God himself in the form of Jesus Christ taking on Himself the punishment justly due for our sins (our mistakes, brokenness, rebellion, and disobedience to the way he made us to live, the whole lot). Only God could pay the price for our freedom, and this is what He has done.
Yet the battle rages on for a time, as Satan thrashes around in his death throws trying to cause maximum damage on his way out.
As Revelation 19:19-20 makes clear, Satan, the beast, and the kings of the earth who gather together to make war against Jesus, will be defeated and captured.
These earthly powers, I think we can say, include not just anti-God governments, and legislators, but the powerful forces of modernity such as the entertainment industry, the mainstream media, militant lobby groups, ISIS (and the other forms of Islam), Marxists, and all the other dark forces gathering now to make war against Jesus.
They all shake their fists at God and try to push him away and out of their lives. Of course they cannot succeed, and true freedom will only be found for those on Jesus side.
The length of time given to these powers to inflict their suffering on the earth only reflects Jesus amazing mercy, in that by delaying their inevitable final defeat and judgement he is giving those who are his, more time to turn from the empty façade, the thin veneer of falseness of this world, to come to him and find true life.
There is nothing new under the sun, so what we see happening today is not new and we certainly do not need to be worried to death about it, as we know that Jesus has ultimately defeated Satan, and that while he is still thrashing around in his death throws, he will ultimately meet his end.
Human history has had many periods of darkness imposed on it, such as, just in relatively recent history, Nazism, Communism, Apartheid, ISIS, the current attempt to destroy the traditional family and marriage (the foundational structures of a free world), and the mass murder of millions of babies in the womb in the West (where is the baby's “freedom”?).
These have and will all be brought to an end. Therefore, while we need to speak up against such deceptions, such threats to true freedom, and while we need to actively try to defeat them, we do not need to live in fear. They will be overcome.
But we do still need to live through this world, and so we need to be aware of what is going on. You will need to be on guard, as unfortunately, you are growing up in an era where the battle against true freedom by these militant anti-freedom movements is at its fiercest, perhaps even since the time of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19).
In fact, the speed with which these armies are gathering to make war against Jesus is staggering, and the gates of the West itself are on the verge of being breached.
These movements are deceivers of the highest order. They proclaim loudly and boldly that they are fighting for freedom, but the so-called “freedoms” which they are proposing and trying to force on us, through legislation, and bullying by and through the media, include things such as:
- The freedom to be the centre of the universe;
- The freedom to choose who can and can’t be born;
- The freedom to choose when they die or when others should die;
- The freedom to divorce the husband or wife of their youth on a whim, and to destroy the lives of children in the process;
- The freedom to do things like “marry” someone of one’s own sex; (As the old saying goes, “In the beginning God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.” It is a nonsense among the highest of possible nonsenses, yet the majority of the world seems to be under a spell).
- The freedom to legally take dangerous drugs at will. (And of course this makes sense because drugs make slaves- addicts- out of people, which is what Satan ultimately wants.)
- So called “Sexual Freedom” to do whatever one wants to get sexual satisfaction, which like everything else designed to enslave, never truly satisfies anyway.
The types of so-called freedoms being demanded by these movements, and some political parties, include abhorrent things such as the “freedom” to have sex with animals.
And of course, why not, after all if you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.
These so-called freedoms are really nothing of the sort. They are a deception designed to lead people into slavery. Just look at the fruit of such things, they do not lead to good things, they lead to slavery, to death, despair, destruction, sadness, brokenness, mental sickness, depression and suicide. That is not the fruit of real freedom. But it is the fruit the enslavers are working to achieve.
One of the quickest ways for Satan to win is to destroy the foundations of a free society: belief in the creation account of Genesis, the traditional family, true marriage, and to enslave people in their millions through addictions to drugs, pornography, sex, computer games, social media, and entertainment.
These are some of the major weapons being used by the armies of men as they gather to make war against Jesus.
Many of these so-called lifestyles of choice, are defended by their proponents as “not hurting anyone else so why can’t I do it.” That of course is another deception.
Our whole society pays the price for increased health care costs due to the increase in sexually transmitted diseases, which are rampant in homosexual communities, not to mention the millions of children left fatherless and motherless because of the spread of AIDS in those communities.
Then there is the increasing occurrence of drug addicts clogging up our ambulances and emergency departments at hospitals because of drug use related issues, not to mention the drain on our health care system from the massive increase in abortions, mental health issues, depression and suicides. We all pay for this. The consequences of living against God’s ways is always bad and always costly.
The main area that these irresponsible adults, who are promoting these damaging movements, are inflicting major damage is on children. No one seems to be thinking about our society’s children.
Freedom to kill, destroy and damage our society through the selfish demands of these bullies, and the resulting harm to children and our communities, is no freedom at all.
When a supposedly responsible politician expends time, energy and resources promoting something like amending a law to make it normal for a man to marry another man, they are not being considerate of the damage they are causing our children.
There is only one true freedom and that is the freedom one gets from putting their trust in Jesus, having their sins forgiven, their guilt and shame removed, being freed from slavery to sin and this fallen world, receiving eternal life, and living this earthly life according to God’s ways not mans.
“God has made everyone as they are for a reason, and He does not make mistakes. People often get so concerned with the way they look that they fail to understand that God can use them just the way they are. God has a purpose for each of us, and it’s our duty to fund out what His purposes are and then to fulfil them” Dobson, (153, Adolescence).
Don’t get side-tracked by the things that this passing world values such as looks or money. Your value is not found in these things, your value is beyond measure because you are made by God in His image, it does not matter what you look like.
I would like to encourage you to seek freedom from such concerns, to seek freedom from being a slave to how you look, how much money you have, whether your house is better than your friends. Seek first God’s kingdom and He will take care of everything you need and more. He is a generous God.
Be generous with your life, with your time, with your resources. God is the One who can replenish whatever you expend and He wants you to do certain things with your time and resources, so find out what they are.
Read God’s word to hear what they are. It is not rocket science and we do not need to wait for a billboard with a special message from God. He has revealed He has a heart for people, He loves people, so we should love people. Yes, even Nazis, Communists, atheists, the lost, the weak, the poor, the confused.
All things are doable, but not all things are good for you. Don’t fall for the lie that these movements will tell you, such as “You won’t know until you try it,” or “Try it you might like it”. These are just different ways of saying what Satan said to Eve in the garden when he tempted her to eat the forbidden fruit, remember, he said to her, “Did God really say that”. He plants seeds of doubt and tries to lead us astray. Don’t believe it, stick to God’s ways.
I would like to encourage you to grow in your ability to see through the lies of these movements. Question them. Look at their fruit. Filter the wisdom of the world through God’s trustworthy and unchanging word, the Bible. Make a choice about who you would rather trust, God or man.
I want for you to be smart and discerning. To see the truth through the fog of deception which saturates our society’s TV shows, newspapers, Hollywood movies, YouTube music videos, news programs, social media and politics.
Think through what they are promoting. Work out these false worldviews until you see the bad fruit they produce and compare them with the good fruit which is produced from a life of following God’s ways and trusting Jesus.
Satan will call you through the media, through friends, through a YouTube music video, at university, on a public bus, or through a contact on social media, to do things which will enslave you, things like trying drugs, alcohol, pornography, sexually immoral acts, and maybe later on to think that divorce is an easy solution to some marriage difficulties, or that an abortion will be beneficial.
But please resist them and look at the fruit that they produce. AIDS, STDs, mental illness, depression, sickness, suicide, devastated parents and siblings, broken relationships, broken families and homes, destroyed careers, poverty, high community burdens, increased taxes on hard working citizens.
See them for the empty lies they are. Turn away from them and do not look back.
One of the greatest needs of our day is for God to raise up great statesmen and women, leaders with civil courage, a love for God and a proper knowledge and understanding of God’s unchanging truth and word in the Bible, who can stand up for truth and freedom and restrain the spread of worldviews which are enslaving our children.
In speaking to you today I wholeheartedly pray that God will raise up many such statesmen from among you.
Seek first God’s kingdom and live God’s way and all you need will be given to you. True freedom is trusting, knowing and following Jesus Christ. This is the best way.