What does liberty, in biblical terms, really mean?

Man’s greatest fear is losing his life. Losing life includes facing God’s judgment with guilt and shame. Literally natural man is a slave of Satan, fear and death.

Men need to be liberated. Liberate is a verb that means doing something. The Holy Bible and that alone speaks of this liberation. “Since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death — that is, the devil — and free (liberate) those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death.” — Hebrews 2:14-15.

When the Holy Spirit moves men to believe this liberation, they become free and have freedom. This freedom sets mankind on a new path replacing peace for worry, courage for fear, hope for fatalism. Men, living in the presence of such great and divine acts of love, respond in responsibility, creativity and thankfulness.

These same new facets of life are what has established our nation, based primarily on Christianity, into such prosperity, patriotism and populism. Of course, our nation is not and never has been perfect.

There have always been and still are cultural distractions from human thinking contrary to biblical testimony. This merely means that the stolid silent minority needs to do as its Savior directed: “Let your light shine before men.” Speak up for the truth and righteousness. Freedom is not inherited through the blood stream. It is maintained one generation at a time, mouth to ear from parent to children by word and deed.

THE REV. ROBERT MISKIMEN SR.

Bella Vista