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In my anguish I cried to the LORD, and he answered by setting me free.
Psalm 118:5
I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free.
Psalm 119:32
I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts.
Psalm 119:45
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
Luke 4:18-19
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
John 8:32
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
John 8:36
Into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Romans 8:21
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1
You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.
Galatians 5:13
Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 8:9
In him [Christ] and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.
Ephesians 3:12
But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.
James 1:25
Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom.
James 2:12
Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
1 Peter 2:16
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
2 Peter 2:19
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
Abraham Lincoln
"I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves."
Harriet Tubman
"No one is free when others are oppressed."
Author Unknown
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
"A Christian man is the most free lord of all, and subject to none, a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to every one."
Martin Luther
Freedom of a Christian
"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it."
Pericles
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."
Goethe
"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."
Voltaire
"The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage."
Thucydides
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
George Orwell
"O, Lord, I want to be free, want to be free, Rainbow round my shoulder, wings on my feet."
Traditional spiritual
Free from the law, O happy condition,
Jesus has bled and there is remission,
Cursed by the law and bruised by the fall, Grace hath redeemed us once for all.
Once for all, O sinner, receive it,
Once for all, O brother, believe it;
Cling to the cross, the burden will fall, Christ hath redeemed us once for all.
Now we are free, there’s no condemnation,
Jesus provides a perfect salvation.
“Come unto Me,” O hear His sweet call,
Come, and He saves us once for all.
“Children of God,” O glorious calling, Surely His grace will keep us from falling;
Passing from death to life at His call;
Blessèd salvation once for all.
My soul is filled with joy and gladness
Since Jesus came to me.
His love has banished all my sadness, From sin I am set free.
He set me free, He set me free,
I was blind, but hallelujah, now I see!
I shall ne’er forget the day When He washed my sins away,
And He set, He set me free.
The Comforter divine is dwelling
Within my soul today;
His love to others I am telling
Since Jesus came to stay.
The grace of Jesus hath abounded
For all my sins I see,
Salvation walls have me surrounded, From sin I am set free.
Once I was bound by sin’s galling fetters;
Chained like a slave, I struggled in vain. But I received a glorious freedom,
When Jesus broke my fetters in twain.
Glorious freedom! Wonderful freedom!
No more in chains of sin I repine!
Jesus the glorious Emancipator—
Now and forever He shall be mine.
Freedom from all the carnal affections;
Freedom from envy, hatred and strife;
Freedom from vain and worldly ambitions;
Freedom from all that saddened my life!
Freedom from pride and all sinful follies;
Freedom from love and glitter of gold;
Freedom from evil temper and anger;
Glorious freedom, rapture untold!
Freedom from fear with all of its torments;
Freedom from care with all of its pain;
Freedom in Christ, my blessèd Redeemer—
He Who has rent my fetters in twain.
Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come,
Why should my heart be lonely, and long for heaven and home,
When Jesus is my portion? My constant friend is He:
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
I sing because I’m happy,
I sing because I’m free,
For His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me.
“Let not your heart be troubled,” His tender word I hear,
And resting on His goodness, I lose my doubts and fears;
Though by the path He leadeth, but one step I may see;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
Whenever I am tempted, whenever clouds arise,
When songs give place to sighing, when hope within me dies,
I draw the closer to Him, from care He sets me free;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
“The monument not only expresses regret and repentance for mothers who have abortions, but also the forgiveness and love of the unborn child to his mother.”
No matter how much children are abused, they still want their parents’ love, approval, acceptance.
We’ve been sleeping much too long, now the night is come
By the time, we wiped the sleep from our eyes so much damage done
The number of unborn children slaughtered unknown
Tell me who’ll be the next to go?
Now didn’t we learn anything at all from Hitler’s Germany?
When babies and Jews and them old folks too met eternity
From abortion to infanticide now wouldn’t you know
The old folks are next to go
Oh, don’t you know
Maybe your folks are next to go…
Technocracy can be a wonderful thing, if you’re a technocrat
Just as long as you’re sitting on top of the heap, well you’re where it’s at
But the aged, the blind and disabled stay out of their way
Hemlock Society’s paving the way, their paving the way
And while we’ve been debating theology, they’ve been working hard
While we’re building our crystal cathedrals, huh, they’re still working hard
So wake up sisters and brothers, this isn’t a show
Or we’ll be the next to go
Oh, don’t you know, yeah, we’ll be the next to go
What will you do? we’ll be the next to go
What will you do? we’ll be the next to go
When they finely come for you?
Who’ll be the next?
There’ll be no place to run and hide
What will you do?
Who’ll be the next to go?
The Obama administration’s healthcare agenda is so clear. First they arrange for insurance companies to fund contraception (and government funds the insurance companies) and everybody knows that the liberal definition of contraception includes all women’s reproductive rights including abortion. And the government provides free extensive prenatal testing which would become forced if one is to get health coverage. And that testing will result in increased abortions because every child with any defect will be aborted to save money. Or the mother will be denied health services. Free sex for all. Free search-and-destroy prenatal testing. Free abortion for all. The handicapped are dead. History doth repeat.
The media is trying to keep Santorum on the social issues so people can’t see his plans on energy, the economy, etc. They are attacking his faith with ridicule and disdain.
“Women on the whole disproportionately bear the burden of the new sexual regime. They are expected to dose themselves with a Group 1 carcinogen for approximately two-thirds of their fertile years. They sustain greater emotional costs from casual sex. They are at greater risk of contracting STDs and disproportionately suffer from their long-term consequences, such as cervical cancer and fertility loss.And even after 50 years with the Pill, as many as half of all pregnancies are still unintended. Women, not men, must make the heart-wrenching choice between abortion, reckoned a tragic outcome even by its supporters, and bearing a child with little to no paternal support. After all, since children were negotiated out of the bargain by the availability of contraception and abortion, men have secured a strong rationale to simply ignore or reject pregnancies that result from uncommitted sexual relations. Nobel-laureate economist George Akerlof predicted nearly two decades ago that this would lead directly to the feminization of poverty, as it ruefully has…”
“Contrary to a popular misconception, the alternative to the contraceptive revolution is not to roll back the clock on women’s advancement, and certainly not to promote a physically and emotionally taxing outcome in which women have as many children as biologically possible. Rather, the alternative to contraception is to respect biological asymmetry, heal the wound between the sexes, and expect more from men.”
“Out on the sidewalk Donna and I had spoken to a woman for over 20 minutes and she agreed with everything we said. She agreed the unborn baby was human, and that the baby had a right to live. She even agreed that abortion was a sin, but in the end she went into the clinic… I was gripped by a realization. I thought, ‘I’m not living in a normal world anymore.’” Monica Miller
I can so relate to this article. This realization is probably the most disturbing thing about our time. People no longer have a value system. They have no moral code to strive toward or live by. Regarding abortion, they know it’s a baby, but they choose abortion anyway.
And they are not willing to consider any other point of view.
I had a letter from a mother the other day about spanking, and she said, “I will not now or ever agree with your way of thinking.” It is so sad to see others not open to learning and being moved by the Holy Spirit.
“But whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matthew 18:6
It is proving true that morals and values don’t matter outside of Christianity.
SUN NEWS, an alternative to the leftist and state-run Canadian media, had a poll the other day on spanking. When I voted, 94% of the people were in favor of keeping spanking legal. I thought, “Wow…. That is exactly why abortion exists in this country!” The cavalier attitude about the need to “smack-that-kid” was truly shocking in the audience’s Facebook comments about the poll… I am always amazed by those who pretend that spanking is not common in our society, and that they think our social problems are because kids aren’t beaten enough these days. I know very, very few people who have never spanked or have never been beaten.
Many years ago, I read Alice Miller’s books and although she did not even mention this, I was inspired to draw the connection between spanking and abortion. It is not so much the pro-aborts that are the problem. They have been clearly wounded. It is the people who think they are pro-life, but still have the deep-down desire to punish and beat children. I believe that comes from how they were treated as children, as well as religious brain-washing.
If I could get my act together and be given the inspiration, I would like to write a book on this subject. If any of you understand the profound connection between spanking and abortion, then I encourage you to research and share your material with the world.
It was quite a sermon by Eric Metaxas that Barack Obama was forced to listen to on Friday morning at the National Prayer Breakfast. Ouch. Slide over to minute 35:00 for the beginning of Metaxas speech. I wrote down some of the things he said starting around 49:00. Good stuff before and after as well.
“Wilberforce, because he believed what the Bible said, and because he obeyed what God told him to do, he changed the world…”
“Human beings do not do the right thing apart from God’s intervention. We always do the phony religious thing, we go with the flow. In Wilberforce’s day, going with the flow meant supporting slavery, that Africans are not fully human. In Bonhoeffer’s world, Nazi Germany, it meant supporting the idea that Jews are not fully human. So, whom do we say is not fully human today? Who is expendable to us? …”
Learning from Bonhoeffer, he said, “You must have a living relationship with God and it must lead you to action. That you must obey God. That you will look different…”
“…You think you’re better than the Germans in that era? [1932] You’re not. Not in God’s eyes you’re not. We’re the same. We’re capable of the same horrible things. Wilberforce somehow saw what the people in his day didn’t see, and we celebrate him for it. Bonhoeffer saw what the people did not see and we celebrate him for it. Now how did they see what they saw? There’s just one word that will answer that. It’s Jesus. He opens our eyes to His ideas which are different from our own which are radical. Now personally, I would say the same thing about the unborn. That apart from God, apart from God we cannot see that they are persons as well. So those of us who know the unborn to be human beings are commanded by God to love those who do not yet see that. [applause] We need to know that apart from God we would be on the other side of that divide, fighting for what we believe is right. We cannot demonize our enemies today. If you believe abortion is wrong, you must treat those on the other side with the love of Jesus. Today, if you have a biblical view of sexuality, you will be demonized by those on the other side – will call you a bigot. Jesus commands us to love those who call us bigots to show them the love of Jesus.”