INDEPENDENCE DAY 2012: Is Protecting Our Liberty Becoming An Inconvenience

Our nation was originally founded to establish freedom of religion. Being a Baptists, and looking back at the history of those early years, not only in this country but also in England, Germany, Wales, and etc., we have fought, bled from the lash, pinioned at the stock, and died by the untold thousands for well over 500 years to establish and preserve this freedom.

It is the first freedom guaranteed under the Constitution, followed in the same sentence by those freedoms, which mean the most to the common man and thus to you and I.

Freedoms of:

• speech, 
• press, 
• assembly and 
• redress.

If you would closely examine these freedoms, most of them are firmly rooted in Holy Scripture. And even though the Church of jesus Christ has been on the front lines of the long fight for freedom, there have been many so called "Christians" who have slowly and insidiously “limited” our freedoms.

Freedom of religion would not exist without freedom of speech. Neither can it be partially given nor partially restrained under the law or the spirit of the law.

The church has always been the first line of defense against the erosion of liberty. What we see happening in our churches and our country today is because we have been asleep, not standing for our rights in past elections, and have let "wolves" creep in and destroy the "flock." And it all has happened because we have looked upon our responsibility to fight as an "inconvenience." There is coming a day when this “inconvenience” will be our ruin. We will be called upon to offer up our fortunes, our sacred honor, and our lives—in defense of liberty, first in the House of God and then for this nation we cherish.

Freedom must be constantly, diligently and vigorously defended.

A great president once said, “Freedom is only one generation removed from extinction.”

Remember there was a pharaoh who came into power in Egypt who knew not the one true God. Could we be re-living history, today, with our present government. It seems that our president does not know the "God" we serve; the One and Only, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last, the Bright Morning Star, who one day, maybe very soon, will call all this into account.

Will we be the generation that goes down in history as the generation who let the unthinkable happen?

So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law. Galatians 5:1 (NLT)