{"id":3713,"date":"2018-07-04T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2018-07-28T12:26:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T17:26:15","slug":"freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3713","title":{"rendered":"FREEDOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F R E E D O M<\/p>\n<p>Physical Freedom<\/p>\n<p>Political Freedom<\/p>\n<p>Economic Freedom<\/p>\n<p>Religious Freedom<\/p>\n<p>Moral Freedom<\/p>\n<p>Spiritual Freedom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I give you a universal guideline and encouragement for securing freedom, guarding and keeping it, and fighting off any who would threaten to ensnare and enslave you, from the only source of true freedom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For freedom Christ has set you free&#8212;do not let anyone bring you again under any yoke of bondage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Christ has set you free, you are free indeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every person and every nation that rose to freedom started from great bondage, to great faith, to great courage, to great boldness, to great strength, to great freedom, to great blessings . . .<\/p>\n<p>And then, the second half of the verse above becomes so significant&#8212;great blessings include great prosperity, to great comfort, to great materialism, to great selfishness, to great apathy, to great vulnerability, to great seduction, to great apostasy, to great temptation, to great pleasure, to great sin, to great judgment, to great oppression, to great bondage again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We gave you a republic, if you can keep it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our liberty is always only one generation away from extinction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is more, later, but consider how all the freedoms partially listed above have been so gloriously enjoyed in America&#8212;and precisely because we made the connection that they all come from God.<\/p>\n<p>It is that simple.<\/p>\n<p>It is truth&#8212;no matter what we&#8217;ve gone through in the past, and are going through now.<\/p>\n<p>Please, Americans, do not throw it all away for some reckless frenzy from those who don&#8217;t know God and despise the name of Jesus in the public square.<\/p>\n<p>To start the United States of America, Christians got involved completely, in everything, with everything they had.<\/p>\n<p>We can do no less, against all enemies, foreign and domestic and those inside each of us whispering lies to make us less than bold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F R E E D O M Physical Freedom Political Freedom Economic Freedom Religious Freedom Moral Freedom Spiritual Freedom &nbsp; I give you a universal guideline and encouragement for securing freedom, guarding and keeping it, and fighting off any who would threaten to ensnare and enslave you, from the only source of true freedom. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3718,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/3718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}