Lover of Liberty: Part 2

REFLECTION QUOTES

“Liberty is all very well, but men cannot live without masters. There is always a master.”

~D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) Studies in Classic American Literature

“To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.”

~Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), famed American social reformer

“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”

~David Hume (1711-1776), famed Scottish philosopher

“Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”

~Edmund Burke (1729-1797), political theorist and philosopher

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled…Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

~John Adams (1735-1826), Founding Father and second President on the United States

“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all—security, comfort, and freedom. When the [ancient] Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”

~Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), English historian

“It seems that genuine Christianity can survive anything but comfort, privilege and ease.”

~Anonymous

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”

~2 Corinthians 3:17 (NASB)

SERMON PASSAGE


Psalm 119:97-112 (NASB)

97 O how I love Your law!
It is my meditation all the day.
98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, For they are ever mine.
99 I have more insight than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies are my meditation.
100 I understand more than the aged,
Because I have observed Your precepts.
101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way, That I may keep Your word.
102 I have not turned aside from Your ordinances,
For You Yourself have taught me.
103 How sweet are Your words to my taste!
Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 From Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.

105 Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path.
106 I have sworn and I will confirm it,
That I will keep Your righteous ordinances.
107 I am exceedingly afflicted;
Revive me, O Lord, according to Your word.
108 O accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord, And teach me Your ordinances.
109 My life is continually in my hand,
Yet I do not forget Your law.
110 The wicked have laid a snare for me,
Yet I have not gone astray from Your precepts.
111 I have inherited Your testimonies forever,
For they are the joy of my heart.
112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes
Forever, even to the end.

Jeremiah 31:31-34 (NASB)

31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. 33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more