What Makes Us Free?
May 24, 2007
WHAT MAKES US FREE?
Text: Ps 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Introduction:
A) God Has Blessed America.
1) It is right to celebrate His goodness to us.
2) Great bounty we share in this good land.
B) Freedom Is One Of Our Greatest Blessings.
1) Political freedom.
2) Personal freedom.
C) What Makes Us Free?
I) THE SCRIPTURES MAKE US FREE. Jn 8:32 “The truth shall make you free.”
A) WORD OF GOD FREES US FROM BONDAGE
1) I firmly belie that God has made America His chosen land.
(a) Never been a land like it in all the annals of the history of human civilization.
(b) We proudly sing “My country tis of Thee, sweet land of liberty”
2) The Lord has made America the Great Nation She is.
B) THE SECRET OF AMERICA’S SUCCESS?
1) Her founding fathers wrote this in the “Mayflower Compact” We have undertaken this little settlement of ours on wild and virgin shores of a strange land…“For The Glory Of God And the Advancement Of The Christian Faith”
2) No wonder the poet has said..
Aye, call it holy ground,
The spot where first they trod,
For there they left unstained
What there they found -
Freedom to worship God.
3) Yes The Scriptures Make Us Free.
(a) They came for freedom to follow the teaching of the Bible.
(b) They came to found a nation based on Biblical principles.
4) The Scriptures in print and the Reformation brought persecution.
5) America provided a place for people to flee for freedom.
II) THE SAVIOUR MAKES US FREE. Jn 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed..
A) CHRIST COME TO SET PEOPLE FREE. Lk 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
1) Nicodemus set free from Religious Bondage
2) Zacchaeus set free from Lust For Money
3) Woman at the well set free from Immorality
B) POLITICAL FREEDOM IS A GIFT FROM GOD
1) Patrick Henry shouted “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death.”
2) MacAuther in darkest hours of W W II in reporting his military victories always said.“By The Help Of God”
3) Spiritual Victory Can Be Ours Through Faith In Christ.
III) THE SPIRIT MAKES US FREE. 2 Cor 3:17. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty”
A) AMERICA MUST RETURN TO WHAT MADE US THE GREAT NATION WE ONCE WERE.
1) Woodrow Wilson wrote in 1923
Our civilization cannot survive materially, unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ and being made free and happy by the practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all the shadows lifted from the road ahead
2) The Fruit Of The Spirit Demonstrates Our Freedom. 2 Cor 3:17 “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
B) AMERICA IS THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH.
1) The Greatest Government
2) The greatest Freedom
They bled on the slopes of Bunker Hill that hot day in June, 1775. – They shivered around the campfires amid the sleet and snow at Valley Forge. – They held the broken line at Shilo and climbed the flame swept hill at Chattanooga – They planted the Stars and Stripes On Foreign Fields amid the crimson flare in 1917 – They died on the shores of Battan and opened the beachhead at Normandy.
GOD BLESS THE AMERICAN SERVICEMEN AND WOMEN WHO DIED SO WE COULD HAVE FREEDOM
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