Liberating Planet Earth
by Gary DeMar by Gary DeMar
CONCLUSION All things have been delivered to Me by the Father, and no one knows the Son except through the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except through the Son, and he to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden light (Matthew 11:29-30). There is only one way to find true liberation: to be in subjection to Jesus Christ. There is only one alternative to being in subjection to Jesus Christ: being in subjection to Satan. Therefore, there is only one alternative to liberation: slavery. We are always under the domination of someone who is more powerful than we are. We live under hierarchy. We are either under Christ or under Satan. There is no autonomy for man. There is no self-law. We do not build civilizations all by ourselves. We are either under Christ or under Satan. We work to build a Christian civilization or a satanic civilization; we cannot legitimately hope to build man’s autonomous civilization. No such civilization is possible. If we as individuals can find true liberty only under Jesus Christ, then why should we expect to find a society that provides true liberty that is not under Jesus Christ? If true freedom is only available to us as indiuiduak under God and God’s law, then why should we expect to find civil liberty under Satan and Satan’s law (which is in fact lawlessness)? There is no “natural liberty” under “natural law” enforced by “natural man.” 149
150 Liberating Pkanet Etih But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For %ho has known the mind of the Lord that he might instruct Him?” (Isaiah 40:13). But we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:14-16). There is true liberty only under Jesus Christ. Until Christians really believe this, and preach it against all false philosophies of humanism, they will not find fkeedom. Under Christ What does it mean to be under Jesus Christ? It means being under His law. If you love Me, keep My commandments (John 14:15). Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk just as He walked. Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment whkh you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard fmm the beginning (1 John 2:3-7). But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does (James 1:25). And take not the word of truth utterly out of my.mouth, for I have hoped in Your ordinances. So shall I keep Your law continually, forever and ever. And I will walk at liberty, for I seek your precepts. I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed (Psalm 119:43-46). Liberty and God’s law: the two are inseparable. He who preaches against the law of God preaches against liberty. Anyone who says that we can build our lives, our families, our churches,
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CONCLUSION<br />
All things have been delivered to Me by the Father, and no one<br />
knows the Son except through the Father. Nor does anyone know the<br />
Father except through the Son, and he to whom the Son wills to reveal<br />
Him. Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I<br />
will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I<br />
am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.<br />
For My yoke is easy and My burden light (Matthew 11:29-30).<br />
There is only one way to find true liberation: to be in subjection<br />
to Jesus Christ. There is only one alternative to being in subjection<br />
to Jesus Christ: being in subjection to Satan. Therefore, there is<br />
only one alternative to liberation: slavery.<br />
We are always under the domination of someone who is more<br />
powerful than we are. We live under hierarchy. We are either<br />
under Christ or under Satan. There is no autonomy for man.<br />
There is no self-law. We do not build civilizations all by ourselves.<br />
We are either under Christ or under Satan. We work to build a<br />
Christian civilization or a satanic civilization; we cannot legitimately<br />
hope to build man’s autonomous civilization. No such civilization<br />
is possible.<br />
If we as individuals can find true liberty only under Jesus<br />
Christ, then why should we expect to find a society that provides<br />
true liberty that is not under Jesus Christ? If true freedom is only<br />
available to us as indiuiduak under God and God’s law, then why<br />
should we expect to find civil liberty under Satan and Satan’s law<br />
(which is in fact lawlessness)? There is no “natural liberty” under<br />
“natural law” enforced by “natural man.”<br />
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