Liberating Planet Earth

18 Liberating Plarwt Earth
This book is about a war. It’s a war between Satan and God.
The terms of the battle are good vs. evil. The battlefield is the
heart, mind, and soul of man. This is why Jesus quoted Deuteronomy
6:5: ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37).
Then He added: “This is the first and great commandment. And
the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself”
(22:38-39), citing Leviticus 19:18.
We love God with everything we’ve got. Then we love our
neighbors. How do we show our love for God? By obeying His law.
Jesus said: Wyou 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 we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought
himself also to wrdk just as He walked (1 John 2:3-7).
How do we love our neighbors? The same way we love Jesus
Christ: by keeping the law with respect to them. At the end of his
section on why we must obey the civil government, Paul writes:
“Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment
of the law” (Remans 13:10). We obey the law in all our dealings
with our neighbors.
Paul says the law that wars against God’s law in his mind is a
‘law of sin: and it leads to captivity to sin (Remans 7:23). How
do we gain liberation from this captivity? By faith in Christ’s
death and bodily resurrection at Calvary.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having
now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to
God through the death of His Son, much more, having been
reconciled, we shall be saved by His life (Remans 5:8-10).
This is where liberation must begin. All other programs of
liberation are fraudulent imitations of this one. The bondage of