What brought about the fall of Satan down from heaven to earth? Was it not his pride influenced by desire to become like the Most High? Isaiah 14:12-14. What does that means than showing us the iniquity of his quest for a false liberty to cease from serving God as an anointed cherub? Ezekiel 28:15. Further, the bible has this to say concerning other angels who rebelled and fell with Satan for the cause and propaganda of a false liberty from their various services before God but were immediately arrested, and imprisoned in hell awaiting final judgment and perdition – And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling, these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great day. Jude 1:6.
The Lord Jehovah has establishes his throne in heaven, and his Kingdom rules or is authorized over all. Psalms 103:19.
False liberty in any form or way a resistance against the kingdom and Sovereignty of God in your life, you ways against his ways, and your will hardened against his will, and your desire against what he wants, and plans for your life, free like a sheep without a shepherd. It is an open act of rebellion and defiance to God. The proposals for a false liberty or liberties from the world, and acceptance of it by anyone, is the ensnarement and evilness of Satan to imprison such; for he made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners until they go down with him into hell prepared for him and his rebellious angels by God. Isaiah 14:17.
False liberty is an unforced error; your personal choice and decision. This is the reason why it is unreasonable to argue against its punishments to justify it before God because you have chosen to be taken captive by the enemy by your own will by listening to him, hardening your heart; instead of listening judiciously to the voice of God which never contradicted his written word. 2 Timothy 2:23-26.
Man became a lawful captive to Satan by his willful disobedient to God’s word through the deception of Satan who was the first false promise giver, – the false misleading sinner and preacher of lies who still continue to give false promises today to overcome; otherwise, you can be trapped and destroyed by Satan.
Devil’s response with false promises against the word of God falsely presented God as selfish Creator who does not want Adam and his wife to know what is good and evil – to become wise – to have their eyes opened. All your children shall be taught by God and great shall be their peace; but if we have chosen not to listen strictly to God and his word, it only shows we have chosen false, beguiling and deadly paths for ourselves – I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. Psalm 119:101 and verses 105.
After the Lord ended his fast days fast on mountain; Satan approached him with false promises of greatness, power, riches, glory and fame if the Lord should bow down to him. Note: just as the promises of God are true, and none of them is unconditional giving unto us for things pertaining to life and godliness; so likewise, none of the false promises of Satan are free but with one aim of your soul as the bargain chip; and though other worldly temporal things might be given, but your soul is what the enemy is after just as Adam lose his soul to the false promises given by Satan in the Garden though gained the knowledge of good and evil, discovering the horror of sin and false liberty that made him sold himself to Satan by his sin. His eyes are indeed opened to the little sample of how evil the Devil really was, the afterward regrets of false liberty. What a great deception?
Be very careful not to choose to live and walk in life under false liberty because it comes with very painful penalties of earthly and eternal proportions. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Like Adam and Eve, do not fall for the false and ungodly liberty of a free lifestyles the world offers. It doesn’t worth it. Don’t lose your liberty in Christ Jesus to the false treasure and wealth reserved for moth and rust to corrupt and destroy; the blessings and gains with sorrows here and aftermath: and don’t lose your present liberty and escape from hell for idea to have false power to become famous on earth. Mark 8:36-37.
The serpent gave false hope and assurances to establish his promises of false liberty in the Garden which lead Adam and Eve to a dead end. You will not die as he falsely assured Adam and Eve against the word and warning from God. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:4-5.
Adam instantly discovered the horror, pain, humiliation and shame of despising the immutable word of God. They lost the very life of God in them which is the divine nature and they come to the state of spiritual death; they were no more alive in God. In addition, they were equally sentenced to physical death for their covetous desire for false liberty which we are all subjected to – physical death, returning back to the dust.
Because the first parents were spiritually cut off from God, being dead in sins and trespasses; but to prevent their seeds after them to escape the suffering of eternal vengeance, God sent his Only begotten Son, whom he anointed him with Holy Ghost and power to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison unto us, been bound and in bondage to Satan as the result of the mistake and quest made for false liberty by the first parents (Luke 4:18), giving us a new birth for a new hope by his resurrection from the dead: for Christ has abolished death – the spiritual death (that which instantly happens to Adam and Eve as soon as they eat the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil) and hath brought life (divine nature that we might be dead to sin and be freed from iniquity) and immortality which is eternal life) to light through the gospel. Acts 10:38. 2 Timothy 1:10. 1Peter 1:3-5.
And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. Psalms 119:45.
Like Satan, the false prophets and teachers are encouraging false liberty by preaching false doctrines of loose lifestyles in the world. Some of them re-assuring you there is no hell fire for God to put anyone while Christ warned you to fear only God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell, but while they themselves are the servants of corruption, what liberty does a servant of corruption have to offer anyone than to lead or bring his blind followers into captivity, and to corrupts, defiles and pollutes them by his corruption unto hell? Matthew 10:28. 2 Peter 2:19-20.
All must go back to the old landmark: going back to the undiluted word of God to be cleansed and delivered from any spiritual enslavement and defilement of a false and erroneous liberty in Christ Jesus given by Satan through his false prophets, apostles and teachers, pastors and teachers in the church today.
False promise of liberty and escaped from death was given by the serpent in the Garden to ensnare and chain the first parents as slaves to destroy while Christ promised to spare you from the eternal death and to give with access to eat from the fruit of life and to live forever, if you will faithful to his words to the end. Revelation 22:14-15.
When it comes to obeying the word of God, there’s no church leader or believer who has the right to choose what to practice or obey other than for everyone to live by every word of God. Again, obedient to the word of God is personal, but when it comes to the area where we have to bring every other thought into captivity unto the obedience of Christ like the issue of women covering their heads during prayer. Uncovered head during prayer is the manner of a rebellious woman, a sign of false liberty of equality with the man – she’s respectively dishonoring God and her husband. 1 Corinthians 11:1-16.
This should be enforced to be practiced at home by the husbands, while the pastors should see to it at church meetings that women should pray and worship God with their head covered with scarf or hat. Genesis 35:1-4.
The new generation believers and last days church goers thinks that the instructions in righteousness from the scripture are not important because grace covered their disobedient for a false gospel lifestyle of a false liberty in Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:27.
Such things as not to be conformed to this world,- or love not the world, neither the things in it, – or that a woman should cover her head at home or church whenever she is praying, – or that a woman should not preach or teach as a pastor in the church, or the friendship with the world which is an enmity against God to be avoided, – or women’s dressing and physical appearance should not be of outward adornments of wearing of earring, necklaces or strange apparel, or a woman should not put on men’s dress, – or the instructions to put off the old man, and to put on the new man are given not given to prevent us from enjoying the world or limit our liberty in the world. Actually, behind any act of disobedient against any of the word of God is an unknown consequence and penalty from God: therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation? Hebrews 2:1-3. Isaiah 3:16-26.
Every word of God is pure, but if we disobey any of the word of God, we corrupt our soul. Behind any false liberty we crave after outside the word of God is the possibility to miss the opportunity to partake from the tree of life just as Adam was prevented and sent out of the Garden after his lustful craved and fall for a false liberty. Note: the liberty offered by the world outside the perimeter of the word of God to please the flesh and fulfill its lusts is to lure you into spiritual bondage- Satan having claim over you, and eternal destruction awaits you. Those things which seems to the carnal mind as restrictions to enjoy the world are intended by the Lord to keep and preserve you away from the corruption that is in the world, lest you be polluted by them to miss heaven – deliver yourself from the practices of false liberty in the world. Those instructions in righteousness within the scope of the word of God are the things which pertains to your present liberty in Christ Jesus, and of your eternal peace with God against any yoke of bondage the enemy might seek to put on you again: for, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. Galatians 5:13.
Your liberty in Christ Jesus is not determined by the opinions, approvals or dislikes by others. The meat you desired and have chosen to eat after giving thanks to God for it is of little significance though others are vegetarians and have passed false judgments and condemnations on you: the kingdom of God is not meat and drink. Romans 14:17.
Meat commends us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to them that are weak. The only dietary restrictions specified for Christians in the New Testament believers are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meat of strangled animals. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days: which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Acts 15:29. Colossians 2:16.
Now, in Christ Jesus, you are free to serve God from Monday to Sunday with other brethren at church or at the comfort of your home – freed to serve God without observing months and times, and years; lest, the work of the cross be in vain in your life. Galatians 4:10-11.
You are answerable to God if you are convincingly led by the spirit of God to go somewhere or do anything for his glory, but as free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 1 Peter 2:16.
The exercises of your liberty in Christ Jesus are justified by your faith through sound knowledge in the word of God, but we know that knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. Where there is the spirit of God, there is liberty which is the liberty to serve God in spirit and truth. 2 Corinthians 3:17. John 4:24.
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others – the call to live in liberty in Christ Jesus should be exercised in the constraint of the love of Christ. Love is not selfish and seeks not her own. Though you have great faith to do what you allowed without condemning yourself, you must walk consciously in the discerning and considerate love of Christ toward others with restrictions put on yourself to limit the extent by which you can freely exercise your liberty; provided it is not standing as an occasion of fall to other brothers with little faith who are unable to tolerate or accept the exercise of your liberty in Christ, lest your liberty in Christ should bring an evil report to the testimony of Christ or cause your brother to be offended or made weak.
Your liberty in Christ Jesus, if it is not wisely exercised, can become a sin and reason of your condemnation before God at judgment. If by your faith and knowledge, you exercised your liberty, and through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish for who Christ died, would the Lord be glad to spare you at judgment for sinning against him, by sinning against any of these little ones and wound their conscience? It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall. Romans: 14. 1 Corinthians 8. Note: the present exercise and application of your liberty in Christ Jesus should be done in the limit and temperance of knowing and approving what is excellent, of the things which are true, things which are honest, things which are just, things which are pure, things which are lovely; and whatsoever things are of good report, that you might be without offense, and might not cause or be an offense to others. If such liberty is exercised in selfishness in the bondage of corruption to satisfy the lust of the flesh, can affect your future glorious liberty of the sons of God – let all your things be done by love while considering the impact of your present actions through your liberty in Christ on others. Romans 8:21.
We, being delivered from this present evil world should shun ungodly and worldly lusts, should righteously rebel to any of the laws from the seat of powers on earth which are in oppositions to the eternal word of God aim to bring us into the bondage to the god of this world; laws such as liberty of a man having sex with another man; and a woman having sex with another woman, – freedom to abort unprotected pregnancies etc. Galatians 1:4.
Moreover, believer’s freedom and liberty in Christ is not in any way the license to rebel against any of the authority of the government over us if it falls within the bond of the scriptures – let every soul be subject to higher authority; for there is no authority that be except God. Christian liberty should not be a covered up by any means to do evil: but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile. Romans 2:8-9.
Christ came and died to deliver us from the bondage of the issue of false and destructive liberty that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve God without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life. Luke 1:71-75.
Sin is a spiritual bondage and servitude to Satan. Sin identifies and unites a sinner to Satan because you are servant to whom you obey. Believer is not delivered or made free by Christ Jesus to remain a servant of unrighteousness and sin, but servants of righteousness by obedience unto holiness, leading to eternal life, – behold, ye trust in lying words that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, we are delivered to do all these abominations? Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the Lord. But go you now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. Jeremiah 7:8-12.
Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, if ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, we be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how says thou, you shall be made free? Jesus answered them, verily, verily, I say unto you; whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abides not in the house for ever: but the Son abides ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. John 8:31-36.
First, knowledge is power. The word of Christ, his doctrines, even the doctrines according to godliness which is profitable unto all things (1Timothy 4:8) is the truth and assurance for perfect liberty in him – the truth shall set you free. Note: whatever is not written in the word of God, or cannot be proven by two to three witnesses from the word (scripture must be compared with scripture; for precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10), if practiced, will bring you again into conscious or unconscious bondage.
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, which walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies and that seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. Psalms 119:1-3. Note: those who are ignoring the call to stand fast in the present liberty provided by Christ against sin by the word of truth are bounded by the bond of their own iniquity, being holden with the cords of their sins; shall die without instruction, and in the greatness of their follies of sins have gone a strayed from Christ to miss his coming for his bride (Proverbs 5:21-23), only those who continue in the law of liberty, by doing what the word of God says, keep their liberty against sin; they shall be among the blessed and holy partakers of the first resurrection. James 1:22-25.
Second, here, applies the law of spiritual steadfastness to continue in the word. You cannot possibly maintain the liberty in Christ, if you don’t continue to maintain the culture or ground of such liberty by growing in the word of truth: be no more children; tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ. Ephesians 4:14-15.
Third, they are not God’s children, if they are not manifesting the fruits of divine nature and lifestyles; not only by answering the name of being a Christian or seed of Abraham. Either freedom from the guilt of sin (justification), or the freedom from the bond of corruption (sanctification), or freedom to access the holies of the holies when the veil of the temple was rend into two as Christ gave up the ghost to put an end to the ceremonial law; beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure. 1 John 3:2-3.
Fourth, how can you claim liberty in Christ Jesus like the Jews of old, that you are not in bondage to anyone or anything when you are unequally yoked together with the unbelievers in an unlawful association, not separated and to come out from them? How can you say the truth has set you free, but you are still snared by the words of your mouth, and do not know how to use the word of knowledge aright, – don’t know how to say what is written in your response, – you don’t know how to say it is written to justify any of your actions? Proverbs 15:2.
Are God’s commandments grievous? No, sweeter than honey and the honeycomb; in keeping them is great reward. 1 John 5:3. How can you say you are not in bondage when sin doth reigns up till now over you? How can you say you are not in bondage when you are yet unable to bringing into captivity every thought in you to the obedience of Christ, in submission to the word of truth? The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; for the truth’s sake, which dwells in us, and shall be with us forever. Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. 2 John 1:1-4. Note: by your obedient to the truth, you shall be free indeed, saved by what is written: but to the stubborn and adamant, what is written but ignored shall stand against them in judgment: unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 2 Peter 2:7-8.
What is written is written as moral and spiritual principles of God’s constitutional and governmental rule on earth which can’t be altered, but is forever settled in heaven, – and I know that His command is everlasting life. John 12:50.
Growing in your obedience in Christ is the re-affirming of your liberty in him, doing otherwise is bewitchment to false liberty unto bondage. Strive to keep all the truth, you are fighting to keep your liberty indeed; or despises and ignore certain truth, to remain in full or partial bondage none of which can help you to get to heaven. If you choose to be living by what is written, you will be walking in the light; and there is no man, nor powers or principalities, or kingdom of darkness that can enslaves you; though the prince of this world should come to you, he shall found nothing against you – has no claim on you. John 14:30. They walk surely and in liberty, everyone that walk and live by every word of God. Prov.10:9. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes (to live by what is written as the standard and principles in life); then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments. Psalms 119:5-6.
The faithfulness of God is according to what is written in his word; he looks to his word to perform them and he magnifies his word above his name. Those who have received the incorruptible word of God for their salvation must be guided by its counsels, that they might keep their liberty in Christ to the end, by so doing, inherit eternal glory. Psalms 73:24.
Adam foolishly followed his wife into captivity to lose his liberty and authority and rights in God. When you lose your liberty to another person, you relinquish your control – authority to them, this is what happened in the Garden between Satan, Eve and Adam. Those believers who want to maintain their liberty in Christ Jesus should stand upon and maintain what is written without regards to anyone in their lives who dares challenge their loyalty to the word of God, – to get their answers from any of the questions of life from what is written, – to react and handles the situations and challenges of life before them according to what is written, lest any of the problems of life should lead him into any bondage while looking for solution at all cost without considering what is written, – they should be living to defend the truth as the true and living epistle of Christ, read and known by all men. 2 Corinthians 3:3.