Season 6 Podcast 16, “Creating an Environment of Freedom.”It is hard to believe that we are in our 6th Season. In Season 1, Podcast 33, the topic was Managing One’s Spiritual Environment. In this podcast I would like to return to the topic. The larger issue is freedom. The Holy Scriptures have a startling way of reducing a topic to its kernel. It becomes a seed that continues producing fruit, described so succinctly in the Creation story in the Old Testament. Genesis 1:11“And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.”I like the phrase, “whose seed is in itself.” Scriptures are fruit bearing seed which in turn bear fruit. A familiar example is the following profound look at freedom as taught by Jesus.John 8:32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. The first criterium is to know the truth. Truth is found in law. Spiritual truth is found in the Holy Scriptures which define the laws of God. Temporal truth is found in temporal law taught to us so eloquently by science, confirmed by the scientific method. Spiritual truth has an added witness, The Holy Ghost. Both may be confirmed by experiment. “Prove me now herewith,” said the Lord to the prophet Malachi.The second criterium is to obey the truth. It is knowledge of truth plus obedience to truth that makes us free. My purpose in this podcast is to show through the Holy scriptures how to create an environment of freedom. We often corrupt truth by changing the laws. I have often talked about The Four Laws of Freedom.Law One: The Law of Liberty commonly known as the Ten Commandments.Law Two: The Perfect Law of Liberty, which includes the virtues of Christ.Law Three: The Royal Law, which includes the two great laws, love the Lord and love your neighbor.Law Four: The Law of Equality, summed up in the clause, “God is no respecter of persons.”Only through obedience to those four laws can we claim the full promise given by the Lord when he said, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”Freedom is measured by how well we obey the four laws above. When Christ comes again, those are the laws he will use to rule the earth. Only there may we have perfect freedom. A perfect environment contains those four laws. That environment may not be fully offered by our government. In fact, the United States of America, which many claim is the greatest experiment in freedom ever established on such a large scale, though it allows religious freedom, does not reach such heights. When Christ comes again, He will establish a perfect environment of freedom, and it will contain all four laws. It will be a theocracy, not a democratic republic. The four laws, of course, overlap For Example, one could argue that the only law one needs is The Royal Law defined as follows by Jesus:Matthew 22:40 “Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Granted, a free government is a gift of God, but we do not live in a perfect world. The question is, “Can we create our own environment of freedom today?”  The answer is two-fold. One, we must have a government that allows religious freedom. As citizens we must ensure that the government is never allowed to take away that freedom. Sadly, the liberals today are attempting to do just that by their unconstitutional and fanatical separation of church and state.

Season 6 Podcast 16, “Creating an Environment of Freedom.” It is hard to believe that we are in our 6th Season. In Season 1, Podcast 33, the topic was Managing One’s Spiritual Environment. In this podcast I would like to return to the topic. The larger issue is freedom. The Holy Scriptures have a startling way of reducing a topic to its kernel. It becomes a seed that continues producing fruit, described so succinctly in the Creation story in the Old Testament.  Genesis 1:11 “And God said...