Freedom in Christ, part 2.

Oregon Bible Conference. Freedom in Christ lesson 2, part 1.

In the case of Adam and the woman, God stepped in with an animal sacrifice and thus revealed to them a form of freedom that angels had never witnessed before; a freedom through the grace gift of a God sent atonement through sacrifice of the innocent on behalf of the guilty.

America fought England for 8 years and in 1783 the Treaty of Paris established us as a free nation. Adam and the woman and their sons Able and Seth offered the proper sacrifices and through faith signed a treaty with God and established their own freedom through dependence upon God through a grace that fulfilled the justice of God by means of a blood covenant through sacrifice.

Now, all fallen men could find freedom in their souls through dependence upon God's plan of redemption.

Cain went the way of Satan and became a murderer. There is evil in this world because men and angels are fallen and there is a greater amount of evil in this world because men and angels choose it. Without free-will there cannot be a relationship dependent upon God, yet that same free-will gives man the opportunity to say no to God.

James Madison wrote:

"Religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence." [James Madison]

A coerced witness always becomes a witness for the other side.

God is revealing His righteousness and justice through us and not being coerced makes that witness true.

I firmly believe that when Satan saw our victory in 1783 and the ratification of our constitution in 1789 and the amendments known as the Bill of Rights in 1791 he set a plan in motion to destroy the independence and freedom of the American citizen.

Just as the crafty serpent in the Garden did not charge straight at the target and demand that Eve eat the fruit neither did he charge straight at destroying the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. There had to be a way to create division and to bend the strict adherence to the Constitution which protects the freedom of the unalienable rights of the Declaration of Independence.

The assertion of that principle, at that time, was the word, "fitly spoken" which has proved an "apple of gold" to us. The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was made, not to conceal, or destroy the apple; but to adorn, and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple—not the apple for the picture. [Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on the Constitution and the Union]

Alexander Hamilton said that the rights named in both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution "are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments," but rather "they are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of divinity itself."

What issue could he use to cause division? He found the answer in lust for wealth which included the slavery issue. How could he bend and shift and lessen the strict adherence to the Constitution while keeping it? He found the answer in progressivism. His plan is to divide and conquer and he has used the same plan against the individual believer and the organism that is the body of Christ or the Church.

Satan's attack on the DOI and Constitution:

Cause division - lust for wealth through the slavery issue.

Soften the documents - Progressivism.