Celebrate Your Freedom and Your Slavery

July 4th in America is a day of celebration. It's called Independence Day. Independence, you know, it means freedom. I'm not bound to anything. I'm not tied. I'm not restricted. Americans celebrate July 4th as a real feel-good holiday. It's complete with waving the flag, fireworks, noisy fireworks, parties. Things that are a little on the edge tend to take place on July 4th because, you know, it's Independence Day. It's a day of freedom. It's about the residents rejoicing and holiday-making in being slaves. Did you hear what I said? It's about the residents and citizens of this company rejoicing in their being slaves. That's what it's about.

Oftentimes people don't put it together like that, but you have a Bible. Let's turn to Romans 6 and verse 16 and see something that runs a little below the radar from the human perspective, something that has to be revealed by God. In Romans 6 and verse 16, it says, Do you not know that to whom you present yourself slaves to obey? You are that one's slaves, whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness? Few humans realize it, but like we just read, the Bible says that all forms of freedom, actually, are also types of slavery. Today in the sermon, I'd like us to analyze from a very serious perspective what type or brand of freedom that you and I celebrate. What is it that you and I say, yes, I'm so glad I'm going to celebrate either a holiday or a holy day or in our own lives, we say, I'm so glad, I'm so thankful, I'm celebrating, as it were, a type of freedom. What freedom do you bind yourself to? What freedom are you under? And consequently, which form of slavery will you also be celebrating? The title of the sermon today is Celebrate Your Freedom and Your Slavery. Celebrate your freedom and your slavery. Now, I know nothing is more repugnant to an American than the concept of slavery.

And there's a long history in many countries to topple any type of regime that would enforce or subjugate one to doing things that are against their will. On July 4th, 1776, there's a date, at least, that was demarked as the beginning of the fight. And that fight was among British, and it was a civil war. Among British, across the pond from each other, as they say, across the Atlantic Ocean, and one group was not being treated fairly. They had taxation, but they had no representation in Parliament. And under the King of England, they felt it a little bit unfair that they would have certain things imposed upon them without certain rights being afforded them at the same time. The result was the founding of what we call the United States of America.

Proud to be Americans. Proud to be an American. You see that slogan sung and printed all over the place. On July 4th, this Independence Day is a day of freedom. Freedom for Americans. Freedom from what? Well, freedom from taxation without representation. Freedom from obedience to the King of England.

There was also freedom from peace in North America for about the next hundred years, because July 4th was really just an arbitrary date. Nothing really happened on that date, and the war would go on and on and on, and it would take the lives of many, many, many people, of which there were only few on the continent at that time.

It would develop hard relationships and harsh relationships, not only between the people that were here, but countries that got into the fight and into the broil. The fights would go on for decades before this country was ever truly out from under any form of control from the outside.

And the fighting would go on all the way through the Civil War, in fact, before the citizens of this nation ever found themselves without struggle and turmoil. So freedom from one thing causes a loss of freedom from something else. Down through time, America has become free of God, and today they celebrate that freedom. Free of children. The population in this country is declining because the citizens choose to kill their children before they're born. Free of marriage. More people now will not marry than will marry in this country.

Free of marital happiness and family fulfillment.

We also have a new freedom that's coming along. We're beginning to experience freedom from employment, freedom from prosperity and success. In Americans' view, the United States of America as a model nation for the world to copy.

Yet outside the United States, a different perspective is often held. Not everybody in the world wants to be an American. Not everybody in the world wants to be like America. An American? Not everybody in the world wants to be like America.

In fact, Americans are viewed as self-serving, greed-oriented people that tend to get a lot of things for themselves using other people's resources, especially their oil, their labor, their natural resources. Americans are seen as generating an anti-culture in most other countries, where you had a certain culture, a certain music, a certain way of life, a lifestyle.

A structure within a culture that's worked down through the ages suddenly is unseated by every imaginable, youthful, rebellious, movie, music, social trend, clothing trend, just undoing the world, culinary trends, the the Mac versus all the things that these other nations used to have. And they're losing. They're losing those cultures, and they're also losing control of family structures, which are the fabric of city structures, which are the fabric of state structures, and it all seems to be coming apart.

Because America is seen as a wannabe country, they have the biggest slice of the greedy pie, and human nature would love a piece of that. The typical response from abroad towards America is disrespect. It's often oddly coupled with envy. You can have disrespect and disdain coupled with an envy. What's the envy about? The opulent lifestyle.

Having the stuff, having the food, having the cars, having the opportunity to do whatever you want to do that's built on loans that other people get stuck with. Contempt is also coupled with disrespect. The USA still has the strongest economy in the world by far. China is catching up by leaps and bounds. But it also has the strongest military, and even China and Russia are no match for that. And so it has the economic might, and it has the military might. And that's a bitter pill for a lot of people.

But there is a price for success and greediness, and that is, imitators are rising. And they would like to see the fall of the United States, and it is falling, in fact. It's falling rather rapidly in some ways. This model of the free world, as we've come to know ourselves from within, has dissed or disrespected or just pushed away its children, its ethics, its faith, its marriages, and even its wealth. We have no way of perpetuating wealth because we have no manufacturing anymore. And we've gone after the god of cheap prices, which means somebody else has to make it all. And all we can do pretty much anymore is pay for it as we've taught everyone else in the world how to make what we used to.

And we've made it almost impossible to do it ourselves by the restrictions that we put on business and manufacturing in this country. We're now finding out that this country is a slave to foreign providers of products and the interest that they charge us. In Proverbs 22, verse 7, it says, the borrower is the servant to the lender. And all you have to do is stop and think who owns the national debt that's piling up so fast that we are rapidly becoming unable to even pay just the interest, let alone principle, on that debt.

And the word of God says the borrower becomes servant to the lender. I don't notice if you noticed the news article that appeared about a week and a half, two weeks ago, where China is planning to start buying up square miles of this country and importing red Chinese government-run state, communist state-run entities within that China zone. They can do it. They've got probably more money than we do.

It's our money that we paid them and are paying them or sold them. And the governor of the state in which they are wanting to build their first, I think it's a 50 square mile block of red Chinese communist-held territory is, according to the article, welcoming that. You know, funny, odd things begin to happen as this scripture says that the borrower is servant to the lender. Suddenly the people who have the money and wanted exchange start buying your land. They've already started buying the companies. They're buying influence into the politics and into the laws.

Some want to blame the immigrants. We're all immigrants in this country, with more piling in for more pie. Some want to blame business. The United States has come to exist for the promotion of corporations. And it's almost, I think it is, illegal for a corporation to be prevented from making a profit. Because, you see, our politicians are corporate lawyers, corporate chiefs, the wealthy, the influential who work for the corporations. They are the lawmakers. They are the judges, in many cases. This is about money. And people say, it's fine. It doesn't matter about the borders. It doesn't matter about the commerce. It doesn't matter about employment here or there. As long as the tall towers and the executive floors are making money, it doesn't matter if the citizens are suffering, you see. That's part of the greedy pie. Some want to blame politicians. Again, they exist for the corporations and for themselves and for the profits. Some want to blame the banks and the lawyers and the Supreme Court and the homebuilders and the creditors. And yet, all of these feed the citizens' quest for greed. They help us get what we want and all we want. What's the result? Unfulfilled lives, no purpose, empty pleasures, broken relationships all around. And this freedom is celebrated every July 4th with gusto by the slaves of sin. And America is one of the world's biggest purveyors of sin of all kinds.

Whether it's morality or immorality, ethics, lack of ethics, corruption, all dressed up nice with a bow because corruption can be made legal, you see, we really lead the way in selling sin and encouraging sin and encouraging people to be lawless around the world as far as God's law is concerned and demanding that they are lawless and sending in sometimes troops to encourage a certain type of lawlessness. In Romans 6, continuing on in verse 20, it says, For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. Now that pretty well sums up the country that you and I know, except for some that are still religious, claim to be religious, even though their religion is a religion of the devil, of false religion, based on breaking the laws of God and lawlessness for which God is going to punish the descendants of Israel. What fruit, verse 21, did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. You can have this freedom for lawlessness, but you will be free of righteousness, and you'll actually be a slave of sin. And the end result of being a slave of sin is death. It's a slow process of dying, and ultimately, sin will not be in the kingdom of God. Now some want to blame a lack of religion, and yet the United States of America has never in its history ever once followed God's religion.

So what would people return back to? Babylonian mystery religion, based on a false messiah, based on a false god. Manasseh, if you associate it with this country, continues to violate the laws of God that God laid down and continues to defend. It's turning its back on those laws and on the covenant that God made with them and their brothers. In Isaiah 24, verses 1-6, we see an important prophecy about what's coming on this country and what's coming on the fellow tribes of the ancient house of Israel. We need to understand that it is a penalty that's being paid for certain freedoms that people celebrate right in the face of God. In Isaiah 24, verse 1, it says, Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste. This hasn't happened before, not since the flood anyway, but this hasn't happened since Isaiah's prophecy when Israel was already mostly into slavery with the Assyrians. He's writing about after this period of time in which humanity has enjoyed some rebelliousness, but God's going to bring them into judgment. The coming day of the Lord. And the earth is going to be made empty and waste, distorts its surface, and scatters abroad its inhabitants. This is the time that Jesus prophesied in Matthew 24. It's going to be the worst of times ever. And Revelation marches through and talks about huge sections, actually names percentages of humanity that dies in very short periods of time. Verse 2, And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest, as with the servant, so with his master, as with the maid, so with their mistress, as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the lender, so with the borrower, as with the creditor, so with the debtor. The land shall be entirely emptied and utterly plundered, for the Lord has spoken this word. And this is mainly about the time of Jacob's trouble, as I understand it. This is the time of the punishment on Israel, where if you read in the early part of Revelation, the 144,000, actually 12,000 of each tribe are sealed, so that at least there's 12,000 of each tribe that aren't killed during this plundering. The Lord has spoken this word. The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. And the haughty people of the earth languish. The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants because, notice, they have transgressed the laws. They have changed the ordinance. They have broken the everlasting covenant. God made a covenant that was everlasting, and they have broken it and continue to break it. Remember Manasseh and Ephraim and the other 10 tribes went off into slavery under Assyria. They bought into the Babylonish system of Nimrod and Cimaramas. And the degrading of that down through time of the Persian Empire, the Greeks and the Romans, and the mixing it up with the Hellenistic mysticisms, and then adding in stories from the Bible about Jesus and Mary. And yet having him be the Nimrodian type who was supposedly born in December, and the Mother Earth, and the fertility worship in the spring at the feast of Easter, and the keeping of Sunday, and the absolute disobedience of all the laws of God, of His Holy Sabbath, of His Holy Days, and in fact claiming that their Jesus Christ that they have invented and remanufactured came to tell people to disobey God, to be lawless, not keep the law. The law is done away. Don't obey God. Don't do anything that God said. Now, where does that come from? Well, you know, that comes right out of somewhere else because in 2 Corinthians 11, in verse 13 through 15, Paul says, for such are false apostles. Oh yeah, they're apostles, but they're false. Deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of the true Christ.

See how close it is? Jesus said, many will come in my name. Jesus, Jesus, saying that I'm the Christ. Yes, you're the Lord, you're the Messiah, and will deceive many. In verse 14, and no wonder for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. This is a false Christ, a false Christianity. It's a false religion, invented by the devil himself. Therefore, it's no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness. The point being, the United States of America and the other tribes of Israel have never kept God's law. Ever since they went into slavery, they haven't kept God's law. And they, banking on the promises that God gave Abraham, have used and turned that, and now parade in God's face, even saying he doesn't exist, but are some of the biggest advocates on earth of defying the laws of God. And the consequence is, as we read in Isaiah 24, God's going to make waste. He's going to come back. The inhabitants have transgressed the laws, and therefore curses devoured the earth. Those who dwell in it are desolate. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and very few men are left. That's the prophecy there in Isaiah 24 and verse 6. Very few people are left, especially among the descendants of Jacob.

Now, what freedom do you celebrate? And do I celebrate? What should we celebrate? And what slavery do we wince under and say, oh, I don't like that. We ought to get it right, because we are free men and women, but we're also slaves. But we could be other free men and women and also slaves. If we're not careful, we'll mix it up and get it wrong.

And it's very easy to do, because as Peter said in 2 Peter chapter 2, in verse 18 and 19, we are subject to influence. We are subject to being deluded into thinking black is white, white is black, and good is bad, and bad is good.

2 Peter chapter 2, verse 18, when you talk about freedom, somebody offers you freedom, for when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, so you don't even know what freedom is. Freedom sounds good. Oh, yeah, let's go out and support our freedom. Let's put our life on the line. Great swelling words of emptiness. They allure through the lust of the flesh. I want to fight for what I want, you see. That's the lust of the flesh. Through lewdness, we want to keep all this stuff that we do, all these freedoms we have, to just vomit what we want out on the radio and in music or have pornography or kill our children or have relations with any and everything that we choose. Oh, yeah, that's free. They allure the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.

Those who have gotten away from that, they become a different type of slave.

Hopefully, we are a type of slave that doesn't hear that voice anymore. It doesn't really sound like fun. Going out and doing what people will die for in order to have the freedom to do, it doesn't add up with God's Holy Spirit. Because, verse 19, while they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of rotting. Corruption means to rot. Slaves of rotting. For by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. There are essentially two forms of freedom. There is a freedom from love, joy, and peace.

This country has it. You can be free of love, you can be free of joy, you can be free of peace. In the Greek word, irene, which means to stitch together relationships that are bounded, tightly growing, nurturing, stitching together. You can be free from that. This is known as Christianity, by the way. A promoter called supposedly Jesus Christ, who appears to be a son of God. But if you look a little closer, you find that it's a twisted mix of Babylonian mystery religion in Greek and Roman and pagan. There's no real Jesus Christ in there. There's no real God in there. The tenets of Christianity, remember, are a symbol of the cross, one of the first things that popped up in Christianity. Somebody looked up in the sky and saw a cross and heard a voice. It said, under this banner, conquer. War, fight, kill, murder. One of the tenets of Christianity is a long history of warfare, of killing others, invading to get what you want. Whether it's the acquisition of the Holy Land or acquisition of other things, the cross comes out and people go off to war and kill. What did Jesus Christ say to do with your enemies? See? Two different religions there. Another tenet of Christianity is the observing of holidays, which are lies. So far we have murder and lies, lies and mystical origins of Jesus and Mary, which really throw back to Nimrod and Semiramis and Isis and Osiris and Horus and a bunch of other twisted up deities that were formed and changed down through time. The next tenet of Christianity is the necessity to disobey God. Every Christian religion has it. You must disobey God. If you don't believe that, you don't know Christianity. Pick one. You must disobey God. You must work on the Sabbath. Don't keep the Holy Days. You must worship with an I-me-my concept. Grab a hymnal at any church. Find out who you're singing to.

You're singing to yourself.

Another tenet of Christianity is distrust of God.

Can't trust what God says. You pray to Mary in some cases.

You believe in a closed trinity that bars you from access to the family of God. You do not trust that God even is what he says he is.

You assume you go to heaven when you die, not even by God's hand, by angels, or by some sort of automatic providence. You go up or down.

There is another type of freedom. It's called a freedom from slavery to sin. What the Bible talks about. Freedom from slavery to sin.

In 1 Corinthians 7, verses 22 and 23, we read about that freedom. This is a very serious topic. This isn't all about, let's grab a flag and jump up and down and have a beer and celebrate whatever country you're from that you're proud to be in your country. This is a little more serious stuff because this is reality. This is reality from what is happening and what's going to happen. And of all the people on earth, God has only opened the eyes of a few to see it. Only opened the ears of a few to hear it.

1 Corinthians 7, verse 22, it says, For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, he who is called while free is Christ's slave. You and I need to be a slave of Jesus Christ. He did buy you with his blood, you know. He did obligate you by the fact that he created you and gave you everything and then died and his blood cleanses you from your sins as you repent of them. And he does offer you eternal life. You and I are indeed Christ's slaves. Verse 23, you were bought at a price or for a price. Do not become slaves of men or the things of men. Don't get involved in something other than being a slave of Christ. Now, what would a slave of Christ be? Well, if he's the master and you're the slave, when he says, a new commandment I give you, do that. Because if a servant doesn't serve, what is he? As we've heard. Jesus brings that out many times in his parables, doesn't he? There were many who were called and named, but many didn't do anything. And so we need to be slaves that are doers of what he says. And if we do that, we are part of a different system that is so unique, it's so different, it's unlike anything in the world. Now, as humans, we can sort of get bamboozled by what's going on, by some of the peace. This week I flew the length of Iran, flew past Tehran, and then the length south to north of Russia. And around that time on the airplane, it was a 16 and a half hour flight, I found myself standing in the back of the airplane and a lady came to me, wrapped up in some stuff, and stood by me as well. And she was having a time with English. She was from Tehran, Iran. And she was thankful to be able to talk with me in broken English and just share some time. And one of the things she said was, I'm so excited, I can't wait to land in America. She says, well, didn't you just come from Tehran? Yes, yes. Don't you miss it there?

No. No. Why not? Why would you want to come to some lands where you're not from? And she pointed to her garments and she says, because in America, I don't have to wear this. In America, I don't have to wear this. I can wear what I want to wear. I can say what I want to say. I can do what I want to do. And we think, ah, now that's wonderful. That's freedom. I grew up in the Los Angeles area. I know what sewer she's about to land in. And I feel bad for the human nature that's in us all that wants to do what it wants, because most of Earth's population lives under tyranny.

Citizens here feel free to do whatever their carnal human nature desires with few restrictions. I'd like to give you an example of civilizations, cultures, peoples, industry, different countries, all living together, all in peace. And let's see if this example meshes with your and my idea of God's kingdom, God's kingdom on Earth, life here. There's a city that I was at last Sabbath, and it's an interesting city because it's in one of those places on Earth where things don't go well. They really don't go well. Just to the north is Mogadishu, Somalia, with its gangs and armed drug and gang lords right off the coast of the city is where the pirates take over ships. Just up by the northern border, violence is breaking out. Little U.S. drones are flying around, shooting people. Within the city of just, I think, a month and a half before I first visited it, Al-Qaeda terrorists blew up an Israeli resort and then flew over it with an airplane and dropped incendiary bombs on the roof and burned it, trying to kill as many Israelis as they could. And then out at the airport, they'd gotten a hold of a SAM-7 U.S. surface-to-air missile and shot it at the El Al Israeli plane that was just landing at the airport. So I'm telling you, this is an area where people are not going to be able to get along. And yet, what was interesting this last week, as I rode through the city of Mombasa, Kenya, all of those cultures were there. There were the Somalis from Mogadishu that back home had their lawless gangs and violence and pirates. There were people from India where back home things are overcrowded and there's poverty and famine and riots. From East Africa, where the tribes in their own areas have tribal clashes and they kill each other off and they fight and they burn, there are terrorists that are hunted that were in this town, that are killed in other areas. They're pursued and they slip across the borders and they hang out in this town. And there are Arabs and Germans and Jews, historical tensions and challenges. And within this one city, everything's fine. Everybody gets along. Everybody's happy to be away from wherever it was they came from. And nobody wants to make any waves because everybody's got it good in Mombasa, Kenya. So it's interesting to go through. I'd like to show you a very short video, just a composite of scenes that I took last Sabbath or last Friday leading up to the Sabbath. And I want you to look at how everybody's getting along but in a self-preservation manner. Notice how it's peaceful, but ask yourself, is this what God is promoting when Christ returns?

Do you notice that nobody there really cares about anybody else? You notice how what's going on there isn't really what we would call happiness, and yet there was freedom. Everybody there had freedom. And they came there because they were free of things that they couldn't be free from back home.

You might think I don't relish the United States of America. The first time I spent a year out of this country and returned home, stepped off the airplane in Bangor, Maine, and I got down on the tarmac and kissed the ground, literally. This is a fantastic country. It's clean. It has abundant resources, prosperous economy, lawful citizens when they're lawful, and these things add up to things that are good. But what is it founded on? You may have seen a movie 10-15 years ago named Wall Street. There's a successor out now, Wall Street, and it exposes the carnal, selfish, human nature that is always looking for opportunity.

Carnal human nature pursues opportunities that enslaves it.

In Galatians 5 and verse 19, the works of the flesh, these are opportunities. These are things that enslave one to sin, and the result of those things, it says in verse 21, are people who will not inherit the kingdom of God. They can't inherit the kingdom of God. There will be no sin or slavery to that or Satan in God's kingdom. Jesus taught us to pray, our Father which is in heaven, holy is your name, your kingdom come, and your will be done. We're about slavery, as it were, to a different set of laws, a different ruler, one who has absolute control or direction at least, and we are to submit to that. And in doing so, we are free of the machinations of Satan and carnal human nature. And the kingdom is founded on the fruits of the Holy Spirit, of love and joy and peace and harmony, and those things which are slavery to Christ and to God, but they're free from another type of slavery to sin and its deathly results. In this country, freedom from being under tyranny is fleeting. The U.S. was once under the thumb of King George of England. It was almost under the thumb of Hitler. And it will be under the thumb and crushed by a ten-nation alliance of a beast power that's yet coming. And many will pay the ultimate price for that freedom.

Freedom from God, freedom from God's law, which as we read in Isaiah, he's coming to make the world desolate because of a breaching of the covenant that he gave that's a holy, everlasting covenant. But meanwhile, you and I, whose eyes are open, are we willing to pay the ultimate price for true, godly freedom and true, godly slavery? See, there is a price for freedom, whichever kind you want. And it's always death. It's always giving your life. Are you willing to pay the ultimate price for the kind of freedom that God is offering us? Well, let's look in Romans 6 and verse 6 and realize that the ultimate price doesn't have to be all that bad if we don't make it bad.

Romans 6 and verse 6, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. It can be as simple a death as getting baptized after true repentance. Repentance of self-promotion, repentance of conflict, repentance of slander, repentance of breaking our relationship with God and each other. When one comes to a heartfelt repentance, God will wash away past sins and begin us in a process of no longer being a slave to sin. That's the easy way.

For he who has died has been freed from sin, spiritually speaking.

So the ultimate price is death of the self if you want to be a slave of Jesus Christ. And that includes our will, me, my way, replacing it with loving others, putting others before ourselves, considering them more important and more valuable than I am.

Serving, sacrificing, doing God's will, doing God's way, becoming a slave of God, a slave of righteousness, and all the wonderful rewards that come from that. Verse 24, when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

Do you want to be free? What do you want to be free of? You and I need to have a serious meditation about freedom and slavery and really come down solidly on the side of freedom from slavery to sin, but deep devoted slavery to God and God's family and God's kingdom and have a master and a ruler that we submit to, to do his will on earth as it is in heaven. Today's message isn't about us or them, or group versus group. Being in God's church means nothing if you don't live it. Having the truth means zero other than having greater responsibility if you don't live the truth.

Jesus Christ's many parables about and to the church in his statement of the truth in Revelation warn us about that very thing.

In Luke 6 and 46, let's conclude by hearing Jesus saying this, Why do you call me Lord, Lord? And do not do the things which I say.

What's the point? What's the point of having your eyes open? What's the point of having the truth, the knowledge? What about the blood of Christ, the forgiveness of sin, and the promise of eternal life? If you don't do what he says, which is, love your neighbor as yourself, love God with all your heart, soul, and might, become a slave to God in every fine detail, with every commandment from the Sabbath through the Holy Days, tithing clean and unclean meats, really submit yourself to every ordinance of the Lord, plus put away sin and put on righteousness.

If you have eyes to see and ears to hear, then celebrate being a slave of Christ who bought you with his blood. He celebrates that. He's excited about that. Verse 47, here's the good part. Whoever comes to me and hears my sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like. He is like a man building a house who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose and tribulation came and challenges and trials and persecution, the stream beat vehemently against that house. I mean, beat it hard and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. That individual, hopefully, is you. And that individual is a slave of God, and he's free from the penalty of sin and will live forever in God's kingdom. The worst storms in history are closing in on mankind. The Bible says that. Don't go down fighting some cause for freedom with the dark side. Celebrate freedom from slavery to sin.

Celebrate it by being a fighter of your carnal human nature on a daily basis. Fight that battle. Win that war. Be founded on the rock.

Those who do this will assist Jesus Christ in bringing a thousand years of independence from Satan for all humanity. And I sure hope that you and I will be among them.