Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14: 1-3)
Because of the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the world has been a better place in which to live over the past 2000 years.
Without Christ, the freedom of this nation or any nation would have never happened, and the past twenty centuries would have been a continuous world of darkness---of doom and gloom, hopelessness and helplessness, and a world of continuous slavery by the hands of people in religion and politics.
The Constitution of the United States marked the first time since Jesus walked on earth when Christians were legally free to be Christians. And because of the freedom of people in the United States, people of other nations also became free.
This freedom that we have had and continue to have is not free; for the cost has been paid by the sacrifice of human blood. People became free because they were willing to stand up and speak up, and also because they were willing to suffer so that others could be free.
Today, if we are to have future freedom, we must be willing to stand up and speak up, and we must be willing to suffer---even to the point of giving our own blood.
If freedom is not worth fighting for, it is not worth dying for. And if we are not willing to fight and struggle for continued freedom, we will allow our children and grand-children to become slaves to man's evil ways, and the world will plunge into a world of darkness.
The future freedom of this nation or any nation is in the hands of the people. As long as we are willing to stand up and speak up, freedom will continue to exist; but if we sit down and shut up, we will lose it. And if we forget the cost of freedom, we will also forget our children and grand-children.
Our faith, therefore, must not be in ourselves, but in Almighty God---and always remembering that Christ gave His blood and His life that we would be free.
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14: 1-3)
Because of the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the world has been a better place in which to live over the past 2000 years.
Without Christ, the freedom of this nation or any nation would have never happened, and the past twenty centuries would have been a continuous world of darkness---of doom and gloom, hopelessness and helplessness, and a world of continuous slavery by the hands of people in religion and politics.
The Constitution of the United States marked the first time since Jesus walked on earth when Christians were legally free to be Christians. And because of the freedom of people in the United States, people of other nations also became free.
This freedom that we have had and continue to have is not free; for the cost has been paid by the sacrifice of human blood. People became free because they were willing to stand up and speak up, and also because they were willing to suffer so that others could be free.
Today, if we are to have future freedom, we must be willing to stand up and speak up, and we must be willing to suffer---even to the point of giving our own blood.
If freedom is not worth fighting for, it is not worth dying for. And if we are not willing to fight and struggle for continued freedom, we will allow our children and grand-children to become slaves to man's evil ways, and the world will plunge into a world of darkness.
The future freedom of this nation or any nation is in the hands of the people. As long as we are willing to stand up and speak up, freedom will continue to exist; but if we sit down and shut up, we will lose it. And if we forget the cost of freedom, we will also forget our children and grand-children.
Our faith, therefore, must not be in ourselves, but in Almighty God---and always remembering that Christ gave His blood and His life that we would be free.
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