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It is one of the best known words of Jesus, uttered in the temple courts in Jerusalem at the close of the Feast of Tabernacles: That is what we will explore in this part of the Gospel of John. The true definition of freedom is, "being able to be all that you were meant to be." Don't you long for that? To feel fulfilled, to be able to do all that is possible for you to do and be - that is freedom. But he soon found that it was but another form of slavery. He thought that getting an early inheritance, leaving home and going off and indulging in instant gratification was freedom. Yet you cannot read the parable of the prodigal son without realizing that that is exactly the way he defined freedom. Most people define it as being able to do whatever you feel like doing. Is life so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I care not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!īut I find that many people today do not really understand freedom. I still get chills up and down my spine when I remember his words, As a boy in school I was required to learn Patrick Henry's wonderful address, delivered at the House of Burgesses in Williamsburg before the Revolution. I grew up on the great words of American freedom.
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