12. Laws that bring Freedom?

Most of what Christianity has continually tried to base it's foundations on is the Mosaic Law (10 commandments plus all the other laws God gave to Moses for the people.) Yet, God didn't even like those laws in the first place. Did they have a purpose? Yes. However, they were never meant to be the foundation to freedom and righteousness. Read Galatians three for a further explanation or continue here while I keep plugging away at this road to freedom series.

Every law must have a judgment. If there is no judgment or consequence to breaking a law, the law has no "teeth" or strength and really isn't even a law. Judgment was added through eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Laws evolved over time as men were uncomfortable without them. They were creating their own set of rights and wrongs based on things that are good and bad. Now are there things in this world that are right? yes!
                     wrong? yes!
                     good? yes!
                     bad? yes!

Well, humans started using those systems of measurement to maintain a balance between justifying actions in a world full of broken relationships. That system is still ingrained in the world today.

Those laws popped up in written form on stone with Moses for the Israelites because the people were still too scared to have a relationship with God. They chose to listen to a leader who's job was to listen to God. Then they picked and chose which rules that leader told them to live by. That's not terribly different than how many people today still treat pastor's and God.

For thousands of years now, people have set up laws and have rebelled against them. This has been a cycle seen over and over again in and out of the church. We're constantly adding rules and laws and judging people for them.

Here are some thoughts though that I want you to think about:

1. There is an illusion of comfort that comes through laws…yet people break them often enough to never really bring that "comfort."

2. There is an illusion that freedom comes through holding people to just laws and rules. Even America which is known as the "most free place on Earth" by many has it's freedom based in rules and laws. Every year politicians add more. Yet, if there was no threat of judgment,  most people wouldn't obey the laws or rules…Furthermore we just have an illusion of true freedom here…If you disagree, let's have a discussion 🙂

3. The church has used the world's illusion of freedom to base it's illusion of freedom…still based on rules, laws and regulations. 

CHRISTIANS…There is a greater freedom than living a life based on rules…even if those rules try to promote freedom. The problem is that laws and rules try to work from the outside in…That's never going to bring you complete freedom!!!

to be continued…