“Give me liberty, or give me death!” — Patrick Henry
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” — Thomas Jefferson
“This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to”. Ronald Reagan
“Ask not what your country can do for you…ask what you can do for your country.” JFK
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”—July 4, 1776
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. Most of the 56 suffered great lost.
A representative from Maryland, he died on November 14, 1832, at the age of 95, outliving all other 55 signers Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the richest signer of the Declaration of Independence. A prominent planter and businessman from Maryland, 70,000 acres his vast fortune—estimated at around $2 million at the time..375 million today.
Galatians 5:1 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
Freedom Disregarded Neglected
“He ignored the warning signs.” We need to be saved because our hearts are hardened by evil. “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” (Jeremiah 17:9)
Acts 4:12 12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Freedom to Depend on
James 1:25 “But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
John 8:36 “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”
Freedom to Be Defended
Paul says, “stand firm” in verse 1. Freedom is a calling he will say in verse 13; Christian freedom, grounded in justification by faith, is a freedom to be defended.
Galatians 5:13 “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”