So the idol of freedom. Yeah, what do you mean by this? It's indicative of something good

being taken way too far to where it's not just now something good that we enjoy as a gift from the

Lord, but you take it to an extreme to where you're willing to violate what is righteous in order to attain it.

The myth that is found in the West

is that freedom is doing whatever you want to do.

But you think about what the scripture describes as freedom.

As a matter of fact, the scripture describes it almost the opposite,

that doing whatever you wanted to do, pursuing your passions actually ends up in slavery. The scripture

describes freedom, not as doing whatever you want to do, but doing what you were meant to do.

The freedom, not the freedom from, but the freedom to worship, the freedom to glorify God, the freedom to pursue

righteousness, the freedom from sin, the freedom from slavery to sin, the freedom from your

own passions that often get you ensnared in things.

Freedom in the eyes of the world is absence of law. You're free to do this, free to do that.

But that makes no sense. You do that in a football game. You say, okay, we're not going to have

law in this football game. We're not going to have penalties, not going to have any rules.

Everyone does their own thing. That's not freedom. That's absolute chaos. That the law in a

football game gives freedom. If there's a

transgression, the whistle blows, then there's penalty. That's really good. And we think freedom

in a nation is absence of law, but it's the exact opposite. It's chaos. And when the law is instilled

civil law, and obviously over the top of it, God's law, you get absolute freedom that law brings.

No murder, no rape, no adultery, no fornication, and lying, no stealing.

I always think about when I talk about this from like a non-believers mindset, how this

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