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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Well, as we all know, today is the Fourth of July, and it is historically a day when in this country we celebrate freedom.

Going back to when America was born out of a revolution and earned its freedom,

freedom has always been something highly valued in our society, at least up until now,

through the last couple of centuries, freedom seemed to be at the top of the list of things that folks wanted to maintain in our culture and our society.

And over the years, there has been a phrase that has been used with regard to freedom.

It's the phrase, the truth shall make you free or the truth shall set you free.

It's interesting to know how many ways that phrase has been used.

It's familiar. There are myriad applications of it. There are myriad interpretations of it.

There are even some bizarre memes built on that statement. The truth will make you free.

I suppose it's broad enough to be embraced by so many diverse aspects of our culture.

A Plato sort of started what became a philosophical approach to that statement.

And the philosophers have said following Plato that find the truth that is in you, self-knowledge, be true to your truth, and you will be free.

That's the philosophical interpretation of that statement.

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