Today I was contemplating how easy it is to say we believe in God, and how hard it is to remember we are called to live by the standards his only Son set for us. In Matthew 4 Jesus is tempted by his enemy Satan. We are tempted today, and distracted, and dumbed down by the same enemy. We shrug off God’s call for holiness because it seems too unreasonable, or perhaps impossible, and settle instead for a mediocre, grey kind of darkness where we can still make our own choices, and feel free. Free but blind. Freedom from the truth is living in the dark. “What fellowship can light have with darkness?” ( 2 Cor. 6:14b NIV). Believers need to be making hard, difficult, illuminating, holy choices.
“Freedom From the Truth is…”
VS 1: Don’t let him in to bring you down,
to dangle his temporary crowns,
and whisper his sweet and clever sounds of freedom.
He offers the finest wine of lies,
and scoffs at the thought of sacrifice.
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CH: But freedom from the truth is living in the dark
and living in the dark is death. (repeat)
VS 2: Don’t let him in to build you up,
to dazzle you with the prideful cup,
and welcome your screams of “NOT ENOUGH” freedom.
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Indulgency is his King my friend, called freedom?
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and living in the dark is death. (repeat)
BRIDGE: There is a way that seems right to man, but in the end leads to death, paraphrased Prov. 14:12