Who or what gives us freedom of speech?
Well the 1st amendment of our Constitution, among other rights, gives us our freedom of speech in this great Country we live in which I firmly believe was given to the founding Fathers from the Creator God. So God ultimately gives us our rights and freedoms, we have just been blessed to live in a Country that was founded on that belief too!
I have written about how we lose our freedoms several times as have many others. How we lose them through indifference, carelessness and sometimes just plain laziness.
As I've been following the UN General Assembly goings on once again I'm reminded of not only freedoms we've already lost in this United States of America but the freedoms the UN and others want to take away even more!
So how does freedom of speech enter into this little chat here? As my Brother in the Lord Ray Andrews says...I'm so glad you asked.
The freedoms given by governments, world entities or men can be taken away. We see this happening right before our eyes. Freedom of speech just so happens to be one of them I've chosen to discuss. You see, in Hebrews 10:35 the Word of God states that we are not to throw away our confidence because it has a great reward.
The freedoms from the Government, man or the world system can be taken away, even our Constitution replaced by the "World Court" so to speak, although I pray we will not lose it. But the freedoms God has given by can not be taken away by any man or entity and neither does God go back on what He has given. See Romans 11:29, for the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable. No, once we have received them from God we are the only ones that can lose them, again through indifference, carelessness and or turning our back on God. We can lose our freedoms, here talking about speech through what Luke 21:35 discusses, through dissipation, drunkenness and the cares and worries of life.
So speaking of speech God says don't throw it away. He is addressing the need to continue to speak and preach His Word, in season and out of season, welcome or unwelcome, rebuking and exhorting with great patience and instruction! I'm reminded of Jeremiah when God said He had appointment him to be a prophet to the nations and Jeremiah said, "Alas, Lord GOD ! Behold, I do not know how to speak, Because I am a youth." But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am a youth,' Because everywhere I send you, you shall go, And all that I command you, you shall speak.
Steve Young
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