Continuing with Our Eternal link to GOD in Christ as exposed by Him, the I AM. "Liberty"

     This morning while I was saying my daily prayers, I heard the word 'Republic.' And as expected I found the usual polical rhetoric dealing with government until I found this: a form of self-government, self-rule. After Benjamin Franklin left the meeting of congress, he was asked by a passerby what sort of government the constitution convention had formulated for the then new nation,  he replied, "A republic, if you can keep it!" In 1596 this meaning defined it as: a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch, a tyrant, a bureaucrat, a dictator, a theoretician, but one who in modern times is usually a president. It is a form of government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to those who voted them in and gave them governing according to law, in our case that is the Constitution and Bill of Rights which GOD gave to all of humanity certain inalienably rights. A body of persons freely engaged in a specified activity. History and Etymology: French re'publique, from Middle French republique, from Latin respublica, from res thing, wealth+publica, feminine of publicu public-----more at REAL, PUBLIC.

Now how is this part of my main theme of Christ within humanity and what brought this about, simple answer is the Cross. The OT in Leviticus 25:10 proclaimed liberty (H1865) throughout all the land to all inhabitants as a jubile (H3104). In Psalm 119:45 we find: "I will walk at liberty (H7342) for I seek Your precepts." And everyone's favorite found in Isaiah 61:1 speaking of the Lord Jesus who was yet to come it states this: "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; Because the LORD having anointed Me to preach good tidings to the meek; They have sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty (H1865) to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound." Remember Jesus quoted this when questioned by the Jewish leaders in Luke 4:18. Then there are many such passages in Jeremiah 34:8, 15, 16, 17. and comes Paul in Romans 8:20-21: For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who having subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty (G1657) of the children of God." And many others such as 1Corinthians 10:29, 2Corinthians 3:17-18 which states this: "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (G1657). For we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the LORD, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD." Then there's a warning in Galatians 2:4 which is applicable for today: "And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage." There remain many more of these.

So what is this "liberty" in question? First the OT Hebrew and the NT Greek.

Hebrew H1865: derôr  der-ore'  From an unused root (meaning to move rapidly); freedom; hence spontaneity of outflow, and so clear: - liberty, pure.

Again Hebrew H3104 from H2986: yâbal  yaw-bal'  A primitive root; properly to flow; causatively to bring (especially with pomp): - bring (forth), carry, lead (forth).

H7342: râchâb  raw-khawb'  From H7337 [râchab  raw-khab'  A primitive root; to broaden (intransitively or transitively, literally or figuratively): - be an en- (make) large (-ing), make room, make (open) wide.]; roomy, in any (or every) direction, literally or figuratively: - broad, large, at liberty, proud, wide.

Now for the NT Greek: G1657: eleutheria  el-yoo-ther-ee'-ah  From G1658 [eleutheros  el-yoo'-ther-os
Probably from the alternate of G2064; unrestrained (to go at pleasure), that is, (as a citizen) not a slave (whether freeborn or manumitted), or (generally) exempt (from obligation or liability): - free (man, woman), at liberty.]; freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or ceremonial): - liberty.

Now this may have seemed to be the long way around the tree but we got there with a good understanding. Our forefather's were lead of the Holy Spirit in the framing of the Constitution with its amendments. Where the second protects the first these both under attack today.