Random Thoughts From a Free Man...

True Freedom Is Fearing God Rather Than Man

Let me let you in on a little secret here, um, you know, I, I consider myself in a lot of ways a free man. I'm a free man. And that doesn't mean that I'm free from like any fetters at all. Like I'm free from any rules at all.

I'm just like a wild man, just crazy. No, no, no, no, no. That's not what real freedom is. Because when you're, when you think you're free in that way, you're actually just a slave to your own sin nature.

You're a slave to sin. See, see those of those of us like myself that, that, that are free, like truly free, like we fear God and we follow his rules and we seek to honor him in everything that we do.

We fear God, right? So we, we, we, we're not trying to break the shackles of God's oppression on us. He doesn't oppress us, right? We know that his rules and his statutes are holy and good and for our good.

We understand that, right? But, but what we're free from is the fear of man, right? We're free from, from the fear of like, Oh, can I provide for myself, my family and stuff like that? No. The answer is no.

God Will Provide for His People

So newsflash. The answer is absolutely no. God will provide for us. You know, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want, you see what I'm saying? So here's a little bit of a piece of advice for you from those of us who are free men.

Okay? The worst that the enemy has is actually not that big a deal. Take it from me. I've been, I've been called all kinds of names, racist, white supremacist. You're just a big, meaty, misogynist, all this kind of stuff.

I've been taught. I've been called every name in the book, right? I've been called every name in the book. My life has, they, people have attempted to destroy my life, right? They've attempted to, they've, they've attempted to ruin me.

Now I've never gotten the phone call and, and, and a lot of you guys out here know about this phone call. I've never gotten this because I've never gone this route. Right? But the phone call that says, if you continue to do X, you'll never get another book deal again.

You'll never get another job in a seminary again. I've never been on the receiving end of that phone call, but guess what? When you are a free man and you don't fear that, and you know that the Lord is your shepherd, he'll provide for you.

When you don't fear that and you're a free man, it becomes not that big a deal almost instantly. So if you're worried about getting another book deal, you're worried about, Oh, am I going to be platform?

Am I going to be promoted? Is, is so-and-so going to write the forward to my book? Like this is small potatoes, man. It's not that big a deal. What's the worst they can do? They can call you racist.

Been there, done that. I've been called a racist a million times. Guess what? Doesn't hurt me. Oh yeah, yeah. You know, they might, they might make it so you can't work again. Yeah. Okay, fine. So if they, whoever they is makes it so that you can't get another job again, is the Lord still your shepherd?

Fear of Man and the Tactics of the Enemy

Will you want to see when you're a free man, you realize that the worst that the enemy has for you is nothing compared to what you deserve. When you're a free man, people that want you to fear them and their power, they wield power over you.

You know, they send you text messages, they tell you to kill yourself. They tell you, they tell you that you'll never get another job in this town again. You know, that kind of stuff. The mafia stuff, mafia tactics.

Listen, the reality is in big Eva, there are people like that and evangelicalism. A lot of your heroes have fallen because, because they're scared of people like that. Like the mafioso type. You know what I mean?

There's a, there's like a mafia style group in big, big Eva evangelicalism. When you're a free man, you realize that all of their threats, all of the, of the worst they could do, it's no big deal because the Lord is your shepherd and you shall not want.

Living Under God’s Constraints With Real Freedom

It's good to be free. It's really good to be free. And I'm not saying that again, this is not like a total like libertine type freedom where you can just do whatever you want. No, no, no. I have to do what God requires of me.

Like I have constraints. I can't just do whatever I want. And then trust me, if I did whatever I wanted on my YouTube channel, my channel would look a lot different than it does right now. But the reality is when you're a free man and you fear God more than anything, it's awesome.

It's great. You truly are free. So all you guys out there, I'm telling you, I'm encouraging you. I mean, there's a lot of you that are on our side in this issue, our side of this war, but you're still kind of fearing what man can do to you.

It seems like a big deal, but I'm here to tell you from someone who's bared the brunt of some of it, not all of it, but some of it, it's not that bad. It's not a big deal. I promise you. Anyway, I hope this is helpful.

God bless. God bless.