Are you free?

I had a conversation today on twitter, that went something like this.

A.Person - We need to vote for the right people to be free.
Me - It doesn't matter who you vote for, without Christ you will never be free.
A.Person - I was talking about politics, not religion.
Me - What does it profit a man if he lives in a free country or inherits the whole word, there is no Freedom in Christ.
A.Person - Don't go quoting scripture at me, I'm a christian.
Me - We should love the word of God, a Christian saying dont quote scripture at me is like saying to my wife Don't smile at me.

I dare say this guy never looked up the verse I quoted but the truth is politics cannot save anyone, how can you define freedom outside of Christ?  You simply cannot. It goes even further than that,

1 John 5:12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Eph 2:1 says

 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,  in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.  For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

With Christ, you can live under the fiercest oppresion and still be free, what a miracle.  

Ask the Lord for forgiveness today and make you a new creation.