Each Independence Day a phrase comes to mind that honors the hard-earned, bloodshed, independence of our nation, “Freedom Isn’t Free.” Since the first skirmishes of the American Revolution to the latest conflict, generations of warriors have fought our nation’s battles, at home and abroad to secure and defend our liberty and liberate others from tyranny. Countless others fought valiantly through nonviolent means, to demand equality and freedom from prejudice and bias for all Americans.
Someone had to pay and continues to pay the price for the freedom we celebrate. Liberty comes at a high price. We honor the sacred sacrifice countless many made for our peace and freedom, purchased with their very lives.
The shedding of blood is a necessary sacrifice, not only in gaining liberty and freedom in the natural dimension, but also to gain spiritual freedom. From the earliest times, something or someone had to pay the price for our spiritual liberty. In the Garden of Eden, God sacrificed an innocent animal to cover mankind physically after they sinned (Genesis 3:21).
Later, the first covenant covered man by the blood of animals sacrificed for the sins of the people. Moses sprinkled that blood on the people, the tabernacle and the tabernacle contents in order to purify all the blood came in contact. That blood only covered the people’s sin, not erase it. It took the death of the true liberator, Jesus, to cancel out the debt for sin. Only through His sacrificial death and shed blood can we have spiritual freedom and liberty.
“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”—Romans 5:8
