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$\"\"$ <\/a>\u00a0 I have spent a good deal of time in Egypt, that most ancient of all countries, and I like the Egyptian people a lot.\u00a0 And if you have been paying attention, we have just had an important moment in history this week,\u00a0 as through moral force, not violence, the Egyptian people have overthrown a much loathed dictator with cries of freedom and democracy.\u00a0 As Martin Luther King Jr. once said,\u00a0 there is something in the soul of a human being that cries out for freedom.\u00a0 And we have heard that cry repeatedly since January 25th all over Egypt, and especially in Tahrir Square near the famous Cairo Museum of Egyptology.\u00a0\u00a0 Tahrir, means Liberation, and what better place to\u00a0cause a peaceful liberation\u00a0of Egypt than in that place.\u00a0\u00a0 As Egypt turns to its prayers while I write this,\u00a0 I would urge every Christian in America to pray that the Egyptian revolution, far more\u00a0peaceful than our own, would lead to true freedom and democracy for all Egyptians\u2014 Coptic Christians, Moslems and secular Egyptians too.\u00a0\u00a0 It will serve the whole world well, if that is what emerges in Egypt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the most intoxicating things that has ever existed\u2014 freedom. And there are many dimensions to it\u2014 political freedom, religious freedom, financial freedom, freedom of expression,\u00a0 we could go on and on.\u00a0 As the old song says \u2018all the world over it\u2019s easy to see. People everywhere just gotta be free.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Freedom is often confused with a particular political system, namely democracy.\u00a0 But democracies don\u2019t necessarily set everyone free, as the first democracy in ancient Greece is a testimony to.\u00a0\u00a0 If financial freedom or freedom from debt is essential to freedom, there aren\u2019t many free people in the world.\u00a0\u00a0 And it is a poor and truncated form of freedom when one is only prepared to talk about \u2018freedom from\u2019\u00a0 or \u2018freedom to\u2019 though freedom from oppression and tyranny is essential.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One needs to also ask what\u2019s freedom for?\u00a0\u00a0 Is it something essential to being human?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And what\u00a0 about freedom from sin?\u00a0\u00a0 Is that something essential to being human, or do we define being human as being free to<\/em> sin? \u00a0\u00a0Well, strangely enough many people do define that as freedom\u2014it\u2019s called sexual freedom\u00a0 or freedom from the truth,\u00a0 and a host of other things.\u00a0 And it is fool\u2019s gold,\u00a0 not real freedom. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Today perhaps is not the time to reflect philosophically on the nature and meaning of freedom, but this much I would want to say to all my Egyptian friends\u2014 God has created all human beings for freedom, so they may freely relate to their God and one another in love.\u00a0 For love is something that can only be freely given, and freely received.\u00a0 Just as you can\u2019t have love without trust, so also you can\u2019t have love without freedom.\u00a0 It is the presupposition of most everything else that is good, and true and beautiful.\u00a0 Today I say to my Egyptian friends, not merely\u00a0 we are watching and celebrating with you,\u00a0 but we are praying.\u00a0\u00a0 Praying for the best possible outcome\u2014 a truly free Egypt.\u00a0\u00a0 As a Christian I would just add,\u00a0 \u201cif the Son has set you free, you are free indeed!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"