No I think when God tells me I have freedom, He is also specific about how I am to treat my brethren, and how they are to treat me. Not with lying, not with secrecy (and that is totally different from privacy, because there are some things that people would like to keep private). I am not to have fleshly vanity or jealousy in my relationships, I am not to be intent to hurt. (Eph 4:25) Because after all, altogether we are His, are One body, are His children. I am flesh of his flesh, an important part of His body, much as my brethren are also (Eph 5:30) and being part of His body is like being a brick in His church building. I need the brick next to me and the brick on top of me needs me. My brethren need my help (Phil 4:3) and in Rev 21:27 those in harmony are those written in His book. I must live in peace as much as is possible and within my capabilities.
God also reminds us that His people will have to work hard, suffer many things, struggle, and struggle against themselves and temptations, (Ps 126:5,6) but God’s people can win by saying Jesus and God provide with victory by the power of the trinity. He promises provisions and salvation and a home. He has anointed us as His. (Ps 132:15-17) And our purpose is to glorify Him (Ps 138:4,5) and all things shall praise Him. (Ps 145:10-11) And no better described in Isaiah 2:2-5, “And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, “Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk n his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O, house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.” We will be in peace, when we come to the LORD, and obey and walk with Him, and when we realize we are not God and allow Him to be Himself and lead us, rather than make Him into a box.
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