Title Liberalization Movement
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Christ set us free so that we may be set free; therefore stand firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
Brethren, you were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. The whole law was fulfilled in one word, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” If you bite and eat one another, be careful that you do not perish one another. I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. The lust of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the lust of the Spirit is against the flesh, for these two oppose each other, so that you cannot do what you want. (Ga 5:1, 13-17)
It has been 24 years since our nation was liberated from Japanese aggression. However, half of our country is still oppressed by the communist dictatorship, not the Japanese rule, and 20 million North Koreans are looking forward to the day of liberation. There is a strong wave of liberalization going on in Eastern Europe right now. It is our earnest desire that our compatriots in North Korea will soon join this wave of liberalization so that a free Korea can be reunified. Today, on the 24th anniversary of Liberation Day, which gave us a taste of freedom, we hope that we can rekindle the flames of liberalization. And by examining our experiences and this verse of the Bible, we want to learn new lessons.
In Galatians 5:1 it says, “Christ has set you free so that you may be set free.” Giving them means that they have set you free from slavery. Freedom means liberation. Freedom movement is freedom from all the restraints that bind us. We have been freed from the political aggression of the past Japanese colonial rule. Human beings have no freedom if they are bound not only by political power but by anything. We must ensure that our North Korean compatriots are liberated We must be liberated from not only politics but also poverty. A poor and hungry person can sell his personality for a bowl of red bean soup. We must also be freed from disease. We must be thoroughly liberated from all kinds of bondage that binds the press and thought.
All of the flaws in the nature of our people are acquired traits that have arisen because we have always been subject to the bondage of neighboring countries throughout history. Humans who grow up without being bound by anything are truly amicable, relaxed, and honest. However, along with all these liberations, human beings must be fundamentally liberated from their own contradictions. There is no true human freedom until we are freed from the mental bondage that comes from the division of personality ideals, real conflict times, eternal tension, and the struggle between good and evil, which intensify the inner conflict within a human being. We see many people from wealthy families who are financially free but are living in a frightening hell under mental bondage. We must be freed from the bondage of political and cultural thought, but more importantly, we must be freed from the guilt and conflict that bind the human heart. When a person breaks free from the bondage of the mind, even if there are other external restraints, it can be overcome. Christ's faith starts with this liberation of our hearts and gives rise to all external liberation movements.
Needless to say, this Bible asserts that we should build our lives on the basis of faith in God and build our families and societies. That's a very natural thing to say. If it is built on an economic basis, it does not become a slave to money; if it is built on the basis of political power, it becomes a slave to coercionism; if it is built on an ideology, it becomes a slave to the thoughts of the Lord. True free men are those who have built all their human beings on the foundation of faith in God. As we celebrate this Liberation Day today, I hope that we will be able to make a commitment to building our country completely on the foundation of faith in God.
Freedom is freedom to grow, freedom to create, and freedom to live together. We believe that true freedom is not just our own freedom, but the freedom of the social community, the freedom of the whole nation, and the common freedom of all mankind in parallel. Let's promise to be the rider of