Most of us think the threat to freedom of thought comes from the world outside of us, but really it is the demonic lies and our false beliefs which steal our freedom of thought. It is the false desires which destroy the root of freedom within our souls. Our salvation lies in union with Christ. We must have that one mind together in Christ. We must be, as Paul said, sympsycos (a united soul, spiritually one). True freedom is the agape love which serves the other and cares for their concerns.
Jesus is not self-seeking, His way is to turn from our natural impulses and to turn to the will of God in obedience. Our King and Lord is a servant.
The problem is we are the children of Adam and Eve. They were the image and likeness of God. But they regarded equality with God something to be stolen, so they disobeyed to pursue their own desires. They act not as servants, but as a rival master to God, bringing sin, death and a curse upon creation. Therefore, God let them go and sin and violence grew and chaos swept away creation. This is the anti-Gospel, the sad story of corruption.
God, however, did not give up. The incarnation of God Himself was His response. Jesus was the morphe—the actual form of God, upon whom Adam was modeled. Jesus did not harpagmos (literally seize or rob; hold fast) to equality, He kenosis—emptied—and became a human (adam), choosing to be an obedient, humble, suffering servant of God. He was raised up and glorified and through His descent the foolishness of Adam, Eve, and each one of us is undone. Jesus conquers and calls us to our true identity as God’s servants.
We must think as He thinks, we must be emptied of our passions and self-seeking—and in love and trust, we must serve the others around us. So, yet again, we turn back to the way of Jesus, and begin once more the journey into life.
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