Declaration of Dependence

The American Declaration of Independence was not the first declaration of independence. The first declaration of independence was drawn up in the heart of Adam in the Garden of Eden and is the cause of all the ills which have come to the human race since that time.

Only in Christ can we get the fruit that Adam reached for and did not truly get. Our whole existence centers in the fact that we have come to Jesus Christ and declared our dependence. Out of that dependence has come a freedom and liberty that the unsaved man can never know. We have the liberty of sonship; we have the liberty of truth; we have the liberty of worship; we have the liberty of love and service. So all of our relationships, toward God, toward our own psychological being, and toward all men, have become right relationships. "For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery" (Galatians 5:1).