2013 Academy Award Winning Song Leave me alone With its catchy melody and connection to one of the most popular animated movies of all time, it has captivated the hearts of countless children. frozen. But the crux of it is, says the Rev. Alistair Beggis a self-centered worldview that is unbiblical. Pastor of Parkside Church in Cleveland Truth for Life A broadcaster priest made a similar point in a recent sermon, contrasting the biblical definition of freedom with the secular definition.
“What the modern world considers freedom is an illusion,” Begg said.
Begg said freedom in the Bible means “freedom from guilt, free from remorse, free from meaninglessness, free from the prison of self-centeredness, free from the shifting sands of subjectivity and modernity.”
“Because biblical freedom under the yoke of Jesus is a contradiction. To be yourself, you must deny yourself. To be free, you must give up freedom. To live, you must die to yourself. To find yourself, you must lose yourself.”
Begg said, Deuteronomy 6 “Winner of the 2013 Academy Award for Best Original Song”
“Deuteronomy 6: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one God.” He is the one living and true God. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” We were created by God to know God, love God and serve God. Based on that power, Moses says, “These words that I command you today shall be on your heart, and you shall diligently teach them to your children. [you] You shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.”
“that [is] In contrast to the 2013 Oscar-winning song “Elsa” frozen.”
Hearing laughter from the congregation, Mr Begg replied: “That’s not funny.”
“Do you know how clever the devil is? The kids “It’s about that,” he said. “Elsa in ‘Frozen’ is no longer trying to live up to her parents’ or society’s expectations.
“Instead, she decides to ‘let it go’ in order to express her true identity – ‘there’s no right, no wrong, no rules,'” he added, quoting the song.
“‘It’s Disney, it’s the kids,'” he said, as if anticipating the parents’ response. “Listen, she is the epitome of expressive individualism. She is the epitome of the reduced selfish framework of a society that has chosen to live without God, and wants no concept of a yoke. For Elsa, and for people who think like her, freedom can only be found in a world without any boundaries at all.”
Begg then quoted a 1979 Bob Dylan song: “You gotta serve somebody. … It could be the devil, it could be God, but you’re gonna serve … somebody.”
“In Jesus, I have no right to do what I want,” Begg says. “I have no right to believe what I want. And the Bible says that freedom isn’t about living for yourself, freed from responsibility to God and others; true freedom is about being freed from yourself to live for the benefit of God and others. We recognize that freedom doesn’t belong in the absence of constraints; true freedom lies within constraints. What would the game of golf be without the white stakes and the red stakes, the diameter of the hole, and the paper? There would be no game.”
“We can either serve the living God and find freedom in Him, or we can serve substitute gods that will never satisfy us and will drain us.”
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Michael Faust He has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years, and his work has appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, Christian Post, Leaf Chronicle, Toronto Star and Knoxville News Sentinel.
