...free speech is not an absolute. When we are standing
before the throne of Christ, giving an account of all that we have ever said,
we will not be able to defend our verbal cruelties, lies, slanders with a lame
appeal to “free speech.” God is Lord of the tongue, and He evaluates the jar of
our hearts by the droplets around the upper lip of it. “Out of the abundance of
the heart the mouth speaketh.” (Matt. 12:34). And on the basis of that
evaluation, He will judge our lives at the Last Day.
“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned” (Matt. 12:36–37).
So setting the boundaries and limits of free speech is a
prerogative of Deity. This is yet another testimony that the secular state is
aspiring to that position, and wants to stand in the position of God to us.
Christians, among all people, must be singularly uncooperative with this vain
enterprise of theirs.
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