Freedom and Courage in Braveheart

That is the freedom that I wish for you, freedom from sin.

Freedom from our weaknesses.

Freedom from the slavery that sin makes out of all of us.

That is the

freedom that is worth dying for. It kind of reminds me of the words that Mel Gibson

first intoned in his Academy Award winning film Braveheart.

When he said to his ragpicker, Army, and I say to you tonight,

I see before me a

whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny.

You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are.

What will you do without freedom?

Will you fight? No!

Yeah, fine, you may die, run and you'll live,

at least a while,

dying in your beds many years from now. Would you have been willing

to trade all the years from this day to that for one chance?

Just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that you can take my life?

our lives. You can never take our freedom. Every man dies.

Not every man truly lives.

You, you, you,

you, we must fight for that authentic freedom and live, my friend.

By God, we must live.

And with the Holy Spirit as your shield and Christ as your sword,

may you join Saint Michael and all the angels into one.

And Bennington is sending Lucifer

and his henchmen straight right back to hell where they belong!

10.

The storm is upon us.

you