True Liberty

True Liberty

There are several ways of being in bondage under the law. We can be in bondage under the law of the old covenant, and we can be in bondage under the laws and regulations that our superiors impose on us, and we can also be in bondage to the laws in our conscience. Bondage is the feeling that we must conduct ourselves according to these laws even if we have neither love nor the power to keep them. However, if we are zealous in this bondage, the law will be our tutor to lead us to Christ where we receive both love and power to do what we know we ought to do, and thus we are set free from being in bondage to the law. Then the perfect laws of the new covenant are written in our heart and mind. Heb. 10:16. Then we are under law to Christ (1 Cor. 9:21) and can rejoice in having been set free from sin so that we can do all God’s will.

VIII. Freedom to Follow Our Own Conscience at All Times

1 Corinthians 10:29

It is a very common mistake that people make when they automatically assume that when their conscience tells them to do something in a certain way, then others must also do it like that. This is a very common occurrence. However, it is very thoughtless. A person ought to be able to come to this conclusion that since I obviously should follow my own conscience, then everyone else should obviously follow their conscience and not mine. Therefore: full respect for others’ consciences! They must have complete liberty to follow their own conscience. What a glorious, meaningful liberty! I lead other people into sin, and they will get a bad conscience if I want them to follow my conscience when their own conscience tells them something else!

IX. Liberty to Choose According to Our Own Free Will,

According to the Perfect Law of Liberty

But after that comes the judgment. Jas. 1:25, 2:12. Therefore this is liberty with responsibility. You have an opportunity to see how things turn out when you choose to follow your own free will over and over again—whether you have made a good or a bad choice—and then you can learn from it and can make better and better choices. In this way you become a person in your own right instead of being a chip that is moved by others. Instruction and exhortation are very good, but the choice must be left to the individual himself according to the understanding he has received based on what he has seen and heard. God wants to make individuals out of us.

X. Freedom From Satan’s Harassment and Tyranny

Romans 16:20

Freedom from listening to all his many accusations in things great and small, in things like and unlike. He has been condemned once and for all. He is never right! We have absolutely nothing to do with him. He must be considered as having been deposed! His words have absolutely no validity. It is a crime to listen to him. We are deserters if we do listen to him!

Apart from this, we are called to suffer injustices when it concerns our relationship to all other people and to all earthly things.

However, we are called to defend the gospel and to claim our right in Christ Jesus and thus resist our accuser and opponent, Satan, steadfastly, hard, and relentlessly one hundred percent.

How can we possibly know what he is saying if we absolutely do not listen to a single sentence of his? And when he, through our faith in the work of Christ has been crushed under our feet, how can he then continue to speak to us and harass us??

Alas! Alas! He pesters very many others, but he cannot harass those people under whose feet he has been crushed! Glory to God and His blessed, true, and powerfully effective words! Oh, what glorious liberty!!!

XI. Liberty to Proclaim “Liberty, True Liberty!”

“That You may say to the prisoners, “Go forth . . . .” Isa. 49:9. The leaders of Israel were admonished because they did not proclaim liberty! This is what we must now do in the new covenant to the fullest extent, in spirit and in truth. We shall proclaim it in every area in the name of the Lord as God’s Word does it and teaches. This is our work!

XII. Liberty to Rule Over Sin as Kings in Our Own Right

Romans 5:17

This is one of the most glorious verses to be found in the entire Scriptures! What a victory! What a glorious, absolute kingdom!

Just as bad and reprehensible as it is to rule over other people’s conscience so that they end up in bondage to people, so it is good and right, noble and glorious, useful and fruitful to rule over all conscious sin by God’s grace and power and according to His promptings—without restrictions and without shadow of turning to God’s glory and praise! His name be highly praised!

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free . . . .” Gal. 5:1. This is true liberty!

Conclusion

Unfortunately, the religious world is full of false liberty and imagined liberty as well as being full of bondage. May many more therefore, experience true, blessed liberty in these days!

Spiritually speaking, this liberty can also be meaningfully described as follows: Liberty for everything, with the exception of transgressing the laws of the Spirit of life.