Yesterday a friend of mine who reads this blog said, “This study on freedom is an amazing study.” What I think he meant was that Jesus Christ’s gospel is amazing. How true. It’s amazing because it not only sets us free from the dictatorship of sin, and free from the law as a curse and debt (See my previous posts), but also because in Christ we are free to obey God.
The freedom of the Christ means we are free to obey God. Our obedience is a free obedience. Our discipleship is a glad one. We present our selves to God freely. That is, we are perfectly satisfied with what God has chosen for us. We are willingly in agreement with God’s sovereign will. We have the freedom to make the right choice by the power of the Spirit. He has written God’s law in our hearts and we agree with it. This is the law of life in Christ Jesus which sets us free from the law of sin and death. Christ’s gospel brings us simply to live as true human beings…thinking God’s thoughts after him and agreeing with him on everything.
Scripture explains this freedom in many ways. The commandments are not a burden (1 Jn 5:3). Being in Christ, Christians actually don’t see them as a weight, but as way forward in life. They don’t slow us down, they actually speed us up to a life of peace and joy now that the Spirit has and is changing us to make the right choices.
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