Slavery And Liberty
by
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Les Feldick All Day Seminar From Tulsa, Oklahoma
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We thank God for Abraham Lincoln and for his part in
emancipating the negro slaves in the United Sates. Yet, in a deeper
sense, there is a slavery from which we all need to be emancipated.
The children of Adam are slaves by birth. Partaking
of his fallen nature they find it an uphill fight to do right and
easy to do wrong. No mother has ever had to teach her child to tell
lies, or to steal or to disobey. Every child does these things
naturally. All, by nature, are slaves to sin.
Some, on the other hand, have sought to make
themselves slaves to the Ten Commandments in order to overcome their
natural tendencies toward evil, but this does not produce the desired
results. God did not give the Law to help us to be good, but to show
us that we are bad and need a Savior. In Rom. 3:19 He says that He
gave the Law “that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may
become [be exposed as] guilty before God” and in Verse 20 He says
that “by the law is the knowledge of sin.”
Only believers in the finished work of Christ are
liberated from sin and its results. This does not mean that it is not
possible for them to sin, but that it is now possible for them not to
sin — to have victory in any given case. “For sin shall not have
dominion over you, for ye are not under the law but under grace”
(Rom. 6:14).
In grace Christ died to pay for our sins and in
response to that grace believers seek to live for Him, just out of
sheer love and gratitude for what He has done for them. This is the
secret of victorious living, and God would have us keep it that way.
Gal. 5:1 says:
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”
Yet, he also cautions believers, who enjoy this
wonderful liberty:
“Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak” (I Cor. 8:9).
“For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another” (Gal. 5:13).
“Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth” (Rom. 14:22).
Les Feldick All Day Seminar From Tulsa, Oklahoma
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