True Liberty
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
As true Americans celebrate their liberty, true Christians should
rejoice in the even greater liberty which they have in Christ.
Our Lord said: “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall
make you free” and “If the Son, therefore, shall make you free,
ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:32,36). Likewise St. Paul declares
that believers in Christ have been made “free from sin” and have
become “servants to God,” who deals with us in grace (Rom. 6:22).
It is strange that so many sincere religious people actually wish
to be in bondage to the Mosaic Law, which can only judge and condemn
them for their sins. Peter called the law: “a yoke… which neither
our fathers nor we were able to bear” (Acts 15:10). Paul called it
“the handwriting of decrees, that was against us, which was
contrary to us” (Col. 2:14). He called it “the ministration of
death” and “the ministration of condemnation” (II Cor. 3:7,9).]
He challenged those who “desired” to be under the law:
“Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?” (Gal. 4:21).
“For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse;
for it is ritten. Cursed is every one that continueth not in
all things which are written in the book of the law, to do
them” (Gal. 3:10).
Thank God, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us” (Gal. 3:13). Man always responds better
to grace than to law. The law was “added because of transgressions”
(Gal. 3:19). “By the law is the knowledge of sin” (Rom. 3:20).
But Christ died for our sins and now true believers serve God from
gratitude and love. Hence Rom. 6:14 says: “Sin shall not have
dominion over you, for ye are not under the law but under grace.”
Since Christ has redeemed us from the law (Gal. 4:5) God says to
every true believer:
“Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage” (Gal. 5:1).
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