True Liberty
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
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 written. 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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