The Nature of our Freedom

The Nature of our Freedom

[My Offline Bible] 1 Peter 2
16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

[My Offline Bible] Romans 6
12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. 13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. 20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.

The nature of the believer's freedom is such that he still has the power and authority to yield his life to obey God or not to.

The process of deliverance from the power of darkness doesn't automatically translate the believer to becoming a servant or a bond slave to God.

Our freedom in Christ is freedom in deed. Jesus sets us free through His sacrifice on the cross, paying off the enemy who had us enslaved and satisfying the demand of divine justice, forgiving our sins and washing us clean. Removing our sins far from us and presenting us a clean bill of righteousness.

We are redeemed and pulled out completely from the slave market of Satan, never to be put up for sale anymore.

Before the purchase, we were bound to a sinful course. We had no options but to live in sin. We were strangers to God and without hope in the world. We were by nature children of wrath as being children of disobedience possessed by the prince of the power of the air according to Ephesians 2.

But God stepped in and pulled us out of the satanic entrapment through the operations of His grace through faith.

Pulling us out of that wrath-heading course through such enormous payment, one would think He'll naturally make us dummies without a right to chose what's next in our lives...
He didn't do that. He gave us all the rights and privileges to decide where out allegiances would be. Every believer has a right either to go back into the miry clay or to go on to stay on the solid rock.

Going back isn't God's plan but going on with Christ is our choice to make. Continually living in sin isn't God's plan for our redemption but living in righteousness and in holiness is our choice to make.

For a believer to continue to live in sin is a choice and to enjoy the grace to live above sin is also a choice....it all depends on who he yields his members, spirit, soul and body to obey.

The present day attitude of believers to sin is worrisome.

Believers live as if holiness is an impossibility and righteousness is unattainable. This is a lie of the devil pushing a lot back into their vomits and making their latter worse than the former state.

The goodnews is that you can decide to do the will of God. We have the freedom to yield and we should yield our members as instruments of righteousness unto holiness and fulfil the reason for our liberty bringing forth fruits to the glory of God!

For freedom Christ has set us free, stand fast therefore, do not submit again to a yoke of slavery... Galatians 5:1 RSV

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