Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee. Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love. Take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise. Amazing Grace.Take my life and let it be consecrated Lord, to thee.
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Just as Israel anticipated a day when they would no longer suffer slavery and oppression at the hands of Egypt, Assyria, or Babylon, God’s people are awaiting a day when all will be made right, when those who have persecuted and oppressed us will be judged, and when believers will be granted full freedom to see, love, glorify, and enjoy God in his presence forever.įorever free. Freedom in that new creation will outshine that even of the original garden because all sin and causes of sin will have been dealt one final blow (Matthew 13:41–43) and death will never threaten us again.
While Christian freedom is very real in this life, it will not be complete until the day when God fully and finally fulfills his promise, which happens in the new heavens and new earth. But Christ has lifted the law’s judgment against us, counted us righteous through faith, and freed us to live with him as accepted and loved children of his Father. It has enslaved us to death and damnation. The law lays an unbearable weight and curse on each of us. Though we have all sinned, and are therefore condemned by the law, the law no longer has any claim on us because Jesus has carried our sin on the cross and purchased our purity before him. It’s a burden no one can bear, and it’s a burden Christ came to bear for all the weary and heavy-laden. People have always tried to earn God’s love and blessing by their behavior. Lastly, Christians have been freed from the law (Galatians 3:23–25). Christ liberates us from the futility of worshipping not-gods to the freedom and joy of worshipping him (Galatians 4:9, 31).
Anyone or anything that is not God himself are - by definition - not gods and therefore cannot offer true life or freedom. Any worship not directed to the one, true God is slavery. Paul writes, “Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods” (Galatians 4:8). Third, Christians have been freed from the futility of worshipping false gods. In Christ, believers - though they die - are no longer destined for spiritual death, but experience new and everlasting life. Prior to salvation, all people are subject to death, physical and spiritual (Romans 6:23). But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. Secondly, Christians have been freed from death. But God intervenes and rescues those who trust in him from all of their iniquity. Until God intervenes, all have sinned (Romans 3:23), because all are slaves to sin.
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Paul writes, “For one who has died has been set free from sin” (Romans 6:7). Christians have been freed from their sin. It makes an awful wretch of every one of us.īut God. This slavery separated us from God, the focal point of our design and the source for our joy. No stronger power seeks to destroy us than our sin, and no more dire condition faces any human being than our enslavement to it. It is slavery, and like those helpless under physical slavery, we were helpless to free ourselves from its bondage. Sin is not merely a bad habit or an unhealthy pattern of decision-making. Sin is a slave master and all are born by nature under its control. He has freed us from much - sin, death, futility, and the law - and he has freed for much - to see, know, and love him forever. The good news is our hope rests on One who loves to liberate poor destitute sinners, and who has done so through the life, death, and resurrection of his Son, Jesus Christ. There is nothing within us capable of liberating us. Our only hope rests in his sovereignty and mercy. Only God has the power, authority, and resources to overcome our brokenness and pay our infinite debt.
If we’re ever going to truly live, we need to be set free.īecause our need for salvation is a need to be liberated from our own helpless sinful condition, someone else must act on our behalf. Regardless of how much money our parents made or what country we live in or how many decisions we freely make every day, we are all slaves apart from Christ - slaves to sin, slaves to death, slaves to ourselves. We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.For one who has died has been set free from sin.Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.