Gal. 5:13 “For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.”
When we were born again, we were born into a life of absolute liberty in Christ. You become free to serve God, free to live, to reign and free to love. However, as Christians the bible cautions that we use our liberty in Christ rightly. Under the old Testament , it was easy to read the commandments so as to know what to do and what not to do, but the new creation man wasn’t given any law to obey.
When we were born again, we were born into a life of absolute liberty in Christ. You become free to serve God, free to live, to reign and free to love. However, as Christians the bible cautions that we use our liberty in Christ rightly. Under the old Testament , it was easy to read the commandments so as to know what to do and what not to do, but the new creation man wasn’t given any law to obey.
1 Tim 1:9 “knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,”
According to the bible it’s difficult to attribute sin where there is no law, Rom 4:15 “because the law brings about wrath; for where there is no law there is no transgression.”.Some Christians are in a dilemma because they have been brought into a life without laws as it seems and so they use that as an excuse to act circumspectly. The bible says in 1Pet 2:16 “,…..as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God. “- The life you live as a child of God should be to the Glory and Praise of God in all things. Though it is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life, only make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do and destroy your freedom. Rather use your freedom to serve one another in love that’s how freedom grows.
Galatians 5:13” “For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serves one another.”- The gospel is a doctrine according to godliness, and is so far from giving the least countenance to sin, that it lays us under the strongest obligation to avoid and subdue it. The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. If Christians, who should help one another, and rejoice one another, quarrel, what can be expected but that the God of love should deny his grace, that the Spirit of love should depart, and the evil spirit, who seeks their destruction, should prevail? Happy would it be, if Christians, instead of biting and devouring one another on account of different opinions, would set themselves against sin in themselves, and in the places where they live.
Use your liberty in Christ rightly by doing only those things that pleases the Father, and the way to please the father is walking by faith, which by extension is walking according to the provisions of God’s Word. Yes God is not imposing rules and regulations on us as it were , but make up your mind to get into His Word and do what the word says. God never forces anything on His children, having brought us into a life of absolute liberty , but be sure to use your to the Praise and Glory of His name.
Thank God for the liberty He has given us , to be everything we desire to be in Christ Jesus. Thank you Father for the for the liberty to serve You, love you, and to reign.
My fellow brethren Use your Liberty rightly.
