Reference: Liberty
Hastings
Moralists are accustomed to distinguish between formal freedom, or man's natural power of choice, and real freedom, or power to act habitually in accordance with the true and good. Scripture has little to say on the mere power of choice, while everywhere recognizing this power as the condition of moral life, and sees real liberty only in the possession and exercise of wisdom, godliness, and virtue. Where there is ignorance and error, especially when this arises from moral causes (Ro 1:21; Eph 4:18; 1Jo 2:11 etc.)
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Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; because I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Jesus responded to them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, That every one doing sin is the slave of sin.
because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were they thankful; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened.
for the one having died has been made free from sin.
But thanks be unto God, that whereas ye were servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the type of teaching into which ye were delivered: but having been made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness.
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, having been sold under sin. For that which I do, I know not: for I do that which I do not will; but I do that which I hate. read more. But if I do that which I do not will, I consent to the law that it is beautiful; but now it is no more I that do it, but sin dwelling in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my carnal mind, there dwells no good thing. For to will is present with me, but to do that which is beautiful is not: for the good which I will I do not; but the evil which I do not will, that I do. If I do that which I do not will, it is no longer I that do it, but sin dwelling in me. Then I find a law, that, to me wishing to do that which is beautiful, that the evil is present with me: for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man; but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Thanks be unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord: then therefore with the mind I serve the law of God; but with carnality the law of sin.
For the law of the Spirit of life has made thee free from the law of sin and of death.
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but you received the Spirit of adoption, in which we cry; Father, Father.
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but you received the Spirit of adoption, in which we cry; Father, Father. The Spirit Himself witnesses along with our spirit, that we are the children of God.
But the Lord is a Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Christ has set you free with freedom, Therefore stand, and be not again entangled with the yoke of bondage.
And I say, Walk about in the Spirit, and do not perfect the lust of carnality. For carnality wars against the Spirit, and the Spirit against carnality; for these are antagonistical to one another; so that you may not do the things which you may wish. read more. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
But the fruit of the Spirit is divine love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, holiness; against such things there is no law. read more. But those belonging to Christ Jesus have crucified carnality with the passions and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance being in themselves, on account of the blindness of their heart;
and might reconcile them whosoever were subject to bondage all their life through the fear of death.
For you have not come to the mountain that can be touched, and that is burnt with fire, and unto blackness and darkness, and tempest, and to the sound of the trumpet, and the voice of words; which those having heard requested that the word should not be spoken unto them: read more. for they could not endure that which was spoken, If a wild beast should touch the mountain, it shall be pierced through with a dart: and the sight was so fearful, Moses said, I exceedingly fear and tremble:
But the one having looked into the perfect law which is the law of liberty, and having remained in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be happy in his work.
as free, and not as having the freedom as a cover of evil, but as servants of God.
And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent forth his Son the Saviour of the world. Whosoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, in him God abides, and he in God. read more. And we have known and we have believed the divine love which God has in us. God is divine love; and the one abiding in divine love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Morish
Besides the common application of this term, it is used in scripture symbolically, as
1. The liberty obtained by Christ for those that were captives of Satan. Isa 61:1; Lu 4:18; Joh 8:36.
2. The conscience set free from guilt, as when the Lord said to several, "Thy sins be forgiven thee: go in peace."
3. Freedom from the law, etc. "Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free." Ro 7:24-25; Ga 5:1. Jesus said, "I am the door: by me if any man enter in he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." Joh 10:9.
4. The Christian's deliverance from the power of sin by having died with Christ, as in Ro 6:8-22; and, having reckoned himself dead to sin, experimentally enjoying liberty, as in Ro 8:2-4, after experiencing that the flesh is too strong for him The deliverance is realised by the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, and the love of God is known and enjoyed. Christ is then the object before the soul, and not self.
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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor: hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised,
If therefore the Son may make you free, you shall be free indeed.
I am the door: if any one may enter in through me, he shall be saved; he shall go in and come out, and find pasture.
But if we died along with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him: knowing that Christ having risen from the dead dies no more; death no longer has dominion over him. read more. For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he lives, he lives unto God. So you also thus reckon yourselves dead unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts of it: neither present your members arms of iniquity unto sin; but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members arms of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace. What then? can we commit sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? it could not be so. Do you not know, that to whom you present yourselves servants unto obedience, ye are servants to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness? But thanks be unto God, that whereas ye were servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the type of teaching into which ye were delivered: but having been made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness. I speak after the manner of a man on account of the weakness of your carnality. For as ye presented your members as servants unto impurity and lawlessness pursuant to lawlessness, so now present your members servants unto righteousness pursuant to sanctification. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. What fruit then had you at that time in those things in which you are now ashamed? for the end of these things is death. But now having been made free from sin, and having become servants unto God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Thanks be unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord: then therefore with the mind I serve the law of God; but with carnality the law of sin.
For the law of the Spirit of life has made thee free from the law of sin and of death. For there was an impotency of the law, in which it was weak through depravity, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the sin of depravity and for sin, condemned sin in depravity: read more. in order that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to depravity, but according to the spirit.
Christ has set you free with freedom, Therefore stand, and be not again entangled with the yoke of bondage.