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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And hearing, our heart will melt and there rose up no more spirit in a man on account of your face: For Jehovah your God, he the God in the heavens from above and upon the earth beneath.
And this the reason that Joshua circumcised: all the people came forth out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the desert in the way, in their coming out of Egypt
Thou wilt not cast me away from thy face, and thou wilt not take thy holy spirit from me. Turn back to me the joy of thy salvation, and thy willing spirit shall uphold me.
And I will speak in thy testimonies before kings, and I shall not be ashamed.
I saw the end to all perfection: thy command is exceeding broad.
Lift up my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and humble in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls. For my yoke is useful, and my load is light.
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, say I to you, That every one doing sin, is servant of sin.
Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.
For he having died was justified from sin.
And grace to God, that ye were servants of sin, but ye listened from the heart to the type of teaching in which ye were delivered. And freed from sin, ye were subdued to justice.
For we know that the law is spiritual: and I am fleshly, sold under sin. For what I work I know not: for what I would not, this I do; but what I hate, this I do. read more. And if what I would not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good. And now I no more wish it, but sin dwelling in me. For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not. For not what good I would, do I; but the evil I would not, this I do. And if what I would not, this I do, I no more work it, but sin dwelling in me. I find therefore a law to me, wishing to do good, that evil lies near me. For I rejoice in the law of God, according to the man within: And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members.
I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and death.
For ye have not received the Spirit of servitude again for fear; but have received the Spirit of adoption as a son, in which we cry, Abba, Father.
For ye have not received the Spirit of servitude again for fear; but have received the Spirit of adoption as a son, in which we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself testifies with our spirit, that we are children of God:
And the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord, there freedom.
And now, having known God, and rather known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and poor elements, to which again ye wish anew to be in a servile condition
And my temptation in my flesh, ye counted not as nothing, nor spurned; but as an angel of God ye received me, as Christ Jesus.
Which things are spoken figuratively: for these are the two covenants; one truly from mount Sinai, begetting to bondage, which is Agar. For Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and now stands in the same rank With Jerusalem, and is in a servile condition with her children.
Therefore in the liberty which Christ has freed us, stand ye, and be not again held in the yoke of servitude.
And I say, Walk in Spirit, and complete not the desire of the flesh. For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are adverse to one another: that not the things ye would, these should ye do. read more. And if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
And the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such is no law. read more. And they of Christ have crucified the flesh with the passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God:
Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;
And deliver them, as many as by fear of death were always to live bound by slavery.
For ye have not come to the mount being handled, and burned with fire, and to duskiness, and to darkness, and to a violent storm, And to the sound of the trumpet, and the voice of words; which they, having heard, implored that the word be not put before them: read more. (For they did not bear that being assigned, And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or shall be pierced with a missile weapon: And so dreadful was that being made to appear, Moses said, I am terrified and trembling:)
And he having stooped into the perfect law of liberty, and remained, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, he shall be happy in his doing.
As free, and as not having liberty for a covering of wickedness, but as the servants of God.
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his. Son a Saviour of the world. Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God. read more. And we have known and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love; and he remaining in love remains in God, and God 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 Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah anointed me to announce good news to the afflicted, he sent me to bind up to the broken of heart, to call freedom to the captives, and the opening of the prison to the bound.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for which he anointed me to announce good news to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim a remission to the captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send away with remission the bruised,
If the Son make you free, ye shall be truly free.
I am the door: if any come in through me, he shall be saved, and he shall me in, and go out, and find pasture.
And if we died with Christ, we believe we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death has no more power over him. read more. For he who died, died to sin once: but he who lives, lives to God. So also ye reckon yourselves truly to be dead to sin, and living to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore let not sin reign in your mortal body, to listen to it in its passions. Neither present ye your members weapons of injustice to sin: but present yourselves to God, as living from the dead, and your members weapons of justice to God. For sin shall not rule over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace It may not be. Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves servants for obedience, ye are servants to whom ye listen; either of sin to death, or of obedience to justice? And grace to God, that ye were servants of sin, but ye listened from the heart to the type of teaching in which ye were delivered. And freed from sin, ye were subdued to justice. (I speak as man through the weakness of your flesh:) for as ye presented your members to uncleanness and iniquity; so now present ye your members servants to justice for consecration. For when ye were servants to sin, ye were free to justice. Therefore what fruit had ye then of what ye are now ashamed? for the end of these, death. And now freed from sin, and subdued to God, ye have your fruit to consecration, and the end life eternal.
I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death? I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and death. For the impossibility of the law, in that it was weak by the flesh, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: read more. That the justification of the law be filled up in us, not walking according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
Therefore in the liberty which Christ has freed us, stand ye, and be not again held in the yoke of servitude.