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, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest for your souls; for my yoke is easy, and my burden light.
and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Jesus answered them, I tell you most truly, that every one who commits sin is a servant of the sin.
because having known God they glorified him not as God neither were thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their ignorant mind was darkened.
for he that died was justified from sin.
But thanks be to God that you were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart the form of teaching in which you were instructed, and having become free from sin you served righteousness.
For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I do this I approve not; for I do not what I wish, but what I hate, this I do. read more. But if what I wish not this I do, I consent to the law that it is good; and now I no longer do it, but the sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, there dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to do the good is not; for the good which I wish I do not, but the evil which I wish not this I do. But if what I wish not this I do, I no longer do it, but sin which dwells in me. I find therefore the law, that when I wish to do good evil is present with me; for I consent to the law of God as to my inward man, [my soul], but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and making me captive to the law of sin which is in my members.
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord; therefore I myself with the mind serve the law of God, and with the flesh the law of sin.
for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death.
For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father.
For you received not the spirit of servitude again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry; Abba, Father. The Spirit itself is a co-witness with our spirits that we are children of God.
And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.
but now knowing God, or rather being known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and imperfect rudiments, which you wish again to serve?
and my trial in my flesh you despised not nor rejected, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
These things are allegorical, for those [women] are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for servitude, which is Hagar; for Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; and the present Jerusalem answers to her, for she is in servitude with her children.
STAND firm in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again subject to a yoke of servitude.
And I say, walk in the Spirit and perform not the desire of the flesh. For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed one to another, so that you do not what you wish. read more. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance; against such there is no law. read more. And the [subjects] of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its affections and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
For by grace are you saved through the faith; and that not of you; [it is] the gift of God;
with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts,
and liberate those who all their life were subjects of servitude to the fear of death.
For you have not come to a mountain that may be touched, and to a burning fire, and blackness and darkness and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which those who heard desired that the word might not be spoken to them any more,??20 for they could not bear what was commanded, And if a beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned;
and so fearful was the sight, that Moses said, I fear and tremble,??22 but you have come to Zion, the mountain and city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels in general assembly,
But he that looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, not being a forgetful hearer but a doer of work, he shall be blessed in his doing.
as free, and not using freedom for a cloak of vice, but as servants of God.
And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son, the Saviour of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God continues in him and he in God. read more. And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues 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 is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim a release to the captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send the oppressed away free,
If, therefore, the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.
I am the door; by me if any one enters in he shall be saved, and go in and out, and find pasturage.
And if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him; knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no longer a lordship over him. read more. For [the death] which he died, he died to sin once; but [the life] which he lives, he lives to God. So also account yourselves dead indeed to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to obey its desires, neither present your members as instruments of wickedness to sin, but present yourselves to God as living from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have a Lordship over you; for you are not under the law but under the grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under the grace? By no means. Know you not that to whom you present yourselves servants for obedience, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin in death or of obedience in righteousness? But thanks be to God that you were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart the form of teaching in which you were instructed, and having become free from sin you served righteousness. I speak after the manner of men on account of the weakness of your flesh. For as you presented your members servants to impurity and to wickedness in wickedness, so now present your members servants to righteousness in sanctification. For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. What fruit had you therefore then in things of which you are now ashamed? for the end of them is death. But now having been made free from sin and made servants to God, you have your fruit in sanctification, and the end eternal life.
Miserable man that I am; who will deliver me from the body of this death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord; therefore I myself with the mind serve the law of God, and with the flesh the law of sin.
for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh, read more. that the righteous ordinance of the law may be performed by us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.
STAND firm in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again subject to a yoke of servitude.