Liberty

William Langerak·2015-09-01

Langerak expounds on Christian liberty as the glorious freedom granted by God's grace through the Holy Spirit, distinguishing it sharply from worldly conceptions of freedom as self-determination. He argues that true liberty consists in willing subjection to Christ and liberation from sin, not in the absence of God's rule or in indifference to moral matters, and that this freedom is inseparable from the believer's sanctified life under the Spirit's governance.

We sons of God possess a glorious liberty (Rom. 8:21). Glorious because it is true liberty. All other liberties are mere pictures or illusions. If the Son makes you free, you are free indeed (John 8:36). Such liberty cannot be taken by revolution, earned by merit, infringed upon, or ever revoked, but is an everlasting gift of God's grace (Rom. 3:24). It is a freedom not possessed by everyone, for where the Spirit of the Lord is, there alone is liberty (II Cor. 3:17). This true, glorious liberty...

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