Galatians 5:13
“For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”
“Liberty” or “Soul Liberty” as some call it today, is muchly misunderstood by many of God's people and especially of those who claim to believe in the doctrine of God's Sovereign Grace. It concerns me to see so many in the Lord's churches who actually think that because of their salvation by God's grace they have liberty to live like the world and that God is really “okay” with that. In recent years I have heard pastors preach sermons on how we have liberty to do this or that and that there is nothing wrong with following after the things of the world as long as we do it in a “godly” way or as long as we do it with Christ in mind. What blasphemous garbage!!!
The liberty Paul wrote of to the churches in Galatia was not this type of liberty. In Paul's day the Jews were trying to force legalism to the Law of Moses on the Gentiles in the early churches. There are many religions zealots out there today who are trying to do the same with the Lord's churches in our day. But the liberty God has given us is freedom from the Law not freedom from His commandments. We do not have liberty to follow the world. As His children He tells us if we love Him we will do His commandments. So, if we truly love Him why would we seek anything outside of His commandments and claim we have liberty to do so?
Praise ye the Lord!!!
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