is God a merciful God? are your freedom is free? what is christian freefom ? Thats true...thats true. God will forgive you. But that is an abuse of your freedom. That is an abuse of your freedom. It is the kind of abused freedom of which the false prophets in 2 Peter 2 are guilty of preaching. It says in 2 Peter 2:18, They speak great swelling words of vanity and they allure through the lusts of the flesh through much wantonness, those that are just escaping from them who live in error. They promise liberty but they themselves are the servants of corruption. They promise you freedom, do false teachers, that leads to corruption. Freedom should not lead to corruption. It is given by us...given to us by the Word of God here that our freedom is controlled by the fact that it does not allow us to indulge the flesh. It is not freedom to do what you want. It is not freedom to do your own thing. Christian freedom, listen to this, is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin. The supreme ambition of Christ was to please the Father, Not My will but Thine be done. And in Romans 15:3 it says, Paul tells us that the essence of Christian freedom is to be concerned about others as we shall see. And then he uses Christ as the example in Romans 15:3, Christ...he said...did not please Himself. The implication for us is simple. Christian freedom does not mean we do whatever we want to do. It does not mean that we exercise ourselves in any way we want. Its like the Christian soldier in 2 Timothy 2:4, it says he does what he does to please the one who called him to be a soldier. Theres still an obligation to hold the flesh in check...not to please the flesh but to please the Lord. We are responsible to do that. And thats basic. And I know you know that. Its just that we need so often to be reminded of that because it seems as though theres a new kind of surging sense of freedom that really is nothing more than license. Its what used to be called by theologians...antinomianism...anti-nomosbeing the Greek word for law. Its an attitude against the law. Well, Im free from the law...it says in Romans 6...Im not under the law anymore, Im not under sins dominion anymore and Im free to do what I want to do. And therein lies the justification for a freedom to do evil. Im appalled at how many people think theyre free to do what is clearly forbidden in the Word of God...under the idea that they are indulging their flesh and God is going to be forgiving and God is going to be gracious to us. the freedom is yours.... God bless you today
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 02:29:39 +0000
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