βAnd ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you freeβ¦ If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeedβ (John 8:32,36).
The true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ enjoys glorious liberty, and our Lord Himself said that there are no strings attachedβ¦ βYe shall be free indeed,β free even from the most oppressive of all slave masters: sin. While the Law never saved one man from sin, the Lord Jesus, by His death on Calvary did, for we read that βChrist died for our sins.β
Therefore the Apostle wrote by divine inspiration: βStand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondageβ (Gal. 5:1). His letters thunder severe rebukes against believers who βdesire to be under the law.β To the Colossian Christians he wrote:
βLet no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days; which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [substance] is of Christβ (Col. 2:16,17).
But true liberty is used for good, otherwise it only reverts to bondage again, for whatever overcomes a man becomes his master (II Pet. 2:19), and doing evil can only harm ourselves and others. Thus the Apostle says further:
βBut take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weakβ (I Cor. 8:9).
βFor, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one anotherβ (Gal. 5:13). source
