FREEDOM IN CHRIST Galatians 5:1

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FREEDOM IN CHRISTGalatians 51
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Patrick Henry

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be
  purchased by the price of chains or slavery?
  Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course
  others may take, but as for me, give me liberty
  or give me death.

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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof.
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Joshua 2415

• And if it seems evil to you to serve the
  LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you
  will serve, whether the gods which your fathers
  served that were on the other side of the River,
  or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you
  dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve
  the LORD.

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Matthew 624

• "No one can serve two masters for either he
  will hate the one and love the other, or else he
  will be loyal to the one and despise the other.
  You cannot serve God and mammon.

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FREEDOM HASRESPONSIBILITIES
Does true freedom mean there are no
restraints?Does true freedom mean we can do
anything we want to do?
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FREEDOM HASRESPONSIBILITIES

• Although Christ promised to set us free
• He did not promise to lift all restraints.
• He did not promise to take away law.

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FREEDOM HASRESPONSIBILITIES
People have freedom OF choice but not freedom
FROM choice.
Everyone of us must choose who we are going to
serve.
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Romans 616

• Do you not know that to whom you present
  yourselves slaves to obey, you are that ones
  slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to
  death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?

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THE QUESTION IS NOTAm I a Slave?

THE QUESTION ISWhose slave am I?
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1 Corinthians 921

• ...to those who are without law, as without
  law (not being without law toward God, but under
  law toward Christ), that I might win those who
  are without law

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THE QUESTION IS NOTAre we under any law?

THE QUESTION ISWhich law am I under?
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WE ARE UNDER THELAW OF CHRIST
We are subject to the New Testament. Everyone
living today is obligated to obey the New
Testament.
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Mark 1615-16

• And He said to them, Go into all the world
  and preach the gospel to every creature. He who
  believes and is baptized will be saved but he
  who does not believe will be condemned.

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WE ARE UNDER THELAW OF CHRIST
We are either Living according to Christs
law Living in rebellion to Christs law The
only real freedom that man can enjoy today is
freedom in Christ.
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LIBERTY / LICENSE

• You cant legislate morality.
• Results from a perverted view of freedom.
• To legislate means to make laws.
• If morality is not legislated, chaos results.
• God has always legislated morality.

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Galatians 51

• Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which
  Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled
  again with a yoke of bondage.

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Galatians 513

• For you, brethren, have been called to
  liberty only do not use liberty as an
  opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve
  one another.

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1 Peter 216

• as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak
  for vice, but as bondservants of God.

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LIBERTY / LICENSE
We cannot be truly free while living in sin. The
only way to have true freedom is to abide by the
restrictions found in the law of Christ. Freedom
is not license to do what we want to do.
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FREEDOM HAS RESTRICTIONS
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1 Corinthians 1023

• All things are lawful for me, but not all
  things are helpful all things are lawful for me,
  but not all things edify.

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FREEDOM HAS RESTRICTIONS

• Cannot do that which is not helpful.

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1 Corinthians 1023

• All things are lawful for me, but not all
  things are helpful all things are lawful for me,
  but not all things edify.

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FREEDOM HAS RESTRICTIONS

• Cannot do that which is not helpful.
• Cannot do that which does not edify.

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1 Corinthians 89

• But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours
  become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

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FREEDOM HAS RESTRICTIONS

• Cannot do that which is not helpful.
• Cannot do that which does not edify.
• Cannot do that which would harm others.

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Romans 1413

• Therefore let us not judge one another
  anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a
  stumbling block or a cause to fall in our
  brother's way.

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Romans 1421

• It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine
  nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or
  is offended or is made weak.

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FOUR QUESTIONS

• Is it lawful?
• Is it helpful?
• How will it affect others?
• Will it edify?

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INFRINGEMENT ONFREEDOM?
Those who desire to be free from all law are
in the worst bondage of all.
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2 Peter 218-19

• For when they speak great swelling words of
  emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the
  flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have
  actually escaped from those who live in error.
  While they promise them liberty, they themselves
  are slaves of corruption for by whom a person is
  overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.

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James 125

• But he who looks into the perfect law of
  liberty and continues in it, and is not a
  forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one
  will be blessed in what he does.

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Romans 615-18

• What then? Shall we sin because we are not
  under law but under grace? Certainly not! Do you
  not know that to whom you present yourselves
  slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom
  you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of
  obedience leading to righteousness? But God be
  thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet
  you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine
  to which you were delivered. And having been set
  free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.

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FREEDOM FROM SIN

• Hear the gospel (Romans 1017).
• Believe in Christ (John 316).
• Repent of sin (Acts 238).
• Confess Christ (Romans 109-10).
• Be baptized for remission of sins (Acts 238).
• Live faithful Christian life (Revelation 210).