Freedom in Christ

SUMMARY: True freedom comes from having a heart filled with God. Christ gave us spiritual freedom when he freed us from the power of darkness and moved us into his kingdom. This freedom is total, but it is not freedom to sin and do whatever we want. It is the freedom to avoid sin and to reject it energetically, and to be servants of justice. Trusting in Christ as Lord and Savior does not give us a license to sin. Freedom in Christ is beautiful and liberating, freeing us from the eagerness of trying to please God with our abilities and reminding us that it is He who does all the work. Salvation is a twofold gift: freedom from the wages of sin and freedom from the power of sin.

When the heart is filled with God, we will not only find God everywhere, but also true freedom. God gave us his freedom in Christ. It is not freedom in the political sense, but in the spiritual sense. Freedom, along with justice, are precious gifts that cement our Christian worldview and conviction. Christ is complete freedom because he is the Truth. To speak of a true freedom presupposes that there must then be a freedom that is not real, that is fictitious, or simply that is instituted on values that have nothing to do with ours.


Christ, by freeing us from the power of darkness, and moving us into the kingdom of his beloved Son (Col. 1:13), undeservedly rewarded us with an incomparable freedom: he freed us from the law of sin, he freed us from insipid and impractical legalism Living under standards and precepts to please man and not God, freed us from eternal death through conviction of sin and repentance and also freed us from the slavery that we all carry within as a result of our ignorance. Jesus has set us free through his Spirit. This freedom is total. Salvation is liberation, but it is never freedom to sin and do whatever we want. Salvation comes through our faith in Jesus Christ, so faith, salvation, and freedom in Christ make up a powerful triangle that breaks all chains.