Liberty is Found with God

I looked up the definition of liberty to find the following that apply to how God and His Law work:

1)      The power of choice – God gave us free will.

2)      Permission especially to move freely within specified limits – we can traverse the world God created, but must follow His Laws and those of creation in order for things to work properly.

3)      Positive enjoyment of various social, political and economic rights and privileges – accepting Christ adopts us into His family as heirs and as his brothers and sisters with all the rights as Christ has.

Luke 4:18-19 NKJV

“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed;  19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD."

Jesus read this in the synagogue one day and it was first written by Isaiah about Jesus. He came to tell the world how we could be set free, liberated, from the bondage of sin. Those of us who know we are poor spiritually and know we have sinned against God, know we need a Savior to fix us and help us live like God intended. We are the sick that know we need a doctor. We know we can’t keep the Law on our own and if we keep trying to do it ourselves, we are slaves to it rather than it helping us to know how to live free with God. We need the Holy Spirit to help us understand the Law and its proper place in showing us right and wrong in order to know we are sick with sin. We will find God’s liberty when we realize we need Jesus as our doctor and Savior against a life of sin.

2 Cor 3:17 NKJV

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Once we realize the truth of our sin and accept Jesus, we don’t throw the Law out. We need to understand it so we can live properly and to teach others of how it will set them free and become blessed in whatever they do. God will help all of His children grow up to be like Jesus and teach them how to spread the Gospel to the ends of the world as commanded.

James 1:25 NKJV

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.

Ps 119:45 NLT

45 I will walk in freedom, for I have devoted myself to your commandments.

Be a doer of the Word because you love Jesus, not because you want to earn your way to heaven. You can’t earn it because God is offering it as a free gift. We just need to reach out and take it properly with a humble attitude. Doing His Word should be a way of showing praise and thanks for Him setting you free from the bondage of sin. Stop trying to do it on your own, spinning your wheels in slavery.

Gal 5:1 NLT

So Christ has really set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don't get tied up again in slavery to the law.