Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (Gal. 5:1 KJV)
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Liberty is the quality or state of being free; the power to do as one pleases, freedom from physical restraint, freedom from arbitrary or despotic control, the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges, the power of choice. Liberty is the state of being FREE
It is clear, within the context of God’s saving grace to grant pardon and liberty, Man is bound: despondent, skewed and thwarted in a straggling and vicious circle of trajectory idiosyncrasy. Man requires a deliverer to rescue him. God sees Man bound haplessly as the bondage is fierce and tense
Man is not free as Man himself has imagined and designed. In the pursuit and panacea for a free Society, Man unaware, has evidently identified himself as one bound and blighted by the conspicuous depravity of his imagination wrapped by the foil of enjoyment through which he employs so called freedom lost his right to be free within his domain. Freedom is lost when there is loss of right to direct the course of event by oneself.
The word Freedom is a co-join of two words: Free – Domain. Freedom is the privilege of being in a “Free domain”; a sphere, realm or area where one is able to intelligently design and implement a course of action that holds clean and true for good fortune without adverse and impugning tendency. This was the domain God granted Man at the beginning.
At the beginning; about Adam, the first of mankind, the Bible says; “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.” (Gen. 2:15-17 NIV) Notice the quality of bequest given to Man in that Garden domain; “You are free…”
Man was living in a Free Domain and Man was free to “intelligently design and implement a course of action that holds clean and true to good fortune without adverse and impugning tendency” This is the epitome and acumen for being Free in the Domain. In the event that Man would outstep the sphere given to him, he will surely access an alternative domain governed by Death who will slay Man and rob him of the Free Domain and bound him. This is where the rubber meets the road.
Man outstepped the boarder of his “Free Domain”, lost his freedom and has since being bound. About this new domain, Paul the Apostle wrote, “So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?” (Romans 7:21-25 NIV)
Beloved, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” (Gal. 5:1 NIV) This is tenet and texture of the Freedom Christ came to offer you and me. He came to reinstate us to that Free Domain to serve God without the aptitude of evil or terror. Be Free in Jesus Name.
