My Pondering
In America, today is Independence Day. We celebrate our independence from England. Freedom from taxation without representation. Freedom from an earthly king across the Atlantic. They desired the freedom of self-rule.
It was also primarily the same English in the prior generations who fled the State ran Anglican Church of English, the Pilgrims and Puritans. They desired freedom of religion.
America next big war was against that of indentured, involuntary slavery of African-American. Christian abolitionist battled politically for years and when father Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the Emancipation Proclamation the slaves where free from other men.
This verse from Galatians 5:1 is a rallying cry for freedom within Christ; the ultimate freedom! Freedom to no longer be burdened by the heavy law of the Old Testament and its evil counter weight; sin. Sin and law no longer need be our task master.
This freedom comes the victory Christ won for is. It's the Good News of the Gospel of Christ.
Yes, positionally we believers are free from the bondage of sin. God the Father sees us through God the Son. His perfection is attributed to our account. The term for this is called propitiation. Praise to God!
Therefore, we disciples of Christ can access the power of God's Spirit and squelch sin's effect. Unfortunately, even then it's still with is us as we remain encased in flesh. Until we are transformed into Christ's supernatural form, until sin's dross is totally refined from our being we are in a fight. Fortunately, we have mighty weapons at our disposal as found in Ephesians 6 and elsewhere. This is what the mighty Apostle Paul spoke of regarding fighting the good fight.
The more dependent upon God we are the more independent from sin we become. However, the closer we are to God, the more aware we tend to become of our sin. It's a perspective sensitivity paradox.
We are to be dependent upon God, interdependent with other Christians and independent from the yoke of sin's slavery. Read more here.
If you have a sincere question or I can possibly help in an interdependent way, feel free to message me.
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