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Liberty to Do Right - Gal 5:13-26
Summary: Contrast Liberty and License and to show the parameters of liberty
We are free!
The Law has no claim upon us.
gal 5:
But love does.
Therefore, free though we might be, we cannot do certain things.
Love for the Lord will make us draw the line for ourselves at certain things
An old song by Billy Joel says, quite stubbornly,
“I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm alright.
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home.
I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life.
Go ahead with your own life and leave me alone.”
Another, written by Paul Anka and sung by Frank Sinatra, is equally expressive of autonomy:
“And now, the end is near,
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full;
I traveled each and every highway.
And more, much more than this, I did it my way.”
I The Issue at Hand
Differentiate between Liberty and License.
Differentiate between Liberty and License.
In Christian teaching, license is a moral distortion of liberty.
It is the notion that living under grace gives us the freedom (or even the right) to do whatever we want and be free from any binding standard.
(This is called "antinomianism.")
It argues that since Christ has paid the penalty for all our sins, we are free to live as we please.
But of course that is a gross misrepresentation of the truth.
Christian liberty is not a license to do as we wish, but the power to do as we should.
Though the epistles recognize our freedom in Christ, that is balanced with the fact that:
A) There is a vast difference between legalism and license.
If we truly love God we will want to do only those things that please Him
There is a vast difference between legalism and license.
If we truly love God we will want to do only those things that please Him
Since God hates sin and cannot abide it in His presence (), why would we want to grieve Him () and hinder our fellowship with Him (; )?
Since God hates sin and cannot abide it in His presence (), why would we want to grieve Him () and hinder our fellowship with Him (; )?
In showing Christ-like love to others--which we are to do (), we will want to avoid those things that could harm them.
B) In showing Christ-like love to others--which we are to do (), we will want to avoid those things that could harm them.
Liberty does not harm someone else.
Illustration - going to a R rated vile movie ....
Liberty to do that but undue harm to that brother or son/daughter
To act in such a way as would cause others to stumble into sin is hateful and wrong (, ; ; cf. ).
Why would you want someone to stumble or fall ?
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When we think about freedom, we include the wonderful freedom for which we are grateful and which we enjoy as Americans.
But though I am an American, and grateful and proud to be one, I want to talk about personal freedom.
And prior to doing that let me differentiate between Liberty and License.
Liberty is freedom within limits; there are parameters in true liberty Example: liberty is swinging your arms as much as you want to – but liberty ends where my nose begins.
gal 5.13-14
We are free within limits:
Liberty is a river flowing down its bed.
License is a flood.
Liberty is driving the car.
License is running over people.
on the other side of the coin legalism can creep in by applying cultural standards to offending a brother :
Tennessee - would not wear shorts mowing the grass he did not want a brother to stumble.
That was OK until he could not believe that I wore shorts to the grocery store....
We are free within limits:
II.
WE ARE FREE TO CHOOSE OUR ACTIONS BUT NOT THE CONSEQUENCES:
II.
WE ARE FREE TO CHOOSE OUR ACTIONS BUT NOT THE CONSEQUENCES:
Gal
gal 5.14-
Legalism invariably leads to quarreling, and apparently it had done so in Galatia.
How strange!
Here were people who wanted to be under the law.
The law requires them to love their neighbors.
Yet the very reverse has happened.
They have been backbiting and devouring one another.
This behavior springs from the flesh, to which the law gives a place, and on which it acts.[1]
The flesh is the innate sum of human desires which we must control or they will control us which is sin.
A. Paul wrote, “For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.”
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The flesh is the innate sum of human desires which we must control or they will control us which is sin.
The flesh is the innate sum of human desires which we must control or they will control us which is sin.
Paul warned,
You will reap
You will reap in a different season than you sow
You will reap what you sow
You will reap more than you sow
The choices of activity really boil down to this: Sin or righteousness.
Life or death.
One or the other will issue from the choices we make.
God gives us freedom to choose between the two but reserves the right to determine consequences.
a.God gives us freedom to choose between the two but reserves the right to determine consequences.
The choices we make always result in consequences: bad choices, bad consequences; good choices, good consequences.
"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse.
So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, ....” (NASB).
B. The choices we make always result in consequences: bad choices, bad consequences; good choices, good consequences.
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If you choose the action, you must expect and accept the consequences.
2. Choose “I did it my way,” the way of the flesh, and the consequence is death
3. So, choose conduct in keeping with God’s word, will and Spirit and the consequence is life.
gal 6.
Still the pull of human desires for satisfaction wages war with God’s desire for our salvation.
but, we have the power of choice so let’s choose wisely to bring good things into our lives rather than bad things.
C. Still the pull of human desires for satisfaction wages war with God’s desire for our salvation.
but, we have the power of choice so let’s choose wisely to bring good things into our lives rather than bad things.
A. T. Pierson says:
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