Gal 4:4-7 We are now Free

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We are now Free

Gal 4:4-7
But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, <"Abba>, Father." So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.

When a child comes of age he is given full rights. One of the rights of believers is right to sonship. "To all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God." John 1:12 And we see here, one of the rights of sonship is to receive the Holy Spirit. And indeed a son shows his sonship by behaving in accordance with the spirit of his father. So also with Christians. But in addition to rights and privileges, he is also released from the rules and regulations that he was formerly subjected to. Thus the Galatians should not view themselves as being subject to those things. "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death." Rom 8:1,2

The Berean Christian Bible Study Resources

 

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We are now Free

Gal 4:4-7
But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, <"Abba>, Father." So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.

When a child comes of age he is given full rights. One of the rights of believers is right to sonship. "To all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God." John 1:12 And we see here, one of the rights of sonship is to receive the Holy Spirit. And indeed a son shows his sonship by behaving in accordance with the spirit of his father. So also with Christians. But in addition to rights and privileges, he is also released from the rules and regulations that he was formerly subjected to. Thus the Galatians should not view themselves as being subject to those things. "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death." Rom 8:1,2

The Berean Christian Bible Study Resources

Yes, we are freed from the cruel schoolmaster, that demanded blood payment for sin, and death was it's way, but now, we are in Christ, and grace is His way, so the condemnation that was once against our very lives has now been dissolved, it too being transferred to Christ: before the administration of God's law was entrusted to Levi, but has now been entrusted to Christ; therefore everyone, now, is free from the laws of sin and death, and is now subject to the laws of sin and grace: for Christ did not come to abolish the laws of God, but to become the new administrator of God's laws--which laws are no longer in need of the administrative laws, because it has all been transferred to Christ.

Now, those who love the Lord, can establish God's laws under grace, and keep His commandments without the fear of men, but of God: for I don't commit murder because men will stone me, but because God love me, and has made the way for me, and others, to keep His commandments in spirit and in truth.

Beware, however, for there are many, in these times, that have taken the grace of God as a license to sin.

Sin, is the transgression of God's law, but Christ is now the administrator; so should we sin, because we are now under grace? of course not! --God forbid! No, brothers, it is our love for God that now establishes the law.

The Pharisees had the law, but they did not love God, that is why they did not keep the law--none of them.

But now, because of Christ, those who are truly His keep the law, and demonstrate to the world who are the true sons of God.

Beware false teachers.

"Fear God, and keep His commandments, for that is the whole duty of man." --Holy Spirit

 

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We are now Free

Gal 4:4-7
But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, <"Abba>, Father." So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.

When a child comes of age he is given full rights. One of the rights of believers is right to sonship. "To all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God." John 1:12 And we see here, one of the rights of sonship is to receive the Holy Spirit. And indeed a son shows his sonship by behaving in accordance with the spirit of his father. So also with Christians. But in addition to rights and privileges, he is also released from the rules and regulations that he was formerly subjected to. Thus the Galatians should not view themselves as being subject to those things. "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death." Rom 8:1,2

The Berean Christian Bible Study Resources

In Psalms 119:29, David wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law and in Titus 2:11-14, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, which is what God's laws was given to instruct how to do, so God teaching us to obey God's law is itself the content of God's free gift of salvation, so you are essentially wanting to be free from salvation. God's law is a precious gift that was given for our own good in order to bless us (Deuteronomy 6:24, 10:12-13), so those under the law have no need to be redeemed from from the law, but rather we have the need to be redeemed from our lawlessness. In Titus 2:14, it does not say that Jesus gave himself to redeem us from the law, but in order to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so if we have faith in what he accomplished on the cross, then we will become zealous for doing good works in obedience to God's law (Acts 21:20) and will not consider ourselves free to return to the lawlessness that he gave himself to redeem us from, so you are trampling on what he did for us. The freedom that we have in Christ is the freedom from sin, not the freedom to sin, so we should live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God (1 Peter 2:16).

In 1 John 3:10, those who do no to practice righteousness in obedience to God are not children of God. There is no sense in someone wanting to be a child of God while wanting to be free from God's instructions for how to live as a child of God. In Acts 5:32, the Holy Spirit is given to those who obey God, not to those who refuse to obey Him. In Romans 8:4-7, those who walk in the Spirit are contrasted with those who have minds set on the flesh who refuse to submit to God's law. In Galatians 5:19-22, everything listed as works of the flesh that are against the Spirit are also against the Mosaic Law, while all of the fruits of the Spirit are in accordance with it. After all, the Mosaic Law was given by God and the Spirit is God, so it is the Law of the Spirit. In Romans 7:25-8:2, Paul contrasted both God's law and the Law of the Spirit with the law of sin, so again he was equating the Mosaic Law with the Law of the Spirit. While it is true that there is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ, it is also true that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:6), so being in Christ does not remove our obligation to obey the Mosaic Law, on the contrary, that is how we have unity with Christ. The fact that Christ gave himself to pay the penalty for our sins should make us want to go and sin no more by living in obedience to God's law, not consider ourselves to be free to sin.