Freedom is no longer freedom if we surrender and indulge in bondage. If your heart desires sinful ways, your heart is not yet free. Freedom from bondage was given so that we can enjoy fellowship with Christ in His love. The heart that is free will only yearn for fellowship and intimacy with Jesus Christ.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Where the law and knowledge of sin is, there is bondage. Grace will never cause man to sin, and be in bondage, because the knowledge of sin comes through the law, and a sinful desire always follows a sin consciousness.
Grace will liberate man from a sin consciousness and set him free to love God in total surrender to His goodness, never fearing the consequences of the sins committed under the law, but fully relying on His sacrifice of atonement and the absolute forgiveness through His blood.
Forgiveness and Grace makes love to abound in our hearts. Perfect love casts out all fear. Fear is the expectation of punishment and judgment. Grace and forgiveness removes the sin from man, and in doing so creates spontaneous love towards God and praises to His glory in the heart of the worshiper.
Bondage is having a consciousness of sin. Freedom is having no consciousness of sin at all, as if sin never existed, but in stead a consciousness of God and His intense and wonderful love towards us. That is trust in the sacrifice of the cross of Christ. That is faith.
There is no freedom outside Christ, only bondage. We were set free from sin to be bound to Him and in Him. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. It is for intimate fellowship with God that Christ has set us free from the law and sin.
If you are free from bondage you are bound to freedom, and if you are free from freedom, you are bound to bondage. It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm then in you freedom, and do not be hampered again with the yoke of bondage (Gal 5:1)
We are now bond servants of Christ, bound in His love to the eternal bliss of knowing Him. We are slaves of righteousness, forever bound to freedom!
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