FREEDOM REVEALED The Fruit of Freedom
009 FREEDOM REVEALED: The Fruit of Freedom
Romans 7:1-6
August 10, 2025
TONIGHT: I want us to jump back in to that study of Romans 6, 7 & 8
Thus far, the main theme we have been studying is what we have called: FREEDOM REVEALED.
We are looking at the freedom which was provided to us
Through the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.
And we are seeking to grasp
The ramifications and expectations of that freedom in our daily lives.
The subject of FREEDOM REVEALED is covered in Rom 6:1 – Rom 7:6.
· 6:1-11 – THE FACE OF FREEDOM – That is Christ who set us free.
· 6:12-14 – THE FACTS OF FREEDOM – Do not let sin reign.
· 6:15-23 – THE FOCUS OF FREEDOM – That you not return to slavery.
But that last segment is where we encountered a very stupid question.
Romans 6:15 “What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be!”
Can we sin since we are not under law but under grace?
That is a stupid question.
1. Because of WHAT IT INSINUATES (15-16) – that sin is your master.
2. Because of WHO IT INSULTS (17-18) – God who poured you into a new mold.
3. Because of WHAT IT IGNORES (19-23) – That presenting yourself to sin has
consequences.
IT WOULD BE STUPID TO ASK SUCH A QUESTION.
Well tonight we learn that it may be a stupid question,
BUT IT IS ALSO A SERIOUS ISSUE.
So having dropped the hammer on the foolishness of such a question,
Paul now turns to address the issue
In a more rational and theological way.
You will notice chapter 7:1 begins the same way 6:16 did:
“Do you not know..?”
That is because both 6:15-23 and 7:1-6
Are given in answer to the question of 6:15.
The first part of Paul’s answer came in 6:16-23
· Where he revealed why that was a stupid question.
The second part of his answer comes in 7:1-6
· Where he reveals why it is a serious issue.
Here in chapter 7 Paul will now reveal
Why God determined for you to no longer be under His Law.
You WEREN’T freed from the Law so that you could sin all you wanted.
(As Paul recently revealed)
You were freed from the Law for a completely different reason.
And part of understanding sanctification is understanding that reason.
Here in Romans 7:1-6 we are finishing up the segment we have called FREEDOM REVEALED and we are going to discuss
THE FRUIT OF FREEDOM.
We are going to see how we came out from under the law
And even more importantly, why that freedom was necessary.
So let’s turn to our main text tonight.
Paul is here getting more serious with the serious student.
AND HERE IS THE QUESTION ON HIS MIND.
What possible reason would God have for taking us out from under the Law if it is not to make what was formerly illegal legal?
Do you understand that logic?
We currently have speed limits.
· In most places in Texas it is 75mph.
· Let’s say tomorrow the speed limit law is removed.
What is your natural assumption as to why?
So you can drive over 75.
We understand local laws or ordinances,
· Like at times we are under a burn ban.
· But when they remove that ban,
We know why?
So we can burn stuff.
Well, that’s the logic Paul is dealing with here.
The assumption is that if God removed the Law,
or took us out from under it,
That He did it so that we can now do the things formerly forbidden.
NOW, IS THAT WHY?
Paul already told you the answer is NO.
WELL THEN WHY DID GOD TAKE US OUT FROM UNDER THE LAW?
The answer is perhaps the most powerful truth
We have studied yet in regard to sanctification.
Paul is going to answer that question with 3 points.
3 reasons why God took us out from under the Law.
#1 TO BE JOINED TO CHRIST
Romans 7:1-4a
Paul starts here with a simple axiom.
(an obvious or self-evident truth)
“Or do you not know, brethren (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has jurisdiction over a person as long as he lives?”
When Paul refers to “law” there,
It’s not necessarily Mosaic Law, though that could be included.
It’s just law in general.
And one thing we know about all law is that IT ENDS WITH DEATH.
People have often made the point
· That Lee Harvey Oswald was never charged with the assassination of JFK, because he was already dead.
No policeman
· Goes out to the cemetery and give tickets for loitering to those who are out there.
City code enforcers
· Don’t write citations to those whose cemetery plots get overgrown and need mowing.
Once you die, the law no longer has any jurisdiction over you.
DEATH IS THE END OF THE LAW.
And Paul even gives AN EXAMPLE of what he means.
(2-3) “For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the husband. So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.”
You understand that.
· If a married woman goes off to be with another man she is called an adulterous, unless her first husband has died.
· Then she is not guilty of adultery because the law loses its jurisdiction at death.
WE UNDERSTAND THE POINT.
The jurisdiction of the law ends at death.
And it is that point that Paul wants to drive home to you now.
(4) “Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law…”
Stop there for a second.
Dying to the Law was God determined to happen.
· It is something He accomplished in you.
· This is not something we did.
· We did not win our freedom from the Law through some type of revolt.
· We didn’t break free on our own.
God, by His power, made us “die to the Law”
God took us out from under it.
“Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ…”
This answers HOW we were made to die to the Law.
It’s the same point we found early in chapter 6.
Through identification with Christ, we were made to die.
· In Romans 6 Paul emphasized that our death meant freedom from our slavery to sin.
· Now in Romans 7 he gives another benefit of our death in Christ and it is freedom from the Law.
Death breaks sin’s authority over you.
Death breaks the law’s jurisdiction over you.
YES, BUT WHY DID THAT JURISDICTION NEED TO BE BROKEN?
WHAT WAS THE REASON?
This text will become much more clear to you
If you will mark the “so that” statements.
“Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, SO THAT you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead…”
SO WHAT’S THE SIMPLE ANSWER
As to why God had to pull you out from under the Law?
· So you could marry Christ.
· So you could be joined to Christ.
Let’s make a couple of simple but important points.
YOU CAN’T BE JOINED TO CHRIST AND THE LAW AT THE SAME TIME.
THAT IS TO SAY, you can’t be trusting Christ for salvation
And be working for salvation at the same time.
You are either, by our own efforts, striving to earn salvation
Or you have forsaken your own efforts in order to cling to Christ.
· There is no middle ground.
· There is no hybrid salvation.
· There is no form where you do a little and Christ does a little.
You can’t be married to both.
You can’t be in covenant with both.
There is no polygamy in the plan of salvation.
Galatians 5:2-6 “Behold I, Paul, say to you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no benefit to you. And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law. You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit, by faith, are waiting for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.”
That is Paul’s point there to the Galatians.
If you receive circumcision…
If you in effect enter a covenant with the Law…
“Christ will be of no benefit to you”
· To join yourself to the Law is to be “severed from Christ”
· To join yourself to the Law is to fall “from grace”
YOU CAN’T DO BOTH.
You either (try to) earn salvation by works
Or you receive salvation by grace through faith.
You can’t have two husbands, it is totally incompatible.
So you understand that.
But there’s something else you need to know.
YOU WERE ALWAYS INTENDED TO BE MARRIED TO CHRIST, NOT THE LAW.
LET ME PUT IT THIS WAY.
· Christ did not come to point you to the Law.
· The Law came to point you to Christ.
Galatians 3:19-24 “Why the Law then? It was added because of transgressions, having been ordained through angels by the agency of a mediator, until the seed would come to whom the promise had been made. Now a mediator is not for one party only; whereas God is only one. Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law. But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith.”
The Law was never meant to be your final husband.
The Law came to point you to your final husband; Christ.
Christ is not a servant of the Law.
The Law is a servant of Christ.
IT IS OBVIOUS WHY
The Law cannot justify you.
Romans 3:19-20 “Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God; because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.”
The Law cannot sanctify you.
Galatians 3:1-3 “You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?”
The Law cannot glorify you.
Revelation 20:12-15 “And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”
The Law could never save you, sanctify you, or send you to heaven.
ONLY CHRIST CAN DO THAT.
The Law came as a servant of Christ to drive you to Christ.
SO you can’t be married to both,
AND it is clear which one you are supposed to be married to.
AND THIS IS PAUL’S FIRST ANSWER TO OUR QUESTION.
Why did God take me out from under the Law?
Was it so I could do the things the Law formerly forbid?
NO! It was so that you could be joined to Christ.
You can’t be saved or holy without being joined to Christ.
But you couldn’t be joined to Christ while you were still under the Law.
But Paul isn’t finished. (watch the “so that”)
#2 TO BEAR FRUIT FOR GOD
Romans 7:4b-5
There is a reason you had to be joined to Christ was
“IN ORDER THAT we might bear fruit for God.”
Do you remember that PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD back in Isaiah 5?
· Do you remember how God planted that vineyard and expected good grapes
but only received worthless ones?
Do you remember what the fruit was that God wanted?
Isaiah 5:7 “For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel And the men of Judah His delightful plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.”
Under that Old Covenant
Israel NEVER produced a single piece of fruit that pleased God.
We heard Jesus’ parable about the vineyard owner.
· How he sent slaves to gather fruit, but there was none.
· How the tenants tortured the slaves.
· How the tenants murdered the son.
· How the vineyard owner took the vineyard away and gave it to others.
We saw Jesus curse the fig tree for its lack of fruit.
· It was a picture of Israel.
· Plenty of leaves, but no fruit.
The Old Covenant never led to fruitfulness at all.
They never kept it, they couldn’t keep it, no fruit.
AND THEN CHRIST COMES ALONG.
He comes as the first and only
To actually bear fruit for God as a keeper of the Law.
· No one ever did it before Him.
· No one ever took the Law and obeyed it and produced fruit except for Christ.
And do you remember what Jesus called Himself?
John 15:1 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser.”
The only One who ever got it right.
And what did He go on to say?
John 15:1-8 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. “You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me. “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned. “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. “My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be My disciples.”
Well would you look at that?
God took you out of the Law so that you could be joined to Christ.
God joined you to Christ so that you could be fruitful.
So that you could walk in “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control”
BUT GO AHEAD, ASK THE QUESTION ANYWAY.
So you’re saying
· I couldn’t bear fruit for God when I was married to the Law?
· I couldn’t be fruitful under that old covenant?
EXACTLY!
(5) “For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.”
NOW TO FULLY GRASP THIS
You need to understand that there are two phrases
That Paul uses interchangeably, but they mean the same thing.
Those phrases are “under Law” and “in the flesh”
Both of those phrases mean the same thing.
· They refer to the man who is trying to please God by his own physical fleshly
exertion.
· They refer to a man who is striving to obey the Law by his own ability to be
pleasing to God..
AND HERE WE FIND A PROBLEM.
YOU COULDN’T.
WHY?
Because even though the Law came in
As an ally in the fight for righteousness,
Your flesh always chose to align itself with sin.
JUMP AHEAD TO CHAPTER 8 FOR JUST A MOMENT
Look at:
Romans 8:3a “For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh…”
I simply want you to see that the Law could not do what it desired
And the reason is because your flesh refused to work with it.
Romans 8:5-8 “For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”
Do you see the realities of that man “in the flesh”?
The man of flesh, very simply put, wants to be its own boss.
This is what you see in fallen men in our world today.
· They resist submission to God.
· They refuse to honor God as God.
· They will not submit to His commands.
WHY? Because they love another god?
· No, because they have made a god out of themselves.
· If they do choose another god, it’s only because they have fashioned that god in their own likeness to gratify their own sinful desires.
MEN ARE REBELLIOUS.
Men are foolish from birth, and they hate authority.
They resist someone telling them what to do.
And here is the kicker,
Most of the time they don’t even realize it
Until the command comes.
Ever hear the phrase: “You’ve got to make them think it’s their own idea”?
· It references a person that if you tell them to do something they’re going to balk, but if they think it’s their own idea, they’ll do it.
· They have no problem with the deed itself, what they have a problem with is being told to do it.
How many people do we see in our world who can’t hold a job
But for no other reason than they don’t like some boss telling them what to do?
You can take a man who has no interest in watering his yard at all,
· You can then pass a city ordinance that watering is illegal,
· And watch him get ticked off that someone told him he can’t.
THAT’S THE FALLEN HUMAN CONDITION.
THAT’S THE FLESH.
And that’s why you couldn’t be fruitful
When you were in the flesh and under the Law.
“the sinful passions were aroused by the Law”
Your flesh hated being told what to do.
And those “sinful passions…were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.”
The Law came in and said, “Thou shalt not…”
And your flesh said, “Watch me!”
As long as you were in the flesh…
As long as you were under law…
YOU COULD NOT BEAR FRUIT TO PLEASE GOD.
And if you need further proof,
Just read your Old Testament and look at the nation of Israel.
· They are a 1500 year illustration of a nation who could not bear fruit to please God despite having His commandments.
If you were going to be fruitful
You were going to have to die to the Law and be joined to Christ.
So, did God get rid of the Law so that you could do the things the Law previously forbid?
NO! God got you out from under the Law
· So that you could be joined to Christ,
· So that you could finally bear fruit that pleased Him.
THE GOAL OF YOUR FREEDOM WAS NOT SIN,
It was righteousness, it was sanctification, it was fruit!
To Be Joined to Christ
To Bear Fruit for God
#3 TO BE SPIRIT-FILLED SERVANTS
Romans 7:6
THAT IS TO SAY:
That we be servants who serve God by the Spirit’s power
Not by our own power through the Law.
We already know how effective we were as fleshly servants.
We already know how effective we were trying to obey the Law.
So God made us die to the Law
So that we could be joined to Christ and thus bear fruit.
But notice how Paul says it here.
“But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound…”
· Same thing he said up in verse 4.
“…SO THAT we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.”
What in the world does that mean?
Well, there is a parallel passage that I think will help us out here.
TURN TO: 2 CORINTHIANS 3
I you are not familiar, the thrust behind 2 Corinthians 3
Is that Paul is defending his apostleship.
· He has been accused of being a false apostle,
· He has been challenged to produce some proof that he is in fact a true apostle of Jesus Christ.
Chapter 3 is where he lays down his evidence.
And just for brevity sake,
The evidence is that sanctification of the Corinthians.
When you read the chapter you’ll see that Paul is making a point.
If the Corinthian lives are changed
Then clearly Jesus Christ is using Paul.
But as we look into the chapter what you will see is
WHY THE CORINTHIAN LIVES ARE CHANGED.
(and Paul will use that same “letter” & “spirit” language)
(5-6) “Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”
Paul says that the basis for the change in the Corinthians
Is that they are under the New Covenant and are changed by God’s Spirit.
So Christ is obviously using Paul to bring His New Covenant into effect.
But what we see there is also a parallel to what Paul said in Romans 7
Now we understand what he is talking about when he said
“we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.”
WHAT IS HE REFERRING TO?
THE NEW COVENANT.
Remember it?
Jeremiah 31:31-34 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. “They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
Also seen in Ezekiel
Ezekiel 36:25-27 “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. “Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.”
The old covenant which was the Law given at Sinai only managed to kill.
· It never saved, it never sanctified, it never glorified.
· All it ever brought was failure and disobedience and curses and judgment.
But there is a new covenant, which is not written on stone.
· The new covenant is written on the heart, by the Spirit.
· The new covenant came to us through the work of Christ.
· He offered His body and His blood and said, “This is the new covenant”.
· You come to Me and I’ll send the Spirit to write God’s Law on your heart.
The New Covenant will not approach you from the outside in,
But from the inside out.
Paul says that is what Christ sent me to offer to the Corinthians.
It is also what he is referring to in Romans 7 that we now enjoy.
BUT THERE IS MORE TO SEE HERE.
What he will do next IS COMPARE
Those under the old covenant to those under the new covenant.
We don’t have time to examine it all, but look down at verse 15.
(15-16) “But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.”
Those under the Old Covenant do not see Christ.
· All they see is a list of rules to try and obey to please God.
BUT because we are out from under the Law and joined to Christ
THAT VEIL IS REMOVED.
WHAT DO WE SEE?
(18) “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image form glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.”
SO WHAT IS THE POINT?
Now, when we look at the Law we see it rightly.
Now when we look into the Law we see Christ!
We don’t see a list of commands we must perform to please God.
We see Christ, the focus of the Law, and we are drawn to Him.
And the more we gaze on Him the more we are changed into His glory.
See Christ didn’t come to point you to the Law.
· The Law came to point you to Christ.
· When the veil comes off you see that.
As we gaze on Christ in the law we are transformed.
The GOAL of Christian living is NOT Law.
Paul said “To live is….”? What?
“To live is Christ!”
And now, WE DON’T cling to the Law as a means of sanctification.
We look into the Law so that we might see Christ.
As Paul said in Romans 7:6
· We don’t serve “in oldness of the letter”
· We “serve in newness of the Spirit”
WE ARE NOT LIKE PEOPLE UNDER THE OLD COVENANT who are scouring through the pages trying to figure out what God wants us to do.
We are people who are filled with the Spirit who are looking into the Law so that we can see Christ and be transformed into His likeness.
God had to set us free from the Law so that we could marry Christ.
· We had to marry Christ so that we could be fruitful.
· We had to marry Christ so that we could be filled with the Spirit.
· We had to marry Christ so that we could see Him rightly.
THAT’S THE SECRET TO SANCTIFICATION.
IT IS GAZING UPON CHRIST.
The FREEDOM that has been REVEALED to us
· It is a freedom from sin.
· It is a freedom from the Law.
· It is a freedom to run to Christ, to marry Him, to gaze on Him, to be transformed by His Spirit into His likeness.
We could not do that before.
We were bound by sin and the Law.
But now we are free.
· Free to love Christ
· Free to see Christ
· Free to follow Christ
· Free to be transformed into the image of Christ
THAT IS OUR FREEDOM REVEALED.
So should I sin so that grace may increase?
Can I sin since I am not under Law but under grace?
You being removed from the Law and placed under grace
Had nothing to do with being freed up to sin more.
It had everything to do with getting you closer to Jesus
Because that’s where sanctification occurs.
LET ME END HERE, you have to see this.
· While we are called to work out our salvation…
· While we are called to strive and to labor and chase after holiness…
· While we do buffet our body and make it our slave…
· While we do forget what is behind and strive for what is ahead…
You need to understand
WHAT you are working for, striving for, and chasing after.
AND THE ANSWER IS CHRIST.
The closer you get to Christ the more sanctified you will be.
The more you gaze on Christ the more like Him you will become.
The Law is not the goal, Christ is the goal.
The law is not the goal of our being in Christ.
Being in Christ is the goal of the Law.
John Piper wrote:
“I don’t think what Paul means when he says in Romans 7:4 that we “die to the law so that we can belong to another, to Him who has been raised from the dead,” Jesus Christ. He didn’t mean: Die to the law so that you can belong to the one who can really help you to belong to the law. He was saying: The law is not the goal of history; Christ is the goal of history. The law is not the goal of your life; Christ is the goal of your life. Christ did not come into history to lead us to the law; the law came into history to lead us to Christ. The law is not the goal of Christ; Christ is the goal of the law. Marriage is not for the sake of wedding vows; wedding vows re for the sake of marriage.”
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Those poor Jews in the old covenant
Are so bound by their sin and the flesh that they look at the Law and have no idea what a beautiful message they can’t see.
· They have never beheld the beauty of Psalm 22 or Isaiah 53.
· They have never seen Christ in any of the ordinances or feasts.
· They have never understood His glory.
They read the Law through a veil and see nothing.
But when God, through Christ sets us free and unites us to Christ.
We can now look into that Law, through the veil, and we see Christ!
And for the first time we understand the beauty.
Now we can say with David:
Psalms 119:137 “O how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day.”
Because for us
· The Law IS NO LONGER some list of rules to try and make us pleasing to God.
· The Law IS the very glory of Christ who is transforming us into His very own image.
Piper goes on to say:
“We have died to the law as a means of lawkeeping that the veil might be lifted and we might use the law as means of Christ-seeing and Christ-loving…A life of seeing and savoring Jesus Christ and being changed by that sight and that savoring from one degree of glory to the next into his image.”
(ibid)
THAT IS THE FREEDOM REVEALED.
It was never about being free to sin,
It was always about being free to be joined to Christ.
Freedom from sin, freedom from law, freedom to run to Christ
And behold Him and be transformed into His image.
Well that is our FREEDOM REVEALED.
And the FRUIT OF FREEDOM is Christlikeness.
NEXT TIME we’ll take a journey backward and see SLAVERY REMEMBERED
But that’s for next time.