“The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the treacherous are taken captive by their lust. ” (Proverbs 11:6, ESV)

This statement opens to us one of the greatest deceptions which the Christian has to overcome. The World thinks of righteousness as restricting freedom. But in God’s economy, freedom is from FROM sin, not freedom TO sin.

James terms this freedom the “perfect law of liberty” (James 2:12). It is on this basis the Christian will be judged. The question will not be “did you refrain from X, Y & Z?” as much as it will be “did you walk in A, B & C?” – did we walk in the freedom Christ procured for us at Calvary? Are we taking advantage of the freedoms He has granted to us at the cost of His blood…(read more by clicking below)

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