Freedom Is A Person, Freedom Is Christ

By Tammy Lacock

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.” (Galatians 5:1-4 KJV)

In this week’s podcast, Warren Litzman explains, primarily through Galatians 5:1-4, that our freedom has absolutely nothing to do with self-effort and everything to do with the person of Christ. Christ did the work on the cross and we are free because of Him, whether we accept it or not. Our believing doesn’t make us free. Whether we believe or don’t believe doesn’t change what Christ did at the cross. The Apostle Paul drives this point in the above four verses: If anyone still lives by the law (what we do or don’t do to be saved or even to be closer to God) then Christ is of no profit to them. In fact, they have fallen from God’s grace. Religion, through Satan’s deception, has most Christians striving to be closer to God by their works. And yet, Paul tells us to completely let go of living by the law and stand free in Christ. He is our freedom.

He is our new life! Old things have passed away now.

Warren details through Paul’s and John’s epistles, that there are seven freedoms in Christ. He discusses the first four of them in this podcast.

1) Freedom over Self

In Galatians 2:20, Paul tells us that our selves are crucified with Christ, yet we live. Christ is our new life; we are one with Him in Spirit. And He now comes through us, our bodies and souls-minds.

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 2:5 KJV)

Our selves are subject to Him now.

2) Freedom over Sin

There’s no other way religion can operate without the guilt of sin. Religion doesn’t tell us the truth about sin. Yet in 1 John 3, he tells us four times that he who is born of God does not commit sin against Him. God forgives us over and over when we go to Him. However, if any man commits sin, one that he wills to commit, he sins against himself, not God. Our sin only hurts ourselves, not God.

In Christ, we are no longer bound by sin.

We no longer sin to God, only to ourselves.

3) Freedom over Satan

We are no longer bound by Satan’s nature. By Christ in us, we now have His discernment at our disposal. Therefore, we are able to discern spirits, and therefore able to know if we need to face Satan or see our adverse situations from God as a way of helping us know Him. No longer do we need to make excuses for Satan in our lives. Christ already overcame him at the cross. We don’t even need to rebuke Satan. We are God’s children…we go to Him!

4) Freedom over our Bodies

We have freedom from the pulls of our bodies. No longer do we need to give a mind to these pulls. We are free from these pulls when we give our minds over to Christ, who now lives in our spirits. We can now bring our bodies under subjection to Him. His wisdom will discern what our bodies need and don’t need.

Freedom is a Person. Freedom is Christ, now living in us. May we let go of the bondage of what we must do or not do to be closer to Him. As Paul says, stand firmly and confidently in Him, knowing not what we do, but knowing Him.