Christian Liberty
The term “Christian liberty,” like many another, is used very loosely by our moderns. We greatly fear that to many, who though bearing the name of Christians have never been born again, Christian liberty means license to do as one pleases. Many of the Lord’s own people are being taught that legal restrictions are incompatible with true Christian liberty, and this in the face of the words of the Saviour— “teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:20). We shall now attempt to define the scriptural import of Christian liberty. Not that we profess to give here a complete or exhaustive definition, nevertheless, we believe it will include the primary elements and aspects of it. 1. Christian liberty is deliverance from the Wrath of God. The relation which the Christian, before conversion, stood to God (because of sin) was that of a condemned criminal. By nature he was a child “of wrath, even as others” (Eph. 2:3). By birth he belonged to a rac...