What is Christian liberty?
Salvation in Christ is liberation, and the Christian life is one of liberty-Christ has set us free ( Gal. 5: 1; ct. John 8:32 , 36). Christ's liberating action is not basically social, political, or economic improvement, as is sometimes suggested today; it is liberation from the law as a means to salvation, from the power of sin, and from superstition. First, Christians have been set free from the law as a system of salvation. Being justified by faith in Christ, they are no longer under God's law , but under His grace (Rom. 3:19; 6:14, 15; Gal. 3:23-25). Their standing with God (the "peace" and "access" of Rom. 5: 1, 2) is assured because they have been accepted and adopted in Christ. It does not, nor ever will, depend on what they do, nor will it ever be imperiled by what they fail to do. They live, not by being perfect, but by being forgiven. Although they are fallen, human beings think they can gain a right relationship with God through discipline...