AUTONOMOUS
FREEDOM?
Friday,
January 6, 2016
The answer to the Sunday provocative question
“Can we have complete autonomous freedom and authentic love as our life?” is no.
Why and how so?
·
Autonomous means self-governing; independent; subject
to our own ideas, philosophies, rules, laws only. In other words a
self-governing person
not subject to
control from outside.
·
Autonomy personally lived is apart
from the guidance and direction of the Word; God Incarnate, Lord Jesus Christ. Jn.1:1-12
·
We, professing Christian or not, cannot
lay claim to following Christ while exercising
autonomy; following our path, not his: “Then said Jesus
unto his disciples, If any man will come after me,
let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. “ Mt.16:24; Mk.8:34; Lk.9:23
·
Jesus explained: “Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it
abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth [G5368; φιλέω; phileō; fil-eh'-o
-- From G5384; to be a friend to (fond of [an individual or an object]), that
is, have affection for (denoting personal attachment, as a matter of sentiment
or feeling; while G25 is wider, embracing especially the judgment and the
deliberate assent of the will as a matter of principle, duty and propriety: the
two thus stand related very much as G2309 and G1014, or as G2372 and G3563
respectively; the former being chiefly of the heart and the latter of the
head); specifically to kiss (as a mark of tenderness): - kiss, love. ] his life shall lose
it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If
any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my
servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour. “ Jn.12:24-26; Mt.10:39; Mk.8:35; Lk.9:27
·
The Apostle Paul
makes it very clear that authentic love is not about immature self-gratification.
Authentic love is about charity. 1Cor. Chapters 12 & 13
Knowing
this, how now shall we live?
EBB4
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