FREEDOM

 FREEDOM

  John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

  Romans 6:14-18 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. 

 I have many passages marked in my Bible with the margin note “Security of the believer”. My father called it “Once in grace, always in grace.” And would add that it could be dangerous doctrine because some would think it gave them license to do anything they wanted to do after they responded to an altar call and made a profession of faith.

  But today’s passages do not mean any such thing. The Word says we are “free from sin”, not that we are free to sin. There is a vast difference! [Look at David as an example.]

Leslie Nivens (12/12/1928 – 3/1/2020)