Children who are under age are no better off than slaves, even though everything their parents own will someday be theirs. This is because children are placed in the care of guardians and teachers until the time their parents have set. This is how it was with us. We were like children ruled by the powers of this world.
But when the time was right, God sent his Son, and a woman gave birth to him. His Son obeyed the Law, so he could set us free from the Law, and we could become God's children. Now that we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. And his Spirit tells us that God is our Father. You are no longer slaves. You are God's children, and you will be given what he has promised.
Galatians 4:1-7
When slaves become free men and women the transition is sometimes a difficult one. Along with Freedom comes the privilege of making choices and doing things that a slave could not do. Like some of the Children of Israel who wanted to go back to the slavery of Egypt after Moses led them to freedom across the Red Sea some former slaves even today long for the life of bondage from which they came!
The Bible talks about two forms of slavery that capture all men at some time or other in their lives. The one we most often think of is slavery to sin. Every form of addiction comes under this category.
But there is another form of slavery and it is usually ignored. Slavery to the law is more often than not overlooked. Men and women who are slaves to the law today are "good people" who do good things and are respected in this world for their successes. They follow the rules and prosper because of it. But they are still slaves because they have not been set free by the blood of Jesus!
So there are three possible states of man. A man is either a slave of sin, a slave of the law or a man set free from both sin and the law by the blood of Jesus Christ!
When you are set free from sin, then Satan wants to lure you to become a slave of the law. But when you are set free from sin and the law you step into the amazing life of living in the Eternal Freedom that Jesus came to give you!
"Lord Jesus, I confess to you that living as a man free from sin and the law is hard to imagine. What an amazing life You have promised all of us who come to You for Freedom. Teach me today more of what it means to live in the Freedom that You died to give me! May You be Praised forever! Amen."
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