4. This liberty is in love. ‘Ye were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants, one to another.’ The freedom with which the Son makes free is a freedom to become like Himself, to love and to serve. ‘Though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.’ This is the liberty of love.
5. ‘Being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness unto sanctification.’ ‘Let my people go, that they may serve me.’ It is only the man that doeth righteousness that can become holy.
6. This liberty is a thing of joy and singing.
7. This liberty is the groundwork of holiness. The Redeemer who makes free is God the Holy One. As the Holy Spirit He leads into the full possession of it. To be so free from everything that God can take complete possession, is to be holy.
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Twenty-first Day.
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HOLY IN CHRIST.
‘The kingdom of God is joy in the Holy Ghost.’—Rom. xiv. 17.