Galatians 2:4; “But it was because of the false brethren who had sneaked into spy out our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us into bondage.”
Galatians 5:1, “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefor keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.”
Romans 8:21, “that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the glorious freedom of the children of God.”
1 Corinthians 7:22, “For he who is called in Christ while a slave, is the Lord’s freedman; likewise he who was called while free is Christ slave.”
Why did Jesus set us free from the demands of the law, the power sin, and the reign of the powers of darkness? He set us free for freedom’s sake. He desperately wants us to be free.. The result of the fall was our bondage to the condemnation of the law, and the power sin, and the rule of the kingdom of darkness, but the result of the finished work of Christ is that we have been set free from all that. We are no longer under the condemnation of the broken law. We are no longer under the demands of the law to strain to do our best to be godly. We are no longer slaves to the power of indwelling sin, and we are no longer subject to the dominion of the demonic. We are in Christ, and we share His freedom from all of that, and the freedom that he enjoys and lives in from the inside out. Because of our union with him, living a life of godliness is joyfully natural because he supernaturally lives that life in and through us. In him we live in the freedom of holiness, as we restfully participate in the life that Jesus lives before the Father, by the Holy Spirit. Because we are in Christ we no longer live with a sin consciousness; which is a consciousness that expects to sin, and always feels the guilt and the condemnation of the sinner. In Christ there is no condemnation, because we have become the righteousness of God in Christ, and we don’t walk around expecting to sin, though it is possible for us to sin, for our expectation is His expectation, which is a life of gleeful holiness. In Christ we no longer live in fear of the demonic because we know that we have been seated in him in the heavenly places far above all rule and authority, and just like all things have been placed under his feet, they are also under my feet because he and I are one. The glorious freedom that we experience on the inside in light of Christ being our life, is a freedom from things like anger, bitterness, fear, anxiety, lust, and greed, lust, pride, envy, jealousy, insecurity, self-hatred, etc.
Paul says the freedom that a person experiences when they are in Christ is so powerful that even if you’re being forced to live the life of a slave you are the Lord’s freedman. In other words, it is an interior freedom that is so powerful that even in the most horrible circumstances and situations you can know glorious liberty and freedom. This ought to be extremely encouraging to you, as it is to me, because I don’t have to wait for a perfect set of circumstances to line up so that I can experience real interior freedom. It’s got nothing to do with circumstances and situations, and the behavior of other people. Because I’m in Christ, and his very life is my life, there is good news and bad news. The good news is that no matter how much a person mistreats you, or dishonors you, you never have to live another day in resentment, or being burdened by a bad attitude toward them. The bad news is, because you’re in Christ, you will never have another excuse.