“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery… You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” (Galatians 5:1,13,14 NIV)
Christian freedom is not the right to do what we want, but the power to do what we ought. It is the release from the bondage of self so that we may become the servants of God.
-- William Barclay in “The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians” (The Daily Study Bible Series), 1958
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