Don’t Get Cocky, Kid! (Freedom isn’t Free)
Plenty of people talk about the New Year as a chance to start over, and plenty of people take those chances to pursue various methods of improving their lives. My wife and I are doing the Whole 30 diet to start off the year. However, plenty of people will have fallen off the tracks by Valentine’s Day. In Christianity, we have another chance with Christ, by accepting his gift of salvation to free us from the chains of sin and to restore us to fellowship with God. The New Testament contains quite a few passages on the new life we have been given through Christ, and what we should do with this newfound freedom from sin and the condemnation of the law. What I want to do here is to show what scripture says about freedom, and how it was bought with a price. We see in Romans 3:23 that all men are guilty of sin, that we all have transgressed the law of God. We also see in James 2:10 that if we keep the whole law, yet stumble in one aspect, that we are guilty