Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. The Law of Liberty.
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. James two, twelve. On Independence Day, Americans should give thanks to the author of Liberty that we have been privileged to live in this sweet land of liberty, where we can worship God freely in accord with His Word. Liberty is not licensed, however, and the essence of the American system is liberty under law. Fundamentally, that law is the law of nature and of nature's God, the natural laws of God's world and the revealed laws of God's Word.
Within that framework we do have liberty, but not liberty to defy either the physical law of gravity or the spiritual law of liberty. The latter is formulated in Scripture and has been applied over the centuries in the English common law and later in our system of constitutional law, both of which are based on scripture.
Some today, seeking license rather than liberty, might recoil at the very idea of the law of liberty, calling it an oxymoron or contradiction in terms. But Jesus said that only the truth shall make you free. Sin is a transgression of the law, and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death, not freedom. No one can be saved by the law, but those who are saved, by grace through faith in Christ, will love God's law, for it is holy and just and good. We should say with the psalmist, So shall I keep thy law continually forever and ever, and I will walk at liberty, for I seek thy precepts.
Psalm 119, 44 and 45. There is indeed a law of liberty, and whoever will walk in real liberty will find it only in God's law of life through his revealed word. For whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth therein, he being not a forgiveful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. James 1.25. If you've enjoyed today's devotional, be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
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