“I want to be free to do whatever I please! I find your rules restrictive, especially for a young person like me. How am I supposed to enjoy life for goodness sake?” What kind of restrictions are you talking about? “All these your laws on relationships: no kissing, no holding of hands, no staying out late either.” I am not in any way trying to enslave you; I want you to be free to enjoy life. Rather train yourself for godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come 1Tm 4:7, 8(ESV). A lot will go wrong naturally if you don’t keep certain rules. “Is your church different? I know people who allow their own to do that and more. They promise freedom!” I see. Beware of any who gives the impression you can play with sin. By talking high-sounding nonsense and using sinful cravings of the flesh, they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error. Promising them freedom, they themselves are slaves to depravity, for a person is a slave to whatever conquers him 2Pt 2:18, 19(ISV).
“Look the birds and bees are free as air. I want to be free too.” These Bible principles of life are the laws of liberty. But you must never stop looking at the perfect law that sets you free. God will bless you in everything you do, if you listen and obey… Jas 1:25(CEV). Even birds must keep to certain rules to fly; they must adopt certain positions for effective flight. “Well I feel I am caged in.” Listen: only in bondage to righteousness are we truly free. The one who feels free to drink and smoke anything sooner than later becomes an addict. How many suffer because of bondage to alcohol, sex and drugs! “I have no plans to be enslaved, just free to do anything, these desires come pretty strong and isn’t it best to give in once a while? And I was not talking about alcohol.” Yielding to the urge for sin depresses righteousness. The Spirit and your desires are enemies of each other. They are always fighting each other and keeping you from doing what you feel you should Gal 5:17(CEV). Anyone who sins becomes enslaved by it: I tell you for certain that anyone who sins is a slave of sin! Jn 8:34(CEV). The struggles you have now will be overcome when you offer yourself as a slave to God and righteousness. But now that you have been freed from sin and have become God's slaves, the benefit you reap is sanctification, and the result is eternal life Rom 6:22(ISV). Do you want a clean free holy life? Become a slave to righteousness.
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