Question:
Who can have liberty? 

Answer:

Liberty defined means, “Exemption from slavery, bondage, imprisonment, or control of another.  Freedom, deliverance!”  Who can have liberty?  All believers that are made free by the truth and the Son.  The unbeliever needs freedom from sin and Satan (Acts 26:18), but the believer needs deliverance from self—the flesh, legality—false brethren, looseness and license of the world.

In order to have liberty, you need to realize these three key points.  You need to realize that you are guilty of committing sins against God.  Realize that not only have you done evil, but you yourself are sinful (Romans 7:14).  And finally you need to realize that you are helpless to do what you should in your own strength.  Romans 7 shows the conflict between our new nature and our sinful nature.  The Lord wants to save us from this struggle.  We know what is right, but we have no power to do it (vs.18).  We can’t fight the flesh in our own strength.  We need to turn from ourselves and turn to Christ (Romans 8:3,4).

There are three steps involved in becoming delivered from our flesh.  1. Learning from God (Romans 6:1-10): The believer’s identification with Christ deals with sin’s power, not merely sin’s penalty.  Sin shouldn’t have dominion over us.  2. Reckoning with God (Romans 6:11-15):  To reckon means to depend on, count on, be sure of, rest assured, believe. Reckoning deals with faith; having faith in the facts.  The facts need to not only be in your head, but in your heart.  We are dead to sin, but alive to Christ.  Turn your back on sin, flee from sin!  3. Yielding to God (Romans 6:16-23):  Since I am crucified with Christ, I am free from not only the penalty of sin, but from the power of sin.  2 Corinthians 5:20 tells us we are ambassadors for Christ.  The definition for an ambassador is a country’s representative in a foreign land.  That is our job description.  We are Christ’s representatives in this foreign land!  What a wonderful job description!