"But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful
hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed" (James 1:25).

This law is the law of liberty, because the same Word which reveals what God is and what He
wills has made us partakers by grace of the divine nature; so that not to walk according to that
Word would be not to walk according to our own new nature. Now to walk according to our new
nature_the nature of God_and to be guided by His Word, is true liberty.

The law given on Sinai was the expression in man, written not on the heart but outside man, of
what man’s conduct and heart ought to be according to the will of God. It represses and condemns
all the motions of the natural man, and cannot allow him to have a will, for he ought to do the will
of God. But the natural man does have a will, and therefore the law is bondage to him, a law of
condemnation and death.

Now, God has begotten us by the Word of truth_has given us a new nature. This new nature, as
thus born of God, possesses tastes and desires according to that Word. The Word in its perfection
develops this nature, forms it, enlightens it, and the nature itself has its liberty in following the
Word. Thus it was with Christ; if His liberty could have been taken away (which spiritually was
impossible), it would have been by preventing Him from doing the will of God the Father.

It is the same with the new man in us (which is Christ as life in us) which is created in us
according to God in righteousness and true holiness. The liberty of the new man is liberty to do
the will of God, to imitate God in character, as being His dear child, according as that character
was presented in Christ. The law of liberty is this character as it is revealed in the Word, in which
the new nature finds its joy and satisfaction; even as it drew its existence from the Word which
reveals Him, and from the God who is therein revealed.

(From Synopsis of the Books of the Bible.)