THE WILL FREED FROM BONDAGE

By nature,(the state into which all men are born), the will of man is free in only one direction: AWAY FROM GOD.

Sin has enslaved the will, therefore, do we need to be “made free” (John 8:36).

The two states are contrasted in Romans 6: “free from righteousness” v20 and “free from sin” v 18, when we have been made alive unto God.

At the new birth the will is liberated from the “bondage of corruption” (Rom. 8:21 cf II Peter 2:19), and rendered conformable to the will of God (Psalm 119:97). In our unregenerate state the will was naturally rebellious, and its language was, “Who is the Lord that I should obey Him?” (Exodus 5:2)

But the Father promised the Son, “Thy people shall BE WILLING in the day of thy power” (Ps.110:3), and this is accomplished when God “worketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Phil 2:13; Heb.13:21)

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