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What Is Christian Freedom?

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2014

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

When Christ frees a Christian, he frees her to love him. Only those who delight to obey God are truly free.

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0:00.0

Today, we finish up a little three-part series on Free Will, started back in episode 307.

0:11.0

On Thursday, I asked if there's such a thing as Free Will.

0:14.3

No was the answer, and that led to episode 308 on Friday.

0:18.1

So if there's no Free Will, how are centers held accountable for not doing what they cannot

0:21.6

do?

0:22.6

And that leads us finally to today's question, Pastor John.

0:24.9

How would you define Christian freedom?

0:28.4

What we've said about Free Will so far is that when it comes to choosing Christ, coming

0:35.2

to Christ, nobody has this free will.

0:39.6

Nobody has ultimate self-determination that would empower them to overcome their own bondage,

0:46.2

their own blindness, provide the decisive influence and open their eyes and see Christ as compelling

0:53.5

and come to Him.

0:54.5

Nobody can do that for themselves.

0:57.4

To our selves, we are so deeply in love with darkness, we can't come to the light.

1:04.0

We are responsible to come.

1:05.4

We said that because our inability to come is not natural ability, it's a moral inability.

1:11.6

We're not shamed to a post wanting desperately to come to Christ, but being forbidden to come

1:17.2

to Christ.

1:18.2

Nobody's in that situation.

1:20.1

And the reason we can't come is because we love the alternative more.

1:24.8

And then Christ breaks in, the Holy Spirit breaks in and sets us free.

1:31.4

And I want to argue that only Christians know true freedom and get at what that true

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