WE WERE ONCE THE SLAVES OF SIN, AND SATAN, THE GOD OF THIS WORLD. We were under the bondage of the law, but Jesus has made us free. We are now delivered from the law, and are under grace. We are dead to sin, and in Christ, we are justified from it. We are delivered from Satan, and are at war with him. We overcame the world, and are hastening out of it. We are at liberty to serve God and walk with Him in friendship and holy love. The price of our freedom was the life and death of Jesus; the efficient cause of our freedom was the power and operation of the Holy Spirit; the grand moving cause was the infinite and everlasting love of God our Father; the instrument by which we are made acquainted with our freedom is the holy gospel; the grace which puts us into possession of our freedom is faith; and the end of our freedom is that we may serve our God in righteousness and holiness all the days of our life, and then be glorified with Him for ever. We are freed from sin that we may be holy; and we are introduced to and accepted of God, that we may be happy. Let us stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.

For Meditation:
Sweet is the freedom Christ bestows,
With which He makes His people free;
A liberty no mortal knows,
Till they His great salvation see:
Freedom from wants, and fears, and cares,
From worldly lusts, and dangerous snares.