"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine:
but a broken spirit drieth the bones."
Proverbs 17:22

Free Indeed

Monday, May 26, 2008 7:23 PM

I was just watching the fourth part of the DVD series, How Should We Then Live?, with the boys. It was the part about the reformation. It ended with this:

“When we begin to speak of the results of the reformation, it did bring tremendous freedom. And we must always say both things together. The first thing, and the primary thing is, it sudddenly gave freedom from having to work one’s way to God. No longer was it necessary to merit the merit of Christ. One must understand the terrible psychological slavery. Because if you beat yourself 100 times in order to merit the merit of Christ, how do you know that you don’t have to beat yourself 101 or 102? So the terrible slavery… So suddenly, when we come to the gospel (the Good News), and that Christ has done it all, and we accept this with the empty hands of faith, we have tremendous freedom from this awful, awful bondage that I have spoken of. But it brings many other freedoms. Because it is a terrible bondage really, as a man, as a finite man, to have to act as God and make our own absolutes (or try to, ’cause we really can’t). This is a bondage. And suddenly when we have, in the Bible itself, that which gives us the absolutes, we are free then, to function, whether in the area of science or morals or sociological things or behavior patterns, we are free to operate within the circles that the absolutes of the Scripture gives us.”  Dr. Francis Shaeffer

I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES
Charles Wesley

I know that my Redeemer lives,
And ever prays for me;
A token of His love He gives,
A pledge of liberty.

I find him lifting up my head,
He brings salvation near,
His presence makes me free indeed,
And He will soon appear.

He wills that I should holy be,
What can withstand His will?
The counsel of His grace in me
He surely shall fulfill.

JOY UNSPEAKABLE
Barney E. Warren

I have found His grace is all complete,
He supplieth ev’ry need;
While I sit and learn at Jesus’ feet,
I am free, yes, free indeed.

  1. 2 Responses to “Free Indeed”

  2. By The Childs Paper on May 27, 2008 | Reply

    go Francis Shaeffer, We have those. This is one of my hubby’s favorites. We are reformers as well. Hugs, mica

  3. By carol on May 27, 2008 | Reply

    I first heard them as a child when the series was brought in. It must have been the late seventies, but it impacted me.

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