Freedom from sin - a privilege

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Hugh Binning, Works, p. 159:

Do not so much look on victory and freedom from sin as a duty and task, though we be infinitely bound to it; but rather as a privilege and dignity conferred upon us by Christ. Look not upon it, I say, only as your duty, as many do; and by this means are discouraged from the sight of their own infirmity and weakness, as being too weak for such a strong party; but look upon it as the one half, and the greater half, of the benefit conferred by Christ’s death, – as the greater half of the redemption which the Redeemer, by his office, is bound to accomplish. He will redeem Israel from all his iniquities; “with him is plenteous redemption,” Ps. 130:7, 8. This is the plenty, this is the sufficiency of it, – that he redeems not only from misery, but from iniquity, and that, all iniquities.
 
Let my people go, that they may worship me. True "liberation theology".

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If we think we had it easier when we were in bondage to sin, we probably don't understand the lightness of Christ's burden and true Christian liberty.

Thanks for the quote!
 
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