Mistaking Christ's «dying to self» as a ploy to keep them oppressed, they have elevated themselves to the place of the divine and thus denied themselves any knowledge of
the glorious liberty of the children of God.
There is «the whole creation groaning and travailing in pain», as it is being «delivered from the bondage of corruption into
the glorious liberty of the children of God».
Because of the resurrection, we know that this whole fantastic creation will ultimately be freed from its bondage to decay and will obtain
the glorious liberty of the children of God.
But we can now see why it is necessary to go on to say that a consequence of prayer, when it is faithfully and regularly engaged in, will be the release of the praying person from bondage to cheapness and superficiality, from slavery to immediate instinct and unworthy desire, into «
the glorious liberty of the children of God.»
Meanwhile «it waits with eager longing for the adoption of the sons of God,» when «it will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain
the glorious liberty of the children of God.»
-LRB-» [T] he creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain
the glorious liberty of the sons of God.»
Yet I think that I do not exaggerate when I say that the chief impression received by an observer is precisely the divine impassibility, the intransigence of the divine demand, and the requirement from men of a servile obedience rather than life in «
the glorious liberty of the children of God».
We wait edgily, not for an al - Qaeda strike or other random, terrifying destruction, but, in Paul's words, «to obtain
the glorious liberty of the children of God.»
To use another biblical metaphor, our goal is the «
glorious liberty of the children of god.
Paul recognized the necessity that such harmony be achieved when he stated that «the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God... because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain
the glorious liberty of the children of God» (Rom.8: 19,21).
Are we ready to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into
the glorious liberty of the children of God?
And, so God took a risk, and the creature was subjected to vanity so that ultimately the creature might come into
the glorious liberty of the children of God.»
The «
glorious liberty of the children of God» (Rom 8:21) is the fruit of redemption.
Not exact matches
The liberation in Exodus is linked to the cry
of the oppressed, and in Romans the
glorious liberty is promised in response to the groans and travails within us and in Creation.
, historian Ben Wilson avoids a triumphalist explanation
of Britain's
glorious code
of civil
liberties.
I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day
of November next, to be devoted by the people
of these States to the service
of that great and
glorious Being who is the beneficent author
of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection
of the people
of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions
of His providence in the course and conclusion
of the late war; for the great degree
of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions
of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious
liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have
of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
So while I'm experiencing this
glorious liberty as this very agile fox, I'm also forcing it to do all this stuff because my true character's ethereal form is incapable
of this sort
of athleticism on its own.