This John Calvin sermon deals with legalism and the freedom from it when our
faith is in Jesus Christ. This timeless sermon is just as applicable today
as it was when it was originally preached. This is one of those sermons that
is required reading in many Christian seminaries.
May God bless,
Carl
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Freedom From The Bondage Of The Law
by John Calvin
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it
is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a
freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he
of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are
the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage,
which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to
Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem
which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. - Gal. 4:21-26
Freedom is such a desirable thing to every one of us, that without it our
lives would be little more than a living death, or at the very least,
perpetual misery. Indeed, so far as we are able, we flee...