Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 19, 2008

Who owns you? For Christians, the obvious answer to this question is that God owns each of us, first of all because we are His creations, and secondly because our sins have been paid for by the shed blood of Jesus Christ. (I Cor. 6:20, 7:23).

As far as human affairs are concerned, each of us exercises a form of self-ownership under God?s superintending sovereignty. This means that no other human being, either individually or acting as part of a collective, can properly claim ownership over any part of our lives, or the product of our exertions, without our consent. That consent can be expressed through contract, commerce, or covenant.

In ways too numerous to review, government claims improper ownership of our lives through coercion and fraud. How many ways has the government implicitly claimed ownership of your life today? The question is worth asking, and the answer is invariably unsettling.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.