NOTES for Gal 5:13

Liberty- One of the keywords of our world. People are thirsty of liberty, people hate liberty. People die and kill because of liberty. Only, the ideas on what liberty is, are very different. The apostle Paul offers his own approach to this notion. For him, unlike very many, the purport is not from what we are freed, but for what. If the purpose consists of widening the possibilities "to satisfy oneself needs ", then it is not liberty, but the continuation of sin slavery. The exit from slavery is the refusal of egoism, the service of another. So liberty is the realization and the enlargement of the possibility to love, just as God loves us.