The False Liberty of Lawlessness
Some people think it is a "glorious liberty" to get away from the law of God. They hail it as a wonderful manifestation of divine love to take away all restraint, to remove the standard of righteousness, and say to all, Your own judgment is the standard. If you are a parent, how do you think that plan would work with your children? Such people are especially elated with the idea that the Gospel frees them from all obligation to keep the Sabbath of the Lord. Yet they will bind themselves to observe a day set apart by man, and assume to demand civil law to enforce its observance upon all men. Where, then, does the "glorious liberty" come in? Even men who preach the observance of "all days alike," will encourage the enforcing of a particular day upon the masses of the people. To encourage the observance of a day that stands only in the authority of man, is logically to encourage the compulsory observance of that day by the law of man, when other means fail of the desired object. To the correctness of this proposition all history attests.