This4g lesson on Galatians “For freedom Christ has set usfree”. But, Paul takes it further and says we have freedom FOR apurpose. CommentatorScott McKnight offers this useful observation on this passage aswell:  Forthe apostle, freedom involves “slavery to God and his will,”while for moderns freedom means doing whatever one wants; for Paul,freedom begins only in a relationship with God through Christ and inthe Spirit, while for moderns freedom means being alone; for Paul,individual, social, and psychological freedom is the gloriousoutworking of what God can do in a person through Christ and in theSpirit, while for moderns these forms of freedom are the determininggoal of life; for Paul, freedom was interdependence, while formoderns it is independence. Put differently, we cannot apply freedomin Paul to our society until we see that the two are at odds with oneanother. This forces us to decide: “We have only to choose betweenbondage to the Father, which makes us free, and bondage to the powersof this world, which enslaves us.”1Seealso, Romans 6. 1 McKnight, S. (1995). Galatians (p. 258). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.