How much does God care about freedom? Enough to go to the Cross to preserve yours. So much that the apostle Paul could say: “Wherever the Spirit of the LORD is—there is freedom.” And: “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand fast in your freedom…” The great question in judgment is not whether God wants us to be free, but what we do with our freedom—our genuine ability to choose, to go this way or that way. Revelation is a book of judgment—a whole series of judgments—beginning at the Cross, flowing through history to a final and eternal verdict; and judgment is all about God taking our freedom seriously.
