In his letter to the Galatians, St. Paul talks about freedom.  Being free, living free is what happens in freedom.  You don't HAVE freedom; you live in freedom, just like one lives in a king-dom, or feels like a star in star-dom.  Freedom means that you have have been freed FROM something that held you captive or enslaved you.  There is a consequence to freedom, however.  The consequence is that you are freed FOR another life - a life of different values than the one you formerly knew as a slave from which you were freed.  Paul goes one step further to teach us that we, all humans, are enslaved to things of the "flesh": selfish desires, immorality, self-serving, self-loving by our actions.  But, we are also enslaved by how the world defines us: ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, patriotic, etc.  Our society defines us with all these labels by  worldly (or fleshly) values - according to their standards or, as Paul puts it, "according to the flesh."

Those who believe and place their trust in Christ, follow Him, desire to be His disciple, however, we have been freed FROM these things by and through the death and resurrection of Christ. (And, this freedom is freely available to all, because Christ died for all.)  We are freed FROM these labels and fleshly, sinful self, and set free FOR Christ - to live and love as Christ has lived and loved us.  Freedom FROM sin and death, means freedom FOR love and Christ.  

Freedom in and for Christ is the only alternative because if you consider freedom as something which permits you to do whatever you want, whenever and to whomever, you have once again enslaved yourself to the standards of this world.  If you are not freed FROM the flesh and sinful world, including death, then you are not freed FOR love and Christ.  Listen to how this impacts your life specifically.