Everyone wants to be free. But true freedom is found only in Christ. Apart from Christ, what people call freedom is just slavery in disguise. They are not really free from sin and selfishness. Consequently, they are also not free to be what God wants them to be and to do, which would result in experiencing life as it was meant to be by God (which is also called eternal life in the Bible). In Christ, we can experience real freedom that leads to eternal life. For this reason, we must guard the freedom we have in Christ at all costs.