A community without laws to govern and restrain human behavior would result in utter chaos. Absolute freedom is a contradiction of terms. Eluding the power of one restraint only places one in the grasp of another. Having escaped the law of gravity, the astronaut finds his activities and freedom of movement more limited than ever. Drug addicts, drunkards, murderers, and thieves have negated personal freedom and bound themselves with chains by their refusal to honor God's laws relative to human conduct.
Law promotes liberty.
Thus, sin nullifies liberty and results in slavery. Law regulates liberty. Law informs liberty of its bounds and its sphere of operation. Every liberty man has is accompanied by a divine law or principle to control its employment. The reality of liberty is dependent upon the presence of divine law, man's respect for it, and submission to it out of love for him who gave it.