The Emancipation Proclamation made citizens of slaves. However, for many of the newly freed people, it was a long time before they began to think and act like free citizens. A slave cannot free a slave. False cults and religion try to do this. All they do is try to make the slave feel happy inside, to think he's not a slave.
Religious legalism is Satan's effort to delude slaves into thinking they are really free.
Sometimes, both in the N. T. and O. T., there is no accompanying reference to the price paid for redemption, and the word simply has the primary sense of release. The believer has the freedom to represent Christ as an ambassador, the freedom to be in full-time Christian service, the freedom to be a priest, the freedom to be indwelt and filled by the Holy Spirit, the freedom to be indwelt by the Person of Jesus Christ, the freedom to be in union with Christ and to be His representative. In whom we continue to have redemption through His blood, the cancellation of sins according to the wealth of His grace. There is no charge for Grace Notes Materials. The ministry is supported by Christians who pray for the work and share in the expenses.