So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. James 2:12

Our character is formed by the daily decisions which we make. These decisions will always have a foundation of morality, and morality will always be dictated by a law. There can be no freedom without law, and therefore there can be no love without law, for love is a choice afforded by freedom. Thus while freedom is to do what is wanted, true freedom, dubbed liberty, is when the freedom to do what is wanted is in harmony with the will of God, which is the sanctification of the living soul (1 Thessalonians 4:3-5). The Sabbath is the only day to explicitly recognize such sanctification (Ezekiel 20:12).

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18

Now the faith of Jesus is reasonable, and reasoning is part of our design. Our frontal lobe, the pre-frontal cortex which sits in our forehead, is the seat of the decision making center, being the reasoning center, of the brain. This is the seat of authority which God will sit in if we choose Him and His character.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7

The word here for “breath” is “nᵊšāmâ”, a feminine noun meaning “spirit, divine inspiration, intellect”. Our design has the dust of our physical being acting as the temple for the Spirit of God (John 4:24). The merciful Voice speaking in our conscious, the Divinely inspired feelings of righteousness which sit in the seat of our intellect, are the works of none other than God Himself. If there was no law, then why does your conscious sting when you do something wrong? If there was no law, then why does your conscious sing when you submit yourself to Jesus and allow Him to make the right decision for you? The mind is then the connection between heaven and earth: the dust represents a piece of earth, the breathe represents a piece of heaven, and it is only through the reasoning of God being fed through our mind that we can choose to allow God to work His saving works. This is faith, even a faith that works.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. James 2:26

Now what is being reasoned over in Isaiah 1:18 is verily a description of the Ancient of days, being God the Father: just as Isaiah 1:18 mentions “white as snow” and “as wool”, so too does Daniel 7:9 use these adjectives when describing the Ancient of days.

I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. Daniel 7:9

And without the Sabbath, as the Fourth Commandment of the Decalogue, it is impossible to understand the character of God. This is because the Ten Commandments, the Law of God, is a transcript of His character. Both the law and the character are described using the very same adjectives: just (Romans 3:26; 7:12), true (John 3:33, Nehemiah 9:13), pure (1 John 3:3, Psalm 19:7-8), liberty (Psalm 119:45, James 1:25), light (1 John 1:5, Proverbs 6:23), faithful (1 Corinthians 1:9, Psalm 119:86), good (Nahum 1:7, Romans 12:7,16), spiritual (1 Corinthians 10:1-4, Romans 7:14), holy (Isaiah 6:3 & 1 Peter 1:15, Exodus 20:8 & Romans 7:12), truth (John 14:6, Psalm 119:142,151), life (1 John 14:6, John 12:50 & Matthew 19:17), righteous (Jeremiah 23:6, Psalm 119:172), perfect (Matthew 5:48 & Hebrews 13:8, Psalm 19:7, James 1:26), and eternal (John 8:35 & Hebrews 13:8, Psalm 111:8 & Luke 16:17).

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9

So it is reasonable to accept the character of God and His selfless law in the place of our own selfish character and the desperately wicked laws of our own heart. This is true freedom.

He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3:30

True freedom is not found in keeping the law in order to be saved as if earning salvation as wages, but true freedom is found in keeping the law as the acknowledgment of being saved, even as the desire to be in the image of His perfection as self fades into oblivion.

And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail. Luke 16:17

Because listening to the wicked and deceitful heart is verily denying the law and is thus verily denying Jesus Christ.

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 1 John 5:2-3