There’s no human freedom without God’s freedom first; because He is the only truly free being (beyond being, as it were). In order for humans to be free they must come to participate in God’s triune life, and this only through the grace of union with Jesus Christ. To be genuinely humanly free is to be free for God, as that is the purpose for which we were created and now recreated in the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. As such, the oft debates about human freewill and God’s sovereignty, as if competitive things, is a theological non-starter. This is to think in abstract ways (from God) about such things, which in itself is fallacious since all of humanity, as is all of creation, is contingent upon God’s free upholding Word. Without God there is no freedom (indeed, there is nothing), and without humanity being in right relationship with God, there is no possibility for humans to be truly free; since “our freedom” is predicated by God’s freedom to be for, with, and in us by the grace of Jesus Christ through the bonding agency of the Holy Spirit.