How can I experience true freedom?

So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free. - John 8:36 (NLT)

The following is an excerpt from Experiencing the Presence of God by AW Tozer.
The truest Christian is the freest Christian, and the gospel of Jesus Christ sets slaves free. However, you say, "My experience with Christians has not taught me that they are the ideal people you've described." The reason is that very few Christians are prepared to go with God all the way. They go part of the way and then improvise. They follow the Lord until things look a little sticky, and then they say, "Well, there's no use to get radical about this and be a fanatic; I think I can reason this out myself." So, they have a panel discussion and decide what the Lord really should have said there. The result is, of course, lukewarmness, which God will spew out of His mouth.

"I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth! You say, 'I am rich. I have everything I want. I don't need a thing!' And you don't realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference. - Revelation 3:15-17,19 (NLT)

Let us return to the Book. Or rather, let us go forward to the Book, for we lag so far behind it. Thank God for the Book. See that you do all things after the pattern in the Book. See that your faith conforms to God's revelation. See that your footsteps walk in God's path. If you do that, God will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. And God will look after you.

True and undiluted freedom finds itself in the presence of God. Following the pattern set for us in God's Word will bring us into God's presence, where we will discover this freedom. Every generation seeks something new when they are seeking something "other." This presence of God is the "other" each generation seeks and longs for, if only they knew it.

Once I was bound by sin's galling fetters,
Chained like a slave, I struggled in vain;
But I received a glorious freedom,
When Jesus broke my fetters in twain.

Freedom from all the carnal affections,
Freedom from envy, hatred, and strife;
Freedom from vain and worldly ambitions,
Freedom from all that saddened my life.

Freedom from pride and all sinful follies,
Freedom from love and glitter of gold;
Freedom from evil, temper, and anger,
Glorious freedom, rapture untold.

Freedom from fear with all of its torments,
Freedom from care with all of its pain;
Freedom in Christ, my blessed Redeemer,
He who has rent my fetters in twain.

Glorious freedom, wonderful freedom,
No more in chains of sin I repine!
Jesus the glorious Emancipator,
Now and forever, He shall be mine. - Haldor Lillenas

I have to get to the point of the absolute and unquestionable relationship that takes everything exactly as it comes from Him. God never guides us at some time in the future, but always here and now. Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate. - Oswald Chambers

Be Encouraged to experience immediate freedom by yielding all to the Sovereign Creator of all.

-Jeffrey Thornton