Glory be to God! Welcome everyone to Episode #779, Season 8.
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💥 Join me today on the podcast (link below) as I exhort: "What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid." I'm quoting Romans 6:15 for a reason! God FORBIDS using grace as an EXCUSE for continued sin. When grace becomes an excuse to live in sin, you are no longer under grace, but under DECEPTION! Ephesians 2:5(b) says, "By grace you have been saved." Verses 8-9 further say, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” Many other Scriptures support the fact that salvation is by grace.
HOWEVER, some people have stretched this truth further to argue that because they have been saved by grace, it doesn’t matter how they live. They believe that they could continue to sin since they have been saved by grace!!They claim they are no longer under the Law and Christ had died for their sins - past, present, and future. But is Christ’s death for our sins, a license to continue to sin 🤨? Does grace give us the freedom to live in sin? THE BIBLE SAYS "ABSOLUTELY NOT!" (see Romans 6:15)
In studying 1 John 3:6-10, it is clear that no born-again child of God will deliberately, knowingly, and habitually sin for they long to please God. He cannot live a life characterized by sin. A born-again person is not a sinner, but he can still sin after being born again. There’s no Christian who has attained sinless perfection; no saint of God is faultless.
HOWEVER, there is a difference between someone who is living in sin, practicing sin, and enjoying sin and a follower of Jesus' who is striving for complete victory over certain sins. The plan of God is that His children should live above sin but a believer can still sin (though he shouldn’t), and if he sins, God INSTRUCTS in 1 John 1:9 that he genuinely repents, asks for and receives forgiveness, and forsakes that sin. Forgiveness of sin doesn’t give anyone the license to sin!! No genuine follower of the Lord Jesus Christ will justify sin or rationalize it, but rather repent and forsake it!
Amen! 🎯 REPENT and BELIEVE and TURN back to God!
