December 6, 2021:God's Grace is Forever. Does That Mean We Can Continue to Sin to Receive His Grace?

This is an interesting question that many Christians have asked over the years. Since God's grace came to all men because of sin, (sin came through the Law of God), that must mean that God has given us the freedom to continue to sin that His grace may continue to abound even more. Read what the Apostle Paul wrote in Romans:

Romans 5: 20-21 (NIV)

The law was brought in so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more, 21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Apostle Paul address this very question in the book of Romans, and he stated it very simply..."Certainly not"!

Romans 6: 2-4 (NKJV)

Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

As a new Christian and for many years that followed, I always wondered about this question myself: "God has given me grace because of my sin, and I know that I continue to sin because of who I am, "a sinner"...That must mean I have freedom to sin, and I should not feel bad about my sinning because of God's grace."

This way of thinking came because of my ignorance, not knowing what God's word says, and what the Apostle Paul was saying in Romans 6: 4 "Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life".

We must come to recognize that when we received Jesus Christ into our hearts and received God's gift of eternal life through the death of our Lord on that cross, we also received the same death that Jesus received and were "baptized into His death". This mean we were "immersed or became a part of" the same death of Jesus and received the "newness of life" as well.

PERSONNAL COMMENT:

Becoming a part of the same death of Jesus means we must "die-to-self" daily and "absolutely surrender" everything of who we are and begin to "walk the newness of life" with our Lord, Jesus Christ.