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Romans 6:14-15
For sin shall not be your master, because you
are not under law, but under grace.
What
then? Shall we sin because we are not under law
but under grace? By no means!
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February 19
Under Grace
Some mistake God's grace as a license to sin
because all is forgiven. Paul had to deal
with the notion that people should sin because
it brought about more grace and if grace was
good, more grace was better.
Nothing could be further from the truth however.
Because we are under grace and no longer subject
to the law does not mean that we can do as we
please now. If anything, it means that we
should strive even harder to live a righteous
life because we have the Holy Spirit as an aid
and guide.
Paul goes on the explain in Romans 6 that we
were once slaves to sin. We were under its
control and could not help but sin.
Because of grace we are free from sin but this
doesn't mean that we are free to do as we
please. If we were free to do as we
pleased, we would have the choice to sin or not
sin but God did not set us free from sin in
order to give us the choice to sin once again.
Now we are slaves to righteousness. We
want to do what is right because God is our Lord
and Jesus our Savior. While we continue to
struggle with sin, we should no longer be
mastered by it and instead bow only to our Lord. |
