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| Saving Grace |
For the grace of Lord has appeared, bringing salvation to
everyone men, instructing us to refuse ungodliness and worldly wishes and also
to stay intelligently, righteously and godly in the existing age, looking for
the blessed desire and the appearing of the beauty of our fantastic Lord and
Savior, Jesus Christ, who provided Himself for us to redeem us from every
lawless deed, and to detoxify for Himself a people for His own possession,
zealous for excellent deeds. Titus 2:11-14
There are some individuals who suggest a form of grace that
is called “cheap grace” that is several from saving grace. Low grace argues
that beauty alone is liable for everything and so the person doesn’t have to
changes. They can continue to live in sin and there are no consequences to
that. To proponents of cheap beauty, the sins are justified but the human being
is not and so remains to survive in sin. They look God’s passion and
forgiveness of sins as a common truths and not as life modifying agents.
Protecting love (which is biblical) proponents agree that Beauty alone, Jesus
alone, and religious beliefs alone are enough
“For by grace you have been protected through hope; and that
not of yourselves, it is the gift of Lord; not as a result of works, so that no
one may provide.” (Ephesians 2:8-9).
At this level, you need to understand that God has only one
love, and that is his keeping grace and it does everything that God’s grace
does. There are not several types of beauty. You can’t have God’s keeping
beauty and then not have his allowing grace or his grace to publish to Christ’s
lordship. When dissimilarities are made, they are created usually to help being
familiar with of the incomprehensibly great beauty of Our god. If you have
God’s grace, you have it all. God’s love performs through the Holy Spirit who
living in true christians. The Holy Spirit is a person. You cannot have part of
him. Many people who try to argue that somebody can be born again and then
proceed to survive in sin (just like they were before with no hard work to
modify) like to say that saving grace only refers to the love to provide
somebody to salvation. As like the allowing grace can be missing, the grace to
submit could be lacking when the protecting grace has been given and received.
That king of partition is artificial is shows up to be created to assistance a
stance instead of follow biblical facts.
The apostle Paul addressed this similar issue. In Romans 6:1
he questions “Shall we go on sinning so that grace may improve?” He advice his
rhetorical question in verse two by announcing “By no means! We are those who
have died to sin; how can we stay in it any longer?”. He remains from line 3 by
telling “Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Christ
were baptized into his passing away? We were therefore buried with him through
baptism into death in order that, simply as Christ was raised from the dead
through the beauty of the Father, we too may stay a new living.
Notice here that the Holy Spirit, discussing through the
apostle Paul clearly emphatically says we cannot proceed to live in sin as we
did before if we have received Christ’s grace. The keeping grace also makes it
possible for us to overcome sin. This is in line with what the apostle John
says in 1 John 2:4-6 that
“If anyone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s
commandments, that people is a liar and is not living in the truth.But those
who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we
know we are living in him. Those who say they live in Our god should live their
lives as Jesus did.” John is announcing anybody can claim to know Christ (that
is that he is saved and going to heaven). But the real person who knows Jesus
is transformed by him and start obeying Jesus. As Jesus said, my sheep listen
to my voice and follow me. (John 10:27). Also, as the apostle James wrote,
trust with out works is dead (James 2:17). You can’t just say you are saved or
have God’s grace and not show the fresh fruits. Again, Christ also stated by
their fresh fruits you shall realize them. (Matthew 7:16) So people who have
repented and agreed to Christ must bear fruits and vegetables in accordance
with repentance (Matthew 3:8) and not simply say that they have Christ who has
blessed their sins. Yes, Jesus has born the sins of the whole world. But if
they truly belong to Jesus, they would be transformed and start obeying Jesus.
Let’s proceed to look
at Romans 6:5-7
“For if we have been united with Jesus in his loss of life,
we will certainly also be united with him resurrection. “…our old self was
crucified with him so that the body determined by sin may be performed away
with,that we should no longer be slaves to sin- because anyone who has passed
away has been set totally free coming from sin.” Obviously, Paul is stating
that the Christian, who is living below God’s grace (that’s the only place a
correct Christian must stay) has been set free through sin.
Can that mean that Christian believers can’t sin? Absolutely
not. Christians can sin,but they don’t continue to survive in sin. 1 John 2:1-2
states “if everyone sins, we have an an encourage with the Father, Christ Jesus
the righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for
ours only, but also for those of the whole world.”
Paul continues to compose in saying 11 that “In the same
means, count yourself dead to sin but alive to Our god in Christ Christ.
Therefore do not let sin reign in your own human body so that you follow its
evil wants.Do not give any part of your self to sin as an tool of wickedness,
but instead present yourselves to Our god as those who have been introduced
from passing away to life; and offer every part of yourself to him as an tool
of righteousness.For sin shall no longer be your owner, because you are not
within the law, but under grace.” There is something significant regarding what
Paul writes in this passage. First we need to see our self as dead to sin. That
means, we need to know that sin has no strength to command us. But he then
comes after to state “do not allow sin reign in your mortal bodies so that you
obey its evil desires.” The thing to note is that Paul realizes that we must
use our own will to decide on to stay apart from sin. Believers are not
necessarily resistant to sin. Accepting Christ and receiving his grace is not a
vaccine to sin that you take and then you can no longer catch the disease of
sin. No, you must take to and produce sacrifices. What is guaranteed is the
“enabling grace”, the love to be able to publish.
You experience, many Christians are not really truly
processed to Our god. These people say they will really love God but they are
usually not submitted. God is the last person they consider. They don’t
practice what exactly they read in the Bible wholeheartedly. If Our god were to
say to them to quit his or her job and proceed be a missionary anywhere, they
will decline and say it’s not God or discover some sly way to avoid it. Without
first being submitted to God, you cannot resist sin. That will be exactly why
James 4:7 says “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he
will flee from you.” That verse shows up in that order for a purpose. You can't
ignore a devil (his temptation to sin) until you have first submitted to God.
Your ability to resist the devil will be proportional to your the degree that
you submit to God. The cure to sin is submission to God because God through
Christ has already overcome sin. The Holy Spirit cannot lead a person fully
unless the person is fully submitted to God.
Paul continues in verse 15 by saying “What then? Shall we
sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! Don’t you
know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are
slaves of the one you obey-whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death,
or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God that,
though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the
pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. You have been set
free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.” Note here that Paul is
not proclaiming cheap grace on Christians. He is not buttering them up. True
Christians truly have come to obey God from the heart. Notice that Paul’s
question here in verse 15 that “shall we sin because we are not under law but
under grace?” is a paraphrase of the question he asked earlier in verses 5-7.
This repetition is not for nothing. In Hebrew, repetition is used for emphasis.
That shows how important God considers that point. His answer is also
resounding as the first one. He says “By no means!”. So a believer that
continues to live in sin is probably (very high chance) a false believer.
Let’s read the remainder of Romans 6:
“Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity
and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to
righteousness leading to holiness. When you were slaves to sin, you were free
from the control of righteousness. What benefit did you reap at that time from
the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! But now that
you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you
reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.”
A few final things to not here. Paul is saying that if you
were really bad and living a bad life that glorified Satan, you need to equally
turn away and start working to glorify God just as hard. Notice that Paul calls
their former lives “things you are now ashamed of” True believers are ashamed
of sin. They don’t just go on sinning. They hate sin. When they do sin, they
are not happy they did. They don’t need to beat themselves or feel guilty, but
they don’t want to do it and work to stay away from it. God’s grace is saving
grace, that not only saves you from hell but also saves you from slavery to
sin.
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