Brothers and Sisters 😊
📖 In Romans chapter 6 and 7 today the apostle Paul relays some serious warnings about the dangers of…
1. Cheap Grace
“What shall we say then – since sins power does not control us anymore and we have been given newness of life in Christ, should we continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means!” (Rom 6:1-4).
and also…
2. Cheap Law
“What shall we say then – since the very law that promised us life has condemned us to death, should we now consider the law sinful? By no means! For the law is holy and righteous and good.” (Rom 7:7,10,12).
Q. Have you ever been tempted to use God’s abounding grace to enable or justify your sin?
Q. Have you ever minimized God‘s righteous law, thinking that you have kept it so well that you reached God’s holy standard?
Q. How do we reconcile the fact that grace does not give us a free pass or ticket to sin, yet we do sin frequently because God‘s law is too lofty to obey perfectly?
🙏 Heavenly Father thank you so much for the pure good news of the Gospel – that Jesus life, death, resurrection, and ascension has wiped away our past sins, imputed righteousness to cover our future sins, and given us new life and Spirit-filled power to battle our current sins.
🙏 Lord Jesus we praise you today that you obeyed your Father perfectly, cleansed us with your precious blood, and arose in victory to destroy all strongholds and set us free from the slavery of our old ways…
✝️ “We know that (by God’s grace) our old self was crucified with Christ in order that sin may be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to it…Likewise we must make it our aim to present ourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life…For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 6:6,23
Grace and Gratitude 