SIN AND GRACE

There’s more to grace than just the forgiveness of sins. Though Grace primarily means that God’s no longer imputing sins to the Believer; using Grace as just that is like using a 335,600-dollar Bentley Mulsanne car as an audio CD player. Yes, if you insert a CD into its stereo system it’ll play your music out for you, but surely it can do more than that, (much, much more in fact).

Grace doesn’t just grant the forgiveness of sins, it gives the Believer power over sin, in the direct sense of the word. Grace is more than a legal term of justification, it is an active spiritual power that can radically transform anyone – if allowed to.

This is one of the revelations the Apostle Paul had of the Gospel. He said in Rom 6:14 that the reason why sin cannot have dominion over you is because “you are not under the law, BUT UNDER GRACE”.

In the same vein, Sin is more than an act of transgression but a spiritual force! In the very first mention of Sin in Scripture, we find it, not as an act, but as an intelligent, aggressive marauder. (Gen 4:7). This is why Christians  who fight sin through self-will and strict regimens find themselves mentally exhausted and spiritually constipated.

But Grace triumphs where self-will fails. Many Believers try to overcome their ‘besetting’ sins through strong will, and when they fall, then they run to Grace for mercy.

That, in itself, is indicative of why they keep failing. We’re supposed to “grow IN grace”, not visit it occasionally. The Christian life was never designed to be lived independent of grace. Grace is the soil we’re to “grow in”.

Beloved, God did not call you into Christianity and then ask you to fight that sin on your own; or to succumb to it and take it as the reality of your life. You can, and will, live a victorious life over sin... by His Grace.

May “Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord”. (2Pe 1:2).

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN