Why Grace is not a Licence to Sin (Part 1)

Happy Weekend everyone,

I really enjoy making things as blunt as it is, my blog name, “What Is The Gospel Truth?” is intended to tell you what the truth really is, it was then I found out the life around as we know it is a lie! Yeah, I studied philosophy and got to the depth of knowledge and how man reason. I asked all the “why’s” and then found out everything was pointing to someone who is popularly known as God. We call Him God because we need to give Him a name. He is beyond what our minds can fathom, so today, I am going to write on grace and why it is not a licence to sin. Sounds familiar but sometimes it is important to refresh our Spirit-man.

We all understand what legalism mean? It is a philosophy of focusing on the text of the written law to the exclusion of the intent of the law, elevating strict adherence to law over justice, mercy, grace and common 

sense (from http://wiktionary.org), and we are all used to laws and rules that guides us. Laws were created to contain people within a rule just because they keep going against the rule. For instance, the speed limit was created to contain people within the speed limit given because people have the tendency to go beyond the limits given. Why was this given? It was given because people constantly went above the speed limit, so containing people within the speed limit and people obeying it doesn’t mean they intend to obey the speed limit naturally, but because there are punishments given when violated which have compelled drivers to obey.

The laws and legalism are the results of the fallen nature of the first Adam. Adam was guided by God in every way, in other words, God was his vision, listening, hearing, feeling and tasting, but the moment he fell, he lost all of these and became handicapped. But the sad truth is that the world was born into this and saw this as normal without even knowing what went wrong. Adam strived to do things to survive, he always missed the mark [which is what we call sin] so there was a need for rules, there was a need for laws to contain man and this wasn’t God’s will for man. The law was only put there until the appointed time for man to be saved, in other words, the law was given for us keep, it given for us to know that we can't keep them no matter how hard we tried and that we need a Saviour.

Living the life of God was what God designed and destined for every man created from the very beginning, there was a reason why we were created. God in His mercy decided to save mankind by providing us with another life, a life that is above rules, laws and legalism, specifically to the law given. The question now is, “Wouldn’t being under grace give us a licence to sin, since we are no longer under the law or legalism?” This is what I intend to answer tomorrow, so log on tomorrow as I unravel this question that bug many people.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

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Unless otherwise stated, the following scriptures are gotten from New King James Version (NKJV)