August 16, 2023: Abounding in Grace!

"What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?" (Romans 6:1, ESV)

Paul answers his own question with a resounding "NO!" Absolutely not! Paul was driving home the point: "Where sin abounds, there grace abounds all the more." There is no sin so big that God cannot forgive. There is no person so vile and lost that God cannot save to the uttermost! In fact, where sin reigned in death, grace now reigns through righteousness leading to eternal life through Christ Jesus. Because this is truth, Paul asks, Shall we continue to sin so grace may abound? He does not want us to think that we should continue in sin to have grace abounding in our lives.

He is making clear the idea that where grace abounds, righteousness should be clearly evident in that believer's life. When you are born again, you die to your sinful life and are buried with Christ in baptism. And just as He was raised from the dead, by the glory of God, so we are raised with Him that we might walk in the newness of Christ.
    
A sinless life is what we aim for after being so gloriously saved! The life that we now live in the flesh we live by faith in the Son of God, who gave Himself up for us. May the grace of God abound gloriously in each of us who the blood of Christ has redeemed!