Please follow the link to the full article at the end of this excerpt.
It is just one of many posts from Jeff that I could have re-blogged recently.
Note that after I re-blogged this, Jeff has made a small amendment to the beginning of his second paragraph. It now starts:
“The Bible never says sin is OK to do. ‘Should we sin that grace may abound? In no way.’”
People who emphasize grace do so while de-emphasizing human responsibility. For some reason, because of grace, people assume everything is OK to do.
The Bible does not say this. “Should we sin that grace may abound? In no way.” Grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts so we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world.
Grace changes you. But grace’s change is not automatic. We are told not to take the grace of God in vain–to take grace to no profit, to have it do you no positive good.
That would be dumb.
If grace is as great as everyone keeps saying it is, why is our obedience to God so pathetic?
Because we’re not learning grace the way the Bible teaches it. We think grace means my sin is OK, change isn’t necessary, good works might even be opposed to grace! “If it’s grace…
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