Grace: A license to sin?

Grace: A license to sin?

BY Argie Simonis  

"What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid." Rom 6:15 

Paul is not arguing for us to continue in sin because God loves us by grace instead of performance. But he did bring up this question because it would be a logical question from his teaching. In fact, he answered this question three times in his book (Romans 3:8; here; and 6:15). Paul had stated God’s grace in such a way that it was inevitable that someone would ask, 

                           "Can we just keep on sinning, since we are saved by grace?" 

If no one ever asks us this question then we haven’t preached the Gospel the way Paul preached it. Paul spoke this revelation of God’s grace under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost with perfect balance, yet he was still misunderstood. Therefore, those who are teaching grace but do not encounter the same arguments causing them to explain that they are not advocating a life of sin have not preached grace the way that Paul did. 

• One of two reasons why Christians don’t is because it gives the author of sin (Satan) control over us. If we sin, God still loves us, but Satan will only come into our life to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10). 
• The second reason Paul gave for holiness in our lives as believers is that when we obey sin, we yield ourselves to Satan, the author of that sin (Rom 6:16). Yielding to sin is yielding to a person: Satan.  Our actions release in us either the power of Satan or the power of God.

Praise God for His grace!