(By : Dessy Ariadna – Stand To Jesus Writing Team)
Romans 6:1-2 (KTB) :
(1) What then shall we say? Are we going to continue sinning so that grace may increase?
(2) Of course not! We have died to sin, how can we still live in it?
There are many false teachings and misconceptions out there that say that if a person lives under Grace then that person is free to sin and remains saved, but is that really true?
The Bible emphatically says no! Grace (Grace) does not make people free to live in sin, on the contrary, grace (Grace) actually leads people to live in righteousness and leave behind wickedness, why is that? The Bible confirms that because we have all died to sin!
Titus 2:11-12 (KTB) :
11) For the grace of God that saves everyone has appeared.
12) Grace educates us to abandon wickedness and worldly desires, to live wisely, justly and godly in this present time.
How do we die to sin? The Bible confirms this in Romans 6:6-7 (IMB) We know that our old self was crucified with Him, so that our body of sin loses its power, so that we are no longer slaves to sin.
For whoever has died has been freed from sin.
So when we are in Christ and become new creations, we have died to sin, and the Father through the Holy Spirit gives us the ability to reject sin because we have died to sin.
People who realize that their lives have been redeemed by Christ’s sacrifice on the cross, and realize that God’s grace has justified and sanctified them, will live according to the status they have now, namely as people who have been sanctified and justified by Jesus Christ, not no longer lives based on what the world says but what God says because Grace will continuously guide him to live in truth and godliness.
Hebrews 10:10 (ESV) And it is because of His will that we have been sanctified once for all through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ.
Galatians 2:20 (IMB) I have been crucified with Christ, yet I live, but it is no longer I, but Christ who lives in me. And the life that I now live physically, I live by faith, namely the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
