Sermon Title (s): 1.Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound..? 2..Died to sin. 3..Old Man crucified
1. Apostle Paul has labored to declare the believer's standing before through God's grace that is in the redemption in/by Christ Jesus.
2. The believer has been reconciled, justified and have peace with God.
3. But Paul has also said, where sin abounded grace did much more abound. And that was a theological fact that God's grace would always go above even the worst of sins.
4. And this message that Paul preached was incredibly radical. Telling sinners that God's grace always overflows above any sin and that they are justified from all sins is no ordinary message.
5. The natural fleshly reaction to that message was to say-let us then sin the more than grace may continue to increase.
6. But Paul said, that is not the proper understanding of God's message. Grace is not another opportunity to increase sin.
7. Yet Paul was not saying the redeemed do not sin anymore in their walk. He was saying, the redeemed cannot abuse the message of their free justification to justify to do more foolishness.
8. But in asking this question, Paul ended up working more of the gospel than the instruction not to sin (died to sin, old man crucified, freed from sin).
9. WHY? Because Paul did not ever give imperatives that were NOT PROPERLY GROUNDED IN THE INDICATIVES (that is, in what Christ had accomplished). Pauline imperatives are never naked, they are always clothed with the reality of the sinner's free justification before God.
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