"HIS GRACE BRING'S US GOOD THINGS"

The Inescapable Tension

  Because of grace we have freed from sin's slavery, from bondage to sinful attitudes, urges, and actions. But that creates a tension. Once we become free in Christ and live by grace, we can take our liberty to an extreme and live a life of license. Paul addresses this tension in. 

Romans 6 :1-15.

  What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with Him in the end of whis death, certainly we shall be also in likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old self was crucified With Him, that our body of sin might be dine away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; for he who has died is freed from sin. Now if We have died with Christ, we believe that we shall we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to Die again; death no longer is master over him. For the death that He died, He died to sin, once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the member of your body to sin as instrument of unrighteousness: but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! The freedom we have in Christ is not a freedom to do anything we want to do, but to be everything God created us to we're become emancipated not to run riot through the dead-end all ways of self-indulgence, but to serve a greater master. . . Righteousness (see v.18).