Rom 5:20 NKJV - Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,
My son is not yet fully potty trained. Sometimes he fails to poop in the potty. We never reward him for not pooping in the potty, and as long as he is still willing to recognize that he needs to poop in the potty we gently correct him and clean him up for a fresh start. If he says "I will not poop in the potty." then we correct and discipline him. We know that eventually he will be potty trained. It would be very strange for us to consider him potty trained if he wasn't. It would be even stranger for us to ignore when he poops in his pants and say he is clean. When we willfully remain in sin and believe we are OK with God we are not receiving His grace but ignoring it.
Folks, it is paramount that we realize that we are not bound to sin any
longer. The grace of God does not afford us a free pass, but a free
change. We are transformed through the work of grace and no longer
slaves to sin. We cast off sin by the work of the Holy Spirit in our
lives. When we continue in sin, as if there is no option to overcome, we
degrade the power of the cross to some future by and by instead of
appropriating the truth and applying it by faith. Grace overcomes sin
and washes us clean.
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