"What should we say then? Should we keep on sinning so that God’s grace can increase?"

Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing who misinterpreted Romans 6:1- "What should we say then? Should we keep on sinning so that God’s grace can increase?" Aka "Shall we continue in sin that Grace may abound?"

Believer, beware of satanic ministers who keep you focused on what YOU must do in order to be saved (e.g. fasting, sowing seed, forgiving others, measuring your righteousness by the Ten Commandments) and not what CHRIST has done. These wolves in sheep's clothing know that this is how to get the flock cut off from Christ:

"For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace." Galatians 5:14.

They know that this is how to keep you devourable and locked down in a cycle of sin: "For sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under law but under Grace." Romans 6:14.

Sin has dominion over those who are trying to keep the LAW in order to make God have a good opinion them. For we who have Christ as our Righteousness, Satan and his minions have been DISARMED: Colossians 2-

"12 When you were baptized, you were buried together with Christ. And you were raised to life together with Him when you were baptized. You were raised to life by believing in God’s work. God Himself raised Jesus from the dead.

13 At one time you were dead in your sins. Your desires controlled by sin were not circumcised. But God gave you new life together with Christ. He forgave us all our sins. 14 He wiped out what the law said that we owed. The law stood against us. It judged us. But He has taken it away and nailed it to the cross. 15 He took away the weapons of the powers and authorities. He made a public show of them. He won the battle over them by dying on the cross."

The Law is Satan's only weapon. He is the accuser. He tries to get believers thinking we still owe something to the Law when God has "wiped out what the law said that we owed" for all who believe in Jesus.

The Law stands against/condemns all who try to be godly by it. And judgment must follow. This is why many who profess Christ are constantly suffering its judgment and oppression by Satan- Satan is accusing many churchgoers of their shortcomings right from the pulpit! Such are trying to make God have a good opinion of them by keeping the law and fasting and sowing seed based on teaching by wolves' posing as sheep! This is death. Only in Christ the Beloved are we accepted (Eph.1)

Just as it is in any earthly court of law, the guilty who are condemned and sentenced to death first spend time suffering in captivity on death-row: many who profess Christ are accepting the guilt and condemnation for their sins that Satan the accuser uses the Law of Moses to accuse them of; the same Law that Christ died to free us from. The evidence of this is that such churchgoers are always trying to do things in order to get back into God's good books and are always breaking generational curses that Christ hung on the cross to redeem us from (Gal. 3:13.) There is nothing like generational curse in the life of any who believes in Jesus.

"Ha Satan" is literally "prosecutor at law" in Hebrew. Like any prosecutor in any court, he cannot sentence anybody to death or slap curses on anyone just like that. He can only accuse and demand the harshest sentence. This is spiritual warfare: Satan accuses sinners of sins and pushes for the sinner's payment of the wages of sin: Death; a death that Christ died for all.

Romans 5:9 tells us how our heavenly Father - the Righteous Judge in this court that is constantly playing out in our conscience - sees we who are under Grace- Christ Himself:

"And there is still much more to say of His unfailing love for us! For through the blood of Jesus we have heard the powerful declaration, “You are now righteous in My sight.” And because of the sacrifice of Jesus, you will never experience the wrath of God."

Stand before God the Righteous Judge in your own non-existent human effort at obeying the law and be guilty and condemned. Judgment (God's wrath) must follow- sickness, lack, stupid mistakes, earthly ills and a downward spiral to physical death then death in hell.

But stand before Him having received His abundance of Grace and clothed in His gift of righteousness to us in Christ - having no righteousness of your own- and He sees you as Righteous through and through. Here, our path is like the morning sin that grows brighter and brighter into the perfect day....(Proverbs 3) Life and life more abundant.

In Christ, God sees us as if we perfectly obeyed His entire law: RIGHTEOUS. This is God's written word but false teachers try to add terms and conditions (keep the law that kills) to our salvation.

Such false pastors and their followers try to twist what Paul asked in Romans 6:1 - "Shall we continue in sin that Grace may abound?" - to mean that we who are in Christ still have business with the Law. Peter wrote of such twisters in 2 Peter 3-

15 "Remember that while our Lord is waiting patiently to return, people are being saved. Our dear brother Paul also wrote to you about this. God made him wise to write as he did. 16 Paul writes the same way in all his letters. He speaks about what I have just told you. His letters include some things that are hard to understand. People who don’t know better and aren’t firm in the faith twist what he says. They twist the other Scriptures too. So they will be destroyed."

See the preceding Romans 1-5 to understand the utter foolishness of those who twist "Shall we continue in sin that Grace may abound" to mean depending on human effort at obeying the law for whatever reason! See a snippet of the preceding verses that the same Paul preached in Romans 3:

"26...for He himself is fair and just, and He makes sinners right in His sight when they believe in Jesus. 27 Can we boast, then, that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith. 28 So we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law."

Paul preached the gospel of Grace so unabashedly that religious people accused him of preaching that it is okay to sin because of grace (Romans 3:7-8!) Same thing people who twist Romans 6:1 are saying!

Understand that the books of the Bible were not divided into chapters and verses when they were written. Bible scholars came up with them. Romans was just one loooong letter. See the context of this widely misinterpreted Romans 6:1- shall we continue in sin that Grace may abound- beginning from the end of Romans 5 to Romans 6:1-2

Romans 5 "20 The law was given so that sin would increase. But where sin increased, God’s grace increased even more. 21 Sin ruled and brought death. But grace rules in the lives of those who are right with God. The grace of God brings eternal life. That’s because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done. Romans 6:1 What should we say then? Should we keep on sinning so that God’s grace can increase? 2 Not at all! As far as sin is concerned, we are dead. So how can we keep on sinning?"

Try to keep the Law and sin WILL INCREASE!

Believer, when Paul wrote: "Shall we continue in sin that Grace may abound" he was essentially asking a question similar to:

Does the fact that your Father has the cure for cancer (sin) make you want to wallow in cancer (sin)? Does the fact that your Father can cure diabetes make you gorge on sugar all day? Does the fact that your Father is a great orthopaedic surgeon make you want to jump in front of every speeding truck? Shall we continue in sin because Grace is there to save us? Never! Believer, Grace is a Person. His name is Jesus Christ. Titus 2:11 says of Him:

"God’s marvelous grace has manifested in person, bringing salvation for everyone."

Grace is the One Who makes the cancer that is sin and the "benefits" of sick days off work (whatever makes sin attractive) disgusting to us. Verse 14 of the same Titus 2 says of Him:

"He gave His life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us His very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds."

Being under Grace and not living in triumph over sin and death is as impossible as being submerged under water without getting wet. Without pure Grace, sin will have dominion: "For sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under law but under Grace." Romans 6:14. No wonder Satan's pastors are doing their best to add some law to Grace with their horrid doctrine which says:

"Yes we are saved by Grace but we still have to keep the Law as a guiding principle for morality."

This horrid mixture that is neither Law nor Grace is the "neither cold nor hot" that Christ spoke of in Revelation 3. These ones are blatantly saying that our Bridegroom Jesus Christ (Grace-personified) cannot make we who are the bride of Christ bear fruit to life by His grace and so we have to go to another man (Mr. Law) to help us bear fruit.

Believer, Romans 7 discusses this EXTENSIVELY: having any kind of dependence on the Law of Moses while claiming to be married to Jesu is ADULTERY. See the analogy of Hagar and Sarah as the two covenants of Law and Grace in Galatians 4. Sarah (Grace) did not need Hagar (Law) to raise Isaac (the church- you and I in Christ.) Grace is enough! Beware of any pastor that tries to introduce the Law as your nanny, helper or whatever. Cast out the bond woman and her son!

Believer, by Grace, stop trusting in your own human effort or will-power (the arm of flesh) to keep the Law in order to make God bless you or have a good opinion of you. Any pastor that tells you that you should or you can is deceiving you. Of ourselves, nothing good is in any of us. But there is something about it that wants to be relevant in the story of our salvation. That something is Pride. God's word says human effort (the arm of flesh) will fail, is powerless and cannot: Romans 7:18-

"For I know that nothing good lives within the flesh of my fallen humanity. The longings to do what is right are within me, but will-power is not enough to accomplish it."

But Pride in the arm of flesh (human effort) that will fail says: "No, I can. God's word must be wrong. I still have some good in me. I can keep the law.”

By grace, trust in Christ to transform you by His power working in you (2 Corinthians 3:18.) The arm of flesh will fail. Only when we receive God's abundance of Grace and His gift of righteousness to us in Christ do we GET TO live in triumph over sin and death:

"For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one Man, Jesus Christ." Romans 5:17.