Men professing to be wise becoming fools with questions like "So I can just go and be sinning anyhow because of Grace?"

Believer, the wages of sin is death. Sickness, lack, depression and all earthly ills are "death begun." Remember Adam did not drop dead physically on the day his death sentence came into effect. Death is a process. We were all appointed/destined to die ONCE because of sin. ONE death for our lifetime of sins. Christ died that death. ONCE. Hebrews 9 says-

"27 And just as each person is destined to die once and after that comes judgment, 28 so also Christ was offered once for all time as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people."

Christ's death for the complete forgiveness of our entire lifetime of sins was a "once for all time" death. Hebrews 10:12 says of Him:

"But our High Priest offered Himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time. Then He sat down in the place of honor at God’s right hand."

Believer, our Lord Jesus Christ is not going to come and die again and again and again for our sins to be forgiven. Understand the essence and result of His crucifixion and God raising Him from the dead. See this in Romans 4:25-

"who was delivered up because of our offences, and was raised up because of our being declared righteous."

See the TPT- "Jesus was handed over to be crucified for the forgiveness of our sins and was raised back to life to prove that He had made us right with God!"

God raised Jesus from the dead because ALL of our lifetime of sins have been FORGIVEN and we have been declared RIGHTEOUS in His sight. All of our lifetime of sins FORGIVEN and every demand of the Law fulfilled for all who believe in Christ Jesus. To believe that our lifetime of sins have not been forgiven or that we are righteous only until our next sin is to deny His crucifixion and resurrection.

As we are right now, believing Jesus; believing Romans 4:25 and trusting in Christ for our every need, if the trumpet should sound right now, we who are believing Jesus Christ are 100% forgiven and righteous in God's sight and will ALL be caught up in the air with our Saviour Jesus Christ at the Rapture. We will NEVER experience the wrath of God, not because we kept the Law or did anything to deserve or earn salvation but because of the "sacrifice of Jesus" alone. See this in Romans 5:9-

"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."

This is the gospel of Christ: Righteousness by faith. This is Grace- undeserved, unearned, unmerited favour.

Many hear the Gospel, disbelieve God's word, preach that you are only righteous until your next sin and that believers can still experience God's wrath if we sin, even when God's word says "NEVER." Such usually misinterpret and twist the verse "Shall we continue in sin that Grace may abound" and ask questions like:

"So you mean I can just go and be sinning against God and continue to willingly sin anyhow since God is bound to not hold my sins against me as Jesus already paid for my lifetime of sins?"

Here is an example of why such questions are examples of men professing themselves to be wise becoming fools:

My mom loves me. She made a lot of sacrifices to ensure that I have a good life. I remember looking through our old photos one day — photos of birthday parties and such of uncles, aunts and cousins inclusive. She was wearing the same outfit in most of them. It dawned on me that she was wearing the same outfit because she could not afford to splurge on new ones. She put her five kids first. I’ve said and done some nasty things to her that I utterly regret. Sometimes, I catch myself cringing physically when I remember some of the things my teenage and even adult self said to her in childish anger. In all of that, she still loved and took care of me as best as she could. I want to make her happy. I have a close relationship with her that makes me delight in making her happy. Why on earth would I willingly sin against her or do things to upset her just because I know she will love me forever?

Believer, how much more our Father in heaven who so loved us that He gave His own Son that we might have forgiveness of sins and have everlasting life?

Being in Christ entails having a loving Father — child dependency/relationship with God, a relationship that those who see God's super-abounding Grace as license to commit sin are yet to understand. This relationship comes about through the revelation of God's love for us, the full expression of which is revealed in what took place at the cross:

God's righteousness demands that every sin be punished to the uttermost. The wages of sin is death. All have sinned. No matter how well we obeyed the law, were all destined for death (preceded by its symptoms of lack, depression, sickness — earthly ills, physical death and finally death in hell.)

At the cross, God's Justice and Mercy met showing us the true expression of Love: He punished our entire lifetime of sins in the body of His Son, Jesus Christ so that we might not perish but have everlasting life. Instead of living life in a downward spiral of sins that lead to death, including earthly ills and death in hell, we get to have life and life more abundant, all through His undeserved, unearned, unmerited favour- Grace.

Having this mentality of "So you mean I can just go and be sinning against God anyhow and yet I remain forgiven and Rapture-worthy" is a testament to not yet understanding or experiencing God's unconditional love and the impact of His saving grace in our lives. I might as well ask the question of my mother's love for me :

"So you mean I can just go and be sinning against my mother and continue to willingly sin againt her anyhow and do things to make her sad as she is bound to not hold my sins against me and will accept me no matter what?"

Being in Christ is a having a personal relationship with Him that those who are yet to experience can never fathom and so they ask questions like the above about His saving Grace. Believer, this is why these kind of questions — bickering over God and His Word with churchgoers that are yet to experience His super-abounding Grace or with non-believers about His existence— is an effort in futility. See John 6:43-46 (MSG)—

"Jesus said, “Don’t bicker among yourselves over Me. You’re not in charge here. The Father who sent Me is in charge. He draws people to Me—that’s the only way you’ll ever come. Only then do I do My work, putting people together, setting them on their feet, ready for the End."

Instead of joining in the bickering or trying to understand the Word via human logic, ask God about what's not clear to you and ask Him to reveal Himself to your loved ones whose faces are still veiled by the letter (law) that they are trying to keep in order to be godly. He always hears and answers the prayers of His children.

These kinds of “bickering" questions also make it look like God hates sin because He doesn't want the sinner to enjoy himself or because He doesn't want dirty sinners around Him. Not so. Jesus was very comfortable in the company of scummy tax collectors and notorious sinners and in Him, we never remain the same- we become like Him. But the law-toting self-righteous Pharisees who did their best to keep the law and depended on it for righteousness…not so much. Their counterparts today are those who think they have some good in them to keep the Law when God's word says of ourselves, there is no good in anyone of us ( Romans 7:18.)

God hates sin because it destroys the sinner that He loves: steal and you just might get caught and go to prison. Commit fornication/adultery and you just might catch a disease or find yourself at the opposite end of a jealous husband’s gun.

True believers do not want to sin. We also know that of ourselves, there is no good in anyone — nobody can keep a jot of the Law by human effort. Satan and his "pastors" in many churches know this and so are pushing that demonic doctrine that says:

"Yes you are saved by Grace but you still have to keep the Law not in order to be justified before God but as a guiding principle for morality, to maintain a godly life and so that you don't fall from grace."

This false doctrine is Satan's strategy to cut one 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 5:4.

Believer, flee from such evil doctrine. Like the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the Law, for whatever purpose it is being used, condemns and kills all who feed on it; even the good part kills. We would all be wallowing in sins were it not for God's Grace in our lives. The faster every believer realises this, the better. 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 as it was with Peter who knew 100% that he would never deny Jesus and swore to follow Him to prison and to death, pride in the arm of flesh (human effort) that will fail says: "No, I can. God must be wrong. I still have some good in me. I can keep the law and be good by my own will-power.”

God hates sin because it destroys the sinner that He loves, much like how an oncologist dad hates the cancer in his beloved but terminally ill child. Of himself, the child is helpless against the cancer as mankind is helpless when it comes to living in triumph over sin and death through human effort. So what did God do? He gave up His own Son to bear our sins and die our death. For all who believe, Christ has excised the cancer of sin from within us — Colossians 2:11–

“When you came to Christ, you were “circumcised,” but not by a physical procedure. Christ performed a spiritual circumcision—the cutting away of your sinful nature.”

God doesn't stop there. In Christ, as we keep on seeing ourselves as He does — righteous by Christ's blood and in spite of our many imperfections — He continuously fills us to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, the only “chemo” that transforms us to perfect wholeness, removing all the symptoms of sickness and other imperfections that linger as a result of the cancer of sin that was in us. His eyes burn at and destroy sin but radiate perfect love for the sinner, transforming us to perfection. See 2 Corinthians 3:18 —

“But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are being transformed to the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”

By grace, we trust in Christ to transform us by His power working in us (2 Corinthians 3:18.) The arm of flesh (human effort at doing right) will fail.

Just to digress a bit, many pastors teach "the flesh" as the part of you that wants to do bad things but "the flesh" simply means "human effort." See this in the story of Ishmael (born according to the flesh) and Isaac (born according to the Spirit.) "The flesh" is that part of you that wants to be godly or bear fruit to God by human effort at keeping the Law when Christ died to make us godly/righteous. The flesh is where sinful passions lie hidden waiting to be exposed by tests and trials. It often has good intentions but the arm of flesh will fail. When activated by the law that many are trying so hard to obey in order to be godly, it can only bear fruit to death:

"For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death." Romans 7:5

Never trust yourself (the flesh aka human effort at keeping the Law and doing right.) Never lean on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5-6 counsels us:

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

And lean not on your own understanding;

In all your ways acknowledge Him,

And He shall direct your paths."

But does this mean that we can go on sinning anyhow and without care? Certainly not! With the abundance of God's grace and His gift of righteousness in Christ, you cannot but live in triumph over sin and death (all the stages of death that we were condemned to die as a result of Adam's sin: guilt-condemnation-fear-stress- ageing-sickness-physical death and finally the second death.) See how we have this victory in Romans 5:16-17-

"16 And the result of God’s gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. For Adam’s sin led to condemnation, but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins. 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."

Believer, let's not join the band of those who reject Grace and prove themselves liars by contradicting the word of God. His word says when you receive His abundance of Grace and His gift of righteousness to us in Christ, YOU WILL live in triumph over SIN and DEATH. But such liars say Grace is not sufficient and that you have to add your own non-existent will-power at keeping the Law to God's saving Grace. This horrid mixture that is neither Law nor Grace is the "neither cold nor hot" that Christ spoke of in Revelation 3. Believer, let's not be found here. Christ is Saviour to the uttermost, even Saviour from sins (Titus 2:14.)

Believe Right and you will Live Right.