GRACE AND SIN


TEXT: Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

MESSAGE
Grace is not that concept that makes us think God has changed his perspective about sin thereby giving us licence to misbehave. That is very far from the truth! Now one of the first thing you must understand about the work of grace as it relates to sin is that by grace we have become the sons of God and God treats us as His children not slaves or strangers.

Now consider a parent and the child. Does bashing your dad's car make him disown you? Of course not! Rather, a sincer apology and maybe a promise not to repeat the wrong may put an end to the issue forever, grave as the offence may seem! Thereafter normal relationship returns. Even if you were arrested by the police for damaging someone else's fence with the car, your Father comes to bail you out and helps you through the case.

You see, many of us think we are more loving than God. You don't chastise your son by breaking his arm of plucking off his eyes for bashing your car, do you? Why should you believe that God will chastise you with cancer, auto crash, death, etc because you sinned? In fact, it is common for parents whose child killed his sibling to  fight for the liberty of that murderous son because most times they don't want to loose two sons at the same time. If men can have such natural compassion for their children, wicked as men are, why do you let the devil give you a bad image of God? Why do you think God doesn't want to do something to deliver you from the consequences of you sins. The devil is only deceiving you so that as long as you think God is mad at you and head bent on vendetta, you'd keep running away from Him, the only on in the whole universe who is willing and able to save you from the devil.

Friends, stop running. Return to your Father. He loves you. No matter how dirty you are, He'd wash you and make you whole. Are you battered by the enemy with sickness, poverty, failure, etc? Return to God and he'd heal you. ..."for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly." (Psalm 85:8)

PRAYERS
Worship God for the abundance of grace that puts an end to the dominion of sin in your life

Confess every known sin to God, own up and repent. Then ask Him to cleans you from it

Receive forgiveness and command the infirmity put on you as a result of the sin to get out of your life

Ask that the message of grace will be clearer to the church of Christ.

Pray for me too

FUTHER STUDY
Romans 6

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