What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Romans 6:1-2
Paul, in his letters to the early churches, wanted them to know, that all sin. But once we identify with the death and resurrection of Jesus, we are no longer bound to it. We can choose to avoid temptations of it. But when we do, we can get God's free gift of grace. (see full chapter)
The book of Romans was a familiar one to me as, throughout my life in the churches I had gone to, and it was preached on a regular basis. But I had not read the whole book myself.
And so this chapter was not just for me but for everyone. The leaders of the church I was at, at this point, and I had those looked to for guidance in my life was not perfect, but probably more highly regarded, and yet were not exempt from what Paul was saying here.
Still, I did not see anything in this chapter whereby we had to do anything to attain our salvation, except understand that we have only to accept God's grace when we do sin and ask for forgiveness.
Paul ends this chapter with the following verse:
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 3:23
And there it was again. God's gift to us is from him alone because of Jesus Christ. Not because I wasn't exactly following the teachings of any church the way they thought I should be or growing at a faster pace than I was.
They did not know or really bother to know what stumbling blocks I might be having in my home life that made some things pretty much impossible for me to grow.
Even though, I had been trying the best I could.
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Thanks for coming by today, Friends. Til next time, God bless you and yours!
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