UNTIL HE BRINGS ME HOME

You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:24-26

shall we sin more, so that grace may abound?

The question came up during small groups on Friday at church:

If God forgives us anyway, what’s wrong with sinning?

I walked them through Romans 6, but I wish I could’ve just done an entire Desiring God book study on the spot. I really think that’s the heart issue.

Getting specific, saving grace isn’t a way of being allowed the best of both worlds. It’s getting shown how worthless this one is, and how all-sufficient God is. It’s getting transferred out of the domain of darkness, and into the kingdom of the Lord and Savior. It’s getting your dead heart removed, and getting a new one in its place. It’s getting your old desires for idols replaced with a new desire for Christ. It’s getting your enslavement to sin broken so that you can be enslaved to righteousness instead. It’s getting to obey and pursue holiness, where rebellion and God-hating were once all you knew.

Justification and forgiveness matter only because they restore our relationship with God. They get us back to him. That’s the whole point. So the question shouldn’t really be, won’t God just forgive me anyway? The question should be, why would I want to sin in the first place? Why would I want to disobey a king and savior who is all-sufficient for my joy and satisfaction?

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