PB Devotional

”God’s law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God’s wonderful grace became more abundant. So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.“
‭‭Romans‬ ‭5‬:‭20‬-‭21‬ ‭NLT‬‬

After reading this scripture many times the abuse of grace is enacted. If grace abounds where sin increases, then our salvation certainly does not depend on fighting sin. In fact, let us sin so that grace may abound. Let me live however I want to and say whatever I want to because God dealt with the sin problem. Well let’s continue to read what Paul has to say about this thought.

”Well then, should we keep on sinning so that God can show us more and more of his wonderful grace? Of course not! Since we have died to sin, how can we continue to live in it? Or have you forgotten that when we were joined with Christ Jesus in baptism, we joined him in his death? For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives. Since we have been united with him in his death, we will also be raised to life as he was. We know that our old sinful selves were crucified with Christ so that sin might lose its power in our lives. We are no longer slaves to sin. For when we died with Christ we were set free from the power of sin. And since we died with Christ, we know we will also live with him. We are sure of this because Christ was raised from the dead, and he will never die again. Death no longer has any power over him. When he died, he died once to break the power of sin. But now that he lives, he lives for the glory of God. So you also should consider yourselves to be dead to the power of sin and alive to God through Christ Jesus. Do not let sin control the way you live; do not give in to sinful desires. Do not let any part of your body become an instrument of evil to serve sin. Instead, give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life. So use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.“
‭‭Romans‬ ‭6‬:‭1‬-‭13‬ ‭NLT‬‬

If you believe that Christ will return for you one day…if you believe He has prepared a place for you…if you believe just as He was raised from death to life so will you…then believe that you died to sin because Christ died to sin. Christ died to break the power of sin.  Sin has no power over your life except the power you give it. So don’t give sin your power. You have a new life! Live unto God and through the power He has given. 

This is the year of More!