Grace

We are in a series on grace at church at the moment called "Extravagant Grace". It has been a real joy to open this topic up and give it some thought over the last few weeks.

Last sunday I spoke from Romans 6:1-2 "what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?"

I love the fact that God gives us a grace that we can enter into salvation with, and remain in salvation with. Their is a grace for us to overcome sin! Praise God for that.

Sadly though, many people do not have this attitude. It wasn't that different in the Apostle Paul's day, hence the above verses! D.A. Carson comments on this. He says :-

“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer and obedience to scripture, faith and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated”.

Let us decide to live in grace!