For the life of me, I will never understand how people conclude that just because we are not under the Law any more, Christians think that gives them a license to sin.
“For the life of me, I will never understand how people conclude that just because we are not under the Law any more, Christians think that gives them a license to sin.”
Scripture shuns the idea of license, but hardly obsesses over it to the degree lordship/works salvationists do. No one can pull the wool over the LORD’S eyes anyway, right?
“You have done these things, and I kept silent;
you thought I was just like you.
But I will rebuke you
and lay out the case before you.”—Psalm 50
and
“...no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.”—Hebrews 4:13
Someone accused Paul of teaching, in effect, “And why not do evil that good may come?” (Romans 3:8). He denies it, but note that he WAS accused of it. Won’t believers who stand for the same Gospel be thusly accused?
>>For the life of me, I will never understand how people conclude that just because we are not under the Law any more, Christians think that gives them a license to sin.<<
That’s because they fail to connect Jesus Christ’s dialogue with Nicodemus in John 3 is about Ezekiel 36.
Some miss the point God promises to put His Spirit in us and cause us to walk in His statutes:
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. (Ezekiel 36)
Considering some here can’t even tell me the second command of the decalogue tells me something.
True!
States with NO speed limit out in the boonies can STILL ticket folks for RECKLESS DRIVING!!