Using Grace As An Excuse For Sin

Claiming a believer can do whatever they want because of grace, is denying the presence of the Holy Spirit Who was placed in us to teach, chastise, train and discipline believers. Since God cannot be in the presence of sin, that's why He sent His Son to be the sacrifice for us, then why would we think God would be alright with sin in us. If we could do whatever we want, then the following verses wouldn't make sense.

 

Hebrews 12:4-11 "4 You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;

5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,

Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;

6 For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He scourges every son whom He receives.”

7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

9 Furthermore, we had [e]earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?

10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness.

11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness."

 

Anyone who wants to use grace as an excuse to sin, is not concerned about offending the Holy Creator, nor do they understand grace. Such a person is not born again. It is grace that saves us and grace that gives us the ability to confess our sin to turn from it and to go on in greater holiness.

 

John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

 

Our goal as believers is not to see how much we can get away with, but to press on toward the goal in holiness, to become more useful to Christ, while growing us in holiness.

 

Those who desire to continue in sin, are not concerned about offending God nor are they concerned about becoming holy.

 

1 Peter 1:14-16 "14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, 15 but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; 16 because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”