|
Don't you think it could make someone leave a carefree life and continue
to live in sin because Jesus has already paid for it, the present, past
and even the future sin?
The answer is "No."
Of course, the born again saints also commit sins for the rest of their
lives. But they can't sin willfully because the Holy Spirit dwells in
their hearts. Actually, they become more sensitive to every sin after
being born again. They come to know that they are the ones who cannot
but sin until they die, and that the only way to avoid the chances of
sinning is to serve the righteousness of God, that is the gospel of the
water and the Spirit. In short, the Holy Spirit in them lead them to do
God's work first apart from the lust of the world.
At the age of the Apostles, it seemed that they asked the same question
to the Apostles. So, the Apostle Paul said, "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? Or do you not know that as many
of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just
as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so
we also should walk in newness of life" (Romans 6:1-4).
Again he said, "What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law
but under grace? Certainly not! Do you not know that to whom you present
yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether
of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? But
God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from
the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having
been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness" (Romans
6:15-18).
The person who is REALLY born again of water and the Spirit cannot sin
more than before. Rather, he/she is rejoicing over the gospel everyday,
and tries to preach it all over the world. In other word, he/she became
a person who seeks first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness earnestly
by the Holy Spirit (Matthew 6:33).
|