Comments on: The Law Arouses Sin http://www.newcovenantgrace.com/law-arouses-sin/ Boldly proclaiming GRACE to the nations!!! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:24:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andre van der Merwe http://www.newcovenantgrace.com/law-arouses-sin/comment-page-1/#comment-1336 Andre van der Merwe Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:49:18 +0000 http://www.newcovenantgrace.com/?p=574#comment-1336 Hi Tash How right you are!! People are not as gracious as God, and therefore we'll run into trouble with PEOPLE when we mess up, not with God. You can read our previous message on the "The Prodigal Son" under the message archive page. Thank you for your awesome comment, a true sign of a mind renewed by Grace. Hallelujah! Andre Hi Tash

How right you are!! People are not as gracious as God, and therefore we’ll run into trouble with PEOPLE when we mess up, not with God. You can read our previous message on the “The Prodigal Son” under the message archive page.

Thank you for your awesome comment, a true sign of a mind renewed by Grace.

Hallelujah!

Andre

]]> By: Tash http://www.newcovenantgrace.com/law-arouses-sin/comment-page-1/#comment-1335 Tash Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:42:22 +0000 http://www.newcovenantgrace.com/?p=574#comment-1335 "To conclude, if people think that we are saying they can just go out and live in full blown depravity, licentiousness & immorality, simply running like animals after the desires of their flesh, then they are wrong". Just one comment - I always hear in grace circles - grace is not a licence to live a "sinful" lifestyle. I believe if you have the Spirit of God in you, you won't WANT to go and live this way. Yet because we are set free, we are free in a sense to choose, even choose these things. But as Paul said not all things are beneficial even if all things are permissable. If we do choose these things for a while, we would soon come to a dead-end and realise the futility of what we are doing. The Prodigal did this. Perhaps he was curious to see how it was to try some of these things out! But after a while he realised it was futile. Although we're always taught that he came back because he was so sorry, from my reading, he came back because he was hungry! Yet his father welcomed him back as though nothing had gone wrong at all. This is Grace at its absolute brilliant utmost! A person living a "depraved" lifestyle might well be closer to the Kingdom than a strict religionist! “To conclude, if people think that we are saying they can just go out and live in full blown depravity, licentiousness & immorality, simply running like animals after the desires of their flesh, then they are wrong”.

Just one comment – I always hear in grace circles – grace is not a licence to live a “sinful” lifestyle. I believe if you have the Spirit of God in you, you won’t WANT to go and live this way.
Yet because we are set free, we are free in a sense to choose, even choose these things. But as Paul said not all things are beneficial even if all things are permissable.

If we do choose these things for a while, we would soon come to a dead-end and realise the futility of what we are doing. The Prodigal did this. Perhaps he was curious to see how it was to try some of these things out! But after a while he realised it was futile. Although we’re always taught that he came back because he was so sorry, from my reading, he came back because he was hungry! Yet his father welcomed him back as though nothing had gone wrong at all. This is Grace at its absolute brilliant utmost!

A person living a “depraved” lifestyle might well be closer to the Kingdom than a strict religionist!

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