Grace Misapplied
Jude 1:4 For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.
There are those who reckon God's grace gives them a license to sin. Oh they may accept Jesus as Savior, but deny him as Lord. But "he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again." 2Cor 5:15 There are those who see repentance, obedience and the pursuit of holiness as optional to the Christian life, reckoning the God wants us to sin so that he may glorify his graciousness by overlooking our sins. "What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" Rom 6:1,2
Or there are those who start of the Christian life in repentance, but if they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud." 2Peter 2:20-22
"These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life." Jude 1:19-21
"Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs." Jonah 2:8
The Berean Christian Bible Study Resources
Jude 1:4 For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.
There are those who reckon God's grace gives them a license to sin. Oh they may accept Jesus as Savior, but deny him as Lord. But "he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again." 2Cor 5:15 There are those who see repentance, obedience and the pursuit of holiness as optional to the Christian life, reckoning the God wants us to sin so that he may glorify his graciousness by overlooking our sins. "What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" Rom 6:1,2
Or there are those who start of the Christian life in repentance, but if they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and, "A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud." 2Peter 2:20-22
"These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life." Jude 1:19-21
"Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs." Jonah 2:8
The Berean Christian Bible Study Resources
