Don't listen to these two OP. They are not fully aware of God's Grace which is greater than all your sin.
Skinski and Tommy are perfect and will prove to God they are worthy through their "deeds" -- Christ wasn't enough for them.
Also OP, all sin is the same in the eyes of the Lord, but we may see our individual sins differently. You should not feel more bad that you commit one sin over another, but that's what humans do. Try to focus on all of your sins and treat them the same. We all should.
Why don't you elaborate from Scripture exactly what I am missing about God's grace?
Here is what I clearly see the Bible teaching about grace...
Firstly the grace that brings salvation has appeared to all and it teaches us the way we ought to walk.
Tit 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
If I look up the definition of the word grace it says this...
Grace - G5485 - charis
From G5463; graciousness (as gratifying), of manner or act (abstract or concrete; literal, figurative or spiritual; especially the divine influence upon the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude): - acceptable, benefit, favour, gift, grace (-ious), joy liberality, pleasure, thank (-s, -worthy).
Thus grace is clearly God's provision which He has freely provided mankind.
I think Peter hits the nail on the head when he taught...
2Pe 1:2
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pe 1:3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pe 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Clearly partaking in the divine nature is connected to the knowledge of God given to us, in other words "God teaches us." It is through the application of what God teaches us that we escape the corruption that is in the world through lust and are thus able to be partakers of the divine nature.
Therefore it makes sense that Paul would write...
Rom 1:5 By whom
we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
For it is through obedience that we make God's grace effectual in our lives. No wonder Paul would beseech the Corinthians to "work together" with God.
2Co 6:1 We then,
as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
If one does not "work together" with God then the grace of God is received to none effect. Jesus taught exactly the same thing when He said...
Mat 7:24 Therefore
whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Mat 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Mat 7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
Mat 7:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
The "doing" is the "working together with God" by which God's grace is made effectual to the saving of the soul.
Due to faith being the "substance and evidence" of things not seen (inner belief) Paul would allude to faith being a work...
1Th 1:3 Remembering without ceasing
your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
This is because Paul understood that faith is ACTIVE for it is the working dynamic of yielding or putting to use the grace of God. We can see this clearly illustrated by the example of Noah...
Heb 11:7
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
Noah was a DOER of the word and therefore the gracious provision of God was made effectual to the saving of the household of Noah. Hence God was the author of the salvation of Noah because Noah obeyed God by building the ark (Heb 5:9).
So logically when Paul writes this...
Eph 2:8 For
by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
The clear context is that we are saved by the gracious provision of God which we put to use by an obedient working faith. We are not saved by anything we do on our own otherwise we could boast, we are God's workmanship and not out own. We are created IN Christ Jesus unto a life of walking uprightly.
God raises us up to newness of life in Christ by His grace.
Eph 2:5 Even when we
were dead in sins,
hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved
Which is a clear parallel of this passage...
Col 2:10 And
ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Col 2:11
In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Col 2:12
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Col 2:13 And you,
being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh,
hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
The Scriptures harmonise perfectly on these things.
Paul also alluded to grace being God's forbearance in regards to sin when he wrote...
Rom 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But
where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Grace abounded when sin abounded. Praise the mercy of God.
Yet after writing this Paul was quick to quell any idea that grace is some kind of cloak for ongoing rebellion for he wrote...
Rom 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might
grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:1
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Rom 6:2
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:4 Therefore
we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:5 For
if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that
our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
We who have died with Christ have been set free from the bondage of sin and thus we don't serve sin. Instead we believe and do this...
Rom 6:11 Likewise
reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 6:12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
Rom 6:13
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
For if we continued to yield to sin then it would prove we still belonged to our old master Satan as opposed to our new Master Jesus who ransomed us from sin and its dominion.
Rom 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Rom 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Rom 6:16 Know ye not, that
to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
1Jn 3:8
He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Joh 8:34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
Joh 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Yet the false sinning religion that masquarades as Biblical Christianity denies all the above Scriptures for they teach that they will always be in bondage to sin while on earth. It doesn't matter what the Bible teaches, for the teachers they have heaped up to themselves know better than the words given us in the Bible.
2Ti 4:3 For
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And
they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Mar 7:13
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Mar 7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
Mar 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
Mar 7:16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
