well, I don't want YOU or ANYONE else to keep repeating the fallacy that people who accept and understand the grace of God believe we can do whatever we want
Lauren - Is it wrong to say you believe whatever sin you do commit, it is already forgiven, so as
far as God is concerned you are guilt free and innocent?
If one assents to Gods love and morality, then our hearts are set on obeying it as part of our
nature of walking in the Spirit. Paul calls this being a slave to the law of the Spirit.
The law of sin and death, is the world of sinful passions. In Christ these have been put to death.
I was wondering how a passion or emotional desire could be countered by an idea. It then struck
me the more you emotionally respond to Christ and the cross, the more ones passions are balanced
with love, overwhelming, impossible to stop, love.
The problem is though people talk about Gods amazing grace, His get out of free card, this love is
not talked about much, or the conquering of sinful passions, but rather the passions are still very
much at work, just we are not condemned by God. This is not quite what I would have expected
from a gospel that claims to be authentic and victorious, and realising what Gods grace truly is.
Now some are testifying to this victory, but they are not specific to your group or theology, so I
suspect realising Christ in our hearts is more about our real relationship to the Lord, and less about
how we frame it.