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<p>I love answering these sort of questions. </p><p>Firstly, the apostle Paul answered a similar question in the Bible. </p><p>Romans 6 verse 1-4</p><p>Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 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.</p><p>Paul made it clear that grace is not the license to sin. </p><p>First and foremost, one must understand that sin is first a nature before an act. What Christ came to do was to solving the sin problem. With his death, burial and resurrection, Jesus Christ have dealt with the nature of sin. The one who has accepted the sacrifice of Christ, who has identified with him is not a servant to sin anymore. He was before because of the nature that came by blood, that's Adam nature. That doesn't hold anymore because he's now a new man with a new kind of life. </p><p>Romans 5 verse 17 says that if any man is in Christ, he's a new creature. Old things have passed away and all things have become new. </p><p>This means that we who gave identified with Christ ate new creatures. The nature of sin has been dealt with. God in his love sent Jesus to die forever our sins, for the sins of the whole world. All a man needs to do is accept the sacrifice of Christ, confess that Jesus Christ did come and that as he died, was buried and resurrected, we were in him all through the way. The body of sin has been destroyed. </p><p>So, the man in Christ doesn't sin willfully because that nature of sin had been done away with. </p><p>See the same Romans 6 verses 14,16 and 18</p><p>Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 6:18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.</p><p>Sin doesn't dominate the Christian any longer. It's part of the old nature of that was buried with Christ. So, the man who has been made righteous by the sacrifice of Christ doesn't lead a licentious lifestyle. The love of God constrains him. Those things that were a joy to him before, they fade away liked scales. Those bad habits drop like hot potatoes. </p><p>John 15 verse 3 says we are cleansed through God's word. So, the more the believer hears God's word, the more those wrong acts, thoughts, words are dropping off. It may not be because instantaneous but gradually they will go away. </p><p>Therefore, my brother, Grace is not the license to sin rather it is the power of God to live above it. </p><p>I believe things are now clearer. </p>
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