Romans 5:20

 

Romans 5:20

 

The Question was asked, “On Sunday during the morning Sunday school service and I was teaching about salvation, one believer asked me this question;

 ‘Is salvation once, in a Christian life, for reference in the book of Romans 5:20 which says: moreover the law entered that the offense might bound. But where sin abounded grace abounded much more.’

  Then the believers asked me now what are we supposed to do shall we continue in sin because grace will abound much more??”

 

The Apostle’s Paul and Peter answer the first question, “Is salvation once, in a Christian life?” “Yes!”

 Roman’s 6:10-11, “For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the Life that He Lives, He Lives to GOD. Likewise you yourself, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in CHRIST JESUS our LORD.”

1 Peter 3:18-22, “For CHRIST also suffered once for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to GOD, being put to death in the flesh but made Alive by The SPIRIT…Who has gone into Heaven and is at the right hand of GOD, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.”

 

The Apostle Paul gave the answer to the second question; “…shall we continue in sin because grace will abound much more?” “GOD Forbid!” or as in some translations, “Certainly Not!” Romans 6:1-2

 

In the context of Romans chapters 5 and 6 Paul is teaching that sin entered into humanity because of one man – Adam, therefore all men are condemned to eternal judgment; but that through One Man – JESUS Grace abounded to humanity to be free from sin and to receive Eternal Life in His Heavenly Kingdom.

 

Take the time to read Romans chapters 5 and 6 and think about what Paul is saying. Here are the highlights:

5:1 “Therefore, (always read what was said before) having been justified by Faith, we have Peace with our GOD through The LORD JESUS CHRIST,”

5:6 “For when we were still without strength, in due time, CHRIST died for the ungodly.” Because we were sinners we could not reach to GOD, so CHRIST died for us.

5:8 “But GOD demonstrates His Own Love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, CHRIST died for us.”

5:12 “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned–“

5:19-6:2 “For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by One Man’s obedience many will be made Righteous. Moreover the law entered so that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, Grace abounded more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so Grace might abound through Righteousness to Eternal Life through JESUS CHRIST our LORD. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that Grace may abound? Certainly Not! How shall we who died to sin, live any longer in it?” Where Paul is talking about sin abounding because of the law he is not just talking about the individual but he is talking about the whole earth. As sin in the world abounds more and more and The Day of The LORD approaches – so GOD’s Grace for Salvation will abound more and more to save the lost from eternal damnation. If we sin more so that Grace may abound more then we are not Believers we are sinners, we are not saved but we are condemned.

6:12 “Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lust.”

6:14-15 “For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under Grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under Grace? Certainly nor!”

6:22-23 “But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves to GOD, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, Everlasting Life. For the wages of sin is death, but the Gift of GOD is Eternal Life in CHRIST JESUS our LORD.”

 

The Apostle John also answer the second question, “…shall we continue in sin because grace will abound much more?” In his first epistle, “Believers do not sin!”

 1 John 2:1-2 “My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with The Father, JESUS CHRIST the Righteous. And He Himself is the Propitiation (Appeasement) for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.”