Grace is not a License to Sin

Now that I am a believer and saved does it matter how I live? Unfortunately,

there are some misguided folks who see the grace of God as a license to sin.

"We are not under law but under grace, so we can live any way we choose,"

the argument goes. But, why would a child of God choose to sin?

Jude, the half brother of Jesus, told his readers that there were some false

teachers who had crept into the fellowship unawares, who through their false

teaching, were turning the grace of God into a license to sin. Anyone who

teaches that kind of distorted grace is a false teacher.

The Bible says the, "Grace of God that brings salvation teaches us that

denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously,

and godly in this present world." (Titus 2:12) That doesn't sound like a

license to sin. We are saved by Grace alone, through Faith alone, in Christ

alone. We are not to see how far from God we can live and still claim to be

saved, but how close to God we can live now that we are saved.