We are no longer under the law, 但在恩典之下, is used by many Christians to exculpate themselves from their duty and responsibilities to keep the commandments of Jesus and fulfill the great commission and walk as sons of God (这适用于男性和女性) after the Spirit in holiness in God’s will. As soon as you confront a person with something that opposes the Word and will of God, you can count on it, that the person will use, 除其他外, 罗马书 6:14 to make sinning all right and approve what is evil. 有很多基督徒, who turn evil into good and keep sinning under grace. But what does the Bible say about being under grace? Can you keep sinning under grace?
这是什么意思, you are not under the law but under grace?
因为罪恶不会统治你: for you are not under the law, 但在恩典之下 (罗马书 6:14)
There are also many preachers, who use Romans 6:14 to approve, tolerate and accept all behavior, lifestyles, and all things that oppose God’s Word and His will. They use it, so that no one has to change and can stay the way they are and live like the world.
根据他们, it doesn’t matter how you live and what you do, because you are under grace. 所以, the time of laws, 诫命, 规则, and regulations is over. Now you can live the way you want to live. Because Jesus has dealt with the sin problem. He took all the sins of the world away, so that you can no longer walk in sin. Sin doesn’t exist anymore, to those, who believe in Him and are transferred from the darkness into the Kingdom of God.
Jesus hasn’t only dealt with all the sins of your former life, but also with the sins, you keep doing in your new life. 所以, you won’t have to confess your sins all the time, because that will only cause feelings of guilt and according to them, that’s not the will of God.
There is already enough misery and judgment in churches and the world and that’s why Christians may live in ‘freedom’, in the love and grace of God, doing what they want to do without submitting to what is written in the Bible, because that belongs to religion and legalism and is old-fashioned and obsolete. (另请阅读: What is the difference between religion and relation?).
By preaching this message, whereby the truth of God is mixed with the lies of people, they please the people, and receive honor and praise from the people, and protect themselves from the resistance and persecution of the world.
But where do we read in the Bible all these things that they say? Where is it written, 那:
- There is no more sin and that a person can no longer habitually sin?
- You won’t have to change?
- 你如何生活并不重要?
- The new creation is allowed to live in sin?
- God tolerates and approves sin?
If it doesn’t matter to God how you live, and that God approves that His children live in sin, then why did Jesus have to come to the earth to deal with the sinful nature of (堕落) 男人? Why weren’t the sacrifices of animals good enough to (暂时地) reconcile the sins of people, since they would keep falling back in sin and keep sinning?
A call to holiness and the removal of sins
But as discussed in previous blog posts, according to the Word, it does matter how you live in the New Covenant, which is sealed with the precious blood of Jesus. We read in the Bible, that Jesus and the apostles called the believers; the saints unto holiness. They commanded them to remove the sins from their lives. (另请阅读: '迷失在恩典的海洋中’, ‘What is grace?' 和 'What is the difference between the law and grace?’)
Because what happened in the spiritual realm, namely that they had become in Jesus Christ a 新创作 and that they were redeemed from their flesh, 其中存在罪性, had to become visible in the natural realm, 由 putting off the old man (肉) 和 putting on the new man (spirit).
那些, who use, 除其他外, 罗马书 6:14 to approve, tolerate and accept all behavior and all things, that go against God’s will and to keep living after the flesh, often forget to read and study scriptures in the right context. They are unspiritual and have created their own ideas, 发现, and opinions, that is mainly formed by the knowledge and wisdom of the world. In order to empower and confirm their ideas, 意见, 和调查结果, they pick and choose scriptures and take them out of their context. That also applies to Romans 6:14, because the verses that are written before and after verse 14, are never discussed. 所以, let’s have a look in what context Romans 6:14 is written and what else is written in the Bible about the grace of God, and if it’s allowed to habitually keep living in sin after a person is born again.
Death unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ
那我们该说什么? 我们要继续犯罪吗, 使恩典显多? 上帝禁止. 我们该如何, 向罪死了的人, 继续住在那里? 你不知道吗, 我们许多受洗归入耶稣基督的人也受洗归入他的死? 因此我们通过洗礼归入死亡而与他一同埋葬: 就像基督借着天父的荣耀从死里复活一样, 即使如此我们也应该走在新的生活中.
For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, 我们也将效法他的复活: 知道这一点, that our old man is crucified with him, 使罪恶的身体被毁灭, 从今以后我们不应该为罪恶服务. 因为死者已脱离罪孽. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
因此，不要让罪在你必死的身体上作王, 叫你们顺从它的私欲. 也不要将你们的肢体献给罪恶，作为不义的工具: 但要将自己降服于神, 就像那些从死里复活的人一样, 和你的肢体作为上帝公义的工具. 因为罪恶不会统治你: 因为你们不在律法之下, 但在恩典之下. (罗马书 6:1-14)
Jesus has shown us, what 罪 does with a person’s life: sin leads to death. Through His perfect work of redemption, Jesus died once and for all unto sin, was raised from the dead, and is forever seated at the right hand of God. By His work and His blood, Jesus brought redemption to those, 信他的人, 悔改, 放下自己的生命 和 跟着他.
通过 再生, you are baptized in Christ into His death and that’s why, 你是, 就像他一样, for once and for all, died unto sin.
The sin, that reigned and ruled as king in your flesh; the sinful nature of the old carnal man, who is bound to the law, no longer exists after you become born again. Because the old man (肉), in whom sin and death have dominion and for whom the law of sin and death was intended, is crucified and has died in Christ.
If your flesh is dead, you can no longer walk after the desire of the flesh and habitually live in sin and keep sinning. Only when your flesh has died, only then are you dead to sin and its power.
When you were baptized in Christ, you were not only a partaker of His death, but you were also a partaker of His resurrection. By the power of the Holy Spirit, your spirit is raised from the dead and is made alive to God. 你已经成为一个 新创作; a son of God and have been granted access to the Kingdom of God and are reconciled with Him.
Since God is righteous, and you are born of Him (通过再生) you shall obey Him and walk in righteousness after the spirit. As long as you stay in Jesus Christ; the Word and live after 耶稣’ 诫命, which are also God’s commandments, and keep walking after the spirit, you shall walk in righteousness and bear the fruit of the Spirit (1 约翰 2:28-29, 1 约翰 3:1-7, 9).
Servants of sin or servants of righteousness?
然后怎样呢? 我们会犯罪吗, 因为我们不受法律约束, 但在恩典之下? 上帝禁止. 你不知道吗, 你们把自己当作仆人来服从, 你们是他的仆人，你们要服从他; 是否犯了至于死的罪, 或顺从正义? 但感谢上帝, 你们是罪的奴仆, 但你们从心底里服从了交付给你们的教义形式. 然后就脱离了罪孽, 你们成了正义的仆人. 因为你肉体的软弱，我按照人的方式说话: 因为你们使你们的肢体成为污秽的奴仆，成为罪孽的奴仆。; 即使这样，现在也要让你们的肢体成为公义的仆人，以致圣洁.
因为当你们还是罪的奴仆时, 你们脱离了正义. 你们当时在那些你们现在感到羞耻的事上有什么果子呢？? 因为那些事情的结局就是死亡. 但现在已经脱离了罪孽, 并成为神的仆人, 你们已经结出圣洁的果子, 和永生的终结. 因为罪的工价就是死亡; 但神的恩赐是通过我们的主耶稣基督获得永生 (罗马书 6:15-23)
If a person claims to be born again, but keep walking after the flesh in obedience to the desires of the flesh and fulfilling the desires of the flesh, and therefore keep living in sin and is not willing to remove them, then this proves that the flesh of the person is not crucified in Christ, but is alive and kicking.
As long as the flesh is alive and kicking, the flesh isn’t dead and therefore the person is not redeemed from the flesh and is still a sinner. Because a 罪人, walks after the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh, and keep sinning.
As long as a person stays carnal and walks after the flesh and persevere in sin, then the person is still bound to 罪与死的法则. The works of the person; 罪, prove that the person is a sinner; a son of the devil and belongs to the kingdom of darkness (1 约翰 3:7-8). Because the sin, which comes forth out of the sinful nature of the flesh, in which sin and death reigns, still has dominion over the person and still reigns as king in the life of the person.
Since the fruit of death is sin, and the person is not redeemed from sin, the person is also not redeemed from death.
Using the grace of God to fulfill the carnal lusts and desires
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ (裘德 1:4)
It’s not about what preachers and leaders of the church preach and teach, and what kind of spiritual revelations, 愿景, 梦, prophecies or messages by angels they receive, but it’s all about what the Word of God says, because the Word is the truth and is reliable and shall eventually judge every person, according to their works (约翰 12:48, 启示 20:12-13).
Preachers, 使徒, 传福音者, 教师, and prophets can say, that it’s all grace and that you won’t have to change because it doesn’t matter how you live and what you do.
They can use the grace to keep living after the flesh, fulfilling the lusts and desires of the flesh and therefore turn the grace of God into lasciviousness. 但, by preaching this message they deny our Lord Jesus Christ and prove, that they don’t know Him experientially. Because the Word of God says something else.
很遗憾, because of the fact that many believers don’t read and study the Word of God by themselves and don’t have a personal relationship with the Word; Jesus Christ and therefore have a lack of knowledge of God’s Word, they believe the words of these leaders.
但圣言说, that as long as a person keeps living in sin and persevere in sin, then the person is not saved and not redeemed of the flesh. Because as long as a person keeps living in sin, 在肉体中掌权的, then from what has the person been redeemed and saved from? If they are saved from death, then they wouldn’t produce the fruit unto death anymore (IE. 罗马书 6, 罗马书 7:4-6, 罗马书 8, 加拉太书 5:24, 以弗所书 2:1-6).
As long as a person persevere in sin and therefore bear fruit unto death, the person has not repented, is not born again, and has not become a son of God, but is still a slave of the devil and the flesh, in which sin and death reigns (1 约翰 3:7-10)
How do you discern the sons of God from the sons of the devil?
Because a person is a slave, to whom the person belongs to and to whom the person listens to and obeys. A person lives after the flesh in the kingdom of darkness under the dominion and rulership of the devil and is, 因此, a slave of sin unto death, or the person lives after the spirit in the Kingdom of God under the dominion and rulership of Jesus Christ and is a slave of righteousness unto life. 因为圣言说, that those, who do righteousness, are righteous, as He is righteous.
小孩子, 不要让任何人欺骗你: 行正义的人就是正义的人, 即使他是正义的. 犯罪的就是属魔鬼的; 因为魔鬼从一开始就犯罪. 为此目的，神的儿子显现出来, 使魔鬼的作为. 凡由神生的，就不犯罪; 因为他的种子仍在他体内: 他不能犯罪, 因为他是由神而生. 神的儿女在此显明, 和魔鬼的孩子们: 不行义的，就不是出于神, neither he that loveth not his brother (this last part regarding loving your brother, doesn’t mean accepting the sins of your brother. Read also ‘Walking in love’ 和 ‘What is false love?’ (1 约翰 3:7-10))
In this life on earth, there are two options: you can either be a son of God or son of the devil. You can’t be both. Your actions and works prove, whose son you are and to whom you belong.
You can say, that you believe and that you are a son of God, but if you keep sinning and willfully keep doing those things, that go against God’s will, and are not willing to submit yourself to the Word, but want to stay a friend of the world and approve his evil works, then you are not a son of God, even if you say you are.
因为圣言说, that you are a son of the devil, who walks after the will of the devil and does and approves the works of the devil, 这是罪孽.
Because sin is the opposite of righteousness and those, who don’t do righteousness are not of God. 每个人, who stays in Christ doesn’t habitually sin. 圣经说, 那个每个人, who habitually sin, has not seen Jesus, neither has known Him experientially.
凡犯罪的，也触犯了律法: 因为违背律法就是罪. And ye know that He was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin. Whosoever abides in Him sinneth not: 凡犯罪的都没有见过他, neither known Him. (1 约翰 3:4-6)
Living as the old man
有很多信徒, who think and say that they are born again and are spiritual, because they walk in the supernatural, but keep living as the old carnal man in sin. But you don’t have to be born again to walk in the supernatural, and receive visions, 启示录, prophecies and do signs and wonders (另请阅读: 'Two ways to enter the spiritual realm’)
这就是为什么, Jesus warned His followers, that at the end of times, 许多 false Christs (followers of Jesus) 和 假先知 shall come, who perform great supernatural signs and wonders (IE. 马修 24:11, 24-28). But even if someone performs many miracles and receive many supernatural revelations and prophecies, then these things don’t prove if that person is a son of God and belongs to Christ. Only by the works, that a person does, and the fruit the person bears (this doesn’t mean charity works, which the world does as well, but the works of righteousness and the 圣灵的果子), you can tell whether the person belongs to Jesus or the devil.
Transferred from the darkness into the light
If you have been transferred from the darkness into the light, from death unto life, then your spiritual eyes will be opened and you shall see the evil of sin and the power of death and don’t want to be a partaker of them anymore. But as long as you keep walking in darkness, and stay bound by death, by walking after the flesh, you shall remain spiritually blind and not be aware of the evil of sin and the power of death. Therefore you shall keep living in sin and approve and tolerate sin.
As long as the church doesn’t consider sin as evil and as something bad, but considers sin as normal and as something that’s just part of life, then this proves that there is something wrong with the church, the faith, and the gospel that is preached. Because the gospel, that they preach is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, 哪个 calls man to repentance and brings deliverance and produces life, but is a gospel of man, that causes bondage to sin and produces death.
What happens if you willfully keep sinning?
因为如果我们在获得真理的知识之后故意犯罪, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 但对审判的某种恐惧和强烈的愤慨, 它将吞噬敌人 (希伯来语 10:26-27)
You cannot use the 神的恩典 to keep living after the flesh, fulfilling the lusts and desires of your flesh. The grace of God is not a license to keep sinning. 圣经说, that after you have received the knowledge of the truth, but willfully keep sinning, 不再为罪献祭, but a fearful expectation of judgment
Who reigns as king in your life?
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord (罗马书 5:20-21)
Jesus came to this earth to deal, for once and for all, with the sinful nature of fallen man. Jesus destroyed the works of the devil, 这样每个人都, 信他的人, 悔改, and becomes born again, will no longer be a slave of the flesh, in which the devil reigns through sin and death. The new man is redeemed and bought by the blood of Jesus and doesn’t belong to the devil anymore and therefore the person will no longer do the works of the flesh and bear the fruit unto death by living in sin (罗马书 7:5-6), but shall do the works of righteousness and bear the fruit for God unto life.
这 new man has received all authority and all power in Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit, to know 上帝的旨意 and resist the temptations of the devil and the desires of the flesh. As long as you stay in Him and keep walking after the Spirit, you will be able to resist all the temptations of the devil and therefore be an overcomer of sin and death. Not by your own might and power, which means not by the power and ability of the flesh by using all kinds of carnal human techniques and methods, but by the power of the Word and the Holy Spirit.
圣经说, that if you are under grace, you cannot keep sinning, because you shall do the works of righteousness. If you keep sinning, then you are not under grace. Because sin reigns as king in your life, instead of righteousness reigns as king.
If you do the works of righteousness, then grace shall have dominion in your life and shall reign as king, and you shall be under grace.
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