Watch the vid below, Christian Lie #12: “Grace leads to a careless attitude about sin” by Steve Mcvey, then my comments follow…
Steve is right on… again 
Understanding we are free from the law, and grace won’t lead to a careless attitude towards sinning.
I like his quote in Titus 2:11-12 (amplified bible – emphasis mine):
For the grace of God (His unmerited favor and blessing) has come forward (appeared) for the deliverance from sin and the eternal salvation for all mankind.
It has trained us to reject and renounce all ungodliness (irreligion) and worldly (passionate) desires, to live discreet (temperate, self-controlled), upright, devout (spiritually whole) lives in this present world,
Paul is saying that “it” — the grace of God has trained us to reject sin and live Godly lives…
I think the way Grace does this is by changing your focus, it’s sort of like controlling a small child.
Picture this…
there is a toy sitting on the table in the middle of a room full of other toys, and the child is sitting on the floor happily playing with his other toys…
Then you walk up to the child and tell him, “see that toy there on the table? I don’t want you to touch that toy! You understand?”
Before, the child was unaware there was even a toy on the table– he was happy playing with his toys on the floor, but now you just took his attention away from what he was doing and put it on what he was NOT supposed to do!
What happens?
Of course, the kid is going to get bored with his toys real quick and make his way over to the table to start playing with the “forbidden toy”.
Here’s another example with kids:
You got two toddlers, toys all over the place… one is sitting there not playing with toys, the other one is happily playing with them.
The one without any toys reaches over to grab a toy out from in front of the one playing with his toys… what happens?
If you’ve ever watched kids play you know what’s next.
The toddler sees the other one reach over a grab a toy from his pile (even one he hasn’t played with all day) and all of a sudden it becomes his favorite toy!
He tries to grab it from the other kids hand, starts crying, etc!
I DARE you to tell me I’m wrong about this…
It’s the same way with us, whenever someone points out what we can’t do… what we’re forbidden to do… it automatically shifts our attention from God to what we are forbidden to do–and paints it as so tempting.
Paul says in Romans 7:7 he wouldn’t even of known what sin was unless the law had shown it to him…
So how does Grace change all that?
When you realize, “I’m free to do whatever I want” BECAUSE of the grace of God– it puts your attention where it should be, on God, His grace, and in thankfulness for His grace… finding out more about Him… your relationship to Him… and letting Him express himself through your life.
You no longer think all the time about what you can’t do… you just automatically are doing the right things, letting Christ express Himself through you by loving people, yourself, etc…
So the idea that grace causes a careless attitude to sin is a lie, grace causes you to focus on what you SHOULD be focusing on — Christ!
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5 Things I’m grateful for today:
- That check that was “in the mail” from a client finally got here
- God is revealing His love to me more and more each day…
- It’s getting sunnier and sunnier out with each passing day
- HAPPY SAINT PATRICKS DAY!
- My mom loves me a bunch she even comments this blog as “janice”
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