Here is a link to this brief article called, "Three Free Sins"
Here is it's conclusion.
"So not only does the Christian get three free sins…Christians get unlimited free sins! (Free to us because they are all forgiven…but not free to God.) And I don’t know a better way to get people thinking about God’s unbelievable love and grace than by granting them what he has already granted. The gift one receives along with “free sins” is the gift of an unbelievable, amazing and surprising faithfulness.
It’s how I became a spiritual giant! You can too."
I counted on a popular theologian to do my thinking for me. I mean, he has a doctorate and is a seminary professor. He has fancy systematic theology: reformed Calvinism. People listen to this guy.
But he is so so wrong. We don't get unlimited free sins. This is a perfect example of the movement towards worshipping Grace instead of God.
Grace is not "unlimited free sins."
I mean, has the esteemed author not read Romans 6:15-16?
But it's no wonder I didn't produce any spiritual fruit for that season. I was being taught that grace was an all encompassing unconditional means of saving me as if I had no agency in the process. I was being taught unlimited free sins, and not that sin was slavery and that every sin must go.
I thought a little sin here and there was inevitable and so the best I could do was manage it.
Not put it off or put it to death. Just manage.
But I didn't just sin a little. I sinned greatly.
Until I read the Scriptures for myself.
I was so shocked at how Scripture talks of obedience being the evidence of true salvation. I began to truly fear for my salvation because I didn't see Galatians 5 fruit in my life.
But then I got a promise from God in the form of Ezekiel.
Ezekiel 18:21
KJV
21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
I was wicked but I didn't have to die for it. I could start obeying God that day and be saved.
You can definitely have assurance that you are saved. It's called, " When I look at the Scriptures, does my life line up??"
If the answer is yes, then you have real assurance.
I accepted the lie because it sounded good. It went down smoothly because it tickled my ears.
But God knows when I began to read the Scripture, my whole theology fell apart and I had to really examine myself for the first time.
Here is it's conclusion.
"So not only does the Christian get three free sins…Christians get unlimited free sins! (Free to us because they are all forgiven…but not free to God.) And I don’t know a better way to get people thinking about God’s unbelievable love and grace than by granting them what he has already granted. The gift one receives along with “free sins” is the gift of an unbelievable, amazing and surprising faithfulness.
It’s how I became a spiritual giant! You can too."
I counted on a popular theologian to do my thinking for me. I mean, he has a doctorate and is a seminary professor. He has fancy systematic theology: reformed Calvinism. People listen to this guy.
But he is so so wrong. We don't get unlimited free sins. This is a perfect example of the movement towards worshipping Grace instead of God.
Grace is not "unlimited free sins."
I mean, has the esteemed author not read Romans 6:15-16?
But it's no wonder I didn't produce any spiritual fruit for that season. I was being taught that grace was an all encompassing unconditional means of saving me as if I had no agency in the process. I was being taught unlimited free sins, and not that sin was slavery and that every sin must go.
I thought a little sin here and there was inevitable and so the best I could do was manage it.
Not put it off or put it to death. Just manage.
But I didn't just sin a little. I sinned greatly.
Until I read the Scriptures for myself.
I was so shocked at how Scripture talks of obedience being the evidence of true salvation. I began to truly fear for my salvation because I didn't see Galatians 5 fruit in my life.
But then I got a promise from God in the form of Ezekiel.
Ezekiel 18:21
KJV
21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
I was wicked but I didn't have to die for it. I could start obeying God that day and be saved.
You can definitely have assurance that you are saved. It's called, " When I look at the Scriptures, does my life line up??"
If the answer is yes, then you have real assurance.
I accepted the lie because it sounded good. It went down smoothly because it tickled my ears.
But God knows when I began to read the Scripture, my whole theology fell apart and I had to really examine myself for the first time.