What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. 10 As it is written: �There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.
All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. "The poison of vipers is on their lips.� �Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.� �Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.� �There is no fear of God before their eyes.�
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God�s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
God imputes us the righteousness of His Son (who is the Creator of the universe) through our FAITH in Him/the Son of God:
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through FAITH in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe.
For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Should we continue to live in sins confessing our FAITH in the Son of God?
NO! If we will live in sins, we will die in sins and God will judge us for our sins.
"He (JESUS) himself bore our sins" in his body on the cross, so that we might DIE to sins and live for RIGHTEOUSNESS; "by his wounds you have been healed." 1 Peter 2: 24
Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
Romans 6:2
By no means! We are those who have DIED to sin; how can we LIVE in it any longer?
Romans 6:11
In the same way, count yourselves DEAD to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:15
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!
1 Peter 4:2
As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God.
The God of Israel COMMANDED us: Be HOLY for I am HOLY.
Hebrews 10:10
And by that will, we have been made HOLY through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
It is our responsibility to live in sins or with God.
If we will live in sins then God does not live with us.
He abandons sinners (sexual immoral people..)
If we live in sins, we will die in sins and after death God will judge us for our sins.
That is CLEAR.
What is the result of such sins/life style? Sexual immoral people do NOT inherit the Kingdom of God, unbelievers/in-the name-only believers too.
That is why it is OUR responsibility to COOPERATE with God and ABANDON our sins in repentance to live with God...
Or we have the second option: ungodly life, leading us to the Lake of Fire.
What are sins/Difficulties, obstacles & hindrances?
"Then shall we know, if we press on to know the Lord." Hosea 6:3
The expression, "press on," implies that there are many sins, difficulties, obstacles and hindrances in a man's way, which keep him back from "knowing the Lord." Now the work of the Spirit l is to carry him on in spite of all these obstacles�to lead
him forward�to keep alive in him the fear of God�to strengthen him in his inner man�to drop in those hopes�to communicate that inward grace�so that he is compelled to press on. Sometimes he seems driven, sometimes drawn, sometimes led, and sometimes carried, but in one way or another the Spirit of God so works upon him that, though he scarcely knows how�he still "presses on." His very burdens make him groan for deliverance�his very temptations cause him to cry for help�the very difficulty and ruggedness of the road make him want to be carried every step�the very intricacy of the path compels him to cry out for a guide�so that the Spirit working in the midst of, and under, and through
every difficulty and discouragement, still bears him through, and carries him on�and thus brings him through every trial and trouble and temptation and obstacle, until He sets him in glory. It is astonishing to me how our souls are kept alive. The Christian is a marvel to himself. Carried on, and yet so secretly�worked upon, and yet so mysteriously�and yet led on, guided, and supported through so many difficulties and obstacles�that he is a miracle of mercy as he is carried on amid all difficulties, obstacles, trials, and temptations.
Let me add:
"Now the work of the Spirit l is to carry him on in spite of all these obstacles�to lead
him forward".
Our life is like a flight to the Kingdom of God.
We are flying through mountains (difficulties, obstacles and hindrances in a man's way, which keep him back from "knowing the Lord).
In poor visibility conditions, pilots use navigation systems which enable them to fly in spite of all obstacles�to lead them forward and survive.
The Spirit of God helps us to fly forward. Some of us will be crashed by our sins in mountains because it is our responsibility too to follow and usue navigation systems or not.
Some of us will land safely in the Kingdom of God, being safe and saved, if we will OBEY God and LIVE WITH Him IMPLEMENTING what He commands and says in the Holy Bible.
But only one gets the prize!
We do it to get a crown that will last forever!
Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown!
"Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge (JESUS), will give to me on that Day (the DAY of HIS RETURN to our PLANET), and not to me only but also to all who have loved his appearing." (2 Timothy 4:8)
But do we know that if we live in sins then we approach a POINT of NO RETURN?!
Hebrews 6:4-8
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God. But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned.
I saw the WRATH of God against my sins when He was going to kill me by hands of criminals because I lived in sins.....
Before death I repented and God saved me immediately....
If I would not repent before that moment of my possible death, I would be dead already and God would send me to hell for my sins.
I stood before the POINT of NO RETURN.
Only door separated me from my death, hell, the Lake of Fire, torture, flames and suffering...
and ONLY God saved my from that when I repented of my sins and talked to Him in a prayer...
If there would be NO repentance then I would face DEATH..and eternal separation from God and the second death in the Lake of Fire.
