If Sin Has Dominion in Your Life, You are Living Under the Law, Not Grace.
Does an abundance of grace increase sin? According to the Bible, it is not grace that increases sin; it is the law.
1) When the law came, it aroused our inherited Sin nature and gave it dominion in our lives to kill, steal and destroy.
But Sin used this command to arouse all kinds of covetous desires within me! If there were no law, Sin would not have that power. Rom 7:8
NLT (Sin in this verse is our inherited Sin nature, a noun, not the verb for sin.)
Our inherited Sin nature rebels at being told what it cannot do. God gave the law to reveal this inherited nature knowing that it would be aroused and reveal itself through the law.
What do you want to do when you see a sign that says – Don’t touch wet paint? We want to touch it. That is our inherited Sin nature of unbelief.
Paul talks about his struggle with his Sin nature in Romans 7 and other places.
2) In the following verse, we see that the law came to increase the trespass, sin. But when sin increased, grace abounded all the more.
Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, Rom 5:20 ESV.
3) The Bible teaches if sin has dominion over a person, it is not because they are living under grace. Under grace, sin will have no dominion over you.
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. Rom 6:14 ESV
4) Those who receive the abundance of grace, and the free gift of righteousness, reign in life - Rom 5:17.
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