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FAQ # 106
QUESTION 106 : Is Justification a license
to sin or as Dan puts it, "your spiritual guard is not only down
it is gone. You won’t ever need to guard against personal sin and its
defiling abilities since you are already forgiven...even if you would
turn to sexual immorality, drunkenness, thief, idolatry, lying, murder,
etc;" or even as Todd puts it, "this doctrine allows people
to commit every sin under the sun, without suffering any consequences
for their complete lack of holy living?"
This is the most prevalent refutation given to teaching Justification
and I've already exhausted how one is kept by the power of God not to
continue in a life of sin, because of the said regeneration. Several scriptures
make it plain that once you're save the grace given will keep you from
sinning continually. One such verse is Eze 36:27, which stated plainly,
"I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes,
and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them." This said verse was
repeated twice by Paul in Hebrews.
That was countlessly reiterated, but what isn't said often is that when
a Christian slip up presumptuously, every disobedience do receive a just
recompense (Heb 2:2); if that weren't the case you would be bastards (Heb
12:8). The most classic foreshadowing is King David, the man after God's
own heart. He conspired against Uriah, took his wife and killed him. He
was punished. But God didn't cast him away; and any child being punish
often for their disobedience usually learn obedience. Even Christ because
of the rudiments of the flesh "learned he obedience by the things
which he suffered" (Heb 5:8). That's the reason's the preachers have
to stop telling the congregation that everything they go through
is because of this and that, sometimes they have sinned and God is disciplining
them.
So don't ever think Justification gives a license to sin, once you're
born again you cannot; and even when you do, God, like a good parent,
disciplines you. What Justification does is give you the solace that in
all these thing you are just and will make it to the end; “For whatsoever
is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh
the world, even our faith” (1 John 5:4).
Answer Notes: 1. Though our sins are forgiven already, it is customary
and necessary (especially with the weakness in our flesh), to commune
with God about our sins asking pardon. Similarly, God already know what
we want (Matt 6:8) and in most cases provided already and even went further
to let us know that it is him both in us to will and to do…(Php 2:13).
Yet he says to ask...(Jas 4:2). That's why you find verses like Matt.
6:14-15, which says to forgive or God wont forgive you, though all your
sins are already forgiven with salvation. You see that we are dealing
with mysteries that have to be rightly divided. That's the reason he simply
say believe and left it there, everything else will fall into place; especially
persevering to the end.
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