Jesus did not come to rescue us in our sins but from our sins. He did not come to give us a blank check or an indulgence for a night with our old master. He came to break the chains that bind. He came to break the dominion and domination of sin in our lives. He came to bring us into “the glorious liberty of the children of God,” no longer slaves, but sons and daughters of the King. In Him, the power of grace is greater than the power of sin. Know that grace is much more than mercy or unmerited favor; it is enabling power over sin’s predominance.
“Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” Rom 6:11-14 (NASB)
