Monday 11 February 2019

Grace abounded more

Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. - Romans 5:20-21

The law came to show the world what sin was. Sadly it exposed a world where great sin abounded. It indeed shows how far short man falls of the glory of God. Where sin reigns death results. We live in a world where sin seems to reign supreme.

We read here thought the amazing words ‘where sin abounded grace abounded much more.’ Its not just ‘where sin abounded grace abounded more,’ but ‘where sin abounded grace abounded much more.’

There is no sin that is too great for grace to cover. The sins of the most brutal tyrant and the most vicious serial killer and the most perverse child molester and the most sadistic leader all put together are not greater than the grace of God.

Honestly, as I look around it is hard to even imagine that God’s grace could ever expand to some of the wicked men that I see now and in history. Could God’s grace extend even to Hitler? Pol Pot? Stalin?

Yet the Bible says ‘grace abounded more.’

Then though we look at who was writing these inspired words. Paul, who was persecuted the church with a fervour seeking to imprison and kill Christans who so feared by the church that they did not want to welcome when he first came to them. If you had an early believer ‘do you think Saul could ever be saved?’ It is hard a imagine a ‘sure’ as an answer.

Paul knew who he had been. He knew the great truth of ‘grace abounded more’ personally.

It was true for Paul, and it is still true today.

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