Salvation by grace can never be an encouragement for sin

Imagine being told by a holy God to ‘be holy’ because he is holy and that an enormous price was paid to secure this. How a person thinks determines how they live. In this passage, holy living means that the mind needs to be prepared for it. Every believer’s hope should be on the moment they will meet Jesus and when they will receive even more of his grace.

Believers must not live in ignorance as before they received God’s grace in Christ. They must now reflect the holiness of the one in whose image they were made. This means living in reverent ‘fear’ because being saved, by grace through faith, does not mean forgetting about sin.

Wisdom understands that God is not just a Father but that he is also holy. How then are His people to live? … do they reflect a holy God or the standards of the world? Salvation by grace doesn’t reduce a believer’s need to be concerned about sin … it increases it. We should ‘fear’ God because of what we have been and always remember that we were redeemed (bought back) at an enormous cost … ‘the precious blood, of the unblemished, spotless lamb’ … Jesus Christ.