Jesus Didn't Die and Rise From the Dead So You Can Sin All You Want

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As the Lenten season came to a close today - I'm afraid that many people today will go back to their worldly living. I remembered the cycle that says you sin from Monday to Friday, go to confession on a Saturday, attend Mass on Sunday and the cycle goes on and on. It's no wonder why Matthew 7:21-23 exposes the true nature of false converts as workers of wickedness. A believer in Jesus Christ may not be perfect, they will struggle with sin but they will never enjoy sin for long because they aren't unsaved. Hebrews 12:5-7 says that God will chastise those He loves.

There's a true saying that says, "Only false converts are unsaved enough to think that they have a license to sin. True converts don't want to live the same life anymore!" Yet, you have some people have the awful sin cycles of being all "righteous" during Christmas and the Lenten season but when Christmas ends and Easter Sunday arrives - they go back to their sinful lifestyles! This is a total mockery of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Didn't Matthew 1:21 say that Jesus will save His people from their sins and not in their sins?

The great concern of many old-fashioned revival preachers like Charles H. Spurgeon, Arthur W. Pink, A.W. Tozer, Leonard Ravenhill, John Gill, Matthew Henry, Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield has been the fear of Antinomianism. I remembered reading through Pink's book entitled Eternal Security which talked about the dangers of false conversions. I also read through Dr. John F. MacArthur's two books The Gospel According to Jesus and Hard to Believe. These books tackled on the problem of the easy believism on today's society. Spurgeon always warned of fake converts and it hasn't been well-received by them. Some fake converts go as far as to teach that you can get saved and never change. I don't see that teaching in the Bible because the truth is salvation results to sanctification before it inevitably reaches to glorification. 1st Corinthians 6:11, Ephesians 2:10 and Titus 2:11-14 teach that God's grace delivers from a lifestyle of sin.

The purpose Jesus died on the cross was not only to pay for the penalty of sin but also to defeat the power of sin. Hebrews 2:9-14 says that Jesus also died to provide power against sin. His resurrection is proof that you can't be saved and never change one bit. Matthew 7:16-20 has Jesus warning about fruits. If you say fruit inspection is Phariseeism then tell that to Jesus. He warned His disciples that by their fruits that fake converts will be exposed. The death would destroy the power of sin and the resurrection would provide new life away from sin. Jesus is not just a Savior from Hell but also a Savior from sin. Salvation isn't just a ticket away from Hell but also a ticket from what leads to Hell namely sin. It's a ticket away from the sinful lifestyle.

I can't imagine the very trampling of the blood of Jesus (Hebrews 10:29) to people who teach that you can get saved but never change. If that were the case then Jesus' death would just be as vain if salvation were by good works. You can imagine how much Jesus absorbed all the sins of the world was heaped upon Him on Good Friday - all those sins were piled up and God the Father's wrath fell upon Him. It showed the ugly consequence of sin. Jesus was not just given mere insults - He was beaten to a pulp, He was crowned with thorns symbolizing the curse of the ground, He was crucified in the most bloody way and all that He did not just to pay for sin's wages but also to show how ugly sin is. The wrath of God the Father fell on Him also showing the severe nature and brutality of sin. Sin required bloodshed. I can't imagine how the unblemished clean animal must have struggled with its life as the priest would have to kill it. The blood would be sprinkled on the altar. It's not a pretty picture. The sacrifice had to be burned. You can see how brutal sin is and yet some people still believe that you can get saved and never change? That's just plain blasphemy now isn't it?

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