All too often, we tend to get caught in a relentless cycle of guilt and regret.

Know the feeling?

Well, today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall exposes the waste of emotional energy

when we insist on keeping an inventory of our failures and predicting our next spiritual defeat.

Why? Because there's a radical alternative, intentionally training ourselves to walk in God's grace.

This isn't passive hope. It requires deliberate effort to retrain our minds, reject old thought

patterns, and present ourselves daily to God as his instrument for righteousness. Chuck

begins in Paul's letter to the Romans.

Since it says, where sin abounded, grace abounds all the more, verse 20 of chapter 5,

should I now live under sin and under its authority, somehow hoping that grace will come to my rescue?

May it never be, says the apostle as he begins, verse 2. May it never be says the apostle as he begins verse two may it never be

verse one of chapter six of Romans is a question that is addressed to those who failed to claim

their liberty and go on living like slaves chapter six 6, verse 15 is another question.

Shall we sin because we're not under law but under grace?

This question is asked to those who take their liberty too far and miss the whole point of grace.

Versus 1 to 14 are about nullifying grace.

Verses 15 to 23 are about abusing grace.

Let's mark a few words in Romans chapter 6.

Get your pencil ready and mark the word no in verse 3. Do you not know that all of us have been baptized into Christ Jesus, have been baptized

into his death? Mark the word no. Verse 6, knowing this. Verse nine, knowing that Christ, there's something we must know.

Before you can ever act on the freedom you have in Christ, you need to know that you've been freed.

Verses three through ten, talk about knowing that. Look at verse 11. Even so, mark that word consider.

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