Today's question is from a listener to the podcast named Jessica.

She's locked in a debate with her father over the role of personal holiness in the Christian

life.

Hello, Pastor John.

I have a hard question, and I know you have a great answer for me.

My father believes that when Christ died, he died for all of our sins, this I agree with.

But he concludes this also means that when you have faith and accept Christ in your heart,

you are then free to live however you want to, including being loose with and living

in sin.

I know this is wrong, but I'm having a hard time explaining this to my father.

Can you help articulate this for me from the Bible?

As Paul concluded the great fifth chapter of Romans, he wrote, the law came in to increase

the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more so that as sin reigned

in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through

Jesus Christ our Lord.

That's Romans 5, 20 and 21.

Then as soon as he finishes saying that someone, perhaps having the same view that you're

father seems to hold, said, well, if grace abounds where sin increases, then our salvation

certainly does not depend on fighting sin.

In fact, let us sin so that grace may abound.

Now here's Paul's response to this person and perhaps to your father in Romans 6, 1.

He says, what should we say then?

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