Free To Be Me

In Romans 5, Paul tells us that for the parallels between Adam and Christ, there is one great disparity. Condemned in Adam, we may increase our guilt by our own sin. But we may not increase our justification before God with any acts of righteousness. Christ’s work is complete and finished, and our acceptance with God is assured, and full in him. There is a corollary to this: if we may not increase our justification before God by our righteousness, we may not diminish it either by our sin. When the gospel is grasped it sets us free to be who we really are: Who would you be if what you did couldn’t diminish your acceptance with God? Do you love his Word only in order to get something out of him? Some in Rome were saying, “If this is how it is, then I am free to sin.” Free to be me. What when chooses to do when one is free will show the true state of his heart, and whether he is in Adam or in Christ.