Grace, the Forbidden Gospel - Online Christian Library

True grace lifts the law off believers so completely that according to the legalists it sets us free in more ways
than it should. Legalists believe that the moment you lift the law off a believer, he or she will simply run out
and begin to live in full blown depravity and fall into all kinds of wickedness. But they forget that we have a
born again spirit on the inside of us that does not want to live like that!
Paul had to defend the gospel of grace in the same way. We can see from the “question and answer” manner
that much of the book of Romans was written in, that he was countering many of the arguments which the
religious crowd of the day was throwing at him. They were probably accusing him of preaching that the
believers, because they weren’t under the law anymore, could go out and sin as much as they wanted! Here
was Paul’s reply:
Why not say, then, "Let us do evil so that good may come"? Some people, indeed, have insulted me
by accusing me of saying this very thing! They will be condemned, as they should be. (Rom 3:8 GNB)
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we
who died to sin live any longer in it? (Rom 6:1-2 NKJV)
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under grace? Certainly not! (Rom 6:15
NKJV)
As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for
letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another. (Gal 5:13
GNB)
Therefore if Paul, the champion apostle of the New Testament, had to defend the gospel of grace against
these accusations and was persecuted by the legalists for preaching this gospel, then we should be
considering that perhaps something is wrong if our gospel is not making the legalists of our day rise up
against us. This is not to say that we should purposely set out to provoke people, but if nobody ever opposes
or questions us, it is a sure sign that our beliefs are most likely not in line with the truth of the New Covenant.
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