From Jerry Bridges in The Discipline of Grace:
“The gospel, applied to our hearts every day, frees us to be brutally honest with ourselves and with God. The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don’t have to play defensive games anymore. We don’t have to rationalize and excuse our sins.
We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross. With the assurance of total forgiveness through Christ, we have no reason to hide from our sins anymore.”
I'd add only "and we have no reason to sin anymore".
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And yet so many sectors of the Church are obsessed with sin. If sin management is a constant, how is that freedom? We go from being unable to free ourselves from our sins to being unable to free ourselves from the personal accounting of our sins.
To me, there is very little difference. We seem to have forgotten everything that Luther went through and why the Reformation even happened.
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