Really this is not a doctrine of grace but as the word declares anti-law or antinomianism. The apostle John said in 1 John 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

The Lord never repealed the moral law just the penalty on those who would believe and come back to its precepts, why else would you need to repent, it's because you broke Gods law.

Now by faith you believe in Jesus Christ and keep his commandments 1 John 5: 1-5. Now you keep His law after you believe because you want to, not because you are afraid of going to hell, even though that might have been the first reason for even considering the gospel. If you only came to Christ for the blessings and never considered what is required of you, you're like the man who built the tower and didn't have enough money to finish it. You may desire the blessings but if you don't count the cost of a life that would turn from sin and rebellion, to a life of submission to Christ and His word, then you're only serving Him from a motive of selfishness, and you don't really have true conversion. The moral law of God serves as our schoolteacher to bring us to Christ, then it serves as a mirror so we can see what places in our life that need to come under the control of the Holy Spirit. There are two sides to serving Christ of which both are in error. There is the person that serves out of a legal experience and one that serves God under the notion that the law has been totally repealed from him and is under no obligation to it at all. The doctrine of justification is used to say that we can be saved while we are still in sin instead of being saved from sin. Nowhere in the bible does it say we are saved without repenting of sin, or a change of heart toward sin, but these kind of people want to get a hope of salvation while they are still living in unrepentant sin, they are more afraid of eternal punishment than they are of sinning, they are more preoccupied with being pardoned than being made holy, more afraid of the punishment of sin than sin itself. Now if they can rid themselves of the penalty of sin they then can get a hope up of being saved. This kind of teaching builds false hope because people can then go and live an unsanctified life living and continuing in their sins. They feel that the gospel means that Christ died to save them from wrath and hell and not from their sins, they seek to be pardoned only and not sanctification, they have a self-seeking spirit wanting justification while still living in rebellion. How can a person continue to rebel against the government and not experience judgment?

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