Does God Bless Sinful Relationships?

This is a great question that many people ask. Maybe you yourself have pondered it. Every Christian in the world wrestles with sin every single day of his or her life. 

Even the apostle Paul acknowledged, “For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate” (Romans 7:15, ESV). However, there is a looseness that has become common among Christians. Too many Christians wrongly believe that grace is a license to say “yes” to ungodliness and worldly passions because, they think, “God understands, and He’ll forgive me.” Then they knowingly continue practicing the same sins. ​

Will God forgive? Of course, He will! But in what context? In other words conditions must be met.  1 John 1:9 says,“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins.” And Proverbs 28:13, reads, “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.” God never blesses sin. He shows the path for the sinner to become transformed through the Truth of the Word of God. It is our responsibility to follow His lead.
 
Grace is not permissiveness! The grace of God teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness.  Scripture says, “Be holy, for I am holy.” (1 Peter 1:16) Any understanding of grace that does not include the grace of God motivating us towards holiness is an incorrect understanding that has no basis in Scripture.
 
Deuteronomy 29:19-20b, NLT reads, “Those who hear the warnings of this curse should not congratulate themselves, thinking, ‘I am safe, even though I am following the desires of my own stubborn heart.’ This would lead to utter ruin! The Lord will never pardon such people. Instead his anger and jealousy will burn against them.”

The Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)  reads, “Some people might hear these curses and comfort themselves by saying, ‘I will continue doing what I want. Nothing bad will happen to me.’ But that attitude will bring total disaster. The Lord will not forgive them for that. No, the Lord will be angry and upset with them and punish them.” 
 
Hebrews 10:26-30 says, “If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment… {30) For we know him who said…“The Lord will judge his people.”  This is written to Christians. It is a warning to Believers.

The Bible's law of “sowing and reaping” (Galatians 6:7-8) is written to Christians. Your actions have consequences. To intentionally, “deliberately keep on sinning” is to open a door that can result in total apostasy from the Lord and a “fearful expectation of judgment.”

Jesus said to the man whom He had healed, “Stop sinning!” We are not conformed to the image of Christ overnight. Sanctification is a process that won’t be complete until we leave this world. Look at what Jesus and the apostle John said about those who profess to love the Lord:

• John 14:15, NASB: [Jesus said,] If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 
• 1 John 5:3, NLT: Loving God means keeping his commandments.

 
Wow, look at that! If you are walking in ongoing, deliberate, willful disobedience to the Lord’s biblical teachings, do not love Him do you really love Jesus?

Yes, we are born with a nature given to sin. Even as Believers, that sin nature can rise up and induce us to sin. However, the correct biblical response to sin is immediate, sincere repentance, recognition, and confession of those sins to God. To a genuine repentant believer (one who turns from sin), the Lord will always grant His gracious forgiveness. But to the one who willfully, deliberately keeps on sinning, that pathway if followed to its end will lead to a “fearful expectation of judgment” (Hebrews 10:26).

The best choice any Believer can make is to choose life in Christ, choose holiness, choose to follow Him and His commands. If you should succumb to temptation, don’t let your heart become “hardened through the deceitfulness of sin” (Hebrews 3:13, KJV). Immediately confess that sin(s) and determine to resume a holy walk with the Lord. He will graciously forgive you, and you will walk on in His blessings!

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What are your thoughts?