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The Apostle Peter, in his first letter, in summing up all he said in the letter, said “…this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand,” 1 Peter 5:12. There is a true grace of God which the New Testament teaches. If there’s a true grace, there must be a false grace. If there’s a true teaching of grace, there must be a false teaching of grace. There is a true grace that produces a holy, godly life, and there is a perverted, twisted, greasy grace that produces license to do as you please and serve yourself.
Grace that promotes license is not grace but lasciviousness (Jude 4) and a false grace. Grace doesn’t mean a license to do as one pleases. Lasciviousness is the total lack of self-restraint that has no feeling of shame and no restraint from impurity. Grace also doesn’t mean defiance for or disregard for God’s moral standards, which is called lawlessness (1 John 3:4).
True grace teaches us how to live soberly, godly, righteously (Titus 2:11, 12) while denying ungodliness and worldly lusts. Any teaching on grace that produces slackness, looseness, ungodly, unrestrained living is a perversion of true grace. True grace never promotes unrestrained careless liberty but loving service (Galatians 5:13). God’s grace frees us to serve.
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