Galatians 5:16 KJV
This I say
then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Baptists are frequently
accused of giving people liberty or license to sin. Our insistence that the
Bible teaches eternal security; that once a soul is saved, that salvation can
never be lost, has led our detractors to claim that means the saved person can
live in sin and still go to heaven. No such thing is true.
What we do claim is that the
cross is sufficient so that all sin is paid for in Christ. There is no sin for
the believer to be judged of because every sin has been judged at
Calvary. To preach a man may lose his salvation by committing certain
sins is to preach that the work of Christ on Golgotha falls short of complete
perfection.[1]
So what about that license to
sin? The Bible answers the license with the Spirit. The one who walks in the
Spirit has no desire to fulfill the lusts of the flesh. We do not give a soul
the license to sin. We give to them the liberty to walk in the Spirit.
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