Sin Versus Godliness
—Go for Godliness!
We present more teaching in the Bible that people find hard to hear and difficult to believe. This page is about sin, godliness, and grace...
1 Evil Comes Out of the Heart
Some religions have many rules to follow. For example, there are often regulations concerning food. Jesus makes all foods clean with very few rules about what we may not eat to avoid offending the conscience of another. Jesus says that the words that come out of our mouths are what defile us, not the foods that go in. The words we speak come from our hearts. If we speak evil, then there is uncleanness in our hearts. That’s what Jesus wants to fix, and rules about food won’t help (Matthew 15:17-19).
2 Grace Denies Ungodliness
When Jesus cleanses our hearts by grace that grace instructs us to deny ungodliness and do good. Grace sets you free from your sins and God’s wrath, but you are not set free from the need to live a godly life
11"For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, 13looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, 14who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds. 15These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you (Titus 2:11-15 NASV).
3 Grace Demands Godliness
We like to hear about grace. We sing, "Amazing grace how sweet the sound..." but many of us don't like to hear that grace requires us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts to live sober, righteous, and godly lives .
"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law". There is, however, a law against every form of ungodliness (Galatians 5:22-23 BSB (Ephesians 5:3-7).
4 We Choose Which
Shall we do what grace teaches us? Or shall we practise ungodliness? It's our choice, but we had better think about the consequences. The Bible, in various places, lists some of the things that God condemns as sin. There will be something in those lists that convicts or offends us because we are guilty. We have a choice to reject God's word, or listen to it and change.
LISTS OF SINS
Here are some of the sins listed in the passages mentioned above...
Adultery; murder; blasphemy and profanity; pride; idolatry and sorcery; drunkeness; envy and jealousy; heresy; perversion; theft and extortion; kidnapping; lying and perjury; lawlessness and rebellion.
References: Mark 7:21-22, Galatians 5:19-21, 1Corinthians 6:9-10, 1Timothy 1:9-10, Revelation 21:8, 22:15
5 We Abstain from Evil
Paul says, "Examine everything carefully, hold fast to what is good. Abstain from every form of evil." (1Thessalonians 5:21-22). Many people find this too much trouble. But by not doing it, they get into far more trouble. They incur the wrath of God. Ungodliness cuts us off from God, but (Amazing Grace!) God can connect us again. Jesus is the atonement for the sins of the whole world —whoever will believe, repent, and obey His word (1John 2:1-2).