But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound

The cheap imitation for divine grace can do nothing to cure the sin problem.  In its powerlessness, it excuses sin and fleshly lusts and offers false comfort instead of true freedom.  It speaks great, swelling words and cries, “no condemnation!” but produces no fruit of righteousness.  When we tamper with God’s truth, making it more palatable to our taste, it ceases to be His word and loses it’s transforming power; what many modern preachers call grace is not grace at all, but man’s invention.  As such, it is limited in ability.  At best it soothes itching ears, but is unable to liberate men who are sold under sin.  Sin, another commodity of men also has limits—simply because it did not come from the Infinite, Limitless Creator.  Though it blinds mankind, binds them to hard labor, and brings the curse upon them, it has an end.  It can only go so far.  But it is not so with grace.  A vast, immeasurable, endless flow of grace issues from the Infinite One, and His grace is sufficient.  It comes to conquer sin and the sinner.  Much sin doesn’t intimidate God’s grace—His grace is superior in quality and quantity; it is able to annihilate every trace of evil and lift men to true holiness.  False grace does nothing but appease the senses, divine grace teaches us, Titus says, to say, “no,” to ungodly passions and to live self-controlled lives.  Grace trumps the power of sin; it is God’s answer for the sinner.  Nothing else—no amount of discipline or mental exercise can enable man to deny himself; the grace of our Lord Jesus alone can empower man to reject the bondage of sin and embrace the law of liberty.  Let’s not trade the mighty gift of grace for a lesser, weaker version.  Instead, let us humble ourselves that we might receive more of Heaven’s inexhaustible help.