#346.2 – “God Math, Lesson Two: God’s Grace > Our Sin”

“Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” - Romans 5:20-21
You know, one of the great things about math is that once you learn a truth, that truth stays the same forever. 2+2=4… always has been… always will (unless you’re into that goofy math). Well, a HUGE truth that has always remained the same in God’s math class is this one: His grace is always greater than our sin. In any given situation… at any point in time… as it pertains to any individual… God’s grace consistently outweighs, outdoes, out-whatever any sin that it comes up against.
That doesn’t mean that grace always ‘wins out’ in somebody’s life. The fact is that people go through life (even to the point of their death) without ever choosing to accept God’s grace for themselves. They disregard it and the God who offers it to them freely. But that doesn’t change the truth that God’s grace is greater than their sin, any more than writing down a ‘5’ as the answer to the problem 2+2 changes the fact that the answer is ‘4’. The answer is ‘4’. And in the same way that 10 is always greater than 1, the all-powerful, all-forgiving, all-cleansing, all-life-changing grace of God is always greater than sin.
But is up to us to choose to believe it and receive that truth for ourselves.

Daniel