WILL ALL GOOD, MORAL PEOPLE BE SAVED?

First, we must note that God’s children must have morals, “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?”  — I Corinthians. 6:9.  But does morality alone make one saved?  If this is so, then Jesus died in vain.  “Christ died for our sins...”    — I Corinthians 15:3.

Morality does not save, but a lack of it will cause one to be lost. “What shall we say then?  Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?” — Romans 6:1.  The answer to Paul’s question is obvious:  one who presumes upon God’s grace continuing in sin will not be forgiven!

A change of life is demanded.  We must be a moral people, but repentance alone does not pay for sins we have already committed.  Paul goes on to say in Romans chapter 6 that we have died to sin beginning at our baptism into Christ.  Since Christ died for my sin, my obligation is to die to sin.   But apart from a new birth (John 3:3), one cannot see the kingdom of God.

The most moral person in the world will lose his soul if he commits only one sin and does not have his soul cleansed by the blood of Christ.  We show our appreciation for that precious blood by living as best we can, not by presuming upon His sacrifice and living as we did before we were saved. (Read the rest of I Corinthians, chapter 6 and Acts 22:16.)

A person who has not contacted the blood of Christ is lost regardless of how good he may be (Romans 6:3-8).   His lost state is not based on the good things he has done, but the sin he has to his credit.  And we have all sinned who are of accountable age (in other words not small children).

Paul in his letter many times demanded sacrificial obedience of believers to God’s commands.  But he also made no bones about whose sacrifice washes our sins from us, “I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.”  —Galatians 2:21.

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