Over the years there has been false teachings about grace. I witnessed a youth group that taught they could do anything because they were covered in grace. Not! The truth is that grace empowers us to not sin. 

Romans 6:11 is our key. It says that we are dead to sin, because in the moment of our salvation we died with Christ. He set us free from the slave block of sin. According to Colossians 1:13 He “…delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.”

In Romans 6:13 Paul’s instruction for the resurrection life is to, “…not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.”

What we pursue had an essential bearing on our conduct. In Philippians 3:10 Paul wrote that his determined purpose was to know the Lord. The Amplified says, “…that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection (which exerts over believers)…”