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Last week we considered the fact that we are saved and kept on the basis of declared righteousness. Those who trust the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour are declared by God to be righteous. He does this by “crediting to our account’’ the absolute righteousness of Christ. This is called positional righteousness because it refers to our secure position in Christ as sons of God.
There is another kind of righteousness, called practical righteousness because it refers to the kind of life we actually live here and now. Alt lough God knows that we can never in this life meet the standards of Christ’s absolute righteousness (I John 1:8), yet He desires that we conform as closely as possible to those standards (I Peter 1:15-16) and that we grow to be more and more like Christ (I Peter 2:2; Romans 8:29).
One of the accusations directed toward Christians is that they think they have a license to sin, since they believe in eternal security (once saved, always saved). A license to sin is not part of God’s plan (God forbid!), but sadly there is often grounds for the accusation because Christians (or people who claim to be Christians) behave as though they have a license to sin. i
This is not a new phenomenon, but existed in New Testament
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