Now when you come to salvation in Christ Jesus, you agree with God that you are a sinner and you are at war with God. You are to surrender on His terms, and you are to lay down your weapons like any army overcome by a conquering foe. We have two choices in this situation, either surrender peacefully or die with your gun still in your hands, when you choose to surrender you agree to any terms that that army has, you give up your rights to that army. You lay yourselves down as you will, to the mercy of that government and if it is a merciful government you might even be able to join forces with it. We are that offending army that rouge battalion setting itself against Jesus Christ kingdom. Just as God is Greater than any army on earth we have no chance of winning the war against Him, so we either agree to surrender to Gods government or we choose to continue to rebel until Judgment day and then pay for your war crimes in HELL.

Once we are in Gods army we are not to take a casual stance with sin; before salvation we rebelled against Gods laws, now we have surrendered, we have become His subjects, His slaves and our instructions are not to yield ourselves to sin any more. Romans 6:16 "Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?" .

Now we can look at Gods pardon this way in this illustration. Suppose a man who is a condemned killer, is on death row, no hope of appeal, condemned to die. He receives it and agrees with his sentence because of the nature of his crime. On the day of his execution he gets a paper to stand before the governor of the state. He stands before him and the governor gives him a full pardon and says, "Even though you committed this crime I'm forgiving and releasing you from the penalty that it carries, you are free to go as if you had never done it. Now go and obey the law, I don't want to ever see you in here again. This is the way Gods grace is, it doesn't give us license to go back into sin. But even still God makes provision that if we do sin we have an advocate with the father (on this condition) that 1John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. He is not talking about the ones who are still in a continuous practice of sin not repenting of it and even saying that I'm under grace I'm OK. Don't be deceived by justifying your sins, because the only way is by the terms He lay down not our own.

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