The grace of God, far from making us comfortable in our error and disobedience, calls for repentance and change in the way one lives. God says in Romans 2:4-6

4 Or do you despise the riches of His kindness, and the forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? 5 But according to your hardness and your impenitent heart, do you treasure up wrath for yourself in a day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, 6 who will render to each according to his works;

Also in Titus 2:11-14 He says,

11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that having denied ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live discreetly, righteously and godly, in this present world, 13 looking for the blessed hope, and the appearance of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify to Himself a special people, zealous of good works.

Paul, by inspiration of God said in Romans 6:1-4:

1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound? 2 Let it not be! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father; even so we also should walk in newness of life.

The grace of God must not be used as like a rag to wipe up the filth of a life too dedicated to its own desires and selfish ends. Rather, it offers the possiblity of a new life dedicated to God’s purposes. In Hebrews 10:26-29 we find the following:

Heb 10:26-29 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28 He who despised Moses’ Law died without mercy on the word of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy of punishment, the one who has trampled the Son of God, and who has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Keep on living in sin is as described in verse 29 above as:

– Trampling the Son of God
– treating the blood of the covenant as an unholy thing
– insulting the Spirit of grace

Christ did not die on the cross for us to stay the same, but so that we might live through Him. God’s grace makes it possible to grow to be more and more like Him. And let us hate sin and turn away from it, because our sin is the reason Christ had to die.