Romans 5:18-21 (NIV)
18 Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.
19 For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
20 The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
21 so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Disobedience has brought death to all, but Christ's obedience has made many righteous. The law comes into the equation in order to help people understand that they truly have fallen. Where there is law sin will increase, but again God's grace wins. Wherever sin abounds God's grace abounds even more. This is the age of grace. Grace has always been part of God's plan, but it is in the Christ covenant where grace and truth have been revealed. In the Old Testament we had glimpses into God's grace and mercy. There were times in the O.T. it was if God pulled the curtain back completely to reveal His grace and mercy. The difference is that God has now knocked down the curtain once and for all.We even see it in Christ's teaching before he died on the cross. Think of Christ's teaching on forgiving others in Matthew 18 and Jesus says we are to forgive 7 times 70 not just 7 times. Peter could hardly believe his ears. It was later that Peter was glad it was 7 times 70. Here comes the rub in the next chapter when Paul answers what the believers are thinking in their heads.

Romans 6:1-4 (NIV)
1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
2 By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?
3 Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Are there people who try and take advantage of God's grace? Yes! Maybe the question should be are there who have taken advantage of God's grace? Yes! Have you taken advantage of God's grace?

We are not to go on sinning. God's grace has brought us to the cross and we have died to sin. Sin no longer has advantage over you or me. God has total access to us and we have total access to God. We are to take advantage of all of God's resources in order to live above sin. Here is quote by A.W. Tozer who was a pastor in Chicago.



Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent in the divine nature and appears to us as a self-caused propensity to pity the wretched, spare the guilty, welcome the outcast, and bring into favor those who were before under just disapprobation. Its use to us sinful men is to save us and make us sit together in heavenly places to demonstrate to the ages the exceeding riches of God’s kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

A. W. Tozer (1897–1963)