"Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
Boasting is almost never good, but boasting about the acceptance of sin is absolutely horrible. The destructive nature of the sin that a church accepts and allows to go unchallenged will spread, destroying the whole church. What Christian would rejoice over that happening?
Because of what Christ has done, we stand before the Father without sin. We are without sin before the Father not because we are actually sinless but because we are positionally sinless in Christ. And because of what we are positionally, we need to avoid being something else practically. We should not be sinning when we have been cleansed from our sin.
Is this cause to cloister yourself away and be ever quiet, keeping yourself from sin by never enjoying anything around you? Quite to the contrary, our positional sinlessness before the Father, because of Christ, should motivate us to celebrate. And that celebration should be a sinless, joyful consideration and outflow of what Christ truly has done.
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