 Okay, I'm really confused. If I ask Jesus for forgiveness, He'll give it to me, so why can't I just go out and sin all I want and then just ask for forgiveness? I mean, I still should be good, right? That's a good question and actually the apostle Paul answers it in Romans 6. What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may more abound? By no means, how can we who died to sin still live in it? Okay, but what does that mean exactly? It means that we were once slaves to sin and had no ability to choose what was right, but because of God's transforming work within us, we are now alive to Him and dead to sin. Those who have been truly transformed by God no longer desire to live in the muck and the mire of their old life. Like why would we want to continue in the sins that Christ died for? While other religions are based on the idea of obeying God to avoid threat or punishment, we obey God out of love for Him because He first loved us.