When asked, “How much is enough?” John D. Rockefeller famously replied, “Just one dollar more.” In the movie Wall Street, Gordon Gekko responds similarly. “It is a zero-sum game,” He says. They May have been motivated by greed and selfish ambition, but they did know one thing: there is no such thing as enough.
“How much more?” Paul asks three times in Romans 5. Paul, however, is not talking about greed, riches, and ambition. He’s talking about grace—the grace that covers our sin, the grace that redeems us, the grace that makes us worthy.
If you have ever considered that you might have just outstripped God’s grace, that you’ve stepped over the line one too many times, that you keep repeating and going back to that same old infraction, you might be tempted to to give up and surrender to your sin. It would be easy to believe that God’s punishment and wrath are coming for you. But that’s not what Paul is saying. He’s making it clear That there is more grace. How much more? “SO much more” He says.
Grace is a zero-sum game. It’s infinite.