Monday, March 17, 2014

It Doesn't Work Because Its Disconnected

The Hyper-grace teaching is not just a greater appreciation of the amazing grace of God. There is a disconnect happening here. The Christian is being side-tracked down a path that removes us from a walk with God that is based on relationship. In fact, for the Hyper-Grace believer, the important relationship becomes the one we have with ourselves. Christianity becomes: God did it and grace covers. Period. We are told that to confess our sins is to express unbelief, since they are already gone.

There is no need to walk with God by continually trusting him. When you sin, Hyper-grace says you shouldn't feel guilt because Jesus took your sins. The sin you just conceived with your lust (James 1:15) does not exist. Don't worry about it. This is not bible faith. It a psychic faith, in other words, one focused on your mind. You are not feeling guilty; you just think you are. You are disconnected from an actual walk with God.

 1 John describes our walk.
1John 1:7-9  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. 8  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
The truth looks like this: We walk in the light ... if we sin ... we bring the sin into the light were he is ... we acknowledge our deed ... He cleanses us from all unrighteousness ... we keep walking in the light.

The guilt is gone. The relationship (faith) with Him is vital and living. We see there is no forgiveness without a nearness to him.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The Law of Faith

Galatians  3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.  12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.
Here it is seen that we are justified by faith. But we know that we are saved by grace also.
Ephesians 2:8 KJV For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

The believer is saved by the undeserved kindness of God when we believe on Jesus and confess him with our mouth.

There is no grace for the believer that does not come through faith. That is why is a law. Too often people want to believe that grace is unlimited AND unconditional and inescapably omnipresent. No. Grace is dependent on faith, not the other way around.

Romans 4:16   Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,

Faith is how we received grace at salvation, and faith is how we receive grace every day.
To believe we receive grace without living by faith (relationship with Jesus), we violate the Law of Faith. Rom 3:27  Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.