RELIGIOUS PERSON: "If you go around talking about God's radical grace and telling people they're completely forgiven and free, they're just going to go out and use it as an excuse to commit world records in sinning!"
The accusation leveled against modern grace teachers is nothing new! It is mind blowing how we have missed the fact that the apostle Paul dealt with these accusations 2,000 years ago. Read Romans 3:5-8 and 6:1 and 15! Paul's message was so radical that the religious leaders of his day were accusing him of saying that we should just go wild with sin. The religious leaders of today sling around the same bogus, nonsensical accusation.
If you want to disprove Yahweh God's extreme grace or hyper-grace (huperperisseuó), do not read the book of Romans. Paul’s letter to the Romans is absolutely dripping with the doctrine of grace, and it is unequivocal, irrefutable, and crystal clear.
- Crystal clear that grace is a free gift. (Romans 3:24; 5:15)
- Crystal clear that faith is about receiving from Yahweh, not doing more for Him. (Romans 4:5)
- Crystal clear that grace is radical. (Romans 5:20-22)
- Crystal clear that forgiveness is finished. (Romans 6:10)
- Crystal clear that grace gives us power over sin (Romans 6:14)
- Crystal clear that Yahweh is for me. (Romans 8:31)
- Crystal clear that grace needs nothing, expects nothing, and gives everything. (Romans 8:32)
- Crystal clear that closeness with Yahweh is not conditional. (Romans 8:38-39)
- Crystal clear that I am filled with goodness. (Romans 15:14)
Once you rightly understand the New Covenant, the Gospel, and grace, it changes EVERYTHING! Once you know the TRUTH about how good Yahweh God’s grace truly is, it will ruin you for anything else!
Consider this your warning shot!
For this very reason, I can no longer step foot inside organized religious institutions. Everything that comes out of the performer’s mouth sets off red flags left, right, and center as I discern the legalism and religion dripping from their lips to keep people enslaved in bondage.
But do not get it confused. I still regularly meet together with other believers for fellowship, just as we read about in the New Testament Scriptures. Do not for one second fall for the LIE that if you are not a full-fledged card-carrying member of, and are not attending regularly in, an organized religious institution that “you are not a Christian.” This is what religious people with cult mindsets say when they cannot control you. When you do not submit to their false “spiritual authority,” they have to resort to personal attacks to make others fear and keep them in line. They are so afraid of Christian liberty that they must water down the extreme grace of God in order to keep others under their thumb.
If these religious elite would let go of their false sense of control over others, where Jesus spelled out clearly that “it shall not be so among you,” they would discover true freedom and joy and enjoy life better. But they have an unhealthy obsession with the desire to control others and have control over others. They fail to understand Scripture correctly and realize there is no hierarchy in Jesus’ Ekklesia because we are all equals among equals.
I love even the religious elite, but I speak to them the same way Jesus spoke to Israel’s religious elite, and I ask them the same most direct, personal, and scolding barb: “Are you a teacher of Christianity, and do not understand these things?”